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I think it will just over complicate things inmensely. A good trick to have in the bag when needed but not necessarily one to be used daily. About 16 years ago I was working for a firm and me and the other climber reduced a massive London Plane tree over about 8 gardens. Nearly every piece had to be rigged so we took a lowering device up the tree and set it up and just moved the rigging pulley around sections of the tree. After about 3 or 4 attempts we decided it was a waste of time having it in the tree. It also wasted the time of the climber using the device when they could had been else where cutting. Lastly, it was no benefit to the groundsman. Granted that scenario was for the tip reduction of a large spreading canopy and not in a stem. I honestly just see it as extra hassle Alex. Nothing to do with it jarring with what we have been told. Having the move pulleys down a stem when negative rigging can be a bit tricky the larger you get. Then you are introducing the need to reattach the lowering Device for each cut. Or you could just position the lowering device in a place that only needs to be moved once? Such as the bottom, I.e when you’re finished. Oh, hang on, isn’t that how we have been doing it for years: ?

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Yeah, I have ultrasonic cleaned the carb, fitted a couple of diaphragm's, fuel feed and return pipes, tank filter etc, I love all this kind of stuff.. I'm starting to think down the lines of, its the mag that's breaking down!! I am looking at the Stihl range.. Dyslexia is an amazing gift in many ways, for me I have to reread everything I write, and it still comes out jumbled up!

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Morning all, Sectioning down the remains of a large conifer then sorting a three stemmed cherry where one large stem is hung up in a large conifer. Got to try and minimise damage to conifer as in conservation area, and quite a nice conifer anyway. Have a good week

Morning, cold and clear skies here. Off to start a new job today for my main subby, 2-3 weeks Rhoddy bashing. Have a good day

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.

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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.