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does anyone bother sharpening their chains, or do you just buy a new one every so often. Seems like quite a faff to sharpen a chainsaw chain.
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great job. looks great!My bits came. Whoop whoop. I put my best hat on and a few hours in the shed the saw was good as new. I kept having to remind myself I was cleaning an 8 year old chainsaw and not detiling and expensive car..
Isn't she pretty!
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That's a shed-load of wood!That time of year again, so off to a friend of my parents (forest manager) for 2+ tonnes of wood for £100 (and he let's us borrow his trailer).
2 x loads of ash & sycamore..
This fella didn't help much, apart from giving me a slobber bath..
Back home and ready to cut to size, or it would have been if I'd remembered to get a new chainsaw chain.
Unfortunately no one had one in stock today, so I ordered a whole new chainsaw to be delivered tomorrow
Sundays job..
I hope you've got a good splitter
Nice! What model Stihl is it? I'm runing an old 095 and it still runs great. Also got one of the new light bars on it.My bits came. Whoop whoop. I put my best hat on and a few hours in the shed the saw was good as new. I kept having to remind myself I was cleaning an 8 year old chainsaw and not detiling and expensive car.
Isn't she pretty!
Picked myself up a couple of boot fulls on saturday then did a boot full for the inlaws Sunday morning. Far too hot and humid for wood collecting and chainsawing though!
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She's a 261C-M
They are expensive now. I can't remember what I paid but it certainly wans't a grand!
MS 261 C-M Petrol Chainsaw | STIHL
<p>The STIHL MS 261 C-M petrol chainsaw is the perfect tool for small to medium tree maintenance work. This new version features a newly designed Light 04 guide bar as well as the new .325” RS Pro saw chain for improved cutting performance. The high performance .325” saw chain provides up to 20%...
Nice. Yeah but does anyone actually pay full RRP for any STIHL product?
Looks really tidy & smart, well done! Where are your tools/tongs/box from? Like that one and need one similar to catch the dust as ours makes a mess being just a stand...
Any idea which/where your stove fans are & how's the airflow? Considering doubling up or replacing ours as it's really not shifting much air.
Nope, it's a baby/toy saw as it has a battery, not a real saw!
Yup... Proper maintenance of your saw & it's chain is quite key to ownership. It can be a faff but lots of ways to make it easier, really once you're cutting hardwood or stuff which is knotted & very tough need to sharpen things for efficiency/ease/safety...!
The Valiant store on the rain forrest.
I went a bit over board and got their fan, companion set and the temperate gauge. I also just ordered their ash caddy but its a tiny bit too small for my ash pan
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Going to be getting our first (in our own property) log burner installed end of Oct. Just waiting on a revised invoice then will be paying the deposit.
Been looking locally for a supplier of some logs which there are a few. Numerous estates around us that sell them as a by product of the estate management so shouldn't be hard.
But got a question. there were a lot of trees near us that are being managed over time. The last group of arborists have left a lot of logs. I mean a lot. But they are probably 4-6 feet long, and upto 12 inches round.
Can someone give me an idea of weight (think they are lime so softwood) for say a 5 foot 9 inch log. Is that realistically moveable or too heavy.
They are probably 5 meters away from a path that I could get a sack barrow to.
Unfortunately I missed the oak, which they chopped a bit smaller. Clearly someone else saw that and whipped them away quickly.
I read that lime isn't a great long burner but is ideal for the start so maybe kindling?
I've got a decent bow saw which I used at the allotment.
So would just need a splitter really.
Actually think I have the cherry trunk up there still which I cut down about 5 years ago...
Been looking locally for a supplier of some logs which there are a few. Numerous estates around us that sell them as a by product of the estate management so shouldn't be hard.
But got a question. there were a lot of trees near us that are being managed over time. The last group of arborists have left a lot of logs. I mean a lot. But they are probably 4-6 feet long, and upto 12 inches round.
Can someone give me an idea of weight (think they are lime so softwood) for say a 5 foot 9 inch log. Is that realistically moveable or too heavy.
They are probably 5 meters away from a path that I could get a sack barrow to.
Unfortunately I missed the oak, which they chopped a bit smaller. Clearly someone else saw that and whipped them away quickly.
I read that lime isn't a great long burner but is ideal for the start so maybe kindling?
I've got a decent bow saw which I used at the allotment.
So would just need a splitter really.
Actually think I have the cherry trunk up there still which I cut down about 5 years ago...
Looks really tidy & smart, well done! Where are your tools/tongs/box from? Like that one and need one similar to catch the dust as ours makes a mess being just a stand...
Any idea which/where your stove fans are & how's the airflow? Considering doubling up or replacing ours as it's really not shifting much air.
Nope, it's a baby/toy saw as it has a battery, not a real saw!
Yup... Proper maintenance of your saw & it's chain is quite key to ownership. It can be a faff but lots of ways to make it easier, really once you're cutting hardwood or stuff which is knotted & very tough need to sharpen things for efficiency/ease/safety...!
I have two of these fans - for their size they do shift the air but obviously larger would be better - I had these because of the headroom. It certainly not the same as a table fan in air volume.
At back of my stove is a metal panel sitting infront of the steel box with 2" gap top and bottom - The fans in effect circulate the air in bottom gap and brings it out the top gap. Quicker than hot air rising.
£40 for that is far too much, try Amazon.
Bring on winter!..
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Great session today, the saw was on top form. Made light work of some big trunks. Love it.
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