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Apart from the above the main thing I haven't seen here is compression? Brush cutters go from freezing cold to flat out without the proper care all the time. Scored cylinders are pretty common.

Well it will stop it sucking through the fuel pipe. I should be right in saying there's two pipes out of the carburettor that go into the valve on the top of the tank? Part 8&9 in the image below? If that one way valve is shagged then it will just be pushing air in and out of the easiest part which will be the return line not the fuel vacuum line hence why you can hear pumping in the tank. Otherwise you could have the pipes hooked up to valve 7 back to front?

I didn't notice your commitment Khriss! I was too busy ranting! ? I might get one of these. Looks like you can lock it shut too. and it comes with "Strong and hardness" and a "Shrapnel bolt" for when it explodes I guess? Plus the photos show a naked looking bloke climbing a cliff so it must be good right? 3 Claws Grappling Hook Folding Stainless Steel Outdoor Climbing Survival Tool UK WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Lightweight and compact size with folding claws, very easy to carry and use. For outdoor activities, survival training, adventures. 1 Gravity hook. Hook size: 7.8" 3.9" 0.39". A...

Did you replace flange under the bulb too? This part- Flange for Stihl BG86, BG86C Leaf Blowers - 4241 120 2200 | L&S Engineers WWW.LSENGINEERS.CO.UK Flange Genuine Stihl Part OEM Part No. 4241 120 2200 Suitable for the following Stihl Machines: BG 86, BG 86 C, BG 66, BG 66 C, SH 56, SH 56 C, SH 86, SH 86 C, BG 86, BG 86 C... The one that has the one way valve in it? If you take the fuel line off and put your finger over the inlet and pump the bulb does it suck onto your finger and the bulb stay depressed or can you pump away and there's no vacuum?

