MattyF

True , if your ever winching or pulling over a tree you have to be pulling directly infront of the back lean and weight, a lot of folk think you can come from the side and pull it in to a gap .. even with a decent hinge it will still go with the weight most of the time.

That’s coming next week apparently too…

I vowed never to get sheep again but got some Icelandic ewe lambs back in November, they seem pretty placid and easy to handle and have been no bother so far but like most sheep I would say they need to be handled to make them that way which is essential if you don’t have a well trained sheep dog .. although the black faces we had are usually wild , destructive escape artists and have one reason to live and that’s die.

And cars .. biggest killer of foxes and badgers , I’ve ran over at least 4 badgers , one night I actually managed to stop for one but as I pulled away at about 1mph the stupid thing ran back out from the hedge and put it’s head under the back wheels and killed itself in slow motion, was gutted as if I was pissed and walked home it would usually be on one of the paths and I would walk with it in front of me for a mile with it occasionally turning around and snuffling at me, they are creatures of habit and timing! another night hit one and it was still breathing so decided to put it out of its misery with a planting spade in the back of the truck , entered the pub 15mins later and the barmaid was like wtf have you been doing and I realised I had bits of badger and blood over my face and front, took a lot more than I thought to finish it off… one of my earliest memories is a badger digging under my dads chickens coup , getting in eating every thing and being to fat to get out , game keeper walking up to this angry thing and a laud bang of the shotgun. unfortunately we are know where near roads here now and there’s a lot of badgers , I’ve seen them try and take out adult sheep and leave them half chewed up but still alive , lambing is a nightmare as we can shoot the foxes but not the badgers.

Are they going to march you to the nearest building society when they have finished ?

I’ve always thought they Look dangerous mate , at least with the petzl caritool if you have a rigging line brush past you and it snags it breaks… I used to climb with a open metal hook until one I had rigging line do that with a large section and they had too lower that out with it still attached and pulling me off the limb luckily being doubled tied it didn’t do much but if it had been a larger top it could of been nasty, I think I’ve actually had that happen maybe 2 times 😆Bearing in mind if you rig in conditions where you’re pushed and confined and using a crane point to get material in to a DZ like say on a limb removal or reduction it’s quite a likely scenario as positioning can be tricky and that’s usually when you need to lower stuff out. I used to break caritools regular but it’s very rare now and it’s piece of mind for not a nice experience.

Dunno I’m only concerned if I don’t have a spare reel.

Can you recore a plastic radiator? I had an 2002 150’s recored but they made them out of decent stuff back then and was told they could not of done it if it was a newer machine.

Recently Sold a 3120 that had been rebuilt and with a 4ft bar it went for £950 at auction… stihl seem to fetch a bit more so would say around 1k.

Thought it would be something like that, I had a mate on the cam who sold his boat and went to a house was surprised like.

What you going for swinny ?

I run an old Vermeer 252 , it does most stumps with ease but grinders do require a lot of maintenance if worked hard in tough ground. I would avoid any hydraulic head powered machines as they sap so much power you might as well use a small pedestrian machine. The only upside is they don’t have belts to maintain and replace but Its not worth the sacrifice as easily the most tedious maintenance is keeping teeth sharp.

Have boat prices gone up much eggs? My moneys on the woman who got kicked off.

Better than nothing.

Problem is they are water proof until you get near hawthorn , blackthorn ,trees with roses in ect .. then they are fecked.. I try and buy a new pfanner Nanoshield every other year, keep a knackered one as a work jacket and general damp jacket but switch to the decent one if it’s all out pishing down.

At what the cloggers cost I save them for June -sept then go back to pfanner or the solidurs

Still pfanner arborist in my view. Clogger zero if you don’t care about not being rated for the uk don’t mind paying the import tax but they are the lightest and free moving. These if you want the cheapest hard wearing. Solidur Infinity Chainsaw Trousers WWW.CHRISFORESTRY.CO.UK INFINITY Super Stretch Type A Chainsaw Trousers Class 1 EN381-5 Low bulk 5 layer...

I have some yew trunk boards milled to about 2.5” ?

Absolute golden era , we used to bunk off school put on stupidly large trousers and adidas gazelles and get the train to the next town and try and imitate the WI guys 😆 found this interesting interview mate .. wish I’d stayed on the tree house and discussed, I don’t think I ever put the two people together though. Muckmouth interview with Jed Walters - Muckmouth WWW.MUCKMOUTH.COM An interview with Jed Walters for Muckmouth.com by Alex Dyer

Thanks Jon , I will take them off and send them when I get a chance.

Yes I’ve always done the rod bracing whilst the stems have been pulled together and sometimes crown reduced and braced, depending on tree and spec …you can get that gap to almost seal. like I said my only experience of oaks is limited we braced them at college and I seem to remember a lot of pulled cables on the campus but site wise I had only had one veteran old pollard out side of Stevenage that must of pulled it’s cable every year for three years… in the end we put cobra on.. I think the tree was heavily re pollarded in the end too, but we aways used cobra bracing on oak since.

Im quite happy rod bracing on say a beech but my experience of oak using rods and steel bracing is that the Tanin reacts and the rods pull.. unless it’s galvanised or stainless rods I would not.. but rod bracing is good , I’ve saved a few trees with it. Some of the American sites like tree stuff sell massive augers for rod bracing ,worth a look as you won’t get them in the uk so factor that in to the price.

I think it would entirely depend on what kind of work you do … if it was a lot of private back gardens in towns or tight areas it would come in to its own … I don’t do this sort of work much anymore so it really has no use but would be bloody handy if I did … also I rigged up some thing years back before this came out and we could take kids rec climbing and literally pull them up very easily with a RW … you just had to make sure they where sure on how to use a hitch to get them selves down but they always loved it and you would have to hall them straight back up!

Also burning some on the house stove right now … just had to turn the back boiler pump on, considering it’s had ash on it for the last few months and it’s being a rarity unless fully loaded to have to do that any one saying it’s rubbish is talking out there arse !!