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A few new items this week. Its not identical, slightly louder but same engine design/character. I may be mistaken but it feels more powerful - but thats likely from the more open exhaust. I like it! Will give it a proper try tomorrow. Dislike - bar nut retaining clips not included, and just standard bar nuts, it uses two of them. Like - the on/off switch is a momentary, auto return to on switch. All saws should be this way. 3/8 full chisel chain as standard! The 12" bar I'll swap to the Makita to test that. I've put the 10" Echo bar and 3/8 full chisel on the Clone 2511 for testing tomorrow. 12" may be too long for this size saw I think, atleast for what I intend to use it. The clone also fired up first pull. Very easy start. Could have used the clone 2511 today, we were clearing two domestic leylandii hedge rows, and I dropped the 2511 twice from being balanced on a stub a few meters up. I didnt have a lanyard or harness on..

Working for council, team leader gave us 5L of mixed petrol to use. I told him it was neat, no colour to it, no oilyness to it on my finger when touching it. Use it, I was told, and being not my problem, we did, took a few days to get through it. I was only on a temp contract anyway. Br800 blower, bg86 blower, pair of stihl long reach hedge cutters, all survived with no known damage. I was quite suprised. Im certain it had no oil in the mix and the others agreed. They used oil out of a drum, no idea what, other than its red. They would refill the oregon measuring bottles with it, thats the only oil they used, and very visibly red.

Used it today, we like it a lot! 4Ah battery dismantled an ash, logged it up and stil lhad 1 bar. Quite a few decent sized cuts to test it out, perhaps 16" dia with the 10" bar. I meant to swap a normal 14" bar to try but didnt have time. The balance of it is good, and it doesnt seem to slow down even when battery is low.

4 pages in a few hours. I did not read the other pages ! Combi cans are shit, just makes it harder to pour, also the auto spouts are shit ( if you have one fail open, you have a mess) Standard tall petrol can, only fill to 3L and 60ml oil. Any higher and its a pain to pour. Also keeps it fresher. Get two cans if you need more fuel! Oil I like to keep in a reused detergent bottle - HDPE and wont leak, sensible size. Wide mouth for pouring back in. Very easy to pour without spillage. Put the oil bottle in with your maintence bag. Old chainsaw lanyard or accessory/prussik cord on the fuel can for easy carrying.

Near enough the same I think, that compare above says net weight but its with them fitted. I'll have 3 LXT batteries and 6 XGT soon. Looks like they release the UC029 today but nowhere has it listed or prices yet, so I will miss the ebay 20% on that...

I've had quite a few unbranded chains of amazon and ebay that worked out around a pound each, and they were decent enough chains too. Many got abused for root and stump cutting and resharpened well enough. Currently preferring the full chisel chains from Farmertec, although they might not be great on more powerful saws. I suspect the drive links may be soft as I have mashed up a few, the cutters however, are excellent. My 2511, 020T and G372XP are all using their full chisel chains. For the 2511 I had to buy a 50DL and shorten to 40.

I was asked to chop up a lime stump, around 36" DBH. It fell in December. The roots were powder and significantly sized logs weighed nothing. The owners were unaware of its ill health until it fell in a storm. My opinion is to remove.

Idiot question - filled the oil but none seems to be getting to the chain. Turned it up to max, same. Theres a small dribble running onto the plastic casing. For video above I had given up and used the supplied squirty tube. What have I missed?

Ebays 20% off, plus the free battery offer (this will be my 3rd) convinced me to get it. £209 delivered. VID_20250530_181213.mp4 Looking at the spec sheet the XGT are a huge improvement. This is lighter than the 18v and more power than the 36. Makita - Compare Products WWW.MAKITA.CO.NZ Makita Power Tools. The preferred brand of power tool to the trade

The burrs would peel off on the first cut, should make no difference. As above, you generally get the burrs on one side only. It would not be difficult to add a reverse switch on the motors, they are just universal DC or SP induction on the better ones.

Have you knocked the kill switch into the off position? Yes I have done this too.

I have not used the decent sharpeners but the cheap ones have terrible slop in the pivot and screws such that no cutter will be the same length. I modified mine to improve it, now does a reasonae.job but its not quicker. Had a problem yesterday, I have some cheap chains and saw, to abuse on low stumps, roots, risky cuts that are likely to damage it. The chains always used to sharpen up well after the abuse using a normal file. Im using good Pferd branded files. The file blunted near instantly, one sharpen per file which was a challenge, went through 3 files. I've never blunted a file before, very odd! I have worn out a good number of chains before this one. I do have some diamond rotary burrs and a mini multi tool, plan to try that and see if the chain can be saved.

Go this today, seems a very good harness however there is one part that is not adjustable, and perhaps I am doing it wrong. It is the stiched connection peice between the waist belt and the leg loops. Pic of the size 1 version, I now have the larger size 2, which is better, but still short. The result is that the leg loops are right up in my crotch, but I might be missing something? What I like is there rope bridge is well thought out, no silly knots protruding to catch on everything.

I'd suggest its not able to compete with the bushes for water and is dying. All of the visible growth is from one stem and none on the other two.

New harness, Camp Tree Access ST. I like it a lot, theres no silly knotted rope bridge for everything to catch on. I got the wrong size, which has tiny leg loops, but Fletcher Stewart are swapping it to the adult size for me. Excellent service from this shop!

I watched it at 2am and phone had the sound on high. That made my toes tingle. My body thought I was dead!

Started a job I may regret. Quoted it as two days labour to manually smash out the roots and replant with a nice row of privet. Before pic As I dont have a tipper, the waste will stay a few days until I have all the roots and waste out so it can be taken in one load. Thats the reason I have cut it into a smallish rash pile.

A bit far for you but seen this at side of road, "Free Firewood" I think it will be there for a very long time!

Yes that'll be motor then. Makita or the shop were no good with support?

Small update, Fedex are wankers and did not deliver my second free battery yet, "Hazardous material" and possibly a surcharge. It means I need to stay home.tomorrow and delay a small job and I shall not be happy about it. Been using the polesaw attachement a bit and it works really well for topping hedges, much quicker than a hedger and stronger for throwing the tops down. I'm very tempted to get a top handle. @flyingjoiner not running as in broken or batteries flat?

What failed on the drill? Did the motor burn out or something like that?

Odd for sheet metal to crack in that way. Exausts would not normally be a hardenable steel, and so should bend before cracking, unless its stainless? You risk bits breaking off and getting inside the exhaust port, Im not sure how else it would seize.

What do you need to cut? A good option is a Fiskars UPX86 or the £85 screwfix Magnusson pole pruner. 4M reach, very light, telescopic pruner for small stuff and a saw blade for thicker. Similar price but the Fiskars you have to buy the saw seperately. I have a Makita split shaft unit with the EY403MP pole saw head and extension. It works quite well. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B096VSN6SW Do you have any power tool brands battery system? Most of them do a pole pruning chainsaw. I also have a cheapy engine milti tool kit with pole saw. The saw works finenbut the 52cc engine is very heavy. The 25cc or 35cc version would be much better for this.

Climbing rope is usually lower rated, ofcourse depends how big you are rigging. However the condition is important as I have seen many rigging on retired climbing rope, with saw cuts and excessive fraying that would not pass loler.

Fair enough I was wrong. Interesting article in the HSE link. Accident appears to be due to a rope snapping. The pictured rope appears to be an old climbing line rather than proper rigging rope, and that is not mentioned, just that he was unqualified.