Pete Mctree

Give me a pm if your interested bill

I often use a double bowline but wiil give the perfection loop a go for sure

It's no big deal imo what you do, as long as the saw work is effiecient and accurate, everything else is a means to an end.

Saying that i'm deffo new school

I pay for all accidental damage on the site. However if things are broken through stupidity or negligence then it's different. I have charged staff for things before but seldom

Good competition, and nice to see plenty of great pics.

Congratulations to the winners!

top 100 would do

Cool, will wait til I have a spare week to compile it!

which time was that

you want the full list ?

Silky, art rope guide, sling and locking biner, first aid kit and either a wire core or rope strop

I do every day. I guess more attention should be payed to "how" not "how often". Same goes for cut and hold.

if husq had more good dealerships husky would rule:vroam::vroam:

Only got 2 problems with what you say, firstly they are not as good and secondly they come in a crappy orange colour!

A good climber is not lazy. They will climb out that extra couple of yards to set the rigging or get the best tie in point, spend time to put the pull rope in the right place, not badly directed through a maze of branches etc. They will make the exra 2 cuts to make it managable on the ground.

Makes all the difference sometimes

Love the attention to detail, especially those lovely bolts in the hopper? & is there a guarentee it won't rattle to bits when being towed or used?

Wow, loads of new members. Cool!

Welcome all

£320ish here a day. There are still firms going out for £235 here but the don't get much work done. I've lost jobs because i've been too cheap on the quotes before now.

Pricing work was the hardest thing thing to learn for me setting up on my own. Even today, doing the work is often the easy bit

It's safe for sure. A bit unnerving when you start out hearing the stem split and crack as you work the stem down

Todays work was cancelled. Means I have enough time to sharpen and fix saws, look at work and rewire the lights on the chipper. Ain't spare time fun!

Tockmal, i had a similar chainbreak problem with the 460. So stiff it was hard to use.

I stripped the mechanism down, cleaned it and put plenty of WD40 on the whole thing. Has worked ok since. Not a cure for the heat problem but may make the action smoother & easier

just trying to refresh a few minds as to why the soft link is put in the lanyard.

I have dumped my microcender and gone back to the VT on the wire core. I hated the extra link in the system, too much play

bob, could you translate this into english please?

I guess you scots don't read yourkshire too well?

"throw the piece of crap in the bin and buy a husky"

There ya go, wasn't that hard was it?

nope! if its under 750kgs, its easy enough to unhitch and spin round.

thats why small chippers just don't need them, plus i prefer a low feed height. I guess it's a lazy thing

In small chippers weight is king IMO, petrol engines are the only way i can see of building a substantial chipper below 750kg (with or without a turntable). The compramise i guess is the fuel bill and servicing issues, but power if the unit is selected carefully should not be an issue.

big old leaning chestnut, wasnt safe to go rite to the top but the saw just wasnt quick enuff and the stem split so i took my strop off with out even thinking and had to stand on my spikes with no strop while it went!!!!!!

Let me get this clear in my mind, you started cutting, you could not finnish your backcut so you STOPPED cutting to take your strop off?

Was the top leaning towards the lay or fractured/contained cavities hence not suitable to climb?

Sorry bout all the questions but trying to get a clear pic of what happened

i think we have all been there not long ago was working with a very experienced climber and i was lowering out a massive bit but were just lowering to stop them flying too far and letting them run to the ground which controled the buts and after several of thes the last one a twist got stuck on the capstan i took a massive smack on my ribs possibly cracked took 3 weeks to stop hurting but as they say **** happens and yes pete Mc tree you were the groundie i was swearing at

Oh well it does happen to even the best of us! Lesson learnt about remembering to run the rope through the porty both ways to avoid it twisting

Exscuse me whilst I skulk away to the corner to hide my shame and embarrasment

Always put the strop to your centre D, you might get stuck but you aint gonna fall if the stem does split

There seemed to be a great deal of line between you block and where you tied it to the top. That will always give you a nice shock load and ride