Anyone got any opinion or recommendations on the above?.

We need to take a tree down, not a big one and for half the price of
someone coming to do it its quite a DIY job. Used a petrol before but
for the amount it will be used and where it might be used in future to
keep the Leylandii in control at the bottom of the garden, it doesn't
really matter as mains will and can be around.

So any particular recommendations for either?..

Cheers..


--
Tony Sayer

"tony sayer" wrote in message
...

Anyone got any opinion or recommendations on the above?.

We need to take a tree down, not a big one and for half the price of
someone coming to do it its quite a DIY job. Used a petrol before but
for the amount it will be used and where it might be used in future to
keep the Leylandii in control at the bottom of the garden, it doesn't
really matter as mains will and can be around.

So any particular recommendations for either?..

Cheers..



I have this vision of this difficult to start engine - where I have the
hassle of mixing oil and petrol. Where there is such a long gap in time
between each time I might used it, the petrol will also have lost all it's
volatile constituents making it even more difficult to start.

Perhaps someone will come along and say with modern electronic ignition and
injection, self oil mixing that my experiences are long left in the past?

Personally I'd get an electric one, and if I didn't have a long enough cord
I'd use a generator which can be used for other appliances as well!

Fred wrote:
"tony sayer" wrote in message
...
Anyone got any opinion or recommendations on the above?.

We need to take a tree down, not a big one and for half the price of
someone coming to do it its quite a DIY job. Used a petrol before but
for the amount it will be used and where it might be used in future to
keep the Leylandii in control at the bottom of the garden, it doesn't
really matter as mains will and can be around.

So any particular recommendations for either?..

Cheers..



I have this vision of this difficult to start engine - where I have the
hassle of mixing oil and petrol. Where there is such a long gap in time
between each time I might used it, the petrol will also have lost all it's
volatile constituents making it even more difficult to start.

Perhaps someone will come along and say with modern electronic ignition and
injection, self oil mixing that my experiences are long left in the past?


The answer is to run teh thiung dry, or empty it if goiing into storage.
2-stroke mix with modern synth oils is far less prone to plug fouling
and carb gumming.

They are trickier to start than a 4-stroke. Each type of 2-stroke I have
(chainsaw, hedge trimer, strimmer) needs a slightly different approach.

Personally I'd get an electric one, and if I didn't have a long enough cord
I'd use a generator which can be used for other appliances as well!



Still got to start the generator, and it may not have the power..

On Mar 29, 8:16*am, tony sayer wrote:
Anyone got any opinion or recommendations on the above?.

We need to take a tree down, not a big one and for half the price of
someone coming to do it its quite a DIY job. Used a petrol before but
for the amount it will be used and where it might be used in future to
keep the Leylandii in control at the bottom of the garden, it doesn't
really matter as mains will and can be around.

So any particular recommendations for either?..

Cheers..

--
Tony Sayer

Electric is limited in power and you need large gauge extension cord
so you dont burn up the saw and have full power, you need to know
voltage drop. Rent a gas unit. I have electric but I would not cut
anything much over 14". Sthil has a good electric

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:59:42 -0700 (PDT), ransley
wrote:

On Mar 29, 8:16*am, tony sayer wrote:
Anyone got any opinion or recommendations on the above?.

We need to take a tree down, not a big one and for half the price of
someone coming to do it its quite a DIY job. Used a petrol before but
for the amount it will be used and where it might be used in future to
keep the Leylandii in control at the bottom of the garden, it doesn't
really matter as mains will and can be around.

So any particular recommendations for either?..

Cheers..

--
Tony Sayer

Electric is limited in power and you need large gauge extension cord
so you dont burn up the saw and have full power, you need to know
voltage drop. Rent a gas unit. I have electric but I would not cut
anything much over 14". Sthil has a good electric

Daughter (apprentice tree surgeon) was helping some friends tidy / cut
some fallen trees for firewood the other day. They had a Bosch
electric and a Husqvarna petrol chain saw. She used both and whilst
the electric was ok she said using it would 'take all day' so she used
the petrol in preference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFQ7P...eature=related

(Not her) She prefers her Stihl MS260 though. ;-)

For the OP, from what I've seen so far electrics are ok for the
occasional and non trade type use as long as (as mentioned) you have a
decent (heavy) and short as practical extension lead powering it.

Of course hand saws are potentially less dangerous [1] and still work
on modern trees. ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZATJwyJaRU

T i m

[1] Of the (luckily minor) accidents our daughter has witnessed so far
most have occurred whilst using their Silky hand saws. ;-(

ransley wrote:
On Mar 29, 8:16Â*am, tony sayer wrote:
Anyone got any opinion or recommendations on the above?.

We need to take a tree down, not a big one and for half the price of
someone coming to do it its quite a DIY job. Used a petrol before but
for the amount it will be used and where it might be used in future to
keep the Leylandii in control at the bottom of the garden, it doesn't
really matter as mains will and can be around.

So any particular recommendations for either?..

Cheers..

--
Tony Sayer

Electric is limited in power and you need large gauge extension cord
so you dont burn up the saw and have full power, you need to know
voltage drop.

