Big 'Ammer

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Nice Job!

Or a more nasally "Orr hee horr hee horrrr!!!!" Seeing he's French and all that....

Poor guy. Thoughts with his family. Stay safe everyone.

Good stuff. Can't beat a great big winch!

How come you back up your bollard ratchet strap with another one of lower rating and not a sling which would self choker? Fair enough, none of the pieces on the vid are going to shift the bollard, but if there was an occasion for it to lift due to a large piece and trunk taper for example, a 1.5 ton blue ratchet strap isn't going to be much use if circumstances have already shifted a 5 ton yellow one. Just an observation. Looked a well planned job.

If its a big tree the wedges wont come near the bar anyway. 14lb hammer with the shaft shortened to suit you, steel wedges and a flat steel plate for extra lift. Drive in the wedges in pairs. For most jobs the plastic ones are ok. Or save your back and pull it over, its easier.

Try Beaver Plant at York.

Guffaw!

Only probably? Have you tried either for comparison?

The OP is using Oregon chain which requires an uphill filing angle of 10 degrees. If you file it flat freehand, the action of pushing the file forward will naturally cant the cutter over very slightly in the bar. To all intents and purposes, this filing flat with the cutter slightly canted is the equivalent of the cutter being stationery and the file being held at a slight uphill angle. If you want fast, smooth, low-vibration cutting the most important thing is having the rakers at the correct depth and a smooth rounded lead in to the raker. This makes more difference to cutting performance than minute discrepancies in cutter angles, IMO. As Gardenkit said, a little tiny bit filed off the top of a tie strap isn't going to make any difference when a chains used to that extent. I always file Stihl and Oregon chains the same way anyway, freehand and never drop a file size, adjusting angles by eye if they need it, usually when somebody else has made a pigs ear of sharpening a chain.

File it flat. The 10 degree angle takes into account the chain canting slightly in the bar while you are sharpening it. Use a 3/16 file.

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So your the Man who gets the male porn stars ready? ::

9mm Centrefire is a pistol cartridge. 9mm Rimfire is a shotgun cartridge. I didn't think you can get solid projectiles for 9mm rimfire, so it is a shotgun only calibre. Could well be wrong .... Anyhow, is it still Sunday FFS? :lol:

9mm rimfire 'Garden Gun' cartridges. Smaller than .410, all brass case.

Correct.

No it isn't.

Wrong end of Lincs for us then, bit far!

Whereabouts in Lincs are you based?

That was an awkward site, top job.

:lol: Havn't heard that one for a while.

Here's a MASSIVE beech stump. Carlton 8018 parked on top for scale.

From starting the saw to finishing the site, 2 of us, about 4 hours, we had dinner and did a 4' cedar stump on another part of the grounds to the same spec in the afternoon. The grinder was stopped, but not for long, while I went to tip the arisings a couple of times.

Here's a large copper beech stump we did. Cut the stump off at the right angle to slide it in the trailer with the digger and then ground out with a Predator 75. The ground sloped and the buttresses were well exposed with weathering and years of foot traffic erosion. The widest measure taken between exposed buttresess and roots was 19'. All off site and reinstated.