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I had a go on a stihl 241 and was pleasantly surprised a little screamer but I object to buying stihl if I can help it .. would love to see a 40cc husky pro saw but tbh I would probably buy one of there electric saws any how if that was what I needed.

I could be wrong but that figure 9,600rpm I would of thought is when it achieves max power.. I’m sure the max rpm is going to be higher.... I will try and stick one on a tacho and see.

Carbon geckos are what I keep going back too.

It looks quite a unit on there rupe ! Could not get on with the kiwi climbers version , even drilled a hole for a small Binet so it would not jump out but fiddling about with it when you wanted the rope was not really working for me.. would be interested to see how you get on with this version.

Do you climb on a tree motion mark?? I took some of the tubing and elastic they give you for gear loops you will never need and took the sheath off some 10mm Prussik cord and put that on the out side.. works a treat.

What HP is your tractor towing the current set up John, and how does it handle it ? We are having a think about a swap around at the moment , whilst our 8tonne trailer on the 6400 is great in the woods for thinning and perfectly balanced in that respect ,neither the tractor or trailer are up to much towing a load back.

Can’t wait to see what’s replacing it!

0.4 was the number they have given to take annually.. tbh it’s gone very quiet over the whole scheme.. this is the kind of opinion of sheep massacre locally that is predicted ! https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/lynx-sheep-massacre-raises-fresh-13877945.amp

I can’t see it happening my self , most of my neighbours are up in arms about it! And pushing for it to not happen I’m kind of on the fence , our grazing is open to forest on all 4 sides and we have issues already with badgers and foxes taking lambs or wounded sheep but the deer numbers are reasonable . keilder is better managed though than a lot of areas for its deer despite being almost wilderness.. working in some grotty woods outside Newcastle this week and the deer are out of control , so are the doggers and rubbish in the woods as well though, Possibly this would be better grounds for lynx where the public have an issue with culling of Deere and letting nature take its course , Tree stock is suffering un yet they won’t shoot deer!

Right there peasgood we are surrounded by them, but they know what the electric fence around the coup is ! I don’t think it should of been banned , Well apart from the practice of blocking off bolt holes and sets should of been but survival of the fittest is how nature works , man has eradicated the next natural predators in the chain. Will be interesting to see if they bring back lynx in to keilder forest and what happens... wolves would of been more interesting!

Errrrm ....I failed physics mate ... but that’s around the basic principles of what I’m aware of and I could be wrong , its like a 100kg lump with a bottom friction Device puts that at 200kg of force on the top point .. maybe more if you take in to account the shock loading ...I think some of the American riggers have it all worked out, maybe the Tree buzz or house is worth a visit and search ? .. all I know is it significantly lessens the forces instead of doubling them... which for me on a dead on defective stem is better than a conventional pulley device set up if you have no choice but to shock load.

Aye mark the alpha dog fox is boss.. when I lived down south In the woods next to a big pheasant pen the keeper of the shoot was an ex marine who had been in the Korean War , an entire encyclopaedia of anything country and life related .. I told him I had seen this big dog fox the size of an Alsatian close to the house and near the pheasant pens and he should shoot it... he looked at me funny and his reply was this , if you shoot that big fox you will get a hundred more come in and take his territory, he is the boss he controls every things around here. So I didn’t shoot the fox but some one else did ... within a week we had the chickens gone , the fox went through wire ripping itself apart in desperation to get them.. another keeper locally reckoned he had shot around 100 foxes in the same week trying to move in...that big old dog fox whilst he still had strength had kept out all the young pretenders .. personally I have no bother with fox hunting, in nature the weakest get taken out and a pack of hounds will never catch a heathy fox upsetting natures balance... predators keep a balance doing what they do.

The main benefit as I’ve already explained is about forces .. a friction device on the bottom of the spar with a pulley doubles the load on the top pulley , not good on a defective spar ... this is where imo the safe bloc comes in.

Right there , out of a trip of nostalgia I visited some cattle sheds I had seen my father birth a calf when I was about 8 ... they had been bull dozed and in its place a great big automated piggery ... I looked inside and saw at least 3 dead animals , the building breathed with the sun direction and dropped Feed at certain times of the day , the whole thing was automated ... I became a Vegy for three years after .. now I do eat meat but want to know it’s source... and to be honest would rather rear or shoot what I eat altogether.. no excuses really the whole industry is unethical. Had plenty of encounters with foxes over the years and most of them not nice but one interesting one was last year when I was wading in the North tyne fishing approaching a well known salmon lie and I clocked a fox on the other bank.. he was not so much watching me but what I was doing , kind of like teasing a dog with food watching it’s head movements it was watching my casting and what I was doing , spent a good 40 mins with him watching me until dog walkers came and he disappeared.. amazed me his brazenness to stand out in the open and show behaviour I would expect of my dog.

Turn and a quarter should be safe if there is no air leak with stihl carbs or copies I guess ? Always set mine to that.

Just Allen keys I thought.

Did think the same !

I would just use normal fuel , I do not think larger carbs are as prone to petrol issues as the smaller ones in two strokes... obviously stale fuel is not great so I would probably drain it if it’s been in there for months to be safe... it would be cheaper to get it gold plated than run it on aspen though.

So your using the haas as well as a foot ascender? It should work ,mine system will tend efficiently at around 2-3m. The trick is and it’s not some thing I do often my self unless there is a lot of thriffy growth in the way messing up my ascent by taking weight off the tail is tie a heavy throw bag on the tail so it’s hanging a few feet off the ground and keeping it taught... failing that I’ll get the groundy to keep the tail tight for a few metres , it think the technique will come the more you do it with out realising... I’m not sure there is one tbh just practice until you get to where it should be with a throw bag on the tail. What rope are you using ?

Pics or it didn’t happen vesp... nice story though.

The climber in Vespasians vid .. the legendary Graeme Mcmahon Top friction lessons the forces on the spar , if your using a friction device on the bottom your doubling the forces at the top... I have a safe block but pretty much only use it for defective trees , most of the rigging I do I will use a block pulley as it’s usually in tight situations and the ability to pull branches off targets or pre tension lines in necessary. I did a job recently though where it was a proper hike to the job a big tree over a wall and none of us could be bothered to carry anything!!it felt invigorating using natural crotch rigging for the first time in years but worrying about the damage on my £150 rigging line !

I do have a tacho now so will try and find out what it should be and try again , thing screams but not sure if that’s the none oem exhaust.

Really nice that james [emoji1303]

Found a few bits of maple , maybe too small ?

What is the deal with rippled sycamore? I’ve logged up loads as always thought it was pretty worthless but some one told me how much they had got for a stick a while back and I shuddered!