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Our new R/A has a box in if for designated rescuer and rescue plan, nearest a&e with phone No. just makes you yhink that bit about the wot if at the start of the day and not rely on just sort if when it happens. I think making sure all on site know all these details(not just putting a X at the bottom) will become a bit more of a priority for me now. Wouldnt be the 1st time a groundi has turned to me at lunch time and said Where are we, when his girlfriend asks in a tex whear he is working even after having read the r/a. Plan for the worst and hope like hell it never happens!!!! .

Yip the small pully bit got to hot and melted the nylon bush inside so will no longer spin and this aint a replacable part. might get away with light lowering or for running a tool line up and down but not at any speed, best go for a proper pully or slow it down with a controle line but this is starting to get away from a simple technique that makes life easy to a full fun rig down.

Dont run a revolver tooooo fast as you melt the little bush thingy in the spinny thingy and dmm say "not for high speed use" ooops should have looked at this before useing it on a speed line

If a throwbag, sorry line placement projectile can get this much reaction from a simple "has any 1 used" i hope no one is about to aske about the latest harness rope etc:shot:

12stone ice hitch on yale line 4 wraps and 3 braides. got right out on a limb end and found i was falling be it very slowly so replaced with new hitch line and had to drop a wrap as was to much so i think age will have some affect on the way you tie it.

like the way it makes a smooth end on your rope when pulling it over a narrow union, how many times have we all spat out the dummy when that purfect shot fails at this point!!! Wouldnt like to copp it in the teath on the come down at least a bag has a bit of give. 100 odd quid, not this month 30ish might hav thought about it?

The best thing about how the alasken is built is you can put any saw/bar/chain combo in it up too your max rail length. No point in trying to mill 12" apple with a 088 with 48"bar when you can drop that saw out narrow up the posts and stick in a 441 with 18" bar and off you go, makes it a little less hard on the arms. If you are going hard all day with a 088 you can burn 10-15litre of fuel so remember to figure this and bar/chain costs into your price.

RETRO i like it!!!

try craftsure, cost me about £90 last year and that covered me for public demo's and private works. Got it to cover me when i did some work in a school nature area.

14" but a lightweigh one that stihl make as it balances the saw back a bit better.

About to sell my jappa 700 if you interested in something like that. A bit simpilar than a dalan but a nice machine 2 get started with. PM me if you wont more imfo.

Wish i could make stuff like that and so do the wife she just looked over my sholder when i opend the link and those dreaded words came 'that would look nice in the.... i wonder how much?' and 'could you do something like that for me' sometimes i hate the internet for giving her idears!!

The way the firewood market has gone around us in N Yorks its no longer worth me buying in timber for logging but i can still get the big narley 'interesting' lumps that the the prosessor boys dont wont so my jappa is off out the yard and more room made for milling and making more big furniture. Might try and do a few shows demonstrating the mills and build up some interest in wot i make so any tips on a good display would be good.

Just simple overlap notches cut half way from top of one and bottom of outher. MS200 with carving bar made it quite quick to do and a bit of tweeking was needed to make it all fit. the wife liked it so that's the main thing and had to make more down fence side for hes strawberrys!!

Raised veg beds from some narley old pine trunks.

made a few with lags like this cut from forks in the same tree as seat part came from.

I splashed out a while back and got a ms200 with carving bar and it just is a grand little saw, all the power for long cuts but light enough for the fiddely bits and same spare parts as climbing saw.

Education of the people who buy logs is so important that fair and impartial guides for them to look at are an important step in the right direction, well done. Education of the people who sell logs is also important, not those that do it as the mane income but the ones who do it for a bit of beer money! Having done a little market resurch a year ago one bloke could not tell me wot type of wood he had never minde if it was hard/softwood and anouther told me if i wonted to know how big a load was i needed to get one and work it out for myself....??? I have found that drying times are afected so much by how wood is stored that timespans start to mean very little, ie wood split into billets and staked so wind flows all arond the stack will loose moisture at a much higher rate then wood cut into logs and piled up undercover. just last weekend i cut a 20" diameter beech log up that i hav had in the yard fou over 2 year and it was still far to wet in the centre to sell as seasoned logs. My take is split it, let the wind get at it and tell the people paying good money for it exactely wot they are getting.Be fair and they will come back to you year after year.

climed 1 of them back in 97 i think at the teterathalon champs with a stolen welsh flag in my teeth. Ah them wer the days be4 i new how dangerous free climing trees could be. The thick bark makes for the best hand and foot holdes. Hav fun as not often will you get a chance to play in such fine specimins.

This thing of just do it on a sunday just sounds a bit wrong to me. it's hard enough to stop people coming along a road that is propaly closed wanting to just nip past or arguing about your right to stop them coming past. If you have done everything through the proper channels you can tell them to go back and that as its a closed road they have no insurance. Trying to cut corners for the sake of price is edging a bit close to the travalling lop and top boys for my liking after all this is the image that this industry has battled to get away from for years!! DO it properly 1'st time and it might just save your ass one day.

046 20" old but a good saw, drop down to a 16" with a biger sproket and you hav a truly good saw. 088 with 30" for most felling and a 50" for the odd big tree that needs cutting in 1 sweep and for milling.

Silky saws are after all japanese and like the sword's of old if drawn from there scabard they must draw blood.

Used a slitter that had been 2 hand oparated but 1 had been tide down so you could hold the log in place and use 1 lever 2 work it, result... a dash to A&E a night in hospital lots of stiches and a now slightly deformed finger with little feeling in it. moral of the story, safety features are put there for a reason!!

I always have a handsaw with me in a tree as you just never know when you might need it, When you overcut and trap the chainsaw. when in a position when a chainsaw is just too big. when cutting a branch you just dont wont to drop so holding close in is the only option. I like the little Gomtaro for most jobs but have a sagoy "big yellow 1 if i spelt that wrong" for large deadwood on hot days so no sleeping bag trouses needed.

When the scars on your hands hav scars on them. when you hav a reputation for falling asleep in the pub, pint in hand. when your toilet floor constantly has some sawdust or chip on it.