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Funnily enough I have one of those already! I have the battery dremel too so I was hoping to find a good kit for that for some quick, in the field sharpening when I hit a rock or nail or something!

Ideal! I just want something to fix a chain with when hitting a stone or something. I was losing the will to live the other day after clipping a stone under a log that was stuck in the ground.

Was that with a guide?

Just thought I would post back about those tough tags. I really like them. They stick really well (degrease first) and as as the name says, tough. I put my name, number and the number from my LOLER sheet on them to make it easier to ident stuff instead of reading the serial numbers. I got some adhesive lined heat shrink for the ropes to give them some extra protection. Overall, if you want some high quality tags for marking up kit etc they're worth every penny. I ordered medium tags with the text left aligned £14.95 for 88 tags. I'm using their stock photos as mine has my name and personal info on!

Getting kind of fed up with using a file now and after using those electric angle grinder type sharpeners before and hating them with a vengeance, I've seen a fair few posts about using a Dremel for sharpening. Anyone got any feedback? What bits are you using/who from and are you using a jig of any sort? Thanks!

It's not just about the basic emissions though. It's more about the sulphur, benzine, aromatics etc, i.e the cancer causing headache chemicals that alkylate fuels don't have. It's a bit like cigarettes Vs vaping. Neither are good for you and depending what you get they could have the same amount of nicotine. Vaping doesn't have all the other 300 carcinogenic chemicals in that cigarettes do!

Out of interest did you do a post about that at all? Like a proper cause of failure inspection? Would make an interesting read? 👍

To be fair, Stihl and Husqvarna do recommend the use of their own proprietary Alkylate fuels (Motomix etc) which, last time I checked, was the same price as Aspen which is an equivalent fuel. So the "Do the manufacturers recommend it" comment is a little null and void. Of course they won't say "It makes our tools last longer" because it would be a PR headache but instead they say it increases all round performance which in laymans terms means the saw will last longer. Bit like Ford specification oil, you can buy it from a dealer for x amount or buy Castrol for the same/less. At the end of the day it's all the same stuff, Alkylate fuel and a fully synthetic oil. If you want to run mineral oil and bargain pump fuel then go ahead but my asthmatic lungs do seem to thank me for not using petrol. You can use whatever supplier you want but at least aspen has some voice in this community and when I asked them about oils, testing and proof they did back themselves up which I give them credit for. I suppose if Alkylate fuels were garbage then the German forest workers must buy new saws every could of hours.....

Seeing as we are showing off our rebuilds...

Well as far as I know (I looked it up before I started climbing on council land), there's no law about not climbing trees. Obviously the council can ask you not to but, calling the police would be a bit extreme 😂

Does it work the other way around out of interest? Are UK quals recognised in the US?

I asked a similar question not that long ago during lockdown because a council owned bit of land had some nice trees. I was advised to chuck on a hi-vis and crack on. Worst case scenario they tell you to get down and grow up? 😂 This obviously only works for public areas. As long as it's not over a busy footpath or kids playpark you will be fine

I have no idea what a "Fully qualified tree surgeon" would mean. I guess technically it would be CS30,31,32,34,35,38,39,40,41,UA1,UA2,UA5 etc as you would be able to do any tree job and you wouldn't have to do any courses. Outside of that you become an arboricultural surveyor if you're talking about book learning? Then again in an advertising sense you could be a fully certificated tree surgeon in the sense that you have all the certificates for the work you do? "Fully certificated, Fully insured" just means for the work you do, doesn't mean that I have a pilots licence and insurance for brain surgery

Doesn't make any difference. That a5 feedback sheet is your certificate until the nptc one arrives!

How old is the hedge cutter? What can happen is rubber parts that are swollen/degraded can fail when you switch from petrol to aspen as the aspen sucks the petrol out of them

You should have a little pass/feedback form from the assessment centre in A5 too

Most of my certs came through within 2 weeks. I contacted city and guilds first. Send them an email asking where your certificate is along with a copy of ID like a drivers licence or they will email back asking for it and go from there! They may just be slow.

Chase them up! I ended up waiting an age for my cs39 and then when I contacted them it they said I was registered as doing the assessment but they had no results

Pfanner Ice grips for me. They are an absolute winner and seem to last for ages.

Good luck and have fun! Make sure you buy 2 ropes and get used to being tied in on two ropes at all time. Not just is it the proper standard now but if you mess something up the chances of falling are massively reduced!

If it's the galebreaker that I've seen on the sides of barns before (it looks like it is) it's shite in the rain. Used to have a 3ft section around the sides that were wet because the rain used to come through. It's recommended for horse stables and stuff but you just end up with wet bedding around the edges and puddles indoors. In driving rain you might as well just not have sides on the barn.

I really like gustharts, skyland, fr Jones and Sorbus. Tbh, I doubt you will be able to get it all at a good price from the same supplier. You are probably better buying kit from different sources as you will save a little cash. Only thing I can recommend for certain is not to buy kit on ebay/second hand. If you eventually want to turn it into work your kit will need to be LOLER inspected and they won't inspect stuff that doesn't have receipts. You also don't know what's happened to it before you buy it. If you want to get into tree climbing then I suggest you take a course (CS38). It only covers climbing but if it's not something you've done before you can easily hurt yourself!

My best compressor is an 12V ARB twin with a tank on it. Runs air tools and everything 😉

Sod it, just top it... That's what my local tree surgeon is advertising on the village Facebook 😂 lots of topping

Looking at where it is in the garden I would say that it's due to it shading a tonne of the garden/parts of the house in the summer?