Typically electric chainsaws are in the 1000 to 2000 watt range,
that's less than 10 amps even at full power. Not a particularly heavy
load and I've certainly never experienced any significant (i.e.
noticeable) drop in power on my Bosch 1800 watt chainsaw when I'm at
the end of a long[ish] extension cable.


Rent a gas unit. I have electric but I would not cut
anything much over 14". Sthil has a good electric

I've felled a *big* Leylandii with my Bosch 1800 watt, around 50 ft
high and 18" diameter at the base. I never felt the chainsaw was
underpowered for the job.

--
Chris Green

tony sayer wrote:
Anyone got any opinion or recommendations on the above?.

We need to take a tree down, not a big one and for half the price of
someone coming to do it its quite a DIY job. Used a petrol before but
for the amount it will be used and where it might be used in future to
keep the Leylandii in control at the bottom of the garden, it doesn't
really matter as mains will and can be around.

So any particular recommendations for either?..

My preference would be for petrol. The logic being that you have freedom
to work anywhere, and not having a wire to worry about is one less thing
to distract you - which is my book is a "good thing" when concentrating
on using the saw safely.

As for starting etc - I guess it depends on the saw. A friend has a
Makita 14" petrol saw that seems easy enough to start even after long
periods of non use. Choke on, turn it over twice with the ignition off,
ignition on, pull and it starts first time. Restarting once warm is just
a case of ignition on and pull.

--
Cheers,

John.

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John Rumm wrote:
tony sayer wrote:
Anyone got any opinion or recommendations on the above?.

We need to take a tree down, not a big one and for half the price of
someone coming to do it its quite a DIY job. Used a petrol before but
for the amount it will be used and where it might be used in future to
keep the Leylandii in control at the bottom of the garden, it doesn't
really matter as mains will and can be around.

So any particular recommendations for either?..

My preference would be for petrol. The logic being that you have freedom
to work anywhere, and not having a wire to worry about is one less thing
to distract you - which is my book is a "good thing" when concentrating
on using the saw safely.

On the other hand I think kick-back is much less of a problem with
electric chainsaws simply because of the much reduced rotating mass
when compared with a petrol one.

--
Chris Green

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:16:59 +0100, tony sayer
wrote:


Anyone got any opinion or recommendations on the above?.

We need to take a tree down, not a big one and for half the price of
someone coming to do it its quite a DIY job. Used a petrol before but
for the amount it will be used and where it might be used in future to
keep the Leylandii in control at the bottom of the garden, it doesn't
really matter as mains will and can be around.

So any particular recommendations for either?..

Cheers..

Angle grinder?

tony sayer wrote:
Anyone got any opinion or recommendations on the above?.

We need to take a tree down, not a big one and for half the price of
someone coming to do it its quite a DIY job. Used a petrol before but
for the amount it will be used and where it might be used in future to
keep the Leylandii in control at the bottom of the garden, it doesn't
really matter as mains will and can be around.

So any particular recommendations for either?..

Cheers..


Hire a decent one rather than buy a heap of crap.

And the safety gear.

Electric ones are as powerful as the smaller petrols, but they are a
pain in confined spaces with that cable..

"tony sayer" wrote in message
...

Anyone got any opinion or recommendations on the above?.

We need to take a tree down, not a big one and for half the price of
someone coming to do it its quite a DIY job. Used a petrol before but
for the amount it will be used and where it might be used in future to
keep the Leylandii in control at the bottom of the garden, it doesn't
really matter as mains will and can be around.

So any particular recommendations for either?..


I bought a Stihl petrol chainsaw a couple of years ago. I had to convince
the web site that I bought it from that I was a competent operator.

One reason for choosing the Stihl is that it is the brand stocked by the
local garden machinery centre and I may need spare parts in the future.

The saw cost a lot less than what I paid someone to take down a large tree
near my house!

--
Michael Chare

..

One reason for choosing the Stihl is that it is the brand stocked by the
local garden machinery centre and I may need spare parts in the future.

Where I work we regularly get people wanting us to get spares/accessories
for stuff they bought online/elsewhere.
Unless they otherwise give us regular custom they are told to go back to
where they originally sourced the goods.

In message , Scabbydug
writes

.

One reason for choosing the Stihl is that it is the brand stocked by
the local garden machinery centre and I may need spare parts in the
future.

Where I work we regularly get people wanting us to get
spares/accessories for stuff they bought online/elsewhere.
Unless they otherwise give us regular custom they are told to go back
to where they originally sourced the goods.

A strange business plan. Presumably they wish to pay for these spares
so why do you not wish to sell them and have a satisfied customer, who
may then come back in the future and become a regular, rather than some
one who permanently crosses you off their list of helpful companies.

What reasoning stops you selling to them?

PS where do you work? I will note this so that I don't waste your time
and mine by asking you for spares/accessories etc.

--
Bill

In message , Bill
wrote
In message , Scabbydug
writes

.

One reason for choosing the Stihl is that it is the brand stocked by
the local garden machinery centre and I may need spare parts in the
future.

