MattyF

Cut it with hedge cutters and do it yearly....

You wanna be careful if your stalling the tractor , I've ripped a pto box apart on my old international because the previous owner of a hi crack had welded the shear pins , It didn't occur to me that's why it was stalling the tractor ......Personally I hate the things but would take one over a hydraulic powered or petrol splitter.

Hmmm they will have gone up a bit but you still won't find anything commercial grade and decent for less. Possibly it could be converted 🤷🏼

Check out AMR range from fuel wood they do a PTO 17t splitter for less than 2k ours has been good for the money although the return springs don't seem to last they can be bodged .. you get what you pay for .. we run it alongside a Posche which is a different league but triple the price.

Having owned over 20 electric carbed saws from all stables over the last ten years I would describe them all as very reliable .. I don't think I've had one problem tbh....

Getting a bit old now but I always rated the Vermeer 252 if you can find one with low hours for a good price it would be worth a shot.

Pines will give you low cover if they have enough space and you have no Deere or livestock on them and you don't formative prune.

Fuel consumption would be one factor.

I used to grease them daily , never had that problem with hl75's so I will stand by what I said say a km 130 has more torque than a two stroke and will kill gearboxes if your using it for cutting instead of trimming... not ideal in our line of work , I had one last two hedge sessions on a 130 and I had a Hl 75 that was 5 years old and still on the original head gear box... I would also make the statement that the 130 is a god awful pile of shit and by stand by that too! Sell it and don't look back.

Problem I've found with the KM 130 is they destroy hedge cutter gear boxes as they must have quite a bit more torque than a 2 stroke engine , I don't recal ever getting more than a year out of a hedge cutter attachment and had to swap them to the older style non ball bearing cutters in the end.

Not unless you would like the tree through your fence after the next big storm... you could always just mulch that area of the garden with wood chip to make them less visible , that would be the most tree friendly option.

I have never and don't know of any one I've worked with professionally who has ever paid to have there chain sharpened.. just saying if you are thinking about targeting arborists.

Midges !! [emoji51][emoji51]

Lad who we had working for us Ed is trying to get out of melitipol right now , it's costing them £300 dollars each to cross the war zone and get in to west Ukraine , Ed is not a fighter and a complete pacifist and has been in a basement with his church since February just trying to help people as it was one of the first areas to be encircled ...but is going to stay in Ukraine and help where he can when he does get out despite having loads of places around the world he could stay... I think they are all of the opinion Russia is about to launch a full on scorched earth policy to go all out so getting out is probably wise.. his opinion on Azov ...they are there with them right now and sharing the rations with civilians , I don't want to get in any discussion about them being nazis or anything on here but they see them as saviours and the reputation is Russian propaganda.. if that is not obvious to any one already... any way hope they get out asap.

I like an 18" on 3/8th bar , nice for snedding , does not make your back ache and prefer a wider chain to avoid pinching but lacks a bit for felling.

My thoughts so far are I would not get too excited the Ukraine are beating the Russians , the Russians have always sustained heavy losses in every conflict they have fought in , then come back with a scorched earth policy it's just there combat doctrine , look at Chechnya ... I really hope this is not the case.. they pull out and go home but I get the feeling he's just warming up trying to establish forward control points then sending in the real heavies which so far they have barely committed.

That's the point , your climbing on a single line so the rope wrench needs to be engaged almost immediately which it won't be with a soft tether... it will just flop all over the place... I don't see any advantage at all to what your trying to achieve.

The idea of the stiff tether is it advances the hitch during accent ... I can't see how your system that as Mike says articulates in three places would benefit climbing on the rope wrench in any way.. sit back would be massive , it won't keep the wrench in front of you , and you have taken two of the three holes on the hitch climber up, I would use the bottom for knee ascender and top hole for tether advancing.

Have you seen what's available ? Thanks to new government regs your choices are limited at the least !

Chainsaw chaps with your arse out are the way forward [emoji106][emoji106]

Im 44 and been climbing since I was 16, first 15 years where full on street tree production climbing ... now I pick and choose and probably do 3-4 days a week climbing/cutting or mewp work ... leaves a day for fire wood or maintenance.

The one you set up and did the PDI for has been the most trouble free I've owned Gand !

Hayate is the only one if you want the best ... Zubat is ok but if you use the hayate you won't go back.

You will still pay import tax on eBay if it's coming from oz , yes they are noticeably cooler .. I try and only wear them in June -august as they are too cool for this time of year and bloody expensive with the tax on unless you can get some one to post them over.

I got some shipped from oz last year , down side was the import tax ... if you really want them I would get them from tree stuff , might as well put a big order in at the same time as you will end up paying import tax bringing them in ...too around the cost of pfanner arborists anyway ... and to be honest there isn't much between them but from the cloggers are maybe a bit cooler in summer.