Do what makes you happy Sam, that's all that really matters. If you know what you're doing with business you can make good money. If you don't know what you're doing with business then you will still easily be able to make enough money to cover your bills. In every industry you will get people who hate it and tell you everything is s*** and you won't make any money and you are making a massive mistake, if you look around the corner you will find massive success stories and people who make good money. In the aircraft world you could work for a company and earn £23k, yet there are guys who work for themselves who have the same training/qualifications but have a business head, they do the same work and earn over 80k and nearly no tax so don't pay any attention to it. Someone I know got a tree surgeon in to fell a tree for them, the property owner said they would do all the cleanup and disassembly so the guy turned up, felled the tree and walked away. He was there for less than an hour and charged £200, the property owner was amazed at how cheap of a deal that was. If you can't make money in this industry then you are definitely doing something wrong. Like I said though, do what makes you happy. I look at people who work in London at desk jobs. They slog into work on overcrowded trains in the dark every day and spend all their life in the office. They work every hour under the sun including weekends sucking up to bosses and doing exactly what everyone tells them to do so they get promoted. You live in central london, you get up at 5:30/6am to get the tube into work for your 7am start, you leave your small flat, tripping over the pram left in your shared hallway because your neighbours suck. You've battelled through the angry faces and you're on a packed train with a load of depressed looking people. You arrive into work at 7am greeted with a quick hello from people who don't know your name, you sit down at your desk next to Paul who's been fighting you for that promotion and your day of stress starts, answering emails and making phone calls because you are the latest scapegoat for another company misshap that's cost the company a £1b sale, it wasn't your fault but you're at the bottom of the ladder so it's in your lap. You eat lunch at your desk because work is manic. You're in the office until 7pm as even though your job "finishes" at 5pm you have had to complete the emails and get things wrapped up for the day. You also want to show your boss you're worth keeping. You leave the office for your 1 hour trip home knowing that prick Paul is getting the promotion after a day like that and you get home at 8. You're exhausted but you told your friend you would meet them for dinner so you quickly get changed and get back on the tube, by the time you get back from the swanky restaurant it's 11:30pm, you're exhausted and you're £120 out of pocket for the pleasure. You don't sleep that well knowing that the directors board want to interview you and hear your side of the story at 8am on the upper floors. Lets say they earn £127,000 which sounds amazing but after tax that's £77,300. You're also working and living in london which is extremely expensive, the average single person in London has to spend £793 a month just to live a "basic" life (heating, electricity etc etc) plus another £1800-£2500 for renting a house a month. Now, after transport, food, bills (and pints costing over £5 **shudders**) you're getting around £43,784 to spend on stuff like furniture or meals out or whatever makes you happy. You have an RTI in your wrist from using the computer all day every day and your back hurts from an injury from trying too hard at the gym you pay £100 a month to go to. The bougie london osteopath charges £110 an hour. Would I want to get £43,784 working in the city, sucking up to bosses and taking meds for depression because I would not be enjoying it, hell no. Now look at tree work if you're self employed. You live in the countryside, you have a nice cottage with a garden. You told your client you would be there for 8:30 and start cutting at 9am as they said their neighbours aren't happy with the work being done or the noise. You set your alarm for 7, you get up and have a coffee whilst making sure the van is packed up for the day. At 7:30 your groundie arrives at yours as he lives 20 minutes in the wrong direction so he's jumping in your van for the drive there. You leave at 7:35 for the trip there, you stop to get fuel for the chipper and the van. It's a 30 minute trip through country lanes and you get there at 8:20. You set up for the day, chuck on your waterproofs and your ice gloves as it's pissing down with rain and 5 degrees. You climb the tree and get ready to start. It's 8:50 now and you say sod it, lets start. You are cracking on with the tree removal and your groundie is working his ass off dragging branches 50 yards across the garden to the chipper as you weren't able to park nearby. The neighbour comes out and has a go at you because you started 10 minutes early, you apologise and say your watch must be running fast (It's not but they aren't going to climb 50ft up and check) They tell you they are going to report you for a breach of the peace and go back indoors. You carry on and think nothing of it because police take a day to turn up for a robbery and they aren't going to turn up for something this dumb. As you're working away then pop, your chainsaw stops it won't restart. You don't have a second climbing saw so the remainder of the job is done with your 261 ground saw with a 15" bar on. The property owner comes out at this point to give you a nice hot brew, you stop for 20 minutes to have lunch and warm up. You get the tree down by 3 and you're exhausted however you help your groundie to clear up, pack away and you finish by 4. You head back, dump the load of chippings and get home by 5:30, you light your woodburner, fuelled by the logs in your workshop and you hang up yours and your groundies waterproofs to dry them for the next day. Your groundie heads off home and you put your feet up with a nice hot brew. That evening you walk the half mile to the local pub, you're greated by friendly faces, the barman has your drink on the bar as he knows what you drink, have steak and chips and you chat shite until closing at 10 you get back a little merry to the smell of the woodburner. You're in bed by 10:30. Now let's say you've charged £500 for the tree removal. you usually pay your groundie £120 for the day (Still more than some companies in london are paying their groundies), as he's a young lad (17), he worked bloody hard and he's happy to learn so you give him a little bonus and pay him £135 for the day, that's darn good money. It was a bad day, your chainsaw broke so you have to order a new ignition module that you pick up from the dealership on your way back (£35) you also burned £30 of fuel in the van and chipper on that job. So far you've paid out £200 for the day. You've "Profited" £300 for the day. By the time that you've accounted for the chipper maintenance and van insurance etc for the day lets say you've made ££270 for the day. You have a good accountant that costs £600 per year and your a LTD company. Lets say you're earning under the vat threshold (even though you are better off being on flate rate VAT and getting some ££ out of it) and you're good at being tax efficient so lets forget about tax for now. Well you've just made £20 less than our London friend for the day. You've got up later, worked less hours, you might be cold and wet and a bit pissed off because your chainsaw broke but hey, shit happens tomorrow is a new day and you have good weather due in. You pay £1000 a month for your mortgage (not rent) and your living expenses are quite low, you aren't paying to travel to work as you use your work van so it's a business expense, your local pub was £35 for the meal and a few nice pints of local ale, your heating expenses are £0 as you have the wood burner, your electricity is low as you've been out all day anyway. Your living expenses are £450 for the month. At the end of the day you feel satisfied that you did a good job, your fit and healthy as that's your job. You may have a little niggling back issue but you pay £40 a visit to the osteopath and he has fixed it before every time. Which life would you prefer? I'm sure that guys are going to come on now and say "you wouldn't ever charge £500 for a tree job" "you would never make that much" "you forgot about this" bla bla bla. At the end of the day, over 1/3 of your life is spent at work. I know for sure that I would rather spend 1/3 of my life enjoying what I do, and the other 2/3 having a lifestyle I enjoy. I sure as hell couldn't spend 1/3 of my life at an empty job behind a desk having to do everything my overpaid overlords want me to do and then spend the other 2/3 of my life in a noisy apartment going out for expensive meals and posting it up on instagram hoping that people I used to know seeing me buy expensive things gives my empty life more value. But hey, maybe I'm more simplistic than the others, money doesn't make me happy. One of my friends once said to me that money is just a lubricant, it makes life easier but a F***** engine is a F***** engine and no amount of oil will fix it.

