Useful tips and tricks

[H-A]

I haven't bought a new rake in over a year,

 

"But it has had 2 new handles and 3 new heads."

 

Sorry could not resist, RIP Trigger.

 

H-A

Edited January 17, 2014 by H-A
Got quote wrong

[Shane]

"But it has had 2 new handles and 3 new heads."

 

Sorry could not resist, RIP Trigger.

 

H-A

 

Strange - I wondered about that as I was typing my message:thumbup:

RIP Trig, see ya Dave.

[oldwoodcutter]

Not a trick,but a tip well worth knowing,when pricing the job up,(and this applies to mrs Miggins or Balfour Beatty) never tell them exactly how long the job will take,even when asked.

You may have the fastest climber in the uk on the job that day,or a team of groundies who've really got their skates on,and everythings goes perfect.

When you finish at 12 instead of 5 or manage to do it in a day and not 2,then its only human nature for the client to think he's paying twice as much as he should,because youve done it in half the time.

If you dont tell him in the first place,then thats all avoided.

Edited January 18, 2014 by oldwoodcutter

[darrin]

2 in 1 Throw line splice,the cheap stuff.

[ShooTa]

so is that spliced and .// tied or how are you holding the red and yellow together now?

[darrin]

 

This stuff is great for cleaning handsaw blades , especially for resin

[timbernut]

I recently discovered this n all, it's ace for cleaning most things mechanical and shiny but makes some plastics etc go white ( chainsaws yes lawn mowers no )

 

 

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[jomoco]

Buy a Spencer logging tape, a 75 footer. Replace the tape with an equivalent length of nylon cord, attach a two inch round plastic shower curtain hanger to the end of the nylon cord.

 

Now clip the customized Spencer logging tape to the back of your climbing saddle when you're doing your next strategic removal requiring lots of lowering brush and wood when you are out on limbs a goodly distance from the lowering line's center of gravity where normally a groundie would have to flick the lowering line back to you out there once the piece is lowered and disconnected. Some groundies are good at flicking the lowering line back to the climber, and some ain't.

 

I call this modified Spencer logging tape a lowering line retrieval spool, and it works like this. Once you have the lowering line in hand, run it through the circular curtain rod hanger first, then tie off the piece to be lowered as you normally would. Once it's cut and released the nylon cord will pay out from the retrieval spool just like a fish pulling out line from a fisherman's reel. All the groundie has to do is disconnect the lowered piece, tie a knot at the line's end so it can't pass through the circular curtain hanger.

 

This allows you the climber to pull the nylon cord and lowering line back to you even if you're 50 feet away from the lowering line's pulley attachment point in the tree. So even if your groundie's not any good at getting your lowering line back to you way out on a lateral leader? It's no big deal cuz as long as the groundie can tie a knot in the lowering line's end, you can pull it back yourself with this handy gadget.

 

Jomoco

[Jake Andrews]

That's friggin ace. Love this idea, makin me one soon

J:thumbup1:

[Tucky]

Give that man a coconut, that line retrieval spool on the right job looks genius.

Tucky