That seems one good bargain Waler...I wood expect nearer three figures with that brand name on !
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Electric chainsaw
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That seems one good bargain Waler...I wood expect nearer three figures with that brand name on !
Walter
Fellow
Screwfix do a reasonably priced range too:
Chainsaw Protection - Safety and PPE | Screwfix.com
By the time you have bought headgear, trousers and gloves you could have bought a cheap chainsaw but I know which I would buy first.
Chainsaw Protection - Safety and PPE | Screwfix.com
By the time you have bought headgear, trousers and gloves you could have bought a cheap chainsaw but I know which I would buy first.
Penpal
Grand Master
Great advice all round most pro users of chain saws learn from brothers uncles, fathers how to use a chain saw in this country and real safety usually follows an accident.
In a former life as a Tech Officer Photographer I accompanied a PHD from CSIRO Forestry where I worked to Tasmania where we went from timber mill to the next mill following chainsaw operators out in the forests. I had still cameras recording their techniques (real hazardous at times) and my mate used a movie camera and interviewed the cutter blokes while we had a world champion axeman and chainsaw racing champion of the world watching us trying to keep us all safe. What they were doing was cutting stags ie huge (up to fifteen plus feet across) mostly hollowed out old trees left by previous cutters for lots of reasons. They called them widowmakers because limbs etc crash down regularly when being cut or in the falling process catching other tree branches that clean you up just as easily cause they can have a delayed action. This often in the rain I found very hazardous. The PHD guy was also a psychyatrist? made for a vital study hence my conclusion from his subsequent book likened to chainsaw for dummies that the learning process for feller of trees was skimpy at best. I was glad to be finished with that project many near misses during this exercise.
An observation with pro users of chainsaws is the electric ones produce a constant torque that is harder to control than shutting off the throttle in an emergency as can be done with petrol ones. The meanest angry saws were the ones I saw in use for racing purposes had a motor on either end of two handed saws they were mean mothers.
The saddest thing I have to report is we had three vehicles with us unlimited world class timber all round us and I wasnt bitten by the turning bug so I could have brought back a ton of this islands unique timber since we travelled over to Tasmania in a huge car ferry, sob sob.
Kind regards Peter.
In a former life as a Tech Officer Photographer I accompanied a PHD from CSIRO Forestry where I worked to Tasmania where we went from timber mill to the next mill following chainsaw operators out in the forests. I had still cameras recording their techniques (real hazardous at times) and my mate used a movie camera and interviewed the cutter blokes while we had a world champion axeman and chainsaw racing champion of the world watching us trying to keep us all safe. What they were doing was cutting stags ie huge (up to fifteen plus feet across) mostly hollowed out old trees left by previous cutters for lots of reasons. They called them widowmakers because limbs etc crash down regularly when being cut or in the falling process catching other tree branches that clean you up just as easily cause they can have a delayed action. This often in the rain I found very hazardous. The PHD guy was also a psychyatrist? made for a vital study hence my conclusion from his subsequent book likened to chainsaw for dummies that the learning process for feller of trees was skimpy at best. I was glad to be finished with that project many near misses during this exercise.
An observation with pro users of chainsaws is the electric ones produce a constant torque that is harder to control than shutting off the throttle in an emergency as can be done with petrol ones. The meanest angry saws were the ones I saw in use for racing purposes had a motor on either end of two handed saws they were mean mothers.
The saddest thing I have to report is we had three vehicles with us unlimited world class timber all round us and I wasnt bitten by the turning bug so I could have brought back a ton of this islands unique timber since we travelled over to Tasmania in a huge car ferry, sob sob.
Kind regards Peter.
Friendly tree feller called today with me expecting the normal bottle of whisky for christmas - I don't drink. Instead he handed me a brand new Stihl electric chainsaw instead. Its frightening just to look at it.
keith
keith
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Very nice man indeed ... :pray:
Which stihl saw is it he has given you
MSE 140 Alex
Penpal
Grand Master
Some time back I joined the Vietnam Veterans Federation they have a big shed near where I live a community one for ex serviceman/woman found it a petty set up only room for two three at a time Im busy what do you intend to make that sort of stuff man they carry scars from Vietnam so I volunteered to visit and do so on a rostered basis ex Vets and their wives in Hospital anyway in one ward was an old mate of mine 84 yrs old now who with his friend hired a travel tower and felled , cut up three huge trees at his friends house they finished safely about to pack up noticed one last bough, set up and at 21 feet up cut the bough it bucked them both off to the ground my mate suffered 4 back cracks several ribs and numerous other injuries he landed on top of his friend who strangely enough came out of it a lot better than him.
It was quite touching we visited for about an hour then as I was leaving he said Ill walk you out so using an upright walker with arm supports this he did with bypass bag strapped to his leg and drug paraphanalea he has a ton of courage he served in Vietnam as a National Serviceman encouraged me to join with him and his mates as he trained in the same camp as I did in Victoria so long ago.
Anyway the message to me was it can happen to all of us throwing ourselves around like teenagers just to prove we can.
Kind regards Peter.
It was quite touching we visited for about an hour then as I was leaving he said Ill walk you out so using an upright walker with arm supports this he did with bypass bag strapped to his leg and drug paraphanalea he has a ton of courage he served in Vietnam as a National Serviceman encouraged me to join with him and his mates as he trained in the same camp as I did in Victoria so long ago.
Anyway the message to me was it can happen to all of us throwing ourselves around like teenagers just to prove we can.
Kind regards Peter.
Chainsaw Accessories - Saws - Power Tools | Axminster.co.uk
Is this the sort of thing I should be looking at Walter? Definitely going to arrange some training/advice from the bloke who gave me it.
keith
Is this the sort of thing I should be looking at Walter? Definitely going to arrange some training/advice from the bloke who gave me it.
keith