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  1. Rich Rule

    Stihl ms 661

    Rich Rule replied to wilko560's topic in Chainsaws

    Frjones had them in the bargain bucket last couple of weeks. I went for. 30" Sugi my mate grabbed the 36".
  2. Rich Rule
    Yes he might have some in stock. Always worth a call with Nod. Sometimes things are not represented on his site.
  3. Rich Rule
    Ditch the Siruis mate. I burned through a hitch cord in 1 climb. There are others out there.
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    Yes it was the same inspector. As i stated I rarely use hitch cord, this was in the bottom of my bag. I said do not bother lOLERing that as I don't use it. He mentioned it would have failed anyway, so the conversation about it ensued. I washed it and had my inspections done 6 month later. You know the rest. It must be hard to keep up to speed with all the recent advances in climbing kit.
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    I know exactly the purpose that LOLER is there to serve. FTR I don't even use hitch cords, my LOLER inspector is someone I often contract too. Not is called banter. What is the point of using heat resistant cord if the first climb is a sappy tree and the crud gets a bit dirty. It is no less likely to fail now is it. The point I was loosely alluding to was that there is so much kit and caboodle out there that it must be pretty difficult for the inspectors to keep up. In the example I made in the post above, I washed the cord and put it back in the bag at the time of next test. It passed no problem. That is when I pointed out it was the same piece that had previously failed. If nothing else, at least the inspector knows that the cord it very durable. It was a bit of fun nothing more.
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    The items I mentioned I put back in were lives of hitch cord that the inspector sad were glazed... Where as I argued it was conifer sap. It was conifer sap as it washed off.
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    This one. Stein Copious TAC eye 2 eye technical accessory cord
  8. Rich Rule
    Cougar Blue or orange, very low stretch but great for Srt. Both tachyon and Kern are pretty bouncy IMO, but that is in comparison to climbing on the cougar ropes. Armour pruss is a good one but I have found recently, on the odd occasion i use a hitch that 70cm Stein sown e2e is excellent. I reckon it is just a blue version or Armor pruss. It wears the same and works very well with the mentioned ropes in a 3 wrap 2 braid VT.
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    I grew up in Darlington, the Ringtons man must have had a big bloody round! One of my Aunties usually gets a Ringtons Hamper for me and the family for chrimbo.
  10. Rich Rule
    Good work mate. Was that one of your jobs or Tommy's? One point to note, more so in Ivy covered trees is to flush cut the stubs. You will know if you slip and get one in the ribs.
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    Are you from the North originally? Ringtons and the tea man are a thing of my youth.
  12. Rich Rule
    Think it took me about 3 years to catch on.
  13. Rich Rule
    Plans are being made Tony.
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    I like to test my LOLER inspector. If a piece of kit fails LOLER and I remove it from working use. I have in the past slipped that piece of kit back in to be inspected. Sometimes it passes sometimes it fails again. Very hard to keep standards across the board.
  15. Rich Rule
    What are they Heinz or some sort of terrier? Nice one though Tony. I would love more space and not be in a city, as I would love to get a dog.
  16. Rich Rule
    Found a picture but not the video.
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    I don't think it is the tether mate. It is the zig zag, it grabs a bit too reliably. Like when your hitch is a bit too tight and it engages before the RW does. If you see it happen it is obvious where all the load is being held. And the bit holding you in the air looks like it is made from Kit Kat wrappers It really does stretch the zig and zags out. No wish I could find the video as it demonstrates it perfectly.
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    It does work well. I have had a go on a number of people's setups One of the main things is that the ZZ grabs before the RW engages and really stretches out the ZZ. The bottom link then is taking all the sight of the load. There was a vid on YouTube that was posted by a Kiwi or Ozzie dude via the treetools web site. He explained it far more eloquently than I.
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    I have found that to be the case with Bandit chippers, but not the Scheisling. What year model do you this is a problem on? Cheers
  20. Rich Rule
    I sit on my arris and have the saw bar on either leg depending which side I am sharpening. It does help with this method of you are ambidextrous.
  21. Rich Rule
    One firm I graft for has a couple of 300mx choppers for the smaller vehicles. Never had a problem with stalling or any other problem to my knowledge. Always a pleasure to use. Mind the machines are very new and get moved frequently as they are a scheisling dealer. Much better than a TW 190 IMO
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    Manual
  23. Rich Rule
    Thats has confused me mate. The old tire is the AT2. The older tread (same as dammit to the BFG AT) is known as the AT2's. GG brought out a new tread pattern, quieter, more milage etc to meet Euro reg's about 5 years ago. They are called AT's. I had the AT's first on my Nav as the AT2's were discontinued. When I needed to change the local tyre stockist managed to get hold of some AT2's (BFG Pattern) When I came to order for my Hilux, I wanted the BFG's but the garage was unable to get the KO2's in for me. I found a stockist with KO's so shipped them local and got the local place to fit them.
  24. Rich Rule
    Standards are 265/65/17 I have the KO's in that size for my Hilux.
  25. Rich Rule
    Sorry meant to say Navara not Hilux in my previous post for the GG's.

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