MattyF

Yes just when it suits the English it becomes British .... FFS ... It really is opinions like your yours which make me feel like some Scott’s should **************** off and stay your side of the border and watch brave heart all day long on repeat ... maybe get trump involved and build a big wall ... either way nationalistic pricks if you got there own way would you still carry on winging ??

Is there some 288’s in there ?

Well if your having a peaceful protest and your getting dogs let loose on you and charged by mounted riot cavalry I would probably start throwing things too...In older age I have grown a respect for police but I won’t forget the times I was assaulted and charged for things I didn’t do because they didn’t like the way we looked or wanted us off the streets ... there’s good and bad in every part of society but I know for a fact and from first hand experience some coppers are bastards and the people that are at the top are more corrupt than some criminals as much as some anarchists are scum and are a total joke to every thing they believe and supposedly represent, but I do think and I can’t write off that there are good people on all fronts that are trying to make a difference for the right reasons and won’t ram there opinions down your throat or smash you over the head with a baton.

Husky 540 battery saw is the only one I’ve used that’s in any way comparable to a petrol saw, certainly gets my vote

I dunno pete if you read the lot and that account is what happened then the police are lucky they only got a few cars burnt... I don’t blame them for protesting the bill is total bollox... we are free only to be told what to do ?

@mark Bolam did you get another 125 or 160 ?

Go for it.. like the other poster said the key to longevity on the older wolfs is keeping the blades sharp.. I still use an old 150 that we have owned since 2002 and it’s a good chipper for domestic work.. I’m still not sure about the newer generation chippers it’s only that the 160 looked good when I’ve seen them and they don’t have the ridiculously wide but good infeed like the 230 that I thought they would last longer as they have got rid of the old sealed bearings and ally fans that are week spots on the 125 and 150.

Ideal for domestic work... if its in budget I would look at the 160 which has replaced it in there line up.

Happy hitch ?

Yeah but I keep seeing people wanting to pay 1.5k for them [emoji38] and I’ve sold all mine and the spares

Can you get 200ts ??

I absolutely hated it the first few times I used it and the gear went to the bottom of my back for years ... I got to grips with using it just dead wooding large trees and it just clicked one day and never looked back !

You will find the opposite if you stick at it, I occasionally set my second rope up on a double system and it always reminds me why I climb srt .. too much friction !

Aye it’s brutal, I’m on my knees and now and have a load more tomorrow ... stick me on spikes with a rigging rope any day of the week.... beats climbing on 3” sticks above your anchor point and trying to find a drop zone for them with out them ricocheting off something and smashing targets to bits whilst trying not to tear off any decent remaining growth points...

Cheers mark , I tried not to leave stubs , step cuts ,hangers and tears just for you bud ...Should get on those trees tomorrow or next week on the other side of the church, mum took yours a chopping block and logs this week and said she was in good fettle.

Sycamore I finished off this morning that we started yesterday.... lots of gravestones so lowering tips through Velcro growth with a tag line made it take some time ..4 m reduction so quite a bit of timber ... client still wanted more off but there you go!

Mostly dogs tooth as you can do it standing and are in a better position to move in to your escape route and look up for debris falling.. saying that I bore most trees that are not heavy leaning and usually gun the cut but with out a dogs tooth and most of the time letter box.

I don’t , there is some stupid ideas about at the moment like reintroducing lynx in to keilder forest ... Caledonian forests I could understand but putting them in a mono cultured crop and that keilder has over 30 farms in it and not to mention the thousands of acres bordering it linked to Forrest and wood corridors through the border it’s a bad idea.

If you go with the lock box it wants to be at least half inch thick and double the depth of this one with a 6” width so you don’t get the leverage they did!! and the one in your first photo I would not use as a perfect example either , also make the locking ring itself out of 1” steel or as thick as you can get really

Fact is though that there is a drive way and great big house now in the root zone of tree that is significantly older than them , woulda that not back it up in court... regardless... it’s a fact ?

Scotspine is that you ??? This has got to be a wind up ..... I’d give up now if that took 3 hours and you need to put a board down to stop you putting saws in concrete blocks or the ground!

Was on non ce cougar for a good few years and liked it but it was a hassle getting it in, I’m on my second Hank of this now and have found it a good alternative... a bit thinner....it does not feel in hand like a static rope like say the scion or sterling I have but has its characteristics barely any stretch ... didn’t like the Drenaline for srt to bouncer and still use a short length of non CE cougar if I climb on a double rope but that is used for small trees when it’s a hassle to put on ascenders and set up.

Mewp or base anchor SRT and then tip tie in and work down. What I tend to do is cut down one or two sides keeping a straight line to the bottom with a 2511 or 150, some thing with an accurate but none aggressive cut for around branches or unions but trying to keep the cutting to an absolute minimum so it peels off like a banana skin in one or two big sheets , if you can get ground crew to pull with hooks and rods when it gets to the really thick stuff at the bottom even better ..... then it can be dragged to the chipper in big lumps instead of a million little bits to be cut in to straight strips to make it easy to feed in. This one on Friday took about 10 mins to strip off ... granted it was a fell so you didn’t have to be cautious about damaging the cambium but it went right in too the last few meters of the crown... The worse I’ve done is spending a day and a half on a large multi stemmed ash but was well worth the effort and better results than any reduction or thin.. If the clients happy to look at a load of dead and constantly falling crap for years by all means remove a strip from the base and walk away though!

When the rope wrench first came out it was realised a stiff tether advanced the hitch better when ascending, hence why tethers are wrapped in plastic so it’s an evolution of that.

I really like the x static rope but would order 60m so you can set a retrievable anchor if you do a lot of large trees.