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Just changed the bearings so will have to wait a while for that but it was a good set up. I thought for some reason you could just change the standard finger type teeth for a different type ie yellow jackets.

Thanks josh , do you know if you can keep the standard Vermeer head on and use multi tips? I have used one when I worked at mat bells and was impressed but it’s been a long while. Was thinking maybe you could just change the teeth instead of the whole set up? I seem to remember his ate bearings.

Any one ?!

Looking at replacing the standard teeth on our 252 any recommendations or pros and cons of swapping over to green teeth or the yellow jackets ?

They usually end up on speed lines or saws after retired from climbing for me.

Aye sitting in a local pub and one of the big forestry guys was saying how many ash there was between here and a local town and how he was going to fell them all.. I thought a few things... You ignorant $€\>>....... Felling hardwoods is nothing like sitting in your air con cab felling Sitka even the lads he uses for doing the outside trees his harvesters can’t do will struggle on with some of these gnarly superb examples of ancient ash. I can not genuinely believe people’s selfishness for money at times especially when they consider them selfs country men who’s all pursuits out side of work , fishing and shooting involve being surrounded by these trees.

But mark they look like they are made from the same materials as the faltimer [emoji23], I bet the metal rods poke out the side in a week but I’ll wager you that for two pints.... after convincing bill he really needed a faltimer in his life , then I lost mine to a tub grinder both of us ended up in gustharts and he had the last one .... so ended up with a courant ....the courant does not fit too great in my kit bag although is not a bad design it does not fold down in wind , it just flips over dumping line every where, I still refuse to get another Stein though...

I did try the steins as back up cubes and they are not too cheap , did find they had a habit of falling apart quick ! 6 years is good [emoji1303]

Aye bill but that faltimer will last you a life time or till it gets misplaced or stolen ! Gonna try one out for that price.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F401358885647 Any body tried these ? Looks worth a try.

[emoji23] was definitely not after Paul.

Hi Paul ,it was a stem definitely under 75 mm at 1.5 m so would not of even been covered even in a conservation area, my thinking was I was doing it a favour after crushing it rolling an ash top out on to it , I don’t think you could even see it from the tree. As it was an LA job any way I think they where just making a point about being more careful.. Maybe I was not paying enough attention to peter Annette’s lecturers back in 95 ! But I’m sure he said also that any planted trees/shrubs in a TPO area are protected but I imagine Chris has probably a lot deeper more recent knowledge than me on the subject so stand to be corrected.

My only experience of near prosecution was damaging a hazel reducing an ash in a woodland TPO i made the point that its a shrub and the TO made the point that I needed his permission to have cut the stem off I had damaged which led me to my reply. I was kind of under the impression after that any woody plant was protected all young trees, hazel shrubs etc.

Interesting because I’m pretty sure I was told the exact opposite when I studied tree law. Are blanket TPO’s and woodland TPOs different things just to clarify?

Looks very nice [emoji1303]

You must of forgotten the important bits then...

Kind of agree with huck I’m afraid .. I’m not sure how coming to the conclusion that was expertly rigged or cut has happened,in that vid we have a guy dropping stuff 2 metres or more negative rigging.. creating loads of unnecessary force on a already compromised tree also which is the best way to snap a rope , damage a block and strop..or rip out a stem I just didn’t get it sorry... every time I negative rig I make it an absolute priority to keep the block as close to the cut as possible to minimalise these forces.. Looks like he could not be bothered or could not tie it on higher to lesson those forces.. which one I don’t know. Yeah I’m one of these who will pick things apart but I have seen and done snapped out rigging points, ropes and damaged blocks doing exactly that in the vid so I’m feel I can lay that opinion out to save save others from making the same mistakes which could be very costly to life and property and reputation.

Got to be a wind up .. that’s some of the most appalling cutting and rigging I’ve seen in a while.. I’m out.

Both make processing 100 times easier especially if you load the deck with a crane.

As mark says a TPO covers any woody plant so wether it’s a tree or shrub is irrelevant..you can’t touch it end of ... unless you have obtained written permission.

Clutch springs ?

I don’t like emergency work for this reason!

Just a tune up really mate.. last time it was really badly out of tune...that’s what my invoice says ! Suppose I need to get myself an echo tuning screw driver! You forget after using auto tune that they do need a bit of adjustment now and then.. used to have those orange stihl screw drivers hidden every where when running 020’s!

Not overly impressed with the 2511 carb though...great saws I’ve owned 3 now but they require some fettling which I leave to my dealer.

Is that her flag pole?