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  1. Paddy1000111
    Your harness looks more comfortable than the Petzl Avao sit fast I originally bought 😂😂
  2. Paddy1000111
    I'd say it's only a spacer when the clutch is fully engaged, overload the saw or idle a lot and all that load goes through the bearing. If you're an animal and tighten the chain to F or keep tightening when the chain gets hot and not let it off once you're done with the saw then all that force goes into the bearing, dimples it's running surfaces and then it takes itself out!
  3. Paddy1000111
    Ahhh okay! I would go for fence posts. If you get 4 fence posts per log (round ones would look best) then bop those in as far as you can get them and chop what's left off. Best way to keep them from rolling and would look clean too.
  4. Paddy1000111
    I'm a little lost as for what we're trying to achieve? If it's to stop them rolling on a hill then some fence posts bopped into the ground will stop them rolling if you want to put them horizontally. If you want it done as an anti-theft thing then either fit a metal strip to the top or sides to make it obvious they aren't just left there or you can buy a big bag of long nails and hammer those in at an angle up/down the trunk so if you go at it with a chainsaw you end up hitting a nail and ruining a chain. They would give up straight away if they hit metal, especially some hefty nails
  5. Paddy1000111
    I'm surprised the PTO side can be shortened on an outboard. Considering that the drive contains the same components I would have thought it would be the same considering you still need all the same bits plus end float room for the chain too.
  6. Paddy1000111
    If I'm right, the tree is on his side and he wants to cut away roots on the boundary? So he's putting railings between the tree and you? If he cuts away the roots on your side of the tree it can destabilise it but it will only fall in his direction so he's only putting himself at risk here
  7. Paddy1000111
    I take it that unless you're planning to do this somewhere with no gravity then you're wanting to secure them vertically? If so I would bury them by 6ft and attach guidelines of some form
  8. Paddy1000111
    I prefer inboard. Easier to maintain, easier to grease the needle roller etc. I also prefer the feel of things like the chain brake. Inboard clutch means more solid mounting for the chain brake handle where outboard tends to be mounted on a plastic chain cover so can be more flimsy. Chain and bar changes are also easier and you can usually mount the chain to the bar and then just hook it over the sprocket which can be done with one hand where on an outboard you can't do that. The only real advantage to an outboard clutch is that you can swap out the chain brake and housing in the field but I don't carry a whole spare side plate for my saws..
  9. Paddy1000111
    As the others have said, if it is leafing and seems otherwise okay I would leave it. If, on the other hand you decide to cut r/h off then I would make a much lower cut. Once that is cut off the tree will have to kill off the remaining stump and occlude over. Don't cut into the l/h/s at all but remove as much if the r/h/s as possible as the tree will expend energy occluding over!
  10. Paddy1000111
    I've got on well with slime, the puncture repair stuff. Put it in wheel barrow tyres and even the ride on lawnmower. Not had a flat since!
  11. Paddy1000111
    The only real way to accelerate the bee population is to move to organic foods and stop the use of pesticides. Bees don't have predators (at least not on a large scale) so the only thing killing them is pesticides, Asian hornets, diseases brought in like European foul brood. Sadly it's only the pesticides really killing them!
  12. Paddy1000111
    I wish they made it a legal requirement to register pesticide use. It's one of the biggest issues at the moment. The bees go out, they get sprayed with pesticides or pick it up off a plant. The whole hive dies. There's systems online that you can register crop spraying so beekeepers can keep the hive in for the day by shutting the entrance but they don't get used, especially by contractors!
  13. Paddy1000111
    There's no law, I'm an avid bee keeper (over 35 hives) and work for local pest control agencies doing bee rescue. Look up your local bee groups and contact them. We regularly do relocations if honey bees etc. If it's up a tree you may end up donning a suit and doing a little work as the bee keepers aren't usually tree climbers!
  14. Paddy1000111
    It was definitely a large source of stress. I wasn't allowed to pick it up until the money was in their account either. I got to the gate, they threw the keys at me and I took it away 😂😂
  15. Paddy1000111
    It's annoying as if you need to single hand it you can't. They blatantly did it so you have two hands on the saw but if you are in the situation you need to single hand then it's useless..
  16. Paddy1000111
    I wish it was that easy. With covid and all the BS that goes with it most dealerships are doing a click and collect and you can't view or test drive. I paid for my van "sight unseen" from vanbase. Did hours of research, even rang their numbers I could find on google to cross check that someone wasn't pretending to be them. Handing over 21k via transfer without seeing the vehicle or having solid proof that the company even exists was terrifying.
  17. Paddy1000111
    Nah, still ended up with a land rover! 😂
  18. Paddy1000111
    I nearly got scammed on a land rover. Nice clean example, average price with a big write up. Contacted the person who said that it would be delivered to me which seemed odd but when I was doing crash car repair as a kid with a family friend I watched probably 50 cars come and go on big car transporters. The person said they wanted a £1200 deposit which seemed reasonable at the time as the vehicle was £12k and if they were moving a few cars at the time they didn't want to be screwed over. The guy had good feedback etc the only thing that really rang alarm bells is when they wanted money transferred by western union etc. Knowing I would get absolutely no insurance/coverage made it obvious it was a scam
  19. Paddy1000111
    I wonder what's worse (More likely to break) A leaning tree stripped of it's lower limbs (so no counterbalance) before you drop the top or a tree that's been stripped. My brain says that the tree that's been stripped has overall less stress so it less likely to go but then maybe the counterbalance has a good effect.
  20. Paddy1000111
    Same as the interlock switch thing on the MSA161T from stihl. Annoying as hell!
  21. Paddy1000111
    I leave it untill last, mass damper effect and all that. Plus it doesn't get hung up on the way down. Clear below, drop the top then step the stick.
  22. Paddy1000111
    I guess other factors like stroke, weight/size of parts, exhaust system sizes etc etc
  23. Paddy1000111
    I guess the lack of power on an 881 is also down to cooling etc? If you had a 125 air cooled engine running tits out like you do with a saw she ain't going to last long?
  24. Paddy1000111
    A lot of people push that but if your payments are say £600 a month you're still paying out 600 a month and you're still paying the interest, you're just not paying tax on what would have been 600 profit.
  25. Paddy1000111
    Well, when you consider that the total amount payable for the finance package is ~£5000 for a new transit it's a hefty cash amount for whoever the finance company is

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