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My meaning was waterproof jackets, I'll often wear a fleece if I'm standing around waiting but if its wet, its not going to help and I'll leave it in the car. Yes weather is a lot easier here in the south. Its hot weather that I have more problems with.

To add to the futility, I'd suggest starting with a cheap ones, they are not bad, you need to learn maintence, and its useful to have saws of different sizes. Lidl 53cc 18" for £60 Farmertec G2511 25cc Echo clone for £90 G111 020T clone for £230 G372XP or G660 clone with 20-28" for £300 £680 is not much more than your budget but would set you up for most work. My list is pretty similar to the above except I have a genuine Echo 2511 as well as the clone, a genuine 020T, and a Mcculloch cs340(Husky 235 but black). Also a battery Makita UC002. I'd avoid used, they are all battered or stolen.

APTA appears to be a bog standard potato air cannon made from 2" plumbing pipe and fittings, but they added a little ziptied handle to justify the $400 price. A common tyre fitters tool is the 5 gallon bead blaster. In theory they are proper rated pressure vessels, just needs a bit of pipe for the launching barrel. It is far too big, dangerous with that much air. Theres a smaller version. 3L of air should be plenty, but 9L might only need 30 or 40psi, and I suppose that might be safer over all. Lower pressure may need a longer barrel. I'm thinking I will try a small blaster cannon, and a clone of the bigshot.

Its a bad idea for somone new to chainsaws, to jump straight in with a 70cc, cutting 3ft diameter logs. Suggest you get some experienced help for it, or atleast some basic training if you havent had any! When Farmertec had an offer, I got my G372XP clone for £151 delivered. Prices have gone up a bit, but I'd buy one again. Items for sale by machinerypartstore | eBay WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Shop eBay for great deals from machinerypartstore! However the G372, on bigger stuff, is not the quickest saw. Possibly a G660 or G395. Or G3120 is tempting. G660 92cc Gasoline Power Head 28inch 92DL Bar Chain For MS660 066 | eBay UK WWW.EBAY.CO.UK 1PC 92CC Chainsaw Power Head. Chain Sprocket Standard 7 tooth 3/8" pitch. Total Mass Without bar and chain 8kgs. Guide Bar 20", 25", 28",32" or 36"...

How big are the trees? I see from your other posts you may have quite a bit to process. Which Dewalt? You should also be wearing protective boots and trousers. If the biggest stems are under 14" then a light 35cc saw will be easier work. If they are upto 20" then a 50-60cc saw would work well and do the smaller stuff no issue. If theres a lot of it above 20" you may want two saws, a small 35cc to do the majority of the smaller cutting and a 70cc for the bigger stuff, or just a 70cc.. it will do small stuff but they are thirsty and heavy, you will feel if it using it all day.

I guess you can. https://makerworld.com/en/makerlab/makeMyStatue/

My aim is great, power great, timing shite, and you need all three for throw bags. I could likely get better if I spent days practising and was using it often, but once a month with an often difficult throw, no chance. I'm thinking I will make up a big shot or air cannon instead.

If your telling me the choice is to buy ten 30 quid folding bags, two £130 quid bags or a £300 crossbow, I'd take the crossbow, would save a lot of time from missed throws! Ok what do we think about this, https://www.dogandfield.co.uk/gundog-training-equipment/dummy-launchers/rrt-dummy-launcher/ https://www.dogandfield.co.uk/gundog-training-equipment/dummy-launchers/dummy-launcher-dummies/pvc-launcher-dummy/ .22 Cal Dummy Launcher Blanks WWW.DOGANDFIELD.CO.UK .22 Cal Dummy Launcher Blanks: Available in three power ratings (Green, Yellow and Red) delivered across UK by Dog and Field: #1 in Gun Dog supplies.

Looks shite. Seems they did it last year as well.

PLA is fastest, good for indoor stuff, easiest, start with that, but it softens above 50c, it will melt in a hot car. Lots of colours available. My blue and red stuff is PLA. PETG is stronger, stiffer and better heat resistance. A customer had a saggy driveway gate, so I printed this wheel to stop it dragging. Should last for years outside, longer than the gate I think. My black, white, geen and dark blue is PETG TPU for flexible stuff, not tried that yet. ABS if it needs to be resistant like PET but glued or painted, or repairing existing abs items. I have not tried the high end ones, they can get expensive.

Yes you could. Resin printers are better for detail tho. I now have chain storage boxes And this little gadget to stop my phone getting lost in that gap between the seat. And a battery holder thing

PJ's at 7pm? Are they special arb PJ's? I want one of these. The line is stored on a fishing spool and should wind in neatly between shots. A shame those crossbow murders happened, they are now outright banned as offensive weapons? I cant get over £80 quid for a folding bag, if arbs are willing to spend that, no wonder harnesses, friction devices, spikes and every other functional item is 400 quid plus.

