Old Skool Cool

[White Noise]

Im sure I can remember someone actually laying bricks in a large Oak cavity to give it stability .

Mind you I was 14 then . How about the old Trewhella monkey winch you know that big thing on metal wheels .

 

Really good thread almost forgot I need to go to work .

[treemeup]

25m 3strand and a spliced 3strand prussic....what i was given to climb on in NZ 3yrs ago!! I did get a really uncomfortable harness (with leg loops:001_cool:) and a couple of 3way crabs mind you

[Mr Ed]

Releasing the tension off the handle on the trewalla handle was always an exciting job filled with danger.

[penfold]

How about the old Trewhella monkey winch you know that big thing on metal wheels .

 

we had one at houghall in the late 90's still in good working order and like ed says taking the tension off was a bit like a game of buckaroo; you were never quite sure when the thing was going to release. We also had a little david stump grinder, now that thing scared the hell out of most of us including the staff. oh happy days:001_rolleyes:

[Buzz]

First chipper I ever used way a re-badged Bandit called the Ripper Chipper ! Was a beast ! No safety controls at all and we towed it with a Massey 390T.

[David Humphries]

Releasing the tension off the handle on the trewalla handle was always an exciting job filled with danger.

 

I had banished it to the pit of no return, to help conquer the mental scars that this beast would inflict.

 

But in the name of posterity, here is the beast arisen

 

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[Ben]

I remember using a Monkey winch back in 1988, I still get nightmares.

[Stephen Blair]

sitting in the back of a forestery comision sherpa van at 6am in winter in the dark doing about 80mph, sending your kit up the mountain on the skyline to save carrying it up, one saw for everything. trying to cut limbs of with a bow saw and hang on to the tree with the other arm.(at about 12). strange how even 15 years ago seemed so long ago when you compare techniques and kit

[Tom D]

Sweeping up!!!!!!!!!!!

 

The blower has to be the third best tool, after the saw and chipper.

 

And not being petered to death by every other passerby asking for free wood and when you say no they look at you like you shot their dog

 

So true, I don't know why people look offended when you won't give them your wood for free!!

[Tom D]

We also had a little david stump grinder, now that thing scared the hell out of most of us including the staff. oh happy days

 

I still use one of them!!! although I junked the 13hp engine and put an 18Hp vtwin on it instead:thumbup::thumbup:

 

Its a beast.