I have yea! I have my First Aid renewal with them soon too as they have been able to continue training. They're really good trainers. I think they also offer some discount if you book a load of courses with them. They tailor their training almost entirely to how quickly you learn, if you know your stuff then they can up the pace and teach you some more advanced techniques that aren't part of the assessment but are good to know, if you're struggling they slow it down and give you extra time at the end of the day if you need it 1 to 1. Having done the aircraft stuff before I can't tell you how many training days I've been on and they were nearly all slow, droll and like learning off a script. The courses at hi-line were the only ones that I was excited to be on and I can't wait to go back again for my first aid refresher. I agree Khriss but when I did that chestnut removal a few weekends back, I set up my primary anchors on the main leader and I was working around around the canopy removing it all from over the greenhouse and surrounding property (it was 3/4 surrounded/overhanging) being positively rigged up and over and it would have been so much easier to have a mini grapple to move between each set of leaders as I cleared down. Even a mini grapple on a old bit of rope just to pull myself across a gap. There have been tonnes of scenarios where I was trying to throw my 10M lanyard carab over a branch and trying to swing it back to bridge a 4ft gap instead of going back to the main leader and branch walking back out again.

Well, thanks Khriss, now I want a grapple. How have I never thought of this before?! All this clambering around when I could grapple across like the SAS ? In all seriousness, where can I get one of those?!

Wow, seems like someone got a bit stung in the industry. Personally I used to be an aircraft engineer, the job was boring, the management was bad. I owned my own company providing contract aircraft repair and the income from tree work (self employed) is double and it's 8 hour days not 12 and I'm not having to piss off all over europe... Depends on what you do in the industry I guess and how well you can run a company. There's people who are 35-45 going into tree work and they can do very well for themselves if they know how to run a company. If you're going to work self employed and earning less than £200 a day you aren't doing something right....

Hi-Line Training in Exeter, Devon is worth looking at Sam. £2376 for 30/31/38/39...

The arm on the fuel inlet valve should be flush iirc from the Zama c1q rebuild manual. You should be able to put a straight edge across the carb body and that arm should just touch it. 2 turns out on the H screw sounds like a lot to me though? "place a straight edge or Zama Z gauge across the carburetor body. The free end of the metering lever should be 0 to 0.3 mm – 0 to 0.012″ below the straight edge"

Spudlike knows more than me on this but I had similar issues with my 200t. Turns out I was tuning it like a mug and not having a high enough LA setting. It was flooding on idle/didn't have enough airflow to vaporise the fuel properly meaning it would bog. Should be a BPMR7A for NGK or a WSR6F in bosch. Maybe they got confused

Like I said, contact chainsawbars and ask them for help. They'll be able to sort you out ?

you should message chainsawbars.co.uk. They have upto 64" bars for the ms660 for milling. I'm sure they would be able to help you out. You're just going to keep getting told to buy an 880 otherwise. I get where you're coming from though. Why spend £1200 on a saw you're only going to use <20 times a year

I don't think 4 weeks is an intensive course anyway if that's cs30/31/38/39 or the NTPC equivalent? Usually a week for cs30/31, a week for 38 and 3 days for cs39?

