MattyF

Wise words Steve , you can be a damn good arborist but if you can’t run a business it’s pretty hopeless from experience! It was never about money for me which is stupid and I made a lot of mistakes, was good at getting work booked in but I’m crap at dealing with people , not ruthless enough when it comes to money!

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It fitted straight on ,no mods I watched the echo dealer fit it as he wanted to see if it would.

Stihl Set up is working well, could not get on with the echo bar after using 150’s ... target pruning is spot on again now we made a swap.

Better than swarfega ?? I’ve had my arms raw to get the sap off with gritty swarfega stuff, mind you that’s cutting in spring /summer when they are not dormant and the saps flowing like a giant tube of glue off the stems.

Tuxedo ... I will try and separate my work clothes, newer ones for Arb work and being in customers gardens and wrecked up stained black with Sitka ones for forestry. You certainly never want your best rope for dismantling them!

He seems to have built a huge tent acquired a few more tractors and diggers and given up learning English ... that’s about all I could gather of his u tube Chanel... I gathered all that info by watching a few minutes of videos you can’t understand in which it was only out of sheer morbid curiosity to try to find understand wtf is going on ! ..... just for you stubby

Pete washes off?? You will never remove Sitka sap!! I don’t mind Sitka as long as the hairy outside trees are weighted in the right direction.. just don’t wear your favourite saw trousers and best jacket.

Lucky you don’t have the sneaky forestry ditches bill!

Find that clipping back in to the tether/ harness coming back in arm over arm and pulling nothing just using your arms for kind of pull and balance the slack falls through and you can come back in faster , partly why I prefer a neck tether as it allows more movement for this but it’s still not great with it on going out but takes seconds to clip on although it works crap with the zig zag.... as Mark says I think the Chester is the way forward with the RW/zig zag combo same as the BDB and hitch hiker from my experience.

Not expecting to find the felling bar I left on site yesterday for a while.

Company’s are crying out for full time climbers there is a serious lack of them , maybe paye is the way forward.

I drive a landy mewp and It’s the rattling back window and inability to move my right arm that can bring a beautiful forest drive to near madness! I’m still tempted to buy another swb pick up but the prices are crazy now.

Safe bloc and double pulley rigging would be a good idea for the negative rigging. I still find conventional rigging with a pre tensioned line and a cradle barely puts any load on the tree unlike Butt or tip rigged sections. Have rigged out plenty of kretz beech in the past and never had one fail, my view is by the time you have got to the point where heavy negative rigging may be needed most of the Tree will be on the deck any way decreasing the chance of leverage failure ,just going carefully at it there should be no problems... I suppose if you can get a mewp in though it would be the safer bet .. and easier every time.

Thought the moon had become a fire ball in the first pic! Glad they where of use to you and ended up something cool.

I looked in to buying a non moted van the other day about 200 miles away , I could find nothing in the law that says as long as your driving the vehicle to a pre booked mot it being on the road would be illegal , there was nothing at all on distance ... apparently if you stop and buy some tabs or shopping you could be charged so the thought of driving it from bath to the north tyne for a pre booked mot seemed a bit daunting but would of been cheaper than recovery.

How do you find the Samson rich?. I’m using non CE cougar blue with the usual wrench hitch climber combo with the hitch which is armour Pruss ,Tied long and as a loose VT as possible, armour Prussik is the only stuff to use imo as it just wont burn out and tolerates long super fast free fall descents no bother and does not bind and self tends lush. I will try and use a retrievable anchor consisting of an alpine butterfly and ring or the pinto method with a dmm tri lock biner over a base anchor where possible , don’t like the bounce or working with the potential to cut or have bits bounce of the line with the base anchor but they can be handy though if you want to set a few natural redirects to work an isolated bit of crown first from the ground or on the way up then set a tip tie I point or just can’t get a clean throw to set a retrievable anchor... having two throw bags on your line to manipulate a clean rope route is essential though.

Do you have any pics of this happening with simulated chainsaw coronet tear cuts David or does it only work with actual tears ?

Damn them oily fingers !

Can’t knock a transit , all I’ve used in Tree work , my 05 has clocked nearly 180k only thing it’s cost me is a solid dmf last year and some replacement pulleys and belts brakes and oil changes , it’s solid underneath ... been one of the most economic vehicles I’ve ever ran in terms of repairs and has made me money ,can’t bring myself to replace her and probably won’t until the engine goes.

540??

Pretty sure the 550’s will fit.

Euro seem to be straighter than the F.C when buying timber, FC have dropped us right in as we where buying 300+tonne a year from them and they made all these promises saying they will always have timber for us to be told last month they have none and there will be none in the future either ... not a good moment , record timber price sales in keilder have happened over the last few weeks and there are big buyers seriously short , I can see it all imploding.

Will the axle fit the stein?

Looking at it again it has completely different axles!