Bit windy?

So my neighbour, who lives across the road from where my mum keeps her horse, called the other morning to report a big branch had come down in the strong winds we had here monday night. So I grab my chainsaw and head there after work Tuesday night to be confronted by this





So now my easter weekend will consist of attacking the beast

A big branch? Its a fecking whole tree lol

Yeah she is quite old bless her. Reckon she needs to go to specsavers

Ive been unadated with work building and gardening ..cant beat abit of a chainsaw frenzy what wood is it ? Anything you can flog on pete ?

Hahaha

Its an oak Leighton, so wanna get it cut up quickly as an oak is a killer of chains when it dies off. Some of it may already be dead as this thing didn't uproot, it snapped off at the base
Got several people interested in firewood so a bit of money to be made

Yeah moneys good per load for logs these days .... i had to take down a massive eucalyptas on a gardening job i was doing that was well hard to get through wich really shocked me as you would think it would be a softish wood to cut through ...

Was the eucalyptas full of sap?

Bit of useless info, the Oak does not get woodworm as it is to hard for the little blighters to bore into, careful with that chainsaw !

Good to know but didn't suspect woodworm, think its just gone rotten at the base for some reason, ill get a photo of the base tomorrow.

It was pete thankfully i didnt have to log it as such just cut it into bits i could lift up ... so i struggled to carry it instead thats the same as eucalyptas it never gets no bugs or mites as i found out so is ideal for making perches and stands for my parrots ....

What saw you got pete ?

That's a big arse branch! Let us know how long it takes to chop up

johnny gtir wrote:What saw you got pete ?

I got a 12" Stihl Ms170, 16" Ms231 and I can borrow some big toys off my mate should I need them.

I would love an Ms880, ive run one before and its an animal

The 880 is similar to my dads saw but his was older version a couple of year back. No stopping the thing. My dad is a wizard with sharpening chains n servicing them

The older saws are better. On some of the new ones you tune the carb through Bluetooth, that shit is just not needed!

some stuff like you say is over complicated and not needed and it's not technology well it is but over engeerneered

pulsarmoley wrote:The older saws are better. On some of the new ones you tune the carb through Bluetooth, that shit is just not needed!

Old is gold, BT carb tuning on a chainsaw is a bit unneeded lol
I have an old kawasaki strimmer & thing is superb, easy fix, tweak with newer style carb & retrofit parts etc, & minimal plastic shit & no emission control which aids reliability & simplicity.

Never heard of Bluetooth ones, what a load of crap, what's the world coming to.

Same i work with lots of garden machinery and never heard of bluetooth tuning ... maybe im stuck in the old days lol

Stihl and Husqvarna are using Bluetooth technology but think its more common on the bigger saws. From what im told the Bluetooth system is linked to the carb and the ignition module and tuned through software on a laptop. As said its just overcomplicating things.

Well slowly getting there after 3 mornings work, well on 1 side, not even touched the other side yet and ive filled my van 5 times

Plenty of log$ :-)

Cant you just burn it on site pete .... save all that chuffing about ?

Why burn it when im doing well from it. Got a friend interested in making planks out of the trunk if possible. Ive exchanged a few van loads for favours instead of money. For me favours are more handy than a bit of cash