Where I work we regularly get people wanting us to get
spares/accessories for stuff they bought online/elsewhere.
Unless they otherwise give us regular custom they are told to go back
to where they originally sourced the goods.

A strange business plan.

It's probably the very reason why so many people now shop on line.

--
Alan

Scabbydug wrote:

.

One reason for choosing the Stihl is that it is the brand stocked by
the local garden machinery centre and I may need spare parts in the
future.

Where I work we regularly get people wanting us to get
spares/accessories for stuff they bought online/elsewhere.

Sounds rather like your employer has its corporate head a little too far
up its arse then. It does not seem like a sound business plan for
weathering a recession.

Perhaps you should suggest to them that if you gave a first rate spares
and backup service to these people, they might actually convert some of
them into new customers and divert them away from the online discount
shops.

Unless they otherwise give us regular custom they are told to go back to
where they originally sourced the goods.

Which has the logical foundation of demanding heat from the fire before
you agree to put a log on it.



--
Cheers,

John.

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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Scabbydug"
saying something like:

Where I work we regularly get people wanting us to get spares/accessories
for stuff they bought online/elsewhere.
Unless they otherwise give us regular custom they are told to go back to
where they originally sourced the goods.

You work for ****s.

"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Scabbydug"
saying something like:

Where I work we regularly get people wanting us to get spares/accessories
for stuff they bought online/elsewhere.
Unless they otherwise give us regular custom they are told to go back to
where they originally sourced the goods.

You work for ****s.

A **** actually (singular).
We had a local builder struggling to drill a 4" hole in hard quarry floor
tiles, we advised him to use a Rotozip with a tile cutter, he must have been
in about four times spending about an hour asking me & my colleages umpteen
questions.
A week later he was in and told us he had got one online and it did the job
perfectly, guess who can go elsewhere when he has any problems, a typical
scenario.

On 29 Mar, 14:16, tony sayer wrote:
Anyone got any opinion or recommendations on the above?.

I hate chainsaws and I can't think of any scenario where I'd use an
electric chainsaw.

For big, remote, stuff, I use a petrol Stihl.

For firewood I use a reciprocating saw. This is within range of mains
power, but I prefer a reciprocator to a chain, just for safety.

For light pruning, within capacity of a cheap electric, then I'd
rather use a hand saw. It's hardly that hard work, is it?

For work at height, I don't want a cable to deal with too. I might
like a cordless, if they ever get powerful enough.

In message , tony sayer
writes

Anyone got any opinion or recommendations on the above?.

Hi Tony,
PETROL, smells good and sounds good, a mans chainsaw!

I've used both and felt that the petrol one was a lot easier, more umph
and the lack of a lead was one less thing to worry about. You are going
to get all the right PPE aren't you?

--
Bill

tony sayer wrote:
Anyone got any opinion or recommendations on the above?.

We need to take a tree down, not a big one and for half the price of
someone coming to do it its quite a DIY job. Used a petrol before but
for the amount it will be used and where it might be used in future to
keep the Leylandii in control at the bottom of the garden, it doesn't
really matter as mains will and can be around.

So any particular recommendations for either?..

Cheers..



I think there's a perception that real men use petrol chainsaws,
particularly professional one from Stihl or Husqvarna. Certainly, I
wouldn't consider a very cheap petrol saw over an electric saw.

My dad has a Perfomance Power electric saw, which (against my better
judgement) has been absolutely fine and my Brother in Law has a Bosch
electric one which he says he is happy with (I've never used it).

Electric saws are less fiddly, lighter weight, lower vibration, quieter
and in my experience entirely adequate for occasional use on the types
of project DIYers are likely to take on. I've not noticed the need for
short extension leads; performance is much more dependant on the type of
wood, and the sharpness of the chain.

P.s. word to the wise: Don't use your chainsaw to cut roots out. It's
not worth it. Your chain will stay sharp for oh, about 30 seconds.

HI Tony

tony sayer wrote:
Anyone got any opinion or recommendations on the above?.

We need to take a tree down, not a big one and for half the price of
someone coming to do it its quite a DIY job. Used a petrol before but
for the amount it will be used and where it might be used in future to
keep the Leylandii in control at the bottom of the garden, it doesn't
really matter as mains will and can be around.

So any particular recommendations for either?..

Cheers..


I have a (relatively) cheap Bosch electric chainsaw -
(think it was about 50 quid reduced from 80 a few years ago)
which is used from time to time for 'pruning' the hedges
and for logging up felled trees (softwood).

For occasional use it's fine. If you get the chance - avoid the
fiddly 'spannerless' chain adjustment in favour of the conventional
style of adjustment...

Friend up the road has a nice little Stihl petrol-driven saw -
which seems to cut much faster than the Bosch saw...

Back at the last place I used a cheapie recriproicating saw
from Screwfix to dismantle a long row of leylandii. This had the
advantage that it wasn't affected by the odd nail, piece of wire fence
etc embedded in the leylandii - but it was slower then a proper chainsaw..

My money'd be on the electric chainsaw, for occasional use....

Adrian