the 'todays job' thread

[Brushcutter]

I've taken almost 5 minutes to reply here, due to the tears rolling down my face😄😄😄👍

 

 

 

Brush cutter, if you only knew me as some of the others here, you'd know I'm a long way away from anything as official as the NPTC😜

 

I see. Just seems the toes on approach seems to be the new taught thing.

[18 stoner]

Is anyone else actually teaching the toes on thingy?

 

 

 

All joking aside, I've picked on this subject for some time now, yet amongst all the posts connected to it, I can't recall anyone giving a justified reason for cutting toes off.

 

In general the nearest excuse for doing it is the faller didn't have a big enough saw, ie couldn't fell 2 or upto 2+1/2 times bar, or simply have just seen it done that way.

 

On that basis, it beggars belief that this practice is actually shown in colleges and training centres. If it is being shown as a general rule, it is wrong and unsuitable in most cases. If a general rule is being shown it should be of them being kept on in line with the hinge. Not in every case the best, but sure the safest for the very vast majority of fells.

[Joe Newton]

From what I recall from the years ago that I took my 31, it was largely aimed towards forestry, where one could usually assume sound timber. It was taught for ease of felling with a shorter bar, and to leave a neater stump.

 

In arb it's totally pointless in most cases. Never done it, though I usually fell at waist height

[Peter]

Iv had chance to experiment with this a lot recently, actually had to remove lots of buttresses to prevent fibre pull and tearing. However these were the sort of trees where you gut the hinge and shave it down to a hairs thickness to get the timber decked without damage, rather than the kind of trees where if it goes 10 degrees off the intended lay it will obliterate mrs muffins conservatory.

 

I have a feeling toe removal is one of those techniques that came across from forestry type harvesting work and should have been treated very differently in Arb work.

[Ian Flatters]

Winching dead heads mainly today. Needed some serious ratios to break the suction.

[John Shutler]

how well does the tree mount work ian?

[Ian Flatters]

how well does the tree mount work ian?

 

 

Well John, much better IMO. However if the tree your mounting too isn't upright it can cause it to stall out. I do use off cuts of wood if I need to level it up.

[simonm]

Winching dead heads mainly today. Needed some serious ratios to break the suction. [ATTACH]167043[/ATTACH]

 

Ian all your jobs look really interesting, do you never get any crap jobs to do

[Ian Flatters]

Ian all your jobs look really interesting, do you never get any crap jobs to do

 

 

I try to specialise in how I can do jobs. So mostly interesting work at nice places. But like today's job it was horrifically horrible. I stink of river mud, sweated myself a few pounds running back and forth with winch lines. The other rubbish jobs I never put up because I'm running around like a headless chicken trying to get it done quickly.

[simonm]

id love to work a day with you guys, looks better than most of the conny smashing jobs we get