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  1. High Scale
    I hate splicing it.
  2. High Scale
    It came from USA, it's being sent to Australia.
  3. High Scale
    Oh and here's one of my splices I did last week, love the purple blue Marlow whipping twine!.
  4. High Scale
    Here is the latest video from a great splicer Nick Araya, I hope that this will help those with a real interest in splicing doublebraid rope. Notice Nicks quick release modification on his Toss Wand:001_smile: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYemvQlrIEU]YouTube - Blue Moon Splice 1 of 2[/ame]
  5. High Scale
    My friend had a Ash tree fail on him, it was on Duchey land and the consultant had marked the tree down for a heavy reduction, the three people on site all thought that the tree should not be climbed, my friend however did climb the tree, put in the front cut and as soon as the saw touched the tree for the back cut the whole top, about sixty five feet of it, failed and dropped vertically straight down inches from him, the only thing that saved him was the fact that he wasn't stropped around the trunk but around a small protruding stob.
  6. High Scale
    Two attachments when cutting unless there is a chance of being struck by the timber you are removing, two attachments makes it easier to control what you are doing when cutting. I never tied in twice when I first started, just used to grip with my legs, I shudder now looking back at the risks I took as a younger man, as Justin has said, climb safe.
  7. High Scale
    Well I don't know any details although I knew Dennis and did a little work for the company Tower Forestry when He moved on to them.
  8. High Scale
    I worked for them for a while.
  9. High Scale
    I have had a young lad working for me who is doing a course at Merrist Wood and he's been taught to start a top handled saw in the most dangerous, cack handed manner I have ever seen.
  10. High Scale
    You gotta listen to your spidey sense.
  11. High Scale
    Cutting and holding with a hand saw isn't against HSE guidance is it or am i miss -reading your post? I cut and hold rarely but I do use this method occasionally, it's a natural practice for anybody with experiance, saying that though it's got to be one of the most common ways of people getting cut.
  12. High Scale
    Rupe, Friend of mine has a Mog with 10" chipper, he's my area but will travel, I will PM you his number and you can talk about rates.
  13. High Scale
    Well yes of course, but if they are not available I get my five year old son to knock something up at his after school wood work class.
  14. High Scale
    Oh yeah, sorry, when I buy pistons and such I buy factory parts.
  15. High Scale
    Gasket you mean New piston comes with all you need.
  16. High Scale
    My neighbour had similar problems with his firewood cutting saw, a husky but not a 254, it turned out, after going through everything else, that it was the wear on the cylinder and piston.
  17. High Scale
    How's the compression?
  18. High Scale
    I have one of those tapes and a reduction jig.
  19. High Scale
    I wonder if they were so strict when their businesses were in their infancy?
  20. High Scale
    We've been here before and it ended up with some American guy slagging off so called Arborist ethics in the UK online on two other forums, some people just can't seem to grasp the basic facts about life.
  21. High Scale
    Or, go forth and change the world:001_tongue:
  22. High Scale
    Yeah I know mate, I was having a little fun, it's all good. I paid £200 for a used 440 last year which I thought was pretty cool until it seized after one tank of fuel, new piston and rings, cylinder polish, modded exhaust and now it runs like a doped out Ben Johnson.
  23. High Scale
    The last year has been OK really, a lot less climbing than I've ever done, which is good, still not advertising which is something that I should really start to do and heavily thinking of doing LOLER checks in the new year so I can climb even less. But, nothing is certain, who knows what will happen.
  24. High Scale
    Er, have you actually looked at the condition of the saw? It may be ten years old but it still has the original chain on it and when I used it for the first time you could smell the factory paint burning off the exhaust, so I got a not even run in 044 for £400! I am such an idiot.
  25. High Scale
    Steve has no chainsaw tickets.

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