MattyF
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Springs wear out too quickly from my experience, better as a work positioner as it’s designed for.
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It’s bloody heavy but 2.5 or 3 “ at least you can re saw later or have some thing to play with and it’s summer apparently so it won’t distort as much
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Good read mate.
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Sadly though as with most things I can see rules for SRT being written in the future and as rescue plays a big part now in risk assessments on sites, maybe enforced as a suitable solution to the grey areas of SRT... I dunno but it to me is more of thing for folk who like playing with ropes who don’t actually do day in and tree work.
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Don’t like others near my rope with saws and I don’t like the thought of a large falling branch hitting a taught line, I don’t like the forces envolved on an anchor or the extra rope in the system giving you more bounce .. base tying really for me is only an access thing if I can’t isolate anchor or uncertain of its suitability.
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[emoji23]Which end Tommy ?
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Clip the haas in to the hitch climber and not found that problem , has in the bottom , hitch middle and the tether top.
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Dunno sam I hated it that much when I tried it again I went back to the neck tether.
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Not what I was told by tree officers or lecturers and that’s not indicated on the governments web site unless you can show me evidence to the contrary.
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Any tree can have a TPO placed on it ...also at the base of the two major primary limbs isn’t the greatest place to remove a limb,Scott’s pine like all species if an a large limb removed can be colonised by decay fungi if the final cut is poor. Seriously though you actually put advice about driving in steel nails and disallowing access to. Make some ones job un safer, harder and encourage bad pruning and bring those serious harm and damage to there equipment .. [emoji1304]
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Any close up pics of the wounds left?
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Stihl Photo Competition - Win a Model Stihl MS500i
MattyF replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Very few photos with stihls
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It would be considered your fault regardless I think.. they don’t break unless they are incorrectly fitted with wrongly adjusting bars. Sorry that’s probably not what you want to hear.
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Western red cedar or larch have been my two favourite cladding woods, I like Douglas but would use it as a more of a structural Timber.
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Expensively, last oak clad building I saw a lot of it had split and fallen off after 12 months , could not believe the cost either!
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Looks like it would be mint for the right jobs.... do you have to dismount the chipper though for tipping ,You would definitely need a camera to hook it all back up?
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How is the chipper being powered ?? Does it have the worlds longest PTO shaft ?
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Have you lost much cutting speed with the pitch change? Would be nicer for pruning I bet. Run a Sugi on a 540 and although the bar will probably last a life time the nose sprockets will not , got about 2 weeks from the original so although it’s a big outlay I would get a spare nose sprocket with a new bar just incase if you go sugi and then you could of brought 2-3 techlites.
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I did just have to google do mandrakes really scream ! I wonder where that comes from.
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Looks cracking any way.. I like milling yew , find it pretty stable.
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How do you get on with drying the cherry rough? I’ve found it one of the worse , only one I’ve not had go crazy was dead on the stump but I picked up a nice stick the other day and thinking of leaving it for a few years before sawing.
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That’s got some interesting colours for yew , a lot darker brown colour , last two I’ve had on the mill have come out purple and white.
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Looks great mate , always freaked me out the mandrake in pans labyrinth. weird roots!
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Zigzag with Chicane or Rope Wrench Hitch System
MattyF replied to tree_stooge's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
Depends how you like climbing normally day to day , I have tried the akimbo and zz and most other mechanical ascenders and I always go back to a hitch climber VT type hitch and wrench .. nothing feels as fluid as a well tuned hitch for me personally. That said the akimbo was good , although it didn’t like dirt or wet ropes but mine was pre production and the new ones look a little altered. Never liked the ZZ for any application really. -
Thought the same , weird how the roots stop dead in line with the track, usually big beech I’ve seen wind thrown have meripilus but If it was meripilus you would expect a lot smaller root plate.. Looks like the roots along the track have been severed almost? Have you had utilities put in ?