I know it won't. I'm not asking it to pull a 25" bar. I just want it to cut up to 12" limbs when limbing a tree on the ground without me having to bend over for hours. Just want the ergonomics, not the size ?

I would say that it has something to do with German engineering and having the perfect feel but I think it's more to do with frightening consumers into using service centres. The extra £0.20p of wire used to make all the links probably brings them in a good few thousand in man-hours on repairs!

It's more of a case of I don't want to spend over 2 grand on two new saws, one middle size one and a big one too ? If I was going to get into milling then I 100% would get an 881! I've had a member on here in my area offer to do it now anyway so it looks to be sorted pending the approval of the person paying. I was originally hoping to get a cheap mill (~£130) and just take the time and use my 261 but it's not going to be practical. I was hoping to get a 24" bar for the 261 and use that as I fancy one anyway so I don't have to bend over when bucking but It won't be long enough obviously! By the time I buy a cheap mill, long bar, lo-pro chain etc it's already going to cost more than getting someone else to do it for me and it saves me having to store a massively underpowered mill and equipment that may get used once in a blue moon. Seeing as I want to get a 661 anyway I would rather buy a mill that's sized for it and spend some money on something decent like a panther if I find a nice tree that I could make something nice with as I do enjoy my woodwork. I think I will get someone to do it for me. If I fancy getting into it in the future then get a panther...

I find my 261 pretty capable for most jobs. I don't do forestry work so the only use I would have for the 661 is making a big felling cut a lot easier because having to do "advanced" felling cuts every time the tree is over 16" is getting a little tiring now. Chunking a tree down on spikes isn't too bad with a 261 and isn't really a common job either. I was looking at a 500i but having had a gander at one before I just don't see it's place. It can only handle a 25" bar and you only save 1.2kg which isn't really a massive saving unless you're doing forestry and you're swinging it day in day out. A 661 is more powerful and you can either run a small bar or stick a 42" sugi on it and do lighter cuts or stick a skip chain on it if you need the length. I only want one new saw at the moment and I feel like If I get a 461 or a 500i then I would have to get an 880 eventually as they don't offer a massive step up from a 261. The 661 seems like the best of both worlds for now, I'm young and fit, I can cope with a little extra weight for now!

I've had mine apart so many times I can strip back to the crank and re-assemble in an evening now ?. I do have to take a photo of the throttle linkages every time though!

Out of interest when it's bogging, is it bogging after idling a little (over say 3-5 seconds or so) or does it bog straight between cuts? I.e. you let off the throttle, it goes back to idle, you hit wot and it bogs straight away?

I went through similar issues with mine before I changed the carb and it was due to the H jet leaking back. Sometimes it would be fine, other times it would idle fine then bog on full throttle unless I eased it into it. The H jet on these carbs has a diaphragm non-return valve on them. Due to these saws not having any form of reed valve you get blowback through the carb and it can push air into the H jet if you have a faulty one. These guys know more than me, but this was my experience. Fitted a new carb and it runs a dream. You can buy a new jet from LS Engineers for a few quid though if it's what you think it is

Well, the tree was planted by her father in the 70's and I guess they want to do something with it for his sake (he's still around btw). There's enough sentimental value to do something with it, even if it's a coffee table. Sadly it's a pretty boring tree with no real character. If the bark was interesting it would have made a nice river table or something!

Horse I believe but I don't really remember (I should have noted) I just turned up and had to take the thing down with a building one quarter, a greenhouse another quarter and powerlines on another quarter... The things you do for family eigh!

This is the thing, I won't be doing a lot of milling moving forward, if any. I need the 661 as a chunking saw for attaching to a harness when doing big takedowns. The 661 is almost half the weight of the 8 series!

As above, this is the issue. I want to use my 261 as it's not going to cost me. I am going to get a 661 soon but I wasn't planning on doing it this month! The timings are never right! ?