Rich Rule

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.

It also gives them the opportunity to cherry pick jobs between contractors to try and reduce the price again. nip that shit in the bud before they get started.

I live in Norway mate. I just used a rough estimate of 10nok to the quid. So one day onsite with 2 men and chipper was 11500nok plus vat. The second day, 2 men and chipper 11500nok plus vat. It costs a lot more to live here. Wages are higher and at 3.50 quid for a loaf of bread you would go very hungry and very quick if you charged UK prices.

I know mate. I even asked if he wanted a written quote. He declined but I almost sent it regardless, then something came up. He paid and I half expected him to cancel the second day but was all up for it. But yes, next time I will follow your advise and my own intuition. it wasn’t so much the vat issue, more the fact he expected 4000nok approx 400 quid to pay both mine and my helpers wages. He has no excuse as he used to own a Ltd. Company before he sold it to a huge multi national. He knows how much employees cost in this country and taxes etc. He is just oblivious to anything other than sitting behind a keyboard.

I hardly every use my rings. Have the beast rings spliced up in a whoopie config and a couple of eye to eye types. Probably due to the knot on my rigging line being impossible to remove, I tend to plum for the Rigging block and redirect pulleys.

I had a guy last week, who used to rent a flat from me. Had a catch-up, walk around and talked through removing quite a few trees. Estimated at 2 days with two men on site each day. He agreed and asked the price. I told him 500 per man per day, chipper will be 150 plus vat. Total 1150 plus vat at 25%. I got in there last week and cracked on got the first part of the job done and afterwards I explained I would send the invoice so it will be in February’s accounts. He agreed. I get an email that night, offering the advise that if I quote someone verbally it has to be inclusive of vat. So he was expecting 2 men on site for a day for 400 plus vat at 25% making the bill 500. Not the 1437.50. i explained everything that I had said during the quoting stage and his response was he must have missed the plus Vat bit... what about the rest he chose to ingore? Extra man, chipper and plus Vat? Anyway, I am booked in for the second day this Thursday. He seemed ok when I explained the lot to him... But really, expecting two men on Site and machinery for 400 quid and having to pay the wages of the groundie?

I see the petzl / Kit Kat wrapper combo has failed again... Glad the climber wasn’t seriously hurt.

That’s a pie mate. A growler is something totally different where I come from. I thought you meant you had had a bit of the Singaporeans growler at that exact spot.