the 'todays job' thread

[AHPP]

This week’s job has been trying to diligently tie off all the little fiddle-fuxk decisions on the winch that I’ve been putting off for months. Got some final answers from my machinist on how much clearance he wants designed in for certain ops etc (I know - dream client!) so no excuses to not get the bits my end done. A few more (tens of) hours of CAD and then buy a piece of aluminum the size of a phone book and commit.  
 

 

 

[kram]

I dont have a before pic, but a reasonable spreading conifer with thick ivy up the main and dead right stem. Interesting as it had a big hazard beam crack on the furthest spreading left stem, I wanted to get a decent amount of weight off that before I tied in.

Mostly an easy drop zone, spear cut all the rear brush as nothing important behind. 

 

The new Meteor cyl kit is working well! I had some issue with it bogging but each time the air filter was clogged and had to bang it clean. There was a very dusty dead stem but seemed to clog excessively fast.

 

 

Long steep garden on this and I wouldnt have wanted to be a groundie, perhaps should have cut them smaller!

Cutting the low stump was exhausting at the end.

 

Jobs like this I would like a 3120XP as it should be 50% quicker cutting the big bits. 

Edited 5 hours ago by kram

[Mick Dempsey]

2 hours ago, kram said:

I dont have a before pic, but a reasonable spreading conifer with thick ivy up the main and dead right stem. Interesting as it had a big hazard beam crack on the furthest spreading left stem, I wanted to get a decent amount of weight off that before I tied in.

Mostly an easy drop zone, spear cut all the rear brush as nothing important behind. 

 

The new Meteor cyl kit is working well! I had some issue with it bogging but each time the air filter was clogged and had to bang it clean. There was a very dusty dead stem but seemed to clog excessively fast.

 

 

Long steep garden on this and I wouldnt have wanted to be a groundie, perhaps should have cut them smaller!

Cutting the low stump was exhausting at the end.

 

Jobs like this I would like a 3120XP as it should be 50% quicker cutting the big bits. 

The really big saws aren’t necessarily quicker through that size wood, a razor sharp 572 or similar will be more use. 

[AHPP]

Like Mick says. 500i is the answer to a lot of arb questions. Even a 661 on the same bar and chain is (or at least feels) slower on smaller wood. I’m aware that might sound like bollocks because displacement is displacement but I’ve just cut about 150 tonnes of 4-40” firewood with a 500i and a 661 on the same bars so feel fairly qualified to comment.

881/3120. Forget it. No point until you’re regularly doing six foot cuts. Too much misery for not enough reward.