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  1. 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.
  2. 5thelement
    Maybe he is cutting bushfires?
  3. 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?
  4. 5thelement
    What’s the ballpark figure on price for this machine?
  5. 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’😂
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    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.
  7. 5thelement
    Nail on the head😂
  8. 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😂.
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    You don’t HAVE to be a member of FISA to fell, sell or buy timber though.
  10. 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?
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    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?
  12. 5thelement
    Kingswood Training in Kent run regular CS38/39’s, often back to back or as part of an intensive course.
  13. 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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    This is the case and I never claimed differently. I just explained to the OP how courses are ‘usually’ run. I have never been asked to conduct a LANTRA Independent Assessment on any course and no candidates/employers have ever asked for the LANTRA version over the NPTC, read into that what you wish.
  15. 5thelement
    Generally, LANTRA do training and NPTC City and Guilds do the Assessments. Most training providers (but not all) run the training as a LANTRA course with the NPTC Assessor coming in to assess you on its completion. You would then end up with a certificate of training (LANTRA) and an NPTC Certificate of Competence. The latter is the certificate that you require. Where are you doing the training/based?
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    Have you ever worked with EA or FC staff? You would be lucky if they hit the daily HAVS limit in a month.😂 They monitor the exposure so that they can switch staff into different roles thus avoiding getting anywhere near the risk levels. They also have external occupational therapists who monitor them as part of the MHSAWA.
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    Most manufacturers have a HAVS exposure chart for each machine that they produce on their websites, usually a traffic light system. You can look at the machine, the amount of hours you are pulling the trigger and work out your exposure time and record it. I have seen HAVS watches being used by the Environment Agency which activate an alarm when exposure has been met. Forestry England have HAVS monitors attached to saws etc, they plug it in to a laptop at the end of the week and record the data.
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    I’ve used Sugi Hara on my sub 70cc saws and Tsumura on anything 70cc and over for a good few years now, found them both to be excellent. It’s good to see Husqvarna finally getting in on the action with the rebranded Tsumura guidebars on the newer saws as standard.
  19. 5thelement
    IKEA do a very cheap, clear oil for chopping boards and worktops, it doesn’t alter the colour and is virtually odourless. I have used it once a month on my ten year old Iroko worktops with great results.
  20. 5thelement
    Just had a thought. Maybe the new version in France now comes with the x-force bar/chain combo in 1.3mm and he has changed it over to the ‘standard’ set up to match your other one. Maybe.
  21. 5thelement
    I would be thinking Horse chestnut also.
  22. 5thelement
    The mk1 and mk2 both run a bar/chain combination of 1.5mm gauge and .325 pitch as standard from the manufacturer. Think he is getting himself muddled up Mick.
  23. 5thelement
    The 95 VPX was replaced by the TLX, the new one has a 35 degree filing angle. I bought some to test when it came out, it’s okay but I found the metal to be too soft and it didn’t keep its edge well, you have to be meticulous to get the edge spot on again. The Husqvarna alternative is the SP33, I found it to be an excellent all round chain. The other alternative is the Stihl micro chisel, keeps its edge really well. All are 1.3mm gauge, the husky and stihl being semi chisel, available from Rob at Chainsawbars.co.uk, treat yourself to a Sugi Hara light type bar in 1.3mm gauge, you won’t regret it.
  24. 5thelement
    Copford sawmill are very good. I used them to supply vertical Larch cladding for a Summer house at my place a couple of years back. They usually have Larch, Douglas Fir and Western Red Cedar available and can now profile it in several ways.
  25. 5thelement
    We had a production line set up in the field and charred all faces, then rubbed them back slightly with wire brushes.

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