With the inevitable upcoming zombie apocalypse, I'm looking to go hunting and foraging, this time for wood for the burner.
Does anybody have recommendation for a petrol chainsaw which I can use on any bits of small to medium sized trees I can find on the ground in local woods/dogging spots?
B&Q ones all seem to be corded or a single battery model which I'm guessing will have a crappy capacity.
Just get whichever Stihl fits your budget. I started off on a small cheap one years ago for £150 and I still tend to use that if I’m not cutting something big as it’s so lightweight and easy to use.
Edit - just seen your link, husqvarnas are good but be wary of some models, my dad has a 555 with the auto tune carb, he didn’t use it 18 months and it gummed up so I swapped the carb but it wouldn’t work as like a new car you have to give it to a qualified technician to plug into a laptop and program it to the saw. Put me off their saws that.
I feel pretty safe using a chainsaw as they’re pretty predictable things and an accident with a chainsaw is most likely due to a lapse in concentration. Tables saws are evil fuckers though. You’ll do 50 cuts as expected and the 51st one will grab a 4”x2” and launch it through the shed wall totally random too as it’s due to the properties of the timber so you just better hope to the baby Jesus that you’re positioned out of line with it otherwise you’ll get Gary O’Donoghued.
Rich B wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2020 10:35 pm
Most woods are managed in some way, would they not take a pretty dim view of you walking in with a chainsaw?
There's forest east, west and north of where I live and if a tree or branch comes down over a Path/Roman Road etc I understand it's accepted to cut and clear the way, this happens often. I've never heard of the forestry commission prosecuting people for saving them maintenance !
Rich B wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2020 10:35 pm
Most woods are managed in some way, would they not take a pretty dim view of you walking in with a chainsaw?
There's forest east, west and north of where I live and if a tree or branch comes down over a Path/Roman Road etc I understand it's accepted to cut and clear the way, this happens often. I've never heard of the forestry commission prosecuting people for saving them maintenance !
Its illegal to take fallen wood from FC land, then there’s the H&S issue to them of a lone worker with no Formal training operating a chainsaw on their land, then the unknown ecological plans you could be fucking up sawing up fallen logs that could be earmarked for nesting/insects/etc, etc....
You need to do your research on that. I know the Forestry Commission sell a limited number of scavenging permits and firewood permits. You can also try the woodland trust but they’re much more like Greenpeace and pretty strict.
I think years ago you could go and pick up any fallen branches but they made that illegal as it was deemed that the dead wood provides valuable food to some species. Roll forward to the present day and it’s recommended that when you fell a tree (on your own land) you try and remove most of it as they now harbour invasive specifies which will then kill compromise everything.
Mito Man wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2020 11:37 pm
You need to do your research on that. I know the Forestry Commission sell a limited number of scavenging permits and firewood permits.
And I would put money on these permits insisting on evidence of full training and hefty public liability insurance if they allow you to use a chainsaw.
totally random too as it’s due to the properties of the timber so you just better hope to the baby Jesus that you’re positioned out of line with it otherwise you’ll get Gary O’Donoghued.
