MattyF

How old is the saw ?

I found it only self tended at around 30ft also make sure the tail of your rope is always is hanging free.

Big game trophy shots I call them , like a Victorian hunter posing over a magnificently beautiful piece of nature that you have just killed and feeling proud and manly you have just tamed the beast ,tragic really .. You must have a few piles of rubble you have been proud of creating eggs ?

Day two of work climbing and the akimbo is growing on me , particularly that it grabs the rope all the time every time... it's just there with no sit back at all, feels great on ascenders.

That's some going Jake, good work ! What avant are you running ?

Thanks Jake , no timber staying on site ,just had to be clear off the steeper bank.

iPhone ... toying with the idea of an iPad but that's the price of a new fishing rod and my eyes are not that bad yet.

Merrip infected beech 85%reduction. Hopefully will live to go on for another 200years.

I went back on mine after lunch on a beech I'm dismantling over the next day or so... it's growing on me , initially I was not sure about the self tending there seems more drag like climbing a well tied short hitch and I'm used too a very long vt with minimal wraps that needs dressing but slack falls through, but in the same token drag can be good at times...plenty of limb walking and never once felt uncomfortable, there is no sit back what so ever but it can be hard to get the initial movement for descent but that could be more my technique but I was thinking of modding my top cam with a beak like a spider jack if I can't get used to it as it's killing my bad hand tendons gripping it too hard.

Sickening..

Aye but could be worth leaving to try.

Those 200 trees seemed to have been cut too around there former pollard points I wonder if the stumps are not levelled and maybe cleaned up a little bit how many will regenerate.

👍🏻 spot on Tommy

Considering the democrats response and views on brexit that like it or not is going to happy the best side won...as the rest of us are getting sick of the hypocrites of the so called liberal generation who can not see past the end of there noses it's pretty good too.

An old husky 288 that will run a 32" for milling and 20"for fire wood but they hold there money so will be around 250-400 Or an old 266? They can be picked up a lot cheaper would probably pull a 32" on skip.. very torquey saw though. Try and go for a late model plastic chain brake handle version of both saws if you do.

Send it to spud , check out the chainsaw section of the forum he has a porting thread. He did a port job timing mod and popped up piston (Burrell did the milling) and muffler mod on a 560 for me ... the saw is ridiculous in soft Wöod!

There is times and places for such work but there is no time imo for people who do work on public trees that look like they have tied a chainsaw to there dogs tail and swung it around on a rope leaving perfectly healthy trees mutilated for ever because they could not do the job properly for what ever crap excuse , some thing should be done about it ! If it makes me a purist to try and talk people out of such mutilating and the difference to good and bad tree work and taking the time to try and show my staff how to do it properly I've been called far worse things Interestingly I've worked on many lime pollard avenue street trees and it amazes me how many people complain when you trim off 2-5 years regrowth and call you many names despite these trees judging by the bowls originally started off on this rotation in the 1920's ! So not every one appreciates a hat rack ! Also to summarise I always had 3/4 months work booked ahead and I never topped a tree in those 10 years I ran my own firm.

No that was for so called arborists or so called tree care specialists that go hat racking trees and not working to the outlined BS standards.

No one ever disputed that did they!

Have seen plenty of willow and poplar species die or severely decline as a result of being topped badly pruned and fail due large cavities as a result of poor pruning.

It's not all bad ! I don't know how they can call the CE stuff cougar as it has a completely different core.

Good point Gary , really can't be arsed either .... it's just a massive shame LA's don't have the money to prosecute people who do this to protected trees with out permission or are big organisations like the arb association don't In my view do enough to make changes or help prosecute.

To be honest just take it apart ... hit some bits with a copper mallet and use a prize bar they are very easy to work on .. the worse bit I found was remembering where the engage handle was to properly Aline it with the 3 pins but it's all in slacks photo.

I did one the other day I'm pretty sure it just knocked out but definitely the cable stayed on ... you had to remove the cage around the spool though to get it out.

If you give the customer the above points usually they don't want it doing .. cutting below pollard knuckles not even attempting to hit pruning targets is just lazy and short sited and in my opinion if your selling your self as an arborist or tree care specialist you are a con man if you don't tell the customer the above points I tried to make ... but as rosy says we don't know the story of the above tree but that is my general feeling about most the hat rack pruning you see.