MattyF

Ssssh bill we don’t need any more jobs for the boys who undoubtedly will be reading this. iPaf course I thought was all right ,not much covering trees but then it was all about setting up and positioning mewps which is what you need to know.... there are enough tickets for saw use !

Close on power but the weight thing is what has sold the saw to me , an extra kilo is a lot to be swinging in the woods all day.. so in that they are miles apart and as said this stihl feels like a husky!

I did see a system on Treekits training days joe but can’t find any links for you ... could you just not if you choose a decent anchor point transfer them on to your harness with a webbing sling?

So the 462 ... what a belter!! this is the first stihl in a long time I have enjoyed using. Engine wise it feels very close to a husky in revs close to a 560’s power bands and throttle response maybe but with the torque of a 70cc saw.. ergonomically it does still feel like a stihl but a lot lighter than any 70cc saw we have used but all in I think it’s quite an incredible package...and I’m a husky man through and through!

About 15 m.. I’m pretty lazy like and clip my foot ascender and haas on to traverse but it works pretty mint and quick for big gaps.. longer the better as I’ve found if I’ve advanced it’s can be easier to come back in double rope if the branches you have advanced too don’t allow an easy flick off for the hook.. keeps as many options open as possible.

Armour prus is good and worth the money , liros is cheap and works well with XTC but but you can burn it out on one climb...

How big is your big?? 12” or 36”plus ?? By the sounds of your experience don’t do it over 12” until you have the saw time and experience to know how different timbers behave. A If I was on a big limb especially if your in experienced,I would forget the big saw small bar idea .. not meeting or matching cuts with a lot of weight behind is a good way of messing up badly... do go in with a saw you know is sharp and capable of cutting fast though. Positioning is every thing to keep you out of the way and insure you can see what is going on to assess your situation ... the advice on saws getting caught in big limbs is spot on , hopefully your using a tear away saw lanyard rated at breaking away under pressure and not some home made super strop I’ve seen lads using on there big saws in trees. I would opt for putting a gob in the limb facing towards the side and ground in that has the weight and wind in your favour... not too shallow or wide ,Or use a V cut but be careful of cutting the bottom v for compression the same goes if your going to gob ... It’s a hard thing to give advice on as every tree , limb , and cut will be different but don’t push your luck ! Personally cutting long level weighted limbs is better done in smaller bits or rigged as stihl says with a balancer .... lot of things can go and will go wrong.

Another thing to remember is with a vt you will get a bit of sit back if tied long ... it looks like the hitch is not gripping but it’s just the knot stretching to stop. As rich said though once you have the habit of dressing the hitch (pushing up) sorted it becomes second nature and you don’t even notice doing it.

Is that rope xtc ?? Try 8mm liros or if you can find any 8 mm armour prus

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F253842651905 Would be my choice.

It was good when I sold it.. most of it was OEM though!

Sold mine , hopefully never see it or the guy again ... to be fair it was not a bad saw but you have too many any way bill!

Sold mine , hopefully never see it or the guy again ... to be fair it was not a bad saw but you have too many any way bill!

It’s lower tier for Wöod chip and logs, I had ours checked last Friday and could not use the recycling centre unless it was produced ... is a gardener getting rid of soil ?? Any building waste is regarded as higher.

One got my hand crushed on a screw splitter broke some fingers but it crushed and split a ring imbedding it in my finger , then it started swelling! Not as bad as degloving but I would never wear one again. I’ve had eye brow ,ear and nose rings pulled out by branches as well so stopped wearing them. Jewellery does not have much place in this job.. be careful of long hair getting caught in hitches as well !

I did find the sweetest line but treestuff stopped selling it! Found the stiff line good but expensive and broke to easily

I’m looking for a braided line with a mono core ... what’s on the market ??

Mines the same , the old one I had last time I did that job with you near Alnwick was the same also ! Seems to get a lot worse when the Tank gets to about 1/4 full... which isn’t long ! Adjusting seems to fix for about 10 minutes.

You get more fatigued using a hand saw than one of those micro toppers that are now available ..I used silkys for years production climbing street trees and in domestic Arb and I just find now they aggravate tennis elbow and repetitive strain injury’s and if you have a lot of cuts even if small you feel fatigued , tbh I think you can be more dangerous with a handsaw than a chainsaw too.

C mon Mick America sat on the fence in WW2 in Europe for the first 3 years of the war until they realised they could make more money feeding the allied war machine .. a lot of American money was invested in Nazi germany. .. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar That’s just one example !

Made it up a couple of years ago and was going to refine it a bit more but it’s about 30”which I find perfect for a loosely tied long VT or akimbo but l it can be adjusted so will work better on heavier devices like the bulldog bone or hitch hiker and is also open so can be unclipped and removed with out taking your lid off !! , found some of them too small and really didn’t like squeezing them off my head ! Next to a HB own brand in the photo.

250 -300 quid probs about 5-6 tonne at around £40 a tonne would be my guess.

Bottom hitch Middle haas Top tether Rope wrench use does not feel quite right with out one !

For the price of them dude it’s probably worth buying a couple.. but I probably would not miss them in any way...I still have my topping strops for that matter ! Thing is with the rings it’s more of the hype shite that goes with it that bothers me , X this and that like your gonna be some kind of X games Jeff capes X man super hero ... f&@k off ! stick a few videos of some one dumping half ton loads on them like super hero and you have your self a product it’s like turning a job in to some special event is exactly what this industry does not need.

Do not really get the whole ring thing myself ... it to me seems like doing a time warp back 20 years to when we all used topping strops, to me they offer no advantage what so ever in rigging although I use the safe bloc quite a bit now that is worth investing in... my rigging rings rarely come out to play