Mike Hill
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Those trees in the picture have most of their weight at the back due to the long limbs and lean. The more you cut out of the front (ie deep facecut) the more weight you are transfering to the back and the harder they will be to jack over. If the Tree is near vertical,the more you cut out of the front,the more you transfer the weight forward making it easier to fall over.
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You need big bucking spikes if you are working large timber,all mid to large saws in other countries have them. Back chaining you need them Cutting over the back of a big log Cutting the scarf into anything with buttress roots Working anything thats as long or longer than your bar Running the saw around the backcut you need them There are some real whopper tales on this thread.
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They have a higher chance of going sideways like you say,bigger gobs are for snags to shift the weight forward when there isnt much of a top to help tip it over.
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Plenty fast enough thanks farm boy.
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" Firing the parts cannon"
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Considering moving to Canada
Mike Hill replied to pablolinares's topic in International Arborist Forum
West Coast is nice,work almost all year. Always vacancies In Vancouver but it's expensive to live there and not very social. Save up some money,get a work visa and head over in the spring. Trip around and find out for yourself. Definatly get your HGV and trailer licence before you go. -
This is the one I was meaning. Wee.no WWW.WEE.NO Wee Gruppen only comes with 4.5 meters of wire but easy to connect it to some more. Be alright on the right jobs.
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I saw an advert over here for hand held battery driven wiches. Looked pretty small and pulled 450kg. Be quite the tool for outsiders if you had a few of them to do.
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That's not what you want to do. You load up the back even more doing that ,higher chance it drifts off the stump during the fall too.
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Have a trial of not leaving a step between the bottom of the gob and your back cut. It seems to make them tip easier. No that it would have helped much on that last one.
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You don't always have to put the jack right at the back. If you know it's going to be tough. Cut your jack seat halfway between the hinge and the back on the side the lean is favoring. When you have cut that corner our put some weight on the jack. Then keep cutting out the remaining quarter putting wedges in as you go.
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Would you consider yourself to be in the later camp?
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Someone who likes cuck porn? It wasn't a term I was familiar with myself until Alpha Andy came up with it. Googling " cuck" was disturbing.
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Christ the irony. If you consider me to be a cuck,would you consider yourself to be an Alpha male Andy?
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Me too, Kiwi and Norwegian
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Oh I get it now. Mr Muscle Car and Johnson Big Guns are afraid of black Willie's. Sad really,just learn to use what you have.
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How do you mean?
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Relocating the migrants to big cities would I think have minimal positive effect. Seeing that there are likely to be existing ethnic communities. Equally it would be unwise to relocate the migrants to sparsely populated regions,better to settle them in market towns and larger villages where they would be more likely to integrate.
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Some of the Fjords here were breeding themselves out. Seriously it was that bad,before most people had their own car it was very difficult for them to meet non local suitors. To the point there were papers where parents could advertise their daughter to other parents In order to meet young men " utenbyggs " .
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Another very positive aspect to immigration is the diversity it brings to the gene pool. When African men sire children to Anglo-Saxon or Scandinavia woman,their kids are generally more robust than the local population.
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Be stranger if he knew what Andys ears felt like.
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Might have been?
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Nope Two guys I know ,know you or your face at least.
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No! he said " fuck me that's asbestos, not seen him in years!" "Asbestos" I asked " was he fireproof?" No he chuckled," Special precautions were needed to work with him"
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I was talking to another guy who knows you today.
