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How does that sticker actually work, as in when the UV exposure time makes the sticker change - it changes to what color? I can’t find any copy of a user manual explaining this on Husqvarna’s website.

Mostly out of morbid curiosity, just to discover likely year range of manufacture. Just spent a long time on the phone explaining the realities to a friend that wants to turn 100 blow-down logs into a cabin. I don’t need any comments on that. Am trying to understand the realities of his...

Slow, rest day here. Cleaning up the e-devices. Took a screenshot of this one awhile back. The .com in the photo leads to an online store for fire-fighting gear, which explains that it is specially engineered for “Structural Venting and Rescue Operations.” Fire fighters need serious gear, to...

Is the jug that it arrives in. I won’t buy it in this jug ever again: This is more of an engine coolant jug design. I think a few different retailers have accepted it and branded it from the actual producer, not just Ace. This jug will tip over if you look at it wrong. The bigger problem is...

Silky offers a 21 foot pole saw - and it can be fitted with a ratchet lopper head. Just looking for any experience with these. It seems to me that trying to spot a head that far up could get a little challenging. My application is collecting tree seed though, so generally just need to cut...

I used to work with a Spencer tape on my hip every day that got so much use it would wear through the belt attachment loop thing and fall off eventually. (Running planting crews). The guy I worked for would gather up all our abused tapes every 3 years or so and send them off somewhere for...

I scavenged a couple Dogwood (C. florida) bolts on a job in Kentucky last week. One is 5" diameter and 2.5 feet long; the other is about 4.5" and 4 feet long. I don't have any particular plans for them yet beyond taking the sides off them and dreaming up a use for them - someday. I live 2 states...

Is there a thread about this idea already? I don’t own a TV or generally watch one anywhere. But occasionally I end up near one... One of the “ooohhh, Alaska” type shows just had some chainsaw action. Chaps? Hard hat? Ear plugs? Nope, nope, and nope. Maybe a little too realistic there I guess...

Saw has been running fine the last couple days but air filter was far more brown than new looking so I changed it out. Saw started fine but was instantly obviously unhappy and quit completely within a minute or so. Was hard to re-start and then died even quicker the second time. Saw was 100%...

There was a live webinar about this today: http://www.forestrywebinars.net/webinars/asian-longhorned-beetle-a-new-invasive-tree-pest-in-south-carolina Anyone watch it and care to share some executive summary type details? I know it has been found and eradicated several times around east coast...

This is something I have been thinking about for many years - does stump sprout Black Cherry grow into very good logs? I am well acquainted with how sensitive the species is to soil quality and how on a poor site it will never be anything but a small-ish weed tree with bad form. On poor sands...

the things you stumble across on the google machine these days...in other words, no, not mine my trivia question would be ... what model saw had to hold the pose for so long? & what the huck is coming out of the bottom of it?

So a screw fell out of the mount near the fuel tank today. I noticed this mostly because one of the screws in the muffler was working itself out. I am in an area where parts are way hard to get. Week+ esp. right now with a holiday weekend starting up. Meanwhile I have about 4-5 days to go on...

Just wondering if anyone else has had issues like these: @ ?maybe? 500 hours or so on the saw, my chain brake became completely stuck. My high volume dealer with a busy service department said they had never seen a problem like this. They ordered a new clutch cover and the problem went away...

I put this here rather than the chainsaw forum as it feels more likely to be seen by someone with lots of Spruce experience. I have only ever cut it in small amounts. I will be on a Spruce pre-commercial thinning job for the next two months. Average diameters about 4” but lots of +/- on that...

Heading over to my cousin's house soon and I promised him I would give his Stihl 029 Super a nice perm, pedicure, manicure, and a massage, too. Probably no face peel though. Just wondering what kind of air filter it has - paper, to be replaced, or a washable one? What was the stock chain that...

How often do you mix & match the Germans and the Swedes? I run Stihl full syn mix oil in my Husqy chainsaw. It quite often has a Stihl chain on it, too. While I am doing it I wear a pair of Husqy Technical chaps and often a Sthil Pro-Mark helmet lately. (The Husqy Technical helmet is a...

It's one of those sad times where I get asked a lot of questions about California. My sincere sympathies to anyone who lived in Paradise, CA or any of the many other areas burned in the last few years. I am fairly well versed in Forestry and in particular the operations of the U.S. Forest...

So I have a contract to prune a whole lot of White Pine. The specs led me to expect a lot of work in stems 8-15 feet tall, and mainly leader repair/selection after the steady, inevitable weevil damage on this species. Instead I am working in trees largely running 15-25 feet tall. So the job is...

I don't have much experience with this species. Right now, I am doing some "Crop Tree Release" for the U.S. Forest Service in Virginia. This means cutting less desirable species that are adjacent to valuable timber species. Usually that means cutting Red Maple sprout stems that are too close to...