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RC 2000 is almost as good as a bollard and nice and easy to set up , maybe a little cheaper than the p500 ,I would definitely take one over a port a wrap for serious rigging. You definitely can’t go wrong with the rc2001 for a fixed bollard . you have the choice of changing to rubber mounts , I’ve rigged out some very big trees and lumps with them and it was my go to device before I got a Hobbs. The pinnacle of lowering is the GCRS but it’s expensive and not as robust as the hobbs , well in my hands any way...

I do prefer the isc locking over the dmm , maybe not as smooth but I trust it more, once it’s in its in, once or twice I have had the dmm open...but the dmm is far sexier and takes a lot more KN so I would not hesitate to replace with another, I just really check over them once set and I’ve not had an issue.

Haha , or you can slang that to show is your Pauline then .... Pauline Fowler = big hairy growler.

If starting from scratch a Transit and chipper will see through most jobs and just make you more money than any other set up , to be honest I would probably stick with that and hire in any thing else as it’s a never ending slippery slope with the exception of a 4x4 to price work and use the chipper off road ,once you have made a bit more then you are on too the endless slippery slope in to grinders,tractors , loaders, tracked chippers ,unimogs ,big F off Chipper’s ,diggers and any thing else I missed that will rinse you of any cash and keep you in the bank managers pocket but will always be keep you thinking if I had that one last tool life would be easier and I’ll make more money [emoji23]

Simples then sell more than 2m cubes a time , more profit in a day than doing the usual 1.5m loads we do. Will be impossible for us to reach the 20% in the north ,the logs will reach what’s in the environment, we can get them down to 15% in summer but it just goes back up in winter to around 20% and that’s with two years or more storage and then 10-8 months in a barn.

Only grief my 05 gave me was clutches , retired it this year with a 178k on it ,chassis was solid and engine and box still fine but sills where not! Just used as a yard log truck now.

It’s gone... along with half the husky range too.

Yes boss. [emoji1303]

I use this Oregon one for my milling chains , have never used it for anything else but I would go with caution with a bench grinder, very easy to overheat the cutters and blue a chain, I take my time and have a pot of oil brush it on every tooth each grind once or twice ... but then I’m pretty ocd about Milling chains being absolutely spot on to avoid lots of unnecessary sanding later and no dives in cuts.

Thanks, I will get some one to check it out ,the relief valve was a pita a few years back , I could of messed it up further by playing with it or I have just knocked the pump reversing on full lock off the trailer draw bar putting in a fracture... which does not make sense as I recently had the whole lot moved in to a better position to prevent this.

There is a parker part number on it but if you type it in and do a search it comes up with something completely different!

Thanks John was looking at eBay prices for similar items and a lot cheaper but have no idea what the flow rate , cc rate and max pressure is ! , every thing has come and broke down at once !! would there be any advantage to fitting a higher flow rate pump ?

Any body know what the pump flow rate for the pump is or have a link for a direct replacement? Keep cracking the backs of the pump every other year and have three broken ones sitting in the workshop.... Wilson’s want £500 + for a new one !

Think the secret is right there to not getting tangles , two bridges and two swivels !

Think you have a lot more to give us reg you probably have more experience of different trees and climates that only a few in the world have ...That is some thing else at that height , tallest conifers I’ve worked on where 41 metre silver firs and I probably dropped 15m out just because it was so bloody tiring and I was getting chicken and out of my comfort zone at around 25m dunno if I could of coped with that height! Your bloody right on the ropes as well , had too get in to the top of a wind blown beech a few weeks back so at around 70ft I had tried to transition in to the tree , the weight of two full climbing lines against you and the throw hook line felt like it was dislocating your hips with the weight!

I think the problem is with Great Britain is it’s wet ,thousand of years ago most of our countryside was bog , it’s been drained off for agriculture and forestry and housing, probably a lot more efficiently in recent years , they are still ploughing up ancient pasture for arable and whilst the forestry commission is being a bit more thoughtful with its drainage the likes of tilhill , euro forest and now by his comments big j [emoji38] want more upland planted with spruce are not... I was watching the forestry drains on the other side of the burn at the weekend , they where like violent rapids and cascading waterfalls resulting in this , this was some of the last FC land brought in compulsory purchase and was only planted in the 80’s back then and still until recently there was big grants for land reclamation.... all that water has to go somewhere ! Whilst I agree with planting upland smashing up drains and blocking ditches to create habitat , planting spruce In it is not the answer.

I think from the blue book assessment it was demonstrate the use of cuts and situations used. From memory and it was around 25 years ago ! For my particular course which overall was a year long and went from one week practical to one week theory followed by nptc assessments. I can only remember it coming up In an afternoon in the class room. I think overall on our training is it shows you the principles but as you know you can not teach every type of Wood and situation that just comes from experiences and I’m still learning every day even after all that time. I guess ultimately they don’t want to teach cuts that can be unpredictable as a single cut will not always tear the same way... unless you know something I don’t.

What is he teaching though ? By the book tree work.. which is good if you do not have a Clue , how many times do you see home owner or hack specials with great big tears down the collars and flush cuts, teach them properly and they can expand from there.. but you are flogging a dead horse Daniel as single cuts are taught and need to be demonstrated in Britain for NPTC assessments which if you don’t have you won’t get a job climbing for a commercial company. I still can’t believe you don’t know who jo hedger is ...

I was taught to straight cut through in rigging if the conditions suited at merrist wood back in 95 so it is or was taught in British Arb colleges.. to be fair I think at that time it was renowned for being one of the best colleges for arboriculture in the world and had some very good staff. I think also straight through cuts where in the original nptcs for arial cutting so it’s nothing new say us brits ... or the old ones anyway!

Ah wey Paul I was just getting in the practice of it became compulsory, I’m aware and used two ropes or three when needed but i needed to spend spend a few weeks solid doing it my self with every task on two ropes and anchors to see if it really was as shite as I imagined it would be. So basically the outcome is every one and myself included got hysterical about it and nothing has changed , I mean most if not all of us climb on long strops for some traversing and all saw positioning and use back up lines for aerial rescue so effectively nothing has changed at all ?

There was absolutely nothing wrong though with the climbing aspect as we knew and used it, it fell apart when people are incapable of selecting safe anchors more importantly a large proportion of those accidents the ones where ropes where too short or they did not strop in to make cuts will never be advoided because that’s just Darwinism... I’ve already had a serious near miss in two ropes with 400kg of beech in my lap but that will probably be down to not know the latest wah regs hey!

Overwhelmingly disappointed and frustrated that it’s come to this , most of us know this is the wrong decision.

Not sure yet bill that’s a good question ! I noticed they had new stickers about X series so maybe there is a new carb, I think mine needs a retune already,the low jet definitely needs slightly backing off as there is some over run but it’s probably so ingrained in to me to start it that way it happens without thinking now.

These should be banned ! Shembiner XL Chainsaw Hook Climbing Arborist Karabiner Tree Surgeon ROVER.EBAY.COM CMI Shembiner. A light weight, aluminium milled karabiner for any tool that you need to get out of your way minus the clumsy gate. With ZERO moving parts the Shembiner its pretty dang easy to put that tool away with gloves on.

Same as Mark , only saw hook I would use after getting metal hooks caught in rigging lines... I’d rather snap a caritool than get dragged out a tree.