Do you have a pic of the lever mechanism? Can one not simply chop off the linkage that goes to the second lever?

Anyway I use a pop up laundry basket from poundland, works well enough. I did buy a somewhat more durable pop up garden bag to replace it, but I havent thrown since.. I'm shite at throwing. I'd like to get or make a compressed air powered potato cannon style launcher, or even propane powered launcher, but I am unsure on the legalities of making such a cannon.

I'm waterproof, I dont wear jackets. They tend to make you sweat and then your soaked through anyway.

Mick, I'm a sceptical that it wouldnt jump straight off again but will try it, if, but hopefully there wont be a next time.. thanks. Currently printing one of these as a chain storage box. Needs to be scaled 125% or so, as its a bit small. https://makerworld.com/models/1665725

Yes it will undo them, hand will hurt before the plastic breaks, no problem unless they are done up stupidly tight - thats a bad idea as most modern, lightwieght professional grade saws, the studs are only threaded into plastic!

Ah well thats currently beyond my skills and I dont have anything else that it would stack with. I was intending to print a load of chain storage boxes that I want to stack, but still looking for a good design. It came from here - if you click customise you can easily alter all of the dimensions Parametric Rugged Container by ExtRuben MakerWorld: Download Free 3D Models MAKERWORLD.COM BASIC GENERATORThis parametric container is ideal for creating suitable cases for various tools and small parts. The internal dimensions and some...

@Steven P I'm not sure what you mean by stackable? A climber is only going to carry one scrench, if at all. Wedges perhaps, but how? Stacked ones wont fit in the trouser pocket. Small magnets or clips would get them to stick together but then hanging on harness. I've had jobs where I really needed a scrench in the tree, had to come down and then decided to come back the next day, knocking the next job back. A simple scrench and I could have finished it, or not. The job I'm thinking of, the chain had hit the catcher and the drive links all burred, took ages to file them back to a useable state. @Marla brown sorry I have @'d you, this forum does t let me delete it?! If anyone knows how to delete unwanted @'s or quotes, please tell me. @Mark Bolam would you like to buy some 😀 Tbh I dont care to sell them, arrange a postage with evri or whoever and I can drop some in a box. This thread is more to help me, I want some good ideas from the experienced climbers.

Looks like it was a nice oak, apart from the ivy, why did they want it down? Reminds me I was working for an Austrian guy last week, he tells me *all* phone and power cables are underground. They dont have a single telegraph pole, and roadside trees are frequently trimmed by a helicopter saw blade, so there are no trees arching over the roads, like we have here. He likes driving here, more scenic. I forgot to ask him, is there a ground crew to clean up the choppers mess?

I'm intending to print things that will make my job easier. Open to any ideas, if you think of something useful I ca try to print it. A lot of stuff has already been designed, along side plenty of useless tat. First up was a brightly coloured climbing wedge. I've got cheap beech wedges but I'm always loosing them being wood coloured. Climbing scrench. 13mm, 19mm, two hex bit slots for flat and torx. Cord hole for hanging, fuzzy texture for grip. Quite a bit smaller and hopefully less stabby than a metal scrench. I might alter design with some sliding caps over the hex bits as they are still a bit stabby. Theres a hedge trimmer sharpening jig I might print. Requires disassembling the blades however, and mine dont need it yet, hopefully wont for some time. Dremel/Bosch hedge/grass trimmer sharpening jig by MrSomeone MakerWorld: Download Free 3D Models MAKERWORLD.COM I'm presenting you a rotary tool hedge trimmer/grass shears sharpening attachment that can be used on Dremel and Bosch Professional machines. Key... Currently printing a chainsaw sharpening guide. I dont need one, but why not try it, might get in the way and annoy me, my angles are pretty good. Chainsaw Dremel sharpener by Nasti MakerWorld: Download Free 3D Models MAKERWORLD.COM This attachment for the Dremel helps to maintain the correct angle when sharpening a chainsaw. A cylindrical 4mm whetstone is then used, which is... Printed box to store the sharpener when its in car or on site.

You wouldnt like to evolve a product to find that everyone prefered the old one, a waste of R&D and significant costs, two competing product lines running. Removing that choice is better for them.

I owned the saw from new and have never used alkylate fuel. You say it does not attack rubber, that is untrue and depends entirely on which grade of rubber. There are many grades of rubber and in this case Husq had used unsuitable rubbish. Nitrile rubber can be fuel resistant, slightly less so with ethanol fuels (but there are still a great many old cars on the road!). Viton rubber is generally considered best for long term use. One problem I believe to be true, there is so much low quality or fake fuel hose being produced that it can get into genuine supply chains. I assume the same is true for seals etc.. It is difficult to buy decent aftermarket fuel hose for a motorbike for example. It is suprising if a manufacturer is having issues on new kit from the factory, but does seem to be the case.