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Morning all . Have a good one .🙂

Good Morning Strange dreams. Here we go February. Have fun, summers coming!

Headed south west for a couple of days! Jase, you busy? Lid of tea somewhere? Heir, Road, Dreams.

That was rewarding, good start to the wordle week. Wordle 1,689 3/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Morning all. The week begins. Late start for me after physio this morning, then joining a site at a strip of woodland with multiple trees to do, fells, deadwood and reduction, be a couple of days work there. Have a good one folks.

Id say there is more potential for the lines to get crossed or pinched, making for a very sudden stop, then hard to add or remove a wrap if its too heavy/light? Also, if you have already rigged out the brush with a high point, porty set up at the base, just crack on moving the block or ring down as you go. But Id say alot of the reason is us being Magpies. Alother thought, rope weight going up to the porty at the cut could significantly affect how a wrap functions, adding another complication. I do like yo yo rigging though. Perfect length line so the tail is back to you as the piece hits the ground.

searched for a bit, couldn't find any good examples, but did find this.

5G does not get through trees very well, or the coming 6G is even worse at this, so the BS about the trees roots damaging pavements in places like Sheffield etc is just that. On the one hand they love trees and on the other they hate them for preventing us from being exposed to their shit... imo only obviously.

Edited to aggrieve less.

That text has screwed my eyes up even more, it's horrible. Buckfast Tonic. Not tried it for years and years, but yeah, maybe that was why this stuff tasted oddly familiar.

Hi, I'd suggest putting the carb in an ultrasonic cleaner but not in the hot water, put the carb body in a jam jar with celly thinners and put that into the hot water obviously with the lid loose, and that might well remove any varnish that's built up in the tiny holes under any Welsh washers due to shyte fuel. Of course you may already know this trick but if not you can do this with any solvent that you like without getting your US cleaner manky every time, and the thing about doing it this way is that you get to see any debris in the jar particularly if the carb already looked clean. Almost forgetting the title of your post I have a Stihl msa 220 which is great although now much more expensive than the £500 with battery and charger that I paid for mine 6 years ago. Depending on usage you may require 2 batteries but generally I can get away with 1. The other saw that I've experience of is the Makita 36v [ 2 x 18v batteries ] it's fairly good particularly if you already have the batteries and charger. In my opinion stay away from the 1/4" picco chain as it's a pain in the effin ass. Cheers.

Interesting. It's like alcoholic Vimto. Not bad for a change, though I wouldn't fancy more than a glass of it. Too sweet .

Cherry that got felled the other day. Used the good old Danish pie cut, and definitely was not using a top handle saw on the ground 😋

6:51 onwards as an example of a cleated off dead stop where the climber does everything. But there's nothing stopping the groundsman controlling the tail from the floor. Except it jars with everything we're used to.

I should have explained earlier I meant just for stem chunking. Wrote in a hurry.

Negative rigging a stem. Climber is always at the rigging point.

Portawraps already exist. People already use them aloft. I'm just wondering why it isn't more common, considering the predominance of pros and the sparsity of cons. I suspect because it's always been done like this.

So if the Groundy is operating it how does he put the wraps on or are you expecting the climber to move back to the device every time? Or are you thinking the device is insitu of the cut and the climber moves it about writhin within the canopy?

You and Mick have got hung up on the climber doing it, probably because I put that too high up my list. The groundsman can do it like normal. It's just that the friction is up rather than down.

So can you try and articulate what you are after in regards your random NI question. The economy The weather The price of housing The far more sensible firearm laws The different customs arrangements and or the pros and cons of the Good Friday Agreement The current political situation The role of the armed forces during the period known as the troubles etc etc etc oddball 🤣🤣 patience lad

Hello! Happy to take up to 5m3 of logs and around 2m3 of woodchip at a time (possibly twice this with prior arrangement). Happy for mixed loads but I would prefer not to take full loads of leylandii or conifer. Happy to pay for mixed hardwood cordwood depending on my current stored amount. Always happy to chip a box of beer or fuel money for any load.

You have created your own codenames for people who use a tree site. You're a funking oddball.

There is a lot to do. Whilst I agree in a lot of the pro’s. The biggest con for me and the reason it isn’t more widely used as a technique. eg. Too dangerous. A top is going to fly the rigging is connected. You are in the vinegar strokes of the back cut, it started to go or trips a bit early. You have to apply chain breakl, stow the saw wherever, all the time racing the clock as the top goes over. Grabbing a rope and then commencing to try and lower it smoothly and not shock loading the tree. I believe it is doable at a push and only experience would make it a smooth operation. As for getting it tested and approved for commercial use in the industry. I believe there would be too many factors and the HSE would be against it being used. Not that people wouldn’t use it. So that leads to the question, what would be the point in R and D, manufacturing and production if you are barely going to sell any units?

Thank you so much! Seen that earlier but wasn’t sure if it was the right thing! Signed up now