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  1. 5thelement
    That looks like an old Ash stem that is still a bit ‘green’ in the heartwood, be interesting to see wether the pink colour fades now it’s been opened up. You would expect to recognise the smell from Ash though, especially if you are familiar with cutting it.
  2. 5thelement
    I cut some framing Oak on an estate at Tenterden in Kent a couple of years back. The guys who where doing the Oak construction where the guys who work at Canterbury Cathedral, safe to say the workmanship was extraordinary. All the off cuts and chip was left smouldering overnight on the rubble floor and the barn sealed shut. The smoke coloured the new Oak beams over the period of the installation to blend with the existing timber.
  3. 5thelement
    I used to cut loads of reclaimed Douglas fir and Pitch pine beams from demolition jobs around Bolton, 250+ year old with a dozen coats of paint over nails with no real issues. Get a decent metal detector and slide hammer and prep the beams thoroughly first.
  4. 5thelement
    The mixed profile cutter is a new universal design for cutting hard and soft wood.
  5. 5thelement
    It looks like a form of Willow which is doing a great job of screening the view of those ugly new build houses. As it is very small, and if kept in check, It won’t be doing any damage to your garage, drains, house or green carpet for a good few years yet.
  6. 5thelement
    There you go. The other thing that I picked up on was that some loops had very low depth gauge settings from the start, making them aggressive in the cut and some had one or two spectacularly hard cutters which where a bugger to sharpen.
  7. 5thelement
    If your buying them pre made just check them before use. I have had two people turn up for training with them on their saws. One had a mix of chisel and semi chisel cutters on the same chain, they other had some cutters on backwards. They do the job, don’t use them myself personally.
  8. 5thelement
    A nice Lime I did at a Chateau in the Dordogne last year, the customer even had their own cherry picker.
  9. 5thelement
    I have friends who are polar opposites to me in regard to Covid as well as many other things. Some of these friends I have known for over 40 years so it is easy to discuss more than just Covid. I have certainly been through far worse than this charade with them and come out the other side unscathed.
  10. 5thelement
    All I can say is you would have to be a really sad f***er to drop long term friendships over Covid disagreements.
  11. 5thelement
    I have two 346xp’s that had run on pump fuel throughout their lives, switched to Aspen about 7-8 years ago, never had any problems whatsoever.
  12. 5thelement
    A guy I used to work with did a lot of wood turning and bowl making. He would always do the spalting afterwards. He reckoned unspalted wood turned better, he would then put the bowls in bags containing all kinds of stinking concoctions usually involving seaweed.
  13. 5thelement
    In America they have big trees and big saws, they also fell at waist height. They are pretty useless in the UK for forestry felling as you can’t get the stump low enough. I know a few people who use them in the tree for chogging back and all of them find it handy for work positioning.
  14. 5thelement
    Maybe he is cutting bushfires?
  15. 5thelement
    It looks like your retrofit dogs won’t allow the captive nuts to be replaced, you may get away with standard bar nuts. My question is why would you need to put such large dogs on a 50cc saw?
  16. 5thelement
    What’s the ballpark figure on price for this machine?
  17. 5thelement
    I bet that every time you called them they where at a trade show spunking your money and said ‘they would get back to you’😂
  18. 5thelement
    FISA have scrapped their chainsaw refresher courses. I think with the state of driving in the UK refreshers would be a good thing. Get the idiots off the road and put the revenue into fixing potholes.
  19. 5thelement
    Nail on the head😂
  20. 5thelement
    I was under the impression that Woodsure was a Government Scheme for wholesale firewood sellers to continue trading? FISA are not Government and have no say in anything important really, just a private entity screwing money unnecessarily and unregulated out of hard working people. Why would anyone want to put FISA registered on their invoices, pay a membership fee, then get hit with a bill of £1.70 a tonne, for what exactly? Some people must be insane😂.
  21. 5thelement
    You don’t HAVE to be a member of FISA to fell, sell or buy timber though.
  22. 5thelement
    Rail blanks are the highest value, then cleft posts to hang them on, oversized gate posts are also of good value. How much standing Sweet chestnut to you own and do you intend to continue felling/processing it?
  23. 5thelement
    I think this is the biggest issue here, he hasn’t got a lorry load and has cut it into random lengths of 10’ which wastes far too much of the product. Can’t get 2 x 5’6”, cut 6’ posts and you have 4 ‘ firewood, 6’6” cleft posts you are left with 3’6” firewood, you may get some rail blanks out of the 10” diameter stuff but how many and is it worth it and does he know how to make them and has he got someone to sell them to?
  24. 5thelement
    Kingswood Training in Kent run regular CS38/39’s, often back to back or as part of an intensive course.
  25. 5thelement
    It certainly seems geographical in regards to Sweet chestnut use. In Kent/Sussex it is still a buoyant industry, loads of chestnut products still being produced, cleft post and rail, sheep and deer fencing, hurdles, shingles, pailings and even the glue-lam industry. There is a shortage of decent chestnut cutters who know the product, certainly not a shortage of buyers/producers.

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