Rentachimp
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Today, I got a job with the Plaid Cymru Welsh Assembly member for South West Wales, Liaising with community groups on behalf of Bethan Jenkins. It pays better, so may as well have a go at it. It's been fun, learning the trees, but I'm just too poor to carry on. I'll still be on the boards, though, and keep my hand in with a bit of carving and that
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I'd like to say that husqvarna smell of poo, just to make this thread a little less biased.
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Proclimber's waterproof top is wonderful. I wear it pretty much every day. iI has zip-up sides, like, all the way from the arm to the waist, which really cools you down if you get too hot, plus it keeps you totally bone dry as it zips up over your chin. I was amazed the first time I worked in soaking weather with it on. Apart from that, I don't need a skullcap because I have what they call 'hair'.
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At one point in my silky wild days, I used to climb with an Ibuki (their biggest saw) and a gomtaro on my harness, only using the top hangle when I absolutely had to.
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I climb with a blake's hitch or Vt on my main rope, main anchor on a cambium saver, and have a short strop with Vt. I also use a second rope in large trees and, when chunking down, I clip the main rope to my side d's and the strop to my leg loop d's (see TreeFlex), so I have 2 anchor points and a long line for descent. I also keep a petzl pirana in case i need to rappel!
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Two words; Utility work. I lasted 2 weeks and 4 days...
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I wouldn't have any in my garden, but they're not evil trees. Far too good at self seeding, though, and the biodiversity is pretty pathetic if you look at the figures. Firewood isn't a waste of timber
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I have been doing it for 4 years and I have felling, maintenance, climbing and top handle, mewp, spraying and am an appointed first aider and I get 220 a week for a 42hour week. I also do bar work. Don't live in Wales.
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How about makita? get a 260 with a 13" bar?
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Why would you want an 18in instead of a 15in? I have a husqy 350 (same sized engine) and wish I had a 15in bar on it. I have tried it with both and I say trade in the length for the torque.
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Many people suffer the aled jones experience, but that is because you're wearing the leg loop harnesses wrong. They're meant to sit on your waist like trousers, but i've seen so many people hike up their belt around their bellyand then ratchet up the strap tight. If you do this, then you'll end up sounding like wacko jacko when you call for your top handle.
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I sawed a couple of these up the other day. Oh my GOD! How rank is the preservative on those things? I had to wash my clothes twice and my hands about a doze. Is it creosote? are they safe to burn?
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when i was using the long ones the other day, I found that if i didn't balance properly, i had a shooting pain in my knee.
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I don't, at the mo. I did have a leatherman 301, though. http://sports.ciao.co.uk/Leatherman_e301_Serrated_Knife__6668362
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The oil caps don't work properly. If they did, then they would always work just by turning them, or it would say in the manual that you will need to find the secret combination of tweakery to master closing the cap, 3 weeks after buying the saw which, at first, was perfectly simple, or else suffer oily hands / trousers / customers driveways. I have bust a chain break handle and 2 fuel pipes on the 200t's in my 3 1/2 years. Just like to point out that the husky 357 i use has had 4 new pistons and the auto-decompression had to be replaced with manual.
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I work for a firm called conifers from hell 'Nuff said, really. Every other day we're on them, and more often in the spring and summer. I'm very safety conscious, but I can't recall how many of these (in hedge form) I've found it easier to free climb, with just a strop to be used for tricky sections.
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I try to be. I do have a steel strop, but I heard that you can cut through them, too.
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Yeah, I know what it is, dude; I just dont' like them too much. I tend to double-strop instead.
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Why do you need a wire one?
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I need sum new boots whats everyone eles wearing??
Rentachimp replied to Tree cutter Stu's topic in General chat
klima stretch-air if you want boots that last for 3+ Years. I've had mine since september '04 and worked almost every day since. -
so how do you go about getting these wonderful helmets complete with balance kits?
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My long suffering, often thrown and booted, clonked and knocked and scratched husqy helmet has done its 3 year service and, to be a legal little eagle, I suppose I'd better retire it and get a new one. Which helmet is the dogs pods? N.B. I like Black.
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I use this http://www.proclimber.co.uk/catalogue/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=21_24&products_id=139 I basket hitch it to a krab, myself. Is this maybe why my grab self tends really badly?
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As long it's the exception to the rule, I suppose. The top arbos are always gonna have higher exposure than the grunts (like me)
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It is difficult at times. Could you not have shared the cutting with another bloke?
