18 stoner
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Is anyone else actually teaching the toes on thingy? All joking aside, I've picked on this subject for some time now, yet amongst all the posts connected to it, I can't recall anyone giving a justified reason for cutting toes off. In general the nearest excuse for doing it is the faller didn't have a big enough saw, ie couldn't fell 2 or upto 2+1/2 times bar, or simply have just seen it done that way. On that basis, it beggars belief that this practice is actually shown in colleges and training centres. If it is being shown as a general rule, it is wrong and unsuitable in most cases. If a general rule is being shown it should be of them being kept on in line with the hinge. Not in every case the best, but sure the safest for the very vast majority of fells.
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I've taken almost 5 minutes to reply here, due to the tears rolling down my face😄😄😄👍 Brush cutter, if you only knew me as some of the others here, you'd know I'm a long way away from anything as official as the NPTC😜
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Very well explained, cheers.
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😜😜👍👍👍
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Just wondering why you cut the toes off if you were expecting it to be rotten all way down?
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Were you surprised to see it so solid at the base given the rot higher up?
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Was a funny day that! Opened my eyes to how naive the public can be😜👍
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I'll dig something out for you.
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Mine are both single cab tippers. Not sure if that's what you meant.
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I have 2, one with a front to back internal toolbox that holds about 4.5. The other is fractionally bigger with no box and that'll hold 5 cube easy. Both overloaded when full though. Possibly around 3.5-4 cube will be legal.
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At 17% you shouldn't get any complaints. As Steve says though, split some and test inside to be sure. I know a few will say upto 25% is ok, but I feel that's more of an old level. These days many customers with more modern stoves are more switched on and require sub 20%. After all, the dryer the more efficiently they'll burn and I've found some timber in the 20-25% area will still tar a stoves glass. Something the "newer revolution" of stove owners don't like.
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As mentioned earlier, the report was that the tree had shed dead limbs and was rubbing on a house;
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Joe, sounds like you and crew did exactly what you should of, and to a very high standard. Credit to you for that. I realise every case is different and that's why I raised it, to get to the bottom of the reasoning in these cases. In this one, purely going on what info you put forward I would have suggested c/lift, and/or side reduct from the houses being interfered with, dead wood/crown clean and hey presto! The reduction is pointless, (the very little you will of been aloud to take off will have made very little difference to end loading, even less to amount of light, leaves in the garden, etc, what ever other excuses the clients come up with), and is not in the best interests of the tree. Its something that I feel is a fashion statement more than anything, like keeping up with the Joneses. Or, "I've seen it done before"! Possibly rambling now but just curious to how some counties find it necessary to carry out this practice, yet others manage quite fine without.
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Lol! 😄😄
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Ok, I'm possibly going to put my toe over that line here. It looks a lovely shape, we, as tree blokes can appreciate the skill and workmanship involved in a job like that. BUT, why was it done? From what I can see it's a big tree. A very big tree in that location I guess, but with all things considered what has that reduction achieved? I mean, I'd love to know how the conversation went at quotation level between the client & arb geezer. "We've got this tree that's become far too big for it's location, what can you do?" "Oh, we can crown reduce it and cure your problem" "Ah, that sounds a well worth £800, we'll go for that" Did it work? No. Seems a money for old rope procedure that's very rarely done around here, I'd love to know why this procedure is more acceptable in some parts of the country and not others?
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Very common. Either be more careful in future or fit a webbing limiter around the spring.
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Currently running both my 110 tippers at 30 front, 60 rear on 235 85 16's cooper STT Big difference to others I guess, but works well for our setup.
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Looks very nice that👍
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Yep, with you now peter & josh. Never knew it had a name! Lol!
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Could you run through the "snipe cut"? Any pics? Never heard of it, unless it's called something else around here.
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Remember, you heard it here first. Apparently, it's to do with stihl struggling with sales over the last two years. They're turning over a new leaf and will start to listen to what the end user wants rather than dictating. The return of the 361 & 460 are also said to be imminent.
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Haha, Initially I was wondering why bother snedding it at all, but then realised there must be a good reason. 👍 Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
