Ollie_M

i dont deny rearing pheasants isnt the greatest, however if it wasnt for the game shoots on the majority of the large estates - they wouldnt bother to manage there woodland. yes looking at some natural game crops to plant around the boundary of the woodland, make it a more natural transition to the grassland as currenty the woodland is boxed in by tall scrubby hedging due to the grazing around it

luckily im quite into my shooting 😀 muntjac makes for some of the best steaks on an unrelated note haha. i made some guards for the coppiced hazel out of sheep wire that helped them get going, the other were brush stacked.

Hi, just thought I’d start a thread on my 2 ish acre woodland, my dad inherited it along with 15 acres of grassland from our family farm - then gave me the task of looking after it 🙈 (no complaints) to provide our firewood, and improve it for nature and game shooting. All possible in my opinion 2 years ago was the first time the woodland got touched other than having a pheasant pen for our game shoot (only relevance this has is that I can’t do anything until February when shooting season finishes) the majority of the wood is fairly dense hazel and ash, with two areas of very very dense mature blackthorn mixed with a bit of hazel, about 10 - 15ft tall, absolutely dead underneath. Not even squirrels were really present. so i hit it hard and full cleared an area. that was it for that year and left me with plenty of firewood. come summer, the wood had the most life I’ve ever seen in it. Muntjac, roe, rabbbits, field mice, birds of prey. Oh and the squirrel population went mad. I’m going to write more up later and find some more photos, but thought this thread might help people in the future whilst also giving me a way to keep note of what I do over the years

just looking for some reccomendations of some good anti vibration gloves as i tend to get vibration shakes after running some of my older saws for a couple hours straight. cheers in advance

Don’t worry, just clicked how to use it

Take the carb off and go to bolt it up? Will crush the strato separator no?

so i bought the sealing plate above to pressure test my a 365 x torq as i read in multiple places this was the correct plate however unless something magical happens i dont understand how a simple circle metal plate with an 'inset' circle is supposed to fit with the strato divider? if anyone could put some light on this as to wether ive got the wrong part number or the wrong part in the right bag or what that would be great edit: so i just checked the workshop manual for the x torq range and it photographs and gives the part number for the plate ive got so now im even more confused? 😂

Most Stihl saws are still available as non m Tronic I think but rarely available stocked

can i just ask why not bar oil? its designed for the job at hand and therefore works well through pumps and looks after bars and chains.

following from difflock, on clarksons farm a company came out and used high pressure air to create cracks in the clay, they then filled the cracks with seaweed to hold them open - they did it in a puddle and you could see the bubbles coming up through the puddle showing where they aerated the clay. i would say worth looking into. also agree that that hole is the only permeable bit of your garden and is therefore acting as a sump for all the run off, a vigorous grass would help with this as it would hold the water and use it rather than letting it runoff however you wanted artificial so it is what it is

got a tree at the end of my garden - no clue what it is really but i have a feeling its dying as it was the first tree to loose its leaves around us last year by about a month, it was then the first tree to put leaves on this year - canopy started off well but it has thinned with time, not massively but it has. got some pics of a couple lower branches, that i trimmed the heartwood looks weird to me and all of them had pinholes in the center. just wondering what people think, it poses no danger and ill quite happily fell it if needed. thanks.

Check you got spark,and don’t spend money on a 180

185psi compression cold, she runs pretty strong IMG_2737.mov

Just checked ring gap - came in snug at .25mm so just under 10 thou 👌 looking forward to getting it back together - was the most powerful saw id ran when I got it and I was impressed then but not difficult after running a Stihl ms250 as a ‘big saw’ i bought the last 2 oem rings for ls engineers when I made an order, will keep them in the parts bin possibly for a pop up piston one day

Throttle open, normally make sure no choke but you don’t have one