i have an 18" skil, best thing i ever brough ten years old and still brilliant tool, huskys are also bomb proof.
as for what to wear trousers and right hand glove is the bare minium, i use chains alot at one time at some where were i worked, it was very common to see idiots believeing they were untouchable, chain saws bite and the bite big style when they want to. mine also has a chain break on the handle, if it back bites or trys to kick the handle snaps the chain dead, for a monkey like me very safety usefull, to a proffessional its a pain.
collecting trees, intresting ideas there, i will suggest the following but have on no account ever done any nor would i suggest the law was broken, :whistle: :whistle:
if the local woods does have fallen trees, a small nibble here and there is never realy missed, thing branchs rather than whole trees.
canals and rivers and inner city areas, over grown abbandoned industrial areas are also good for "pruning"
most hedgerows and farmers whilst wanting to burn there timber for there own use do not clean good hedgerows and tree work is poor to say the least for many, oppurtunities are many try knocking on a few doors.
forestry commision style woods.
these are normaly LET OUT to others to harvest the timber almost all the stuff in scotland and wales is c**p wood that wa splanted in a hurry for pit props after the war and no one thought about planting decent trees just naff soft woods that are near worthless at times.
i know this because i lived in the middle of a massive one in wales for 6 years. all the toimbre went for pulp as it was naff for any thing else. the thing is what they leave behind is wastefull so we used to collect it and burn it untill i found the best woods to burn were not logs, (smell nice but cost money to buy) was pallets
i used to work all week away on building sites at night i used to cut up scrap pallets and at the weekend load up the van and trailer and bring it home, i used to bring home every week 2 cubic metres all for free. now everyone is going to go mentle now uttering things about hard wood logs etc.
when its soft wood it burns quicker and hotter so we used to shovel more on board the fires and at the end of the day scrap out the nails with a magnet and throw then in a bucket to put in the metal skip at work, simples and free, spent many years in wales only ever brought four van loads of logs and never ever brought any more to expensive.
as a second note, at cannock woods not to far from me they do chain saw lessons, not a bad idea but afterwards they just leave the fallen birch trees for the locals to collect, may be someone does similar near to you
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