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Still in bed! Doing some cooking later, pea and ham soup, lasagne and a kedgeree i reckon! Dogs need walking and run to the tip with carpet bits as she had here stairs done! Enjoy your weekend. Terror, Firmer

Will do.

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Your previous wording about tip tying was an awful way to describe that. I'd say a multiplier of 11 is greatly over simplifying it, but perhaps its close enough for polyester arb rigging ropes. I would say if its goong to be that bad, some shock absorbsion should be included inn the system, or the rope wont last long. That is not swinging into tension. Consider an object dropped straight down onto a static rope. It has no other vector and can only bounce back up, or snap the rope. As the rope becomes tensioned, the force increases rapidly. An item thrown to the side, as it becomes tensioned, only the distance is constrained by the rope but it can still rotate around the anchor point, velocity increases rapidly until it reaches the end of swing or hits the stem. Tops have soft leafy brush and great for absorbinng that energy.

Good Morning Nice one Doug. Love my Crocky 261. It'll be out today dicing up a load of LIme logs Have a restful weekend.

Morning, a bit damp out there but think it’s going off. Heading off to work as I took yesterday off, more storm work to tidy up with the grapple saw so easy enough.

Like Arnie Mick, I'll be back

Morning all. Glad to see the weekend, been a busy stint since Amy visited. More storm stuff to finish off next week but a weekend of rest comes first. In other news, last of the long awaited replacement kit for what we had stolen last christmas is on the horizon courtesy of Crocky, a little one arrived the other day, a 66 to follow soon, very nice. 😀 Have a good one folks.

It’s the beginning of the end Doug.

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Big J has remarked on birch quality in the UK compared to Scandinavia (but he would wouldn’t he).

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In this country yes. In others no. It's an interesting topic, the UK is very much a about wrong tree in the wrong place. However if you visit Sweden or Canada there are much larger trees in higher numbers in proximity to building without issue. So perhaps it's more 'right tree wrong attitude'. I do understand that I am in the minority thinking like this in the UK. But I do find the differing views of what's considered as appropriate sized trees to proximity to buildings based on geographic location and social norms interesting.

Good morrow kind sirs . Happy Saturday .

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Valid point. They are however very prévalent in Scandinavia and other colder northern areas. Was thinking about it this morning in on the dog walk. It’s the attachment points on the regrowth that are strong, compared to say robinia or silver maple, it’s that which makes them ‘reduce-able’

Not at your level at all but occasionally, we used to "mock quarter" a firewood lump to see the grain and teach the youngsters what all it was about, difficult and time consuming on a butt, but still worthwhile. Thanks for the explanation.

That's a good goal but there's a mistake you can make, trying to be too clever. I made it, trying to be too clever. Mistake is this: You tension the rigging rope and hold it fairly firmly, thinking you're preventing the spike of the intial loading by pulling it on yourself. If the hinge holds, you've made a massive lever that will put a massive load on the rope. And the shorter the rope (like if you're crotch rigging) the less rope there is to absorb that lever power in rope stretch. You can create monstrous forces in that little triangle. If the hinge breaks, the butt will try to hit you. So sometimes it's better to let it move and catch it later. And a related, general point since it's in the picture. Decisions to butt, belly, tip or inbetween tie should be made very consciously.

still an attractive tree - and it's not as if you can get the nice thick silver birch trunks like that by replanting any time soon re the decay in pruning wounds - half way down France it's warmer, maybe they fare better than in UK

OK then , what would you do with a collection of classic cars for instance... run them all on Aspen ? My point I suppose is that saws are only a tiny percentage of engines that don't get used every day and need protecting from shyte fuel... ..and as an engine builder I've used fuel stabiliser to mitigate against the consequences of Ethanol in fuel since I first started to notice the damage it was causing around 15 years ago. I know that Alkylate fuel is a much superior option particularly from a fumes pov and I'd say that the world would be better place it was the only fuel option, but unfortunately it's not. So I'm sorry that your experience with stabiliser was negative but I won't be using Aspen in my greedy outboard anytime soon but it still needs protected and it's a lot more expensive in every way than any saw. Not looking for an argument, just passing on my experience of mitigating against the massive increase in engine damage since this crap was added to ordinary fuel which previously never caused any of these problems.

Well not today, but nearly every day since Sunday this week, I been moving some timber we cut in the spring and summer, I wont break any land speed records with truck but it sure does its job very well,

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