Mangoes

Thanks for the heads up. Cant be pointing my finger though. Ive been quite absent as well.

I would be very curious to the alternatives you would suggest.

A sh!tload is ten loads. It follows the metric system.

I thought there was a silent letter in the name but it was pronounced 'Masham'. Nice village, visited the brewery and market day there in 2004.

Is Meashem the home of Black Sheep Ale?

So you have a back plate that looks like Swiss Cheese too!

Catching up on this thread. Alot of good work here. A note of defence for Greg Good I was told that he profits $200 per GRCS (slightly lower than the $300 Frans has mentioned, but might account for the bulk sale difference) and by that token he is giving away his intellectual property. The man works to better the industry, does alot of training in rigging, and will share anything he knows about tree work. Drives a Mini not a Mercedes. For all that have some homemade devices, did you machine the holes for the baseplate screws yourselves or did you have a professional machinist do the task? For my mini GRCS I did my own and found the task very daunting. As far as value and return......meh....no sense arguing about it. Those that don't see its value, it won't fit their 'formula' for tree work, those that see a potential will try it and alter their 'formula' to make it efficient for them. Personal taste. Anecdote: pretty scetchy, but pretty amazing, watching a mentor use 2 GRCS to lift a 32" DBH Norway Spruce out of a ravine in 1 piece. The winch itself didn't have enough power, but when you put a 44:1 winch on the tail of a 5/8 line used to create a 5:1 which is subsequently on a 3/4" line used to create a 3:1 attached to the 3/4" pull line, you find yourself generating alot of force (harp not on me, I know systems were overloaded, this mentor was smart, but also like to push limits)

Hefty chunks w/that 071. I have a 081 on a 95 International, and I will pick from the tree, but the pucker factor is high. Prefer to pick up from the ground for sake of confidence.

There needs to be more women in the industry. I have had a great number of opportunities to encourage a few aspiring women Arborists (a girl doesn't have to climb to prove adept as an Arborist) in my past experience as an instructor. As an istructor at the college I had more males enter the course, physically unable to climb, than females......food for thought. True physique will be a factor, but whatever I'm not a big guy and I have to work smarter than someone like Ed might have to. Now to the comments of class and such, less sensitivity is in order. Humans classify and categorize, our judgment and scrutinizing nature. It is why we have Latin nomenclature. We classify sex, attitudes, skills, language, skin colour, country of origin, religion, sexual orientation, financial class etc etc etc. Some of it is negative, some of it is good all of it is genetic and subconscious.

Old school or new, the bigger the Mental Toolbox the more opportunity to apply a technique for greater efficiency.

Bartlett

Just occured to me......Florida?? as in Dotpalm. The right colours aren't they now?

Nope, still in the T.

19500lb GVW Steel body and still able to put 8k in the back. Truck was assembled by a local fabricator/builder. I LUST after this truck. Any guesses as to where/who it went. (think yellow) Sorry LCF (ie low cab forward)

Who?