Hello from Ireland
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I recognise them there dulcet tones, the motorway and the bike and gloves but not the name? Welcome to another forum! The M50 traffic hasn't eased at all since I watched it before then?
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Good to see ya, mang. I tried for 'reindeer', but someone here already took it. I meant to subscribe a while back, but just hadn't gotten around to it 
M50 was vacant the other day. Everyone stayed at home for the early fireworks. Again, we were so fortunate it was mostly just wind. Had it brought rain like back in 2012, we would have been properly ****ed.
Ophelia treat you guys OK in the UK?
Ugh, now I need to get another chainsaw. I gifted my last two to the estate I used to work on in Waterford as a woodsman before I started to travel again. Now I am surrounded by fallen trees. Man needs a good chainsaw. Especially miss my crazy ported Stihl:
M50 was vacant the other day. Everyone stayed at home for the early fireworks. Again, we were so fortunate it was mostly just wind. Had it brought rain like back in 2012, we would have been properly ****ed.
Ophelia treat you guys OK in the UK?
Ugh, now I need to get another chainsaw. I gifted my last two to the estate I used to work on in Waterford as a woodsman before I started to travel again. Now I am surrounded by fallen trees. Man needs a good chainsaw. Especially miss my crazy ported Stihl:
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Ophelia didn't touch us on the south coast of the UK apart from the yellow hue caused by the Saharan dust and smoke from the fires in Portugal. It was strange and so dark that at 1pm the street light came on.
Ironical that you mentioned chainsaws. I recently replaced a small in the overall scheme of things Swiss made 14" Partner Chainsaw that had been used and abused for a Stihl 14" which I intend to treat better. Nice to see you Reindeer.
Ironical that you mentioned chainsaws. I recently replaced a small in the overall scheme of things Swiss made 14" Partner Chainsaw that had been used and abused for a Stihl 14" which I intend to treat better. Nice to see you Reindeer.
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Partner were good saws. Was it a 500/5000 series?
I used to modify/port saws back when I had a shop. This is the difference you can see in a newish Stihl MS261CM by simply removing a baffle in the muffler:
I used to modify/port saws back when I had a shop. This is the difference you can see in a newish Stihl MS261CM by simply removing a baffle in the muffler:
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The Partner was a small 300 series and the Stihl I recently bought an MS181. I only cut smaller tress for our wood burner so only really needed an entry-level model. The reason the Partner gave up on me was the fact I abused it when making a garden gazebo. It was not quite up to the job of cutting aged oak railway sleepers that had been boiled in creosote and dipped in tar. The clutch cover had become so hot it had started to bubble and melt with heat and it became a tenacious beast when it came to starting, so much so that the effort involved getting the thing started I would have been better off just chewing through the wood with my teeth. The Partner had been given to me by a mate and it already had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana skin, it wasn't really worth any investment and had given me sterling four years service and an insight as to how useful chainsaws are. Based on that I decided to treat myself to the new Stihl despite not having any immediate use for it.
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I knew some guys down in San Antonio, TX that were repurposing rail road ties. They used Echo chainsaws (very rugged, yet affordable), and they killed the saws at an astonishing rate.
Dirty wood is terrible. The estate I worked on in Waterford, Ireland had all sorts. Nice clean pine down to filthy roadside Ash with nails in it. I had to cut it all, and I spent a lot of time sharpening the chains.
Dirty wood is terrible.
The estate I worked on in Waterford, Ireland had all sorts. Nice clean pine down to filthy roadside Ash with nails in it. I had to cut it all, and I spent a lot of time sharpening the chains.The Partner was a small 300 series and the Stihl I recently bought an MS181. I only cut smaller tress for our wood burner so only really needed an entry-level model. The reason the Partner gave up on me was the fact I abused it when making a garden gazebo. It was not quite up to the job of cutting aged oak railway sleepers that had been boiled in creosote and dipped in tar. The clutch cover had become so hot it had started to bubble and melt with heat and it became a tenacious beast when it came to starting, so much so that the effort involved getting the thing started I would have been better off just chewing through the wood with my teeth. The Partner had been given to me by a mate and it already had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana skin, it wasn't really worth any investment and had given me sterling four years service and an insight as to how useful chainsaws are. Based on that I decided to treat myself to the new Stihl despite not having any immediate use for it.
