Mesterh

Looks like theres still a gap in the market for a decent pair of chainsaw pants.

Its all relative. If what I read is true there are companies charging £900 a day for 3 men who would be gutted at someone charging £600 a day for 3 men who are equally gutted that 3 men can work all day for £300,etc etc. There will ALWAYS be plenty of people willing to work for less , many of them will keep going long after others have folded because they can work for less, plus there are always more newcomers.

I reckon they are racking their brains to make a new name up for some material they reckon will stretch but nor tear. An why do we need all this stretchy material?? All we ever asked in the old days was a pair of chainsaw pants that the arse didn't rip out of. Just put a bit of stretchy stuff their and leave the rest as tougher material. R&D, does it really happen, in the real world, in real working conditions, with real Men? And or women, don't want to be sexist.

Filtered but used like instant. Sometimes I just chew on the beans. Do like a nice fresh filter coffee(Costa is tops) but trying to do that out in the field would look a bit Julian Clary.

Your wasting your time there, get some neck warmers knitted aparently they are all the rage with the tree lads.[ATTACH]59905[/ATTACH] Anyway real men drink coffee.

For some reason I thought you said + VAT. Still reckon £400 is a bit much for less than 2 hours work,but if you can get it then excellent.

How good is it at fine/slow feeding?

He is a mad man and should be stopped. But yes it is about oil, otherwise we would step in to the madness that happens in South Africa.

I think you will find you are talking bollocks.

Try soaking the chain in oil then fit it with the correct tension. If it was just blunt it should still run but not cut. Post a pic of it.

Well in. I'll just donate as I'm a lazy git.

My lanyard is proably the most basic you could get. It wont snag/get in the way up as much compared to your setup but would more than annoy you in other ways. Involves 3 strand rope though, so may be a bit too technical.

I would say both. Although power corrupts and ignorance is not an excuse. I prefer the ignorance side though. The less you know the simpler life can be.

Indeed, reminds me of Moe and his pickle jar. [ATTACH]59803[/ATTACH]

Did the ground crew get scared when you started rigging the top out? I sure woulda. Must be an award for biggest top rigged out? Interesting stuff as always:thumbup1:

Good on him:thumbup1: Pity they suspended him for it though(reading through the comments)

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Quite strange considering the number of fireman that decide tree work is a good sideline to get into! They do enter burning buildings to rescue people, so they still have my respect for that.

I'd vote for robinia too.

I've always used one, wouldn't fancy dropping a saw,especially as there are usually people on the ground it could land on! It's mainly been an 020 so the d ring would rip out before it even attempted to take you out of the bucket. Besides, you would be attached to the bucket by a strop anyway. Easy enough to just strop it to the bucket though. Actually has anyone ever been pulled out of a mewp or tree when there saw has been jammed? I've had the odd big limb trap the saw and take it out of my hand but it has never yanked me that much that I though it would snap my anchor point out, in fact aren't the tool attachments on harnesses designed with this in mind?

Excellent bit of info and thankls for that. I thought cost wasnt a factor, it would factor out a MEWP in probably 99.999999% of all my work. A MEWP is I think a great piece of kit as mentioned by others just like a crane, ie in the right circumstances. I have only used a MEWP on a handful of occasions in my work (loads of times when subbing to others) the main reason being the job spec. I have costed in a MEWP when ime I think the work couldnt be carried out by the standard rope,harness day to day tree climbing op. The main reason for not using a MEWP is cost to me,I would rather the job took longer and more of the money went into my business than a hire company. Obviously this would change if I had more work than I could handle and speed of job completion would increase. Why pay someone £500 for the hire of a crane/mewp then have your men twiddling their thumbs and not earning the next day. I dont see the argument that mewps are more dangerous if by definition tree work isnt dangerous.

Youre probably right, I took that for an impulse hose(not sure if they have them on huskies). I have no other ideas. Does get depressing when you replace that many parts and nothing makes a difference! Hope you can get it sorted though.

The video of the tsunami was awesome, in a scary way. Thoughts go out to those having to deal with the aftermath.

Cut straight through loads when on the power lines. Not snapped any on a domestic. Yet....