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The tree cutting
No all perfectly safe. Much safer with a battery saw. No for pro use though.
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Wotcha reckon? Just a quickie coat rack made for the utility room out of some of my late father-in-law's scabby old spanners.
Tigged up with my Sherman (which is waaay better than the scratch start I'm used to) and then blacked with Selenium Dioxide.
Edit: The paint on the pipes was the wife, not me!
Tigged up with my Sherman (which is waaay better than the scratch start I'm used to) and then blacked with Selenium Dioxide.
Edit: The paint on the pipes was the wife, not me!
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I reckon it's pretty cool.
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If it's not noisy and if it doesn't make smoke it's not funny
Battery saw are something that I would like to try
my actual battery platform parkside, does have one
40V brushless ,bare unit for 100 euros , and it requires 2x 4Ah batteries
But I was hoping to buy an impact driver or the impact wrench
Both Brushless .
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Looks sketchy. Hope you were careful. Windblown trees are among the most dangerous, especially hung up like that. Lots of tension, compression, twisting, dynamic forces involved. Often unpredictable. I wouldn't do that stood on a ladder.
We did one the other day that came down on a footpath:
Just a bit!
How is it safer with a battery saw? I'd much rather have a powerful petrol saw for that. Faster acceleration, higher chain speed, more power. If you need to cut fast and get the hell out the way quickly i want sonething powerful with a small bar. (Hence 70cc pulling a 20".)
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Wotcha reckon? Just a quickie coat rack made for the utility room out of some of my late father-in-law's scabby old spanners.
Tigged up with my Sherman (which is waaay better than the scratch start I'm used to) and then blacked with Selenium Dioxide.
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Edit: The paint on the pipes was the wife, not me!
Thats great, great Idea, might have to copy your Idea.
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So I'm not the only who thinks that.
I'd like to build a ms361 clone which is 60cc and put a 40cm bar on it
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I would've rather used my 50cc with 38cm bar, but only had that big saw with me. The extra handle on it helped too.
60cc with 40cm bar would be nice. We have a couple MS362s at work with 45cm bars.
Those clone kits seem popular, a generally get decent reviews. I'd rather find a nice used MS361 or Husky 365 Special though.
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Bit of wood turning today
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No good then?
I'm tempted to find a new 372XP and turn it into and XPW so it's like a baby 395.
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Sorry beast, its a monster of a cutter but i did remachine the cylinder base to square it up and get the squish correct.
But £140 in kit form, bit of tinkering and i can fix it, dread the idea of my 550 packing up.
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Unsprisingly my 50 year blower on the series 3 has died, shes done well though.
So opted for the 3" bilge blower £14 seemed worth the chance
So we started with an offcut, these i bought from @pressbrake1 they've be super usesful slowly getting through them
I didn't like the idea of boring out the centre seemed wasteful
Mill made light work of hogging out the middle
Then to finish turn and attach to the blower, its certainly nice having heating again
That slug looks awful lot like a fuel cap, one my saws is a git to unscrew
So opted for the 3" bilge blower £14 seemed worth the chance
So we started with an offcut, these i bought from @pressbrake1 they've be super usesful slowly getting through them
I didn't like the idea of boring out the centre seemed wasteful
Mill made light work of hogging out the middle
Then to finish turn and attach to the blower, its certainly nice having heating again
That slug looks awful lot like a fuel cap, one my saws is a git to unscrew
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Husky did such a good job of the 372 even the clones are good!
Is your 550 MK 1 or 2? I bought a used MK 2 recently as was surprised how light and compact it is. Not used it much yet though. Needs proper dogs though, the one it comes with is useless.
If it's a Husky/clone the flippy caps are really good.
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Mine is an early early mk1 its done an awful lot of work
Its my echo 2511 terrible caps
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Apparently Husky top handle flippy caps will fit the Echo.
https://www.lsengineers.co.uk/tank-cap-genuine-husqvarna-no-577-87-86-01.html
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I'll pop mine off and see, be surprised as echco seal on the outer flange and husky on the inner flange
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I'm fairly sure I pinched the idea from somewhere else although I couldn't say where!
Extra bonus is that the ring end of the bigger spanners fit a TIG cup perfectly so a bit more butchery and I'll have a few torch stands.
