Peter

Hobbs if you want to snatch lots of big timber, GRCS if you want one man winching and good all round performance. Having just helped Alex Laver out with a demo on the forces generated by snatching lumps of timber, I will be rethinking my rigging kit a little and using cranes for big timber wherever possible.

Imo the worst thing you could do to your lumbar region is to immobilise it in a big tight waist belt. Whatever harness you have, try to fit it so that it sits down on your hips and leaves your back free to move as it should. Obviously if you have back problems then talk to your chosen healthcare professional, but if you want to avoid problems then this is the way forward.

Any luck Jonny?

That sucks. What are you going to do?

There have been plenty of tests done on hand spliced ropes btw, and in my opinion since the same process is carried out each time there is really no reason to suppose that a properly constructed hand splice will be any less consistant than a properly constructed machine buried hand splice.

Because any material forced through the feed rollers will exert a twisting force on the main bearings, ok if your crane operator is gentle, but not worth the risk imo. Also smaller disc chippers tend to have easily broken switches and stop bars, which are expensive to replace. When you force material into a drum chipper, all the happens is it gets shoved under the drum, and since the drum has a bearing at both ends it is a much stronger design. Just a case of getting the right tool for the job really.

I wouldnt try to crane feed any disc chipper fwiw.

I still have the first stretch air tee shirt I got 4 years ago. Getting a bit threadbare now but still wearable.

School isnt designed to educate the individual, its designed to sort children into bin men and lawyers. If a little education happens along the way, then thats a happy accident. Overall it is the nation who benefits, not the individual. University is now a way of trapping young people in debt to banks for the rest of their working lives. Come out of uni with £20k plus debt, by the time its paid off they will have a mortgage they can barely afford, by the time thats paid off its a few short years of retirement before they have to sell the house to pay for care in their old age..... As for being able to get anything you want if you work hard enough, that is a pipe dream. Social and financial mobility has not been harder for 100 years, the gap between rich and poor is growing all the time. While you are working all the hours you can to scrape together the payments on your 3 rental houses, the few with the real money are sitting in their mansions laughing at you.

Nice one mate! Why are you cancelling today's work though? You'll have to get used to working without sleep for the next year anyway!

Klemheist

Black wire under the front of the top handle. Also check your rubber av mounts, as if they are starting to wear there will be increased play in the handle, which can cause the wire to pull off at the spade terminal under the handle.

How do you get the wood chip out of the boot though?

If money is no object then take a look at Festool......

B&Q had a good offer on recently, Hitachi Li-ion with two batteries for £100. Hitachi rep told me the rrp on the batteries is £60 each......

Nice nonsense poem, but I prefer The Hunting of the Snark myself.

I see your bid, and I raise you 13 saws, one hedgetrimmer, and a midget. Beat that!

If I bring 12 saws can I charge £360?

Don't you mean pollarded?

I'd have called it a yellow ash, and sold it for many pennies. Nice job, look forward to seeing more pics. In my experience of consultants and arb reports, you are best off taking all information given with a generous pinch of salt. I'm sure there are many fine and knowledgable consultants, but never assume they are right about everything.

Willow burns just fine. Makes good kindling too.

Wet sappy wood will tar up your chimney, don't burn it unless you want to sweep every few weeks. Again, properly dry is the key. Spitting isn't an issue unless you have an open fire.

Any wood, as long as it is dry. Firewood of any species at a given (low) moisture content will produce roughly the same amount of energy by weight. By volume hardwoods will give more heat as they are more dense.

I like using a smaller one, it fits in places a bigger one wouldn't!

I use a 4.8 (3/16) file on my 3/8ths chain, so I only need 2 file sizes. Its all about what you do with it rather than how big it is.....