Gray git
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Only a landy would be up to pulling this monster of a mewp just never again!! snaked like a b*@*H....
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cut a v in the top of the pole and put the normal cambium saver into it, so simple! BUT it is something elss shiny that will impress the 1ns that dont fully understand our ways....
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milling roof shingles from pine using alaskan
Gray git replied to offgridchris's topic in Milling Forum
you can run .325 chain on a 088 by changing the bar tip and the sproket on the saw this will give you a narrower cut so less wastage than standard 404 chain. I got my bits to do this from D S Bennet in trvistock. -
:blushing:when you have had an emergancy s**t in the back of a mog:blushing:
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he must love his harness as even when the trunck in down and the logging up starts it stays on. love the way the trunk is broken down standing as tipping something this wide would be so hard. I know wot you mean about a vid like this giving the rose tinted view of wot we do, no footage of clearing all the sawdust or dragging all the brash cool vid all the same!
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Anyone use the gecko aluminum climbing spikes?
Gray git replied to Lorry thompson's topic in Climbers talk
got told about £50 to change the gafs wit 3 options long,ero and pole and now have founde out at last i can change the velcro boot straps to lether for £35 so will be doing that next week. Even after a knee opp i can spend a day spiking in gecko's whear a morning on the old 1's had me walking like a old man!! -
when you boss describes where a job is by the nearest pie/sarny shop or by "it just up the road from where you broke that fence/greenhouse/drain cover" etc..:blushing:
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you have a stack of climbing gear catalogs next to the toilet and a sprincle of sawdust on the floor.
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when you sit in the bath and a bit of conifer flote's to the top! hmmm didnt cut conifer today!?!
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used 1 on powerlines about 6 year ago. 9" i think with a fair few poneys under the hood. good chipper as i remember but only the landy in the fleet could pull it legaly as its a fair old lump.
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Never had a problem when tipping a tree, apart fron a dead branch making a nice whole in a headlight so its mostly for when bringing usefull trunks up bankings so i can mill them on the flat or for when roaling them up ramps onto trailers. The ground anchors do look like they would work apart from when i need to change the line of pull half way through a drag, i like the idear and will try it at some point.
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I am!! thats how i have time to come up with these little pans of how i can make my stuff work better when i get back too it.
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all the ground anchors i have found would have to go behind the landy to hold it in place and she is long enough without trying to steretch her any more. had some wheel chocks that worked ok till i put bigger tires on and now she tries to climb over them so back to relying on brakes.
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hope he gets minimum wage and all ppe for his hard work with that woof bark... Sorry.
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A little imput from anyone with some experience of my latest idear would be good. landrover130 that i have fitted a superwinch h14 gear driven winch onto.. would it work if i made some fold down spades simlar to wot are on my boughton and fitted them onto the bumper so that i dont have to rely on the landy brakes and so tire grip to hold me in place while pulling in the load, in theary this willsave as much pull on the mounting bolts and the rail ends.
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Some large pine trunks milled with an alasken chainsaw mill. cheep and clean ie no tar to contaminate the soil like with sleepers
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Im a newcastle lad raised in yorkshire so i wont have spent that much on a jack!! Also always wanted some redwood jacks but unless big stuff in bad places is all you cut i just dont see how anyone could justify spending that much money when you can improvise with a bottle jack or 2??
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Just the local tool place,think it was about £40ish and it's a 20ton lift so makes for easy lifting of big stuff. I also hav a bit of steel plate on top after the 1st time i used it the top dug in and when the tree went it picked the lot up and hurled it a good 20m. the shorter hight just saves cutting out as much timber to set it into the trunk.
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1st pick shows a hi lift wedge used as a back up to the jack and the outher 2 hopefaly show how the jack is seated in the cut. Love the falling sequence, i never get shots to work so well. I agree with the big stump small gob on a suspect tree as you just dont wont to finde out too late that you have just removed all the sound holding wood and are left with mush.
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Try PHV landrover in stokesley north yorkshire for a drop box and shafts as they pull apart a lot of ex working landys they provided mine when i wonted a bit more grunt than the x9 could give (130+12'trailor=to much to pull) The only winch on a landy that will better this is a newer hydraulic version but you wont get a second hand 1 for less than 650 wit luck!!
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www.arbor-tech.co.uk should have put this in, look in the gallery- site clearance for a few picks of us working.
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Pm badger we have a t160 valtra with a seppie on it wit the advantage of a botex up top to sort edge stuff or bits you dont wont to drive on.
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Can you swop velcro for old school if you so wish as always the same brought these out after investing in a pair...
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Try some local village shows as they will often let you have a pitch in exchange for demos or a donation to the raffel and those who dont spend on the day will remember you or tell friends about this bloke who started with a log and made a gate. As for time most are on a sat and not whole days so wont take up the whole wend. Just 1 or 2 examples of wot you make a demo of wot you do, a few picks and a open order book.
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My experiance says that wotever you charge the wife will think you are selling yourself short but if its something she wonts that someone els has made it will be to expensive! nice gates by the way lads. county shows are the place to sell things like that as so many people get to look at wot you have and the chances are some of these people will have the money to just get wot they wont and not worry about cost.
