Rich Rule

Yes mate. In the Oslo area it is a dry cold for the most part. The west coast is a different story. We have had a very mild winter for Norway. Not much snow, in fact it was the first year since records began where there was no snow in Oslo for the entire month of January. I much prefer the climate here. Much more stable than the UK. Layer up as you know it will be cold. -6 or colder. It is much more comfortable working than +6, rain and wind like in the UK.

I live in Norway. All Pines are called Furu. Essentially they are all Scots Pines unless in an Arboretum/Botanical Gardens. You are correct there are loads of species of Pine, but IME that tree in that location will most probably be a Furu

What do I win?

It looks like a Furu. Or Scots Pine to you and I. Branch structure and colour but not the foliage. I think the lack of resolution and the snow makes the needles look like leaves. I am probably wrong though.

I used to work for a guy in the Uk. He paid your day rate for 8 hours work. Anything over he paid per hour. We started early and finished early, if the job ran over we got weighed in.

Norway is on lockdown for non essential things. Not forced, as I hear France is but the whole place is very quiet. I have been working. The kids school has closed. The missus is home working, as are most people. My missus was in Munich working, she has been in isolation since they made the ruling. 14 days is up tomorrow, she has no symptoms. She also travelled to Sweden with work last week, they only enforced the isolation after she got back so as far as I am aware after tomorrow she can get out and about for essential things. Pretty civilised here in the shops. The shelves are a bit bare but you can generally get what you need. I don’t live in the centre of Oslo though, that might be a different story. So yes, you can tell something isnt quite right but there is a long way to go yet. What’s with all the pictures of the UK military moving about? Is BJ declaring martial law?

Usual suspects true romance it’s a wonderful life the good, the bad and the ugly so many good films out there though.

Sorry for this dumb question... but I inherited my Stove (it was in the house when I bought it) what is an air wash vent? And what is the main vent? we have a vent at the very bottom which I set to fully open when firing up. It says no longer than 5 minutes fully open on a big red sticker. After 5 I push it half way in. Then when there is sufficient embers I can load it up and have it pushed anywhere from half way to almost fully in (closed) depending on the species and number of embers.

There you go. How did not having 2 ropes cause arterial bleeding? I was referring to the rule makers who have said 2 ropes should be the norm. As a few people have said, myself included we are supposed to be discussing the 2 ropes and not the banning of top handles. Back to what I have said all along on this issues, education. Is the key point. There are other factors of course, commercial pressures, people being expected to do a job when the don’t have the experience. We could go on.

No, if we had people experienced in the field, making of the rules we have to abide by, we wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place.

And people who are speeding past schools are often branded as stupid or idiots. How is that any different from someone who knows they shouldn’t be using a saw at neck height? Anyway, this is supposed to be about 2 ropes. I will watch from the sidelines as two rope working won’t affect me or how I go about work on a daily basis.

Is it not about educating them to not be cutting at neck height in the first place? Regardless of the placement of the handle of the size/cc or the saw.

Yes he did on occasion. However, I didn’t work with him in his prime. He was mid fifties when I was working with him. I work with an old Norwegian forester over here. He dismantles with a 550xp with a 14” bar IIRC. He does a fair bit of cut and hold or one handed cutting into the collar with the limb folding and then he holds, severs and throws.

I was just typing a similar response but then deleted it. My first boss, used to laugh at how easy the younger climbers had it these days... all the while holding out an 026 one handed without a wobble.

So Mick do you think you top handles are out to get you? I reread the post in question. There are some valid points regarding some issues but top handles saws being killers? I will stand by my statement, that is bollocks. Education is key, using the right tool in the right scenario is very important as is the knowledge to use said tool safely. Cars are deadly in the wrong hands, the same can be said about almost everything in life.

Wow, are you for real mate? So you never used a top handle in all your years of climbing... ? As others have stated, I think you are a bit out of touch with climbing. IMO the context of your argument was a load of Bollocks. Please expand on how a top handle is out to get you? Mine are all ported and have timing advances, does that make them serial killers?

I rarely clean the glass. Live in this place nearly 2 years and think we have cleaned the stove glass 4 or 5 times. Just get a nice hot bed of embers going and any residue burns off. That is a bit of dead oak I had dismantled that day on a bed embers from spruce and pine.

I sharpen a saw when it needs it. First signs of dullness, I touch it up, but everyday? No way. I have also never greased a Sprocket or the needle bearing since I did my chainsaw maintenance... I still have a stonking 200t that is about 16 years old and still cuts great.

@Mike Hill Any ideas?

Is the chain sharp enough?

Or AT&T installing the state of the art telephony system in the Nazi party and Hitlers headquarters. War is good for business... apparently!

Yes, a quiet night, few beers and a bite to eat can soon make you become a couple hundred quid lighter.

There are good a bad folks everywhere as we all know. I spent 6.5 months travelling around the US in ‘97. I met some right strokers and I met some really cool people. However, as with a lot of Americans views bigger is better. The strokers were really bad and the cool kids were exceptionally cool. I worked with one guy who told me regularly that they had won the war against the brits. One day I got fed up of him going on about, so I told him to his face.... ’you keep going in about a war as if it was a big event. That’s because the US has little to no history, unlike Europe, so you were clinging onto minute facts. When in reality you tipped a load of tea in a Harbour a said it was a war. Mere skirmishes at best. Where as in the UK we’re taught that we realised all the criminals had been shipped off to Oz and all the idiots to the America’s. It dawned on us that it was a nation of idiots so we gave it back...’ i thought the redneck was gonna try and kill me until I couldn’t keep a straight face anymore and almost pissed myself laughing. ???

I think you wrote it Daniel.

Free mate. Get with the times. Trees are everywhere, how can you have the brass neck to think you can charge for them. One of the trees I took down for him was an oak. Half the tree was dead standing. He got a load of logs, cut to 30cm. Bear in mind Silver Birch is seen as a premium firewood here... 1700 NOk for a pallet. A pallet of mixed is 1500. Mixed consists of goat willow, aspen, and 3 pine and 3 spruce logs. I left premium oak, which if they actually realised how good oak, elm and beech is... for a pallet I should be charging 2 million NOk.