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Stihl HTA86 extendable pole saw / chainsaw, battery, new (other)
marktownend posted an advert in Chainsaws
Time Left: 2 days and 13 hours
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We were given this by the previous owner of our new section of woodland. He'd bought it new but seems to have lost the bar, chain, strap and instructions but these will be easy to replace. Guessing if you're buying that you know something about these units, it's obviously the bare unit with no battery or charger included. It's literally never been used, as proved by the clean and empty oil tank. I can provide some proof to show the provenance and that it's not pinched. The box has seen better days but the unit itself is in perfect new condition. These are well over £500 new, but I realise you've got to source the bar/chain/strap and there's no warranty etc. How does £300 sound? Although it was a very generous gift there's no point in us keeping it, it's more of a gardening tool rather than forestry, we've already got 'proper' chainsaws and don't want to invest in the AR or AP battery system for a tool we'd hardly ever use (and all my power tools are Makita!) but this will be perfect for someone who's already running kit on those systems and wants to prune apple trees for Mrs Muggins. Collection from near Salisbury in Wiltshire, or we can presumably arrange some form of overly expensive shipping. Message on here to start with. Thanks£300
Salisbury, Wiltshire - GB
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Good thanks. I'll message you at some point so not everyone gets to enjoy our chat.
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Time Left: 2 days and 12 hours
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*** Update - provisionally sold on ebay but I'm leaving this up here until I've had a chance to deal with it next week in case it falls through. *** I've also got these listed on ebay so feel free to buy them there. Basically almost new pair of Meindl Airstream GTX chainsaw boots we were given by the previous owner of our new section of woodland, but not the right size for me or my brother! He apparently wore them twice, there's some very light scuffing on the heels and toes (which looks worse in the photos than it actually is) and a tiny amount of mud on the soles. Apart from that and the fact that there's no box, you wouldn't know they weren't brand new. These are around £300 new, I'm happy to take £200 including UK mainland shipping. Or you can collect from near Salisbury in Wiltshire. Message on here to start with. Thanks£200
Salisbury, Wiltshire - GB
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I realised you must have been collecting stuff for quite a few years when I saw your place, but I hadn't realised you'd been collecting that long Mark!
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Just for info for others, I took 5 logs to Mark for him to mill for us last year so an hour or so of that time was that, and the mill still looked in extremely good condition despite being a few years old, although he had to pull start it each time as he'd dropped a spanner across the battery terminals when checking the thing still ran as he'd not used it for ages. A couple of months later he asked if we'd be interested in buying it and we agreed a price of £3500, knowing we were paying a premium for a mill with little use. However he then withdrew from the sale as he couldn't face selling it. We ended up investing a bit more and bought a brand new HM130MAX and decided in the end that we were glad we did, not just to have a new mill but also that it would have taken a lot of effort to dismantle, move and rebuild it in the woods.
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If you own land away from where you live how far away is it?
marktownend replied to smallguy's topic in General chat
25 miles as the crow flies. 37 miles by road. 55 minutes depending on vehicle and traffic. -
Came across this on a walk in the New Forest a couple of weeks ago. This was about 5 feet tall on a pretty decent sized beech, really impressive growth even without it happening to look like an ugly face.
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Oh dear, I've just lost half an hour looking at his creations, some chap called Keith Pettit, good stuff o his website and instagram.
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Personally I'd love to see it just left as it is if there isn't any public access or risk to livestock. Would be amazing to watch it gradually return to the soil over the next few decades. However, depending on what the field is used for or how it would fit aesthetically with the location (it looks like estate land) this may not work. And whether you want to maximise financial return is another question. As other posters have said, the tree could be dealt with and the area cleared up relatively easily by someone with the right knowhow and equipment. It could be used for art projects in situ, removed and made into 1000 chopping boards, burnt, hollowed out into a huge canoe, any number of uses but you'll never get a concensus of opinion on here and ultimately it'll depend on what the owner thinks best as to what happens to it. If it's not creating a danger as it is then maybe leave it for a few months for discussion and contemplation time as it won't be going anywhere. A neighbour in our woods had a big ash tree that had fallen before he bought the plot and fairly quickly had it chopped up for boards and firewood and I know he has pangs of regret about that and wonders if he should have left it.
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I've got 4 small rowan saplings growing in pots that came up from seeds I was sent by an elderly aunt in autumn 2022, seem to remember I just squished them and chucked them in the pots but may have separated the seeds. I've not given them much care, those that came up grew remarkably little in the first year then I lost a few over the winter and the 4 survivors grew quickly at the start of spring this year but are still quite weedy, only about 30cm tall. But they definitely didn't go through a bird so no magic acid needed. Need to decide whether to risk keeping them in pots another year or just to plant them out this autumn/winter and let them fend for themselves.
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I did a few days labouring in a local sawmill during Covid and seem to remember someone saying they'd use any offcuts from milling larger timber to produce pallet wood although I think the days I was there we were just putting the flitches into a stillage to be cut for firewood.
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Yep, here's one I saw in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco in 2015. It was on it's way down off a plateau towards a gorge with some lovely tight steep wiggly bends but must have made it as we weren't held up on our way back down.
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Which country are they in? One of my pet hates on forums is people not giving their location, so you could be in Ecuador for all I know, and I know even less about the timber market there than I do about the UK market. Personally the only slabs I've sold went directly to a furniture maker I already knew.
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Yep, it came with the rails (well, 5 of them). Annoyingly 4 of them were attached to a lovely straight looking bit of timber, but we had to unscrew them as there was no way that was going to fit in my MX5 that I'd taken to collect it! I'll attach them to the straightest thing I can find. I like the candle wax tip!
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Just to stop everyone pestering the OP in the future, I picked this up from him today to have a play with.
