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That’s an impressive feat , I’ve never seen a bar snap ! Bend in half almost but never snap!

I would not put a solid nose bar on it… even the big GB on my 88 has a sprocket but I think it would very noticeably sap power out the 500i

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Having been on site witnessing 4 major saw cut accidents all but this one where on the ground within 20 seconds , young lad only stayed there in the tree as he thought I was going to shout at him because he was doing the exact opposite of what I told him to do as soon as my back was turned… I would estimate that at only about 30 -40 seconds… Guy I’ve seen put an old metal 020 when I first started in his face was on the ground from 14 meters in about 5 seconds ! The only people I’ve ever seen need to be aerial rescued have been stuck new climbers.

Change down a rope diameter or miss a hole Joe.. older dirty wet ropes it will give it a lot more friction too. I find you have to be pretty consistent with it loading and it can catch you out either way with not enough or too much if you have not picked it up for a while or your ropes soaking wet.

I disagree mate , I’ve done some proper stretchy trees that would have ripped the rigging points out with out the safe block a lot and that is coming in to play a lot more dismantling half dead ash trees over targets.. also a lot of stuff that has required pre tensioning and lifting, mostly because I only get the jobs others would walk away from and never the easy cream as there are probably more chainsaw operators per square mile in the county around keilder so the easy stuff is dealt with usually for firewood but both devices are a must have for me but most take downs could be done with out either and basic crotch rigging.

Two climbers in one tree, as you talked about earlier most will thin their climbing route , come back in 3- 5 years and you will see massive reactive growth poking out of the areas that have been thinned a lot more than the areas that have not. This is a birch I reduced in 2014 , not thinned at the time but there is minimum reactive growth ,10 years worth of regrowth at a max of 3ft maybe 1ft in areas that had not been hit harder.. I know if it had been thinned there would have been a lot stronger regrowth and epicormic now dominating its current shape. I actually talked him out of rereducing it now and retaining its dead wood for his garden birds… and only reducing the one he wanted doing on the end… I’ll come back in another ten years and give you an update 😂

I can imagine Stuart , used to frequent the American forums before at arb talk and that was there view too. i think dan Maynards last post proves the point im trying to make.

Our 45hp AGT has front linkage and PTO although currently bypassed as it hydraulic and leaking and is 1000rpm so not suitable for a winch… I’m pretty sure it was fitted for a front mower. Im sure they will do a slower hydraulic pto though but I think ultimately I would replace the whole lot with a hydraulic winch, the other thing is towing a chipper you are still limited as the wheels are too narrow for proper off road work.

Runners and cyclist, babes…folk who have been walking the same path for the last 50years and won’t deviate straight through the work zone are another. I find doing TM jobs the worse though , for abuse and threats, I had one tracksuit wearing knacker light up his BMW tyres when the light went green and the car went side ways past us in the working lane , I’d just come out the tree a gave him the hand wank signal , he stops , gets out and gets right in my face yelling do you know who i am , a babe ? Is my reply and I unclip my topper off the belt waiting for him to go, he looks at me and says what you gong to do with that hit me with it? … I just looked at him and said nothing but was expecting to have have to crank it and wave it around raving furiously reving but luckily I think he realised the predicament of fighting a chainsaw and went back to his drug dealer bmw and went away … which is probably fr the best as it probably would not of fired up anyway being a husky.

Gotta be honest I don’t thin my climbing routes for all the reasons why I don’t agree with thinning. French and any one else can crack on but that’s not what I’m telling my clients to do to trees unless they specifically want it, after watching the trees my self and father have worked on ,that’s 40+ years of being able to see results of thinning and different types of pruning and seeing how they react has drawn me to that conclusion. That is a very nice reduction, just over thinned in my view.

Where are you Lewis in the country

I’ll see what yew there is mate

That’s the winner I think.

I seem to remember there was a buyer wanting sawn timber on the forum ages ago but can’t find the post… does any one have any idea who it was? I have a large collection of timber that has been air drying for 5+ years mostly oak , some band sawn ,some Alaskan but the roof of the barn has collapsed and it needs to go asap! Brown oak, burr oak , spalted beech, olive ash, yew, burr maple.. I can move in to one side of a log barn but will need to be gone in the next month or two as next years firewood needs to be in there. Any pointers would be much appreciated!

Staple some straw and trim it instead .. I dunno mate ,I may have a play for you tomorrow night and put some pics up , it should not involved any back combing, as the drill effectively makes a line and does the work for you but keeps the straw in place on the string so it won’t / can’t move … you would then have to staple the lines you have made to the roof.

So you would take some string , a bit more than double the length you need , I would take a nail on the far end of the string lay the straw along the string in a thin layer, fold the string back so the straw is sandwiched and then tie off on to a hook in a drill , spin the drill and you have all the straw all fixed in the string. Lay it down to your roof and brush it flat , repeat a few times and it should look like a thatched roof… maybe the matting is a better idea 😂 I think if you had a play around you could get the effect you wanted with the dubbing and once you find what you want it’s actually a pretty quick method.

Giant dubbin loop using string and straw in a drill , combed back layered and brushed flat.

I think it’s finished I’m afraid … last years constant wet weather was ideal for a lot of pathogens already a threat to trees but this one I’ve seen take a lot of them, including one of my favourite that my father had grown from seed last year sirococus blight is worth a google , forum won’t let me post links any more for some reason.

No…and I think any one who really wants to use an old saw for actual work is an idiot, chainsaw use seriously damages our health especially exposed for long periods, why would you want to use machines that have dangerous levels of vibrations and end up crippled with arthritis is beyond me.

Came back around ten to bin the day and do my tax return, just thought I’d nip up the hill behind the photo and bring down two lambs, me and Lauren then watched bits of the ridge disappear then the whole lot lift up, break in two and drop down again … then bits of green house start lifting off and up the hill and yard ..amazingly barely any trees on the drive blew though.

Nothing worse than crap boots ! Tbh your spoilt for choice , you can have good all round boots or boots I would say that are better suited to spikes and removals to virtual climbing boots ideal for climbing on pruning work and long ascents on big trees… stay away from the oregons though ffs !

10 mm English braids was my go too light rigging rope for years, I’ve gone back to 12mm as it’s bright orange .. it’s a bit heavier for negative rigging and isn’t like cheese wire.. although I do miss the 10 at times it wasn’t visible enough for special needs groundys.

Good old labour had promised to make it £400 if elected as apparently that’s what police say it’s costing them to process each licence.. so it’s a better result than I thought would happen, although no one else seems to agree 😂

And your point ?