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Around £370 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/197434265472

What lesson is that? Meteor kits are supposed to be good quality aftermarket kits. The rest of a saw is nearly irrelevant when compression testing. Anyway it runs ok and cuts well. I'll likely order a g3120 very soon for the occasional bigger job.

My g372XP has been on the healing bench for a while, it was running ok but the exhaust fell off and stripped the studs die to my poor assembly. I could have helicoiled but I bought a Meteor cylinder and piston kit upgrade. I will keep the original as a spare. Im a little disapoonted that a £130 cyl kit is giving less compression than the original, only 120 PSI, tho the quality of the plating does look far better. Does it just need more running in, have I done something wrong? Should I pull it and inspect? Cheers

Bbc had an update that the children were just walking past when it occured. 40-50 people attempted to lift the fallen limb. Comparing to pic on first page, the whole upper canopy has ripped out. The enormous propped lateral limb appears to be intact.

Has happened to me many times with Amazon, once they mess up, you get the pleasure of waiting a week before they do anything. If its a Prime item, since returns are easy, no questions, I simply order another and keep which ever arrives first, and the slower delivery goes straight back.

21 days, 80% degraded, thats not doing a saw much good! Tho that site linked before appears to be AI generated crap so wouldnt trust anything written on it. @AHPP Not everything I buy is cheap or fake, mostly just the unimportant things. My recent Makita XGT kit purchases are totaling over £2100 at the moment and theres still more bits that I want to buy! Neither. Whilst Castrol may make Stihls oil, its to their own spec, the dye will likely be added last

I like Castrol Power1, it is Jaso FD and red. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Castrol-POWER1-2T-Motorcycle-Oil/dp/B0C813TSXN

In the pics, there are many supports propping up the heavy lower limbs. In the before photos, it looks like a tree that would eventually self destruct Not a suitable safe place to situate benches or encourage people to be underneath, or climb on. Limbs are low enough that kids could have been climbing it and wonder if that was part of it. It originally said 5 injured, two seriously and one of those has since died. Some council negligence there? I'm not saying it should have been felled, as I like old and questionable trees, perhaps a fence around it?

Not running, needing a carb clean.

Looks like a significant stem or limb has split out of a park tree, a cedar? Appears this was the tree before it failed. Benches below. Sad to hear one child has died, another seriously and a few more injured. Children 7, dies, after tree falls in Southend's Chalkwell Park WWW.BBC.CO.UK Police say another child, aged six, is in a serious condition. Girl, 7, killed and four injured after branch from large tree falls on kids in park | Daily Mail Online WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK A six-year-old girl, who was also caught underneath the tree when it collapsed in Chalkwell Park, in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, is in a critical condition in... Hope they have a quick recovery.

It seems to me the biggest risk of ticks is not from areas with deer or grass but dogs and their walkers.

I helped out a team last week and the boss had started to switch to aspen, some of his saws had already shat themselves, repaired and been advised by somone to rebuild the carbs when switching. I dont remember if his 400c was running the aspen or 2t mix but that soon shat itself and the stump had to be chogged with a blunt 261, painful to watch! I shall not be letting aspen near my saws. When somone tells me they "have all the gear, not to worry about bringing saws", I shall bring my G372xp and a spare chain.

Its easily possible. The motors exist, the difficult part is the battery, balancing the power, weight, size, run time and durability. Most big saws use large single batteries, wrong approach in my opinion if going for maximum power. Both Makita and Stihl make large backpack batteries, and theres no reason these couldnt have 10kW output with some minor changes. Short cable to the saw. The power to weight of the saw would be extreme and perhaps a real benefit for chogging down big trees or cutting in awkward positions.

@AHPP There are techniques for raking, efficiently and quickly. Far too many arb teams seem to use metal grass/soil rakes for shifting arb detritus, three times the effort and ends up with a big pile of lawn moss. I like the magnusson rake, use with more if a sweeping action. Works equally well on grass, concrete or fancy garden tiles. ERROR: The request could not be satisfied WWW.SCREWFIX.COM One I know has two child sized, broken handle rakes. He bought a replacement, a tarmac rake, useless. When I work with them I try to avoid raking or bring my own.

Measure it and go to a bearing supplier Or ask LSE.

This is one of my problems. I generally go out after work and dont get home until 10 or 11pm. My charger is a single slot and takes an hour each. I may have to get a double slot charger so I can stick them all together. I dont want to leave it running over night. It may be difficult if you had enough batteries for a team or two teams. Makita do an 8 slot box but afaik it needs mains power to charge, and its £500! Ideal if it could charge from car/van while driving to and from sites.

