Mike Hill
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I found this made me chuckle and cringe[ame=http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knBNX_evIOo]http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knBNX_evIOo[/ame]
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I'm pretty new to the maintanence contract area myself.We landed one recently,pretty much an established subdivison with communal parks and common areas.To help prevent endless requests for work that residents hadn't asked the board for,we posted each house a flyer to remind them that tree work was occuring on the dates stated,I think it helped the board resolve more Tree issues and gave us some cheap advertising.
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I don't carry a knife up a tree anymore,I lost to many.Silky saw is aways there in an emergency (like your climbing rope being fed into a chipper).
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How old do you recon that might be?
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Salmon Burrito's and orange juice! I can't afford to drink to much in Norway!
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Man thats some nice work,was that a Pinus Radiata? I get envious of that blue sky you have so often in your video's,thanks for sharing that with us.
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Its all good:beerchug:
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1) I like Big stuff 2)Big bars are for big Trees and enable the faller to make all cuts from one side of the Tree. 3)Double "gob" cuts,boring the center out of the tree and quarter cutting the back cut etc.Take much longer.
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I rolled a 20ton dozer twice and then back onto its tracks.Worse thing was that a can of blue log marking paint arc'd across the batterey,exploded and covered me in paint and made me a abit deaf.
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Very nice! that looks like no other than "Tony Treadmill" standing firm in that garden?
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Yes,Yes we did measure it.My 59inch bar was unable to make a complete backcut so I am able to tell you it was infact over 59inches through at the butt:wave:
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Thanks,there was a pretty huge limb that was about 45foot that went laterally between two trees,over the road and fence and touched the trees on the otherside! We had five pulley involved in spreading the load from the tips to the trunk.Snatching the logs off that stem made for a bouncy ride alright! I have a video clip of felling the Spar yesterday that I will try to upload.
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The Hobbs block we used to use had teeth that bit into the Bark. The GCRS does not have teeth and can and does torque on the trunk if the load is not as verticle as possible. Sure I may not have the "Visor". If the GCRS had teeth that could be bolted on and off then ok. Maybe I'm not setting it up correctly.But we will usually cut a block into the trunk to seat the GRCS into and a channel around the Tree for the strap to fit in.
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Its a 59" bar,costs far too much.You really have to start the cut with another saw as the bar will bow when held laterally and throw the chain or cut funny.
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Big thanks to all the staff involved in this take down,especially Chris,Trude and Silja
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I've worked a fair bit with both GRCS and Hobbs.For the rigging of big chunks in a dynamic loading situation the Hobbs is the one for me,the GRCS has better winching capabilities but requires seating into the Tree or will often work loose due to the rubber mounts. The Hobbs will stat put when the load is not directly above the device,somthing the GCRS fails to do.
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Here is a picture of a bloody big poplar we took down,got the crown out in one day and felled the stem the next. file was too big,I'll try again later
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Very good! Thanks for sharing.
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I'd have never given you £20,because you probably going to make a fortune selling all those Branches.
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I never owned that one Steve (good thing).But have worked quite often with one.They seem "over built",too heavy for the diameter they accept and unable to throw the chips an acceptable distance should you be required to chip into a woodland or on to a bank. Plus side is the "direct drive" no clutch,reasonable sized feed tray and high qualitiy chip they produce.
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I need sum new boots whats everyone eles wearing??
Mike Hill replied to Tree cutter Stu's topic in General chat
Me too! Hot pink would set off my Rainbow chainsaw braces fetchingly! -
Here is a picture of the chipper I wrote off early last year.The locking mechanisim on the turntable failed as I went around a corner,the upper unit slewed around and around before toppling,breaking off the truck and hemoraging diesel and fuild all over the road
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I need sum new boots whats everyone eles wearing??
Mike Hill replied to Tree cutter Stu's topic in General chat
Tyrol fighters: These would be for me the best off the shelf boot I have worn.My last pair of Haix started falling apart after four months,I'm sure I used to get almost a year out of them? -
Here in Norway every second farmer has a wood processor as dried wood goes for between £4 and 9£ a sack! One outfit drives in into Norway dried and sacked from Lativia and Lithuainia as the labour cost is so much less there.The favoured wood is Birch,we just give away logs mostly as nobody will pay for anything that isn't cut,split dried and sacked.
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The language barrier is less of the problem the more experianced the ground staff are.The first time I worked in Germany my main groundie was so good he'd be holding the fuel can almost before I knew my saw was running out of gas! Work is a great way to learn another lanuage as you only learn what the locals use and hear the lanuage spoken all the time.
