Al Mayne

Thanks Dan, did that and it helped! Worked out that the throttle rod bar had indeed come out of position and could be put in with relative ease but the addition of a cable tie may assist it in not coming out again!

Super helpful - thanks.  

cheers, am waiting for a 8mm thin walled socket which will come tomorrow to take air filter intake off so I can see properly, but maybe it is the handle broken as you say!! Keen to fix it myself instead of popping to the local shop!

Went to fire up the chainsaw today. Started fine, but zero response when I squeezed the throttle. 

Opening it up, I can see that when I press the throttle, the throttle rod moves but does not appear to be connected to anything! Am hoping someone can perhaps send me a photo of how it should look (or a video of it moving even better), I am assuming mine has somehow unhooked from a connection? The rod literally has zero impact on the carb as it stands, it just moves a small amount with no impact!

Odd since it was fine when I put it away a few weeks back or so I thought!  

Am awaiting a tghin walled 8mm socket to take the air filter housing off to access the carb and try to figure out where the throttle connection should be! 

Thanks in advance!

That looks excellent, would be very happy to achieve results looking like that!

Good point Khriss! We are in GL5 near Stroud.

Morning, looking for some quite broad advice. I have a small copse of woods at the back of our garden, 1.1 acres. Mainly beech and a good number (maybe 15 or so) of pretty mature larch. Then a few ash (unfortunately mostly with die back), sycamore, field maple, one lonely small oak, then holly, some nice old yew, and a couple of lovely large corsican pines.

We are about to embark on a building project, with a wood clad large garage/shed plus wood cladding on the extension. That's a lot of money to buy wood when we have a whole load sitting right on site that needs thinning anyway. And further, the larch apparently had no value as it is in mixed woods and needs extracting carefully (local chap I would trust said he would take it for no cost, but if we leave it longer it might not be worth it once larch is tool old)  

I'm considering 3 things:

1. Milling the larch for cladding on garage and house;

2. Milling one large beech to make floorboards for the sitting room ready for next year; and

3. Longer term, milling some of the larch to make a pole barn type structure at the back of garden one day 

Now ... I am not an arb. 

I am looking at the amount of wood we have and will need over time, and am wondering whether it makes any sense to invest in a saw mill, probably one on wheels to get up into the woods and mill in situ (as opposed to trying to drag it out of the woods)

Question - with a decent mill (e.g. woodlandmills.co.uk) how hard is it to mill cladding, and is it simply a case of stacking it under a tarp with spacers for a period of time or can you use it green /is it better green? Then on flooring, clearly the beech will need drying, so is it best to section to 1inch+ and dry with spacers and if so for how long, or does it need kiln drying as well and then putting through some sort of thicknesser or similar by a pro afterwards?

I LOVE the idea of the house being built from the woods, and then long term could sell the mill or indeed keep for the future. But if getting any form of decent result needs a huge level of experience, then I need to be realistic and know that as well. 

Alternative is to find someone locally to come in a do the milling. Either way, it helps open up the copse a bit and start to get some new trees in there as well, am keen to get it a bit more diverse and add some variation like lime, maybe some cedar etc for the long long term future!

Many thanks in advance for all advice and comments!!

Al