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He has an impressive range of spray paints to blend his flush cuts and fill in his spike marks after prunes, competent is not a word I'd use. It's quite an old one, if I recall right he broke his back and it was a life altering injury, he is now physio or was.
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Jonny i think your spot on, i try not to get hung up on fed speed and on how well it sucks through brash/timber and service life the Bandit will be hard to beat and like Dean has said a Bandit is an investment. I will say though we are looking at another tow behind the sheer weight of the 75xp puts me off, they are a heavy old lump.
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But think of all that precious firewood your losing.....
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Because not all dealers or police forces are equal, I doubt they'd tell you about checking serial numbers this after one of our yard thefts and subsequent new purchases from our dealer a few years back the sales guy had said with all stihl saws they service they cross reference the serial numbers with a stihl sponsored database, which one that is I do not know. Obviously they may not bother, and like you have said some police forces seemingly do not take an interest in serial numbers either as they now recovery is unlikely or to costly. There are gangs they are fully aware off carrying out these crimes to catch them red handed with a robust case to secure prosecution is difficult. Realistically there is only one way to prevent theft - up your security game or immobilise the saws but how possible that is I do not know-it seems with the new micro processor carbs it would not be to difficult.
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That's pretty normal practice for most good dealers, our dealer will always cross reference a saws serial before repair and see if it flags up as stolen and have done for quite a few years. I think the only robust way is make the saws not function if stolen, as no one cares about traceability through serial numbers uniques id's, on board chip etc, this only makes return of stolen property possible "if" found.
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Saws already have serial numbers on them, so how is I'd chips with owners details going to help? Immobilisers are a good idea if possible linked to yard, if not returned within 24hours the saw will not start. We have had a lot of saws stolen over the years in 3 yard break ins and one theft from site serial numbers provided to police and on 2 databases and never had a saw returned and rarely do I hear of anyone having the stolen saws returned. Where they go is beyond me, we have yet again upgraded our security-cctv and multiple alarms and layered security doors fingers crossed we will be okay next time
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Criticism is constructive, I always look at others and think what the hell are you doing, then look at myself and those I work with and notice we are not perfect either. Another thing I noticed barring the obvious already stated by others is you put your sap wood cuts below your back cut, again when in the tree make them above, if the piece goes early it can leave a little step that may catch the saw in the kerf.
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Good work, not that I like criticising though as to be honest I see a lot of bad work on social media, and also having filmed myself I even criticise what I do... but letting pieces fall or pushing them off whilst your saw is in the cut is a bad idea and shouldn't be done where possible, again another serious accident happened recently when a climber had his saw trapped in the kerf and it wrenched him off his spikes breaking his leg.
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Just chuck it up there.
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To be fair the TR8/ST8 from what I hear is a totally different animal to the TR/ST6. The TR6 we have is not a bad machine, and the support from Redwood is very good but there are to many niggles in use it's like it is designed by someone who has never fed a chipper (sorry just my opinion) We are having a demo of the TR8 soon to be honest if we decide to stick to a 6" it will be a Timberwolf
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Hold the barrel with your fingers, then with your other hand push against the spine and try to rotate it, if it opens that is what i'd call a soft lock as essentially you can use it as a 2 way. basically the pin slot wears creating a little ramp. Hope that makes sense
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they all do it nothing wrong with a bit of marketing jazz, i liked the 280 just not as much as i/we liked the 230 which is still one of the favourite chippers in our little fleet - if only the reliability could be improved which has cost us a fair bit, we forgive it because it so great when working if it was any other chipper I would of handed it back - hopefully a compliment of sorts. Currently weighing up the decision to buy another 230 or 280. Of looked at figures yet which is probably what would sway us.
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When I first started at Heritage we nearly always bought cheap tires old dogs that needed to be welded up after every job. As we saw it's value and benefit we upgraded or bought new. Be realistic if you need it and I mean really need it then the cost is not a factor.
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Tidy! To be fair the Avants with large tyres do not break the ground so bad, still with minimal outlay you have something that will hopefully make your life easier.
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That's not ours! Our powered barrow is still stock but we did look at fabricating something, I just found it on google. It probably would not lift much but could probably drag a fair bit particularly if you had rear wheels on the log-again google images will show some peoples ingenuity. When we have looked at prospecting new kit we will often buy something cheap and cheerful rather than risk a large financial outlay, once we know it can be put to good use we usually buy something new and purpose designed. Our tracked barrow largely sits unused, but we do have a lot of **** I mean kit.....
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We have a cheap tracked barrow we bought online, loud slow thing but does a job and will dump the muck into the back of a drop side cabstar, we were looking at trying to modify it to take pallet forks and grab for plant pots. If you look around on line it can be done although fabricating and piping etc.... it a problem if your mechanically minded and can play around getting it right.
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I'll put this here.... I think this would suit a few people I know
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Hi Giorgio, thanks for sharing this, we have had a play with this set up as I really like the idea of knot blocking with a cambium saver as it makes retrieval easier. The plastic clip, really helps to stop the slack getting into the system as I have found on some climbs without it!
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Selection of SRT kit and risk assessment etc.
Marc replied to David Dobedoe's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
Mike has covered this well, but also consider this - the rope is only doubled its not 2 ropes, when the rope goes through a pulley/rings its essentially a single rope at that point on a bend! There is some thought that when ropes are tied off at the top either with a stopper knot/bowline/alpine the increased number of turns/bends when subject to a dynamic load this will absorb the energy. I would like to see the article, as currently in the UK we do not climb on tree climbing ropes rather ropes to the standards laid out in EN1891 which is single rope for industrial rope access. What he may be referring to is this the EN1891 type a and b European Norm 1891 from A-to-B -
That's not an arguement, also a dog tooth cut in the tree is pretty rare, the diameter of the timber you will be cutting with a top handle saw and the ability to tackle that type of scenario in many other reliable ways other than a dog tooth. Again saying a lot of people are just to lazy to carry out the job safely is my concern how do we improve that? Other than simply engineering out laziness which as you rightly point out will probably in all likelihood not prevent future accidents.
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It's very lucrative Mark...
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Looking for suggestions on Ms261 replacement or next size up pleease!
Marc replied to Secretarb's topic in General chat
I like the 261 with 15" bar, if you want something different the 560 would be my choice a great little saw. -
The cost to us is closer to £500 per man, most of us have cscs but they need renewing also some sites have requested Rolo blue cards. Still we bumble along scraping by without this lucrative work. Again I will add the obvious in the scheme of things it is cheap.
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Everything has a cost just pointing out that it not just the cost of doing the cscs its also the wage to be paid and the loss of earning potential for the candidate For us our biggest outlay is wages can't imagine it would be different for anyone else. If your lads are earning around £20k in a morning your doing well I reckon it would take a few days work to recoup the investment.
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Unless you have 20 odd guys to put through it, including paying their wage and the loss of earnings.