Disagree there, more about power than constant running. Top handles are ok as generally its high power in short bursts. I was impressed how many 12"cuts my uc002 can do on a battery. Hedgers, trimmers are constant but low power tools. They can use high power but only for the instant that you hit a thicker branch. You can get ages out of a battery. However you might not want to do a 8 hour day of heavy rail veg clearance as that will go through batteries fast. Blower is a high power tool and can drain a battery in 10 mins or so on full blast. How much blowing do you do? Battery hedgers, holding them up near your face you get a cool blast of fresh air out the motor. Extremely refreshing on a hot day! Top handles for climbing or ground saw for snedding ideal to be battery. Big saws for chogging up large stems need the power of petrol - Im talking 372xp-500i-660 sort of thing. There are large comparable battery saws but they use huge batteries and expensive.

I've ordered the Makita XGT one. It has some impressive numbers and should be smaller to fit in my car. It'll get me another free promotion battery too, so the ost is irrelevant. On full, boost mode, expect less than 8 minutes from a battery. I'd be rather irritated if I needed to spend 8 minutes of a day full power blowing.

What tools do you use on your combi? That may decide how much power and weight you want. I'd suggest for hedge trimming, you wouldnt want the big batteries. Light as possible with adequate power. Battery is the way to go for most of those tools. I like the Makita UX01 kit. They have a free battery offer at the moment and its decent professional grade quality. I have hedge, polesaw, extension, brushcutter. Seperately I got the rough cut hedger and 12" chainsaw, and just ordered the blower. I bought three batteries and will soon have four from the promotion, two have arrived already.

I've not used that one but I have a pair of shorty pruners that I climb with, mostly fruit tree prunes or anything small. Also great on holly. Telescopic would be safer for the fingers, I wouldnt want to be near anyone else using a telescopic! What do you currently use? While the one you linked looks good, 3m length would be limiting I think, compared to a 4.5m battery polesaw and same weight, much less versitile. For telescopic these manually powered ones are really good. Very very light, often bring them up into the tree. Thicker stuff above 25mm is hard work if you have a lot of cuts to make. Good price, they were £85. Come with a saw blade which I never used. https://www.screwfix.com/p/magnusson-bypass-tree-loppers-157-1-2-4000mm-/852ty Fiskars make almost the exact same thing, upx86, but it costs a good amount more without the blade.

Thats interesting.. they have the specs listed, and none of the battery saws appear to have any AV mounts. Comparing a Stihl ms194T, that lists 3.6m/s² Msa190T 3.8/3.9m/s² Makita UC002 5m/s². They dont do a comparable petrol top handle. Husq T542i is listed 4.1/4.7m/s² Echo 2511 3.5/4 m/s² and DCS2500 3.3/4.3m/s² Perhaps traditional AV mounts are not so effective with motors, but there all similar.

Generally you are responsible for your side and shouod maintain it, and in most cases a fence will mark the boundry, after 12 years it can be claimed as the boundry. Where as if its just a fence, usually each homeowner will be responsible for one side, which on ours is the left, when looking out the front, cant remember if theres a standard for that or not. Our neighbour had two large leylandii on each corner of garden. They eventually had one removed our side (before I started tree work) but left the other side. When it was time for the fence, they had the contractors be lazy and put the fence inside of the tree, gifting a couple square meters to the other neighbour. The leylandii is twice the hieght of house and damaged by a council birch, I will see if I can get the job of topping it down to a sensible height some day.

Cbr600 2002. Got her at 27k miles and commuted all weathers until 2020 covid, she died a week before covid hit the UK at 125k miles. The timing chain jumped, easily fixed but while furlough I tarted her up, angood service mechanically but never reassembled. ULEZ makes it pointless... Cbr250RR MC22, 1992 or something. Carbs are a pain, it ran ok, amazing revvy fun engine, but never ran perfectly and hesitated at the top end. Not been on the road for a while, the tank is now black. Brothers chinese 125, I ride it occasionally and help maintain it. No power above 40mph but good fun for city riding. Unlike most 125's it has proper sized tyres 110/140 70 17, same as the 250 and feels like a bigger bike.

Yes nothing wrong with the AV on the Lidl or ony two clones - 2511 or 372xp. One interesting fact is that battery saws dont appear to have or need AV - I assumed some of the vibration came from the cutting action but it appears it is all from the engine, so they dont need it.

There is not an accurate test for it. That is most of the problem. Lymes is nothing I was reading the other day about liver flukes. In certain countries , any contact with fresh water, be it swimming, rinsing dirt of your leg in a stream, splashing your face for half a second, can have the parasites burrow into your skin and then around your circulation. They eventually burrow through to your organs where they cause proper damage. I used to do a lot of trail running through thick woodland and technical ground in shorts where there are deer and cows. Suprised nothing has got me but never noticed any.