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  1. Taupotreeman
    Cheers Stephen. I was trying the upload via url and it kept saying invalid. It was driving me nuts. I don't really have a bad day at work; the shrink always told me that the day, no matter how bad, always comes to an end so just don't let it get to you. I just turn the music up and blank out the crap parts of the day. Working out how to use a computer is a whole different ball game though.
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    Every time I go to put up a link to a video it says invalid file. Am I missing something? Not much of a techie I'm afraid so any help would be appreciated before I throw the confuser out the window and give cause for my bad day to begin.
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    Aftger I've taken my share ( a truck load) I leave the rest of any firewood for the locals. I have one guy in particular who is on an invalids benefit looking after his elderly mother. His wood fire runs pretty much 24/7 so he is always after wood. He'd been burning Poplar and Willow and saw me working on the side of the rod and asked if he could have some wood. Since then I call him in advance, he comes out with his saw once the job is done and takes as much wood as he likes and then rakes and sweeps up after, including anything I leave. He's happy as larry because now he gets as much good wood as he can take, no charge, and it suits me because he does a hell of a good job with the clean up. Just ask, you might get some freebies.
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    Most of the topped or reduced Birches I've seen over this side of the world tend to rot from the top down. There's one that I re reduced recently and most of the stuff a foot below last years reduction points has turned to mush.
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    We just got that in NZ over 12 episodes. It began to drag after episode 4 and we have had the last two on Mysky for months but haven't watched them.
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    Bet that had some twitching going on in the sphincter region as the back cut was going in. That's about as tight as it gets I would say. Nice shot.
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    Just dropped a fairly hefty Oak log from about 20 feet. The fall was broken by my 046 Broken wrap around handle, broken chainbrake handle, broken mounts and a split in the fuel tank. Reckon if it was one of these cheapies underneath it would be squished flat.
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    I think I'm glad I was away all weekend because it seems like I've missed something that I sould have missed, I think.......
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    Metro wee rad 15Kw. Heats the water to the point steam comes out of the taps when we've had it going for a while. Great for cooking a stew on top in Winter too.
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    Saw these a couple of years ago, they've added a couple of extra songs since. At least someone had the decency to put up all the song titles this time.
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    If you totem the Birch it's likely to rot pretty quickly. They tend to start turning to mush after a few years. How much is the retaining wall holding back? If it's nothing major just keep an eye on it but if it's holding back a huge amount I wouldn't even take the risk unless it's a pretty substantial wall. Plus, leaving a totem isn't going to do much for your reputation now is it.
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    I was thinking the same thing. Here I am spouting on about the idiots here that are poisoning and setting fire to trees that are blocking their views and now we are discussing how to do exactly the same thing ourselves! How about just having a chat with the neighbour. If you've got issues with them over other stuff like lobbing rubbish into your garden, sort that out as seperate topic. What exactly is the problem with the tree anyway?
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    Aha, more commonly known as the six thirty method.
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    Thought they'd changed that ten to two method?
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    Who needs throw weights when you've got spikes
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    Mr. Cooper going as the karate kid?
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    Don't worry, there will be plenty of the female of the species in the future that decide they don't need the male for any part of the getting inseminated stage but rather just take their pick from a sperm bank and work from there.
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    I don't have any kids. For one, I'm far too selfish and also because there are already far too many people in the world. As the population grows we bulldoze other species into extinction just so we have more room/food etc. There will come a time, even with genetic propogation etc (I believe at least) that we will not be able to support the population of the world with either food or water. Much of the world's population is already on the brink of starvation and if we keep breeding like rabbits we will tip over the edge i'd say by 2050. The increasing life span, our ability to control or prevent disease etc and the way wars are now fought means less people are being killed or dieing because of these reasons. Sooner or later we'll hit overload. Is that a bad thing?
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    I'd say the more experience some people have the more dangerous they are (see my last post). People just get blase, simple as that.
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    You're never going to be able to talk any sense into the man who wants to cut up a bit of firewood with it etc (at least for the bulk of the time) because apparently he won't be using it enough to have an accident. The same as you are never going to be able to talk any sense into the man ( again, for the bulk of the time) who has been using a saw all his life despite having no training. He hasn't had an accident up until now so he never will. At least that's their theory. Just like the guy who fed his hand through a garden chipper a couple of years ago. He'd cleared the blockages while it was running heaps of times so why would this time be any different?
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    I've met plenty of those "ex bushmen" who apparently know what they are doing with a saw because they've worked in the bush for so long. The stories they tell make me shiver and I wonder how they are still there to talk to me. I've then met the odd DIY'r who has gone out, bought the saw, bought the safety gear and taken himself on a two day course to learn the basics. Who's the safer? The guy who has been doing it for years and is now so blase that he apparently doesn't need the safety gear and the working chainbrake or the oddjobbob who uses his saw once in a blue moon but is over careful with the machinery? Mind you, seen plenty of oddjobbobs in jandals and shorts throwing a chainsaw about too. And a guy working around 400v conductors in a metal EPV. Gives me the eebiejeebies thinking about it.
  23. Taupotreeman
    Thought about it but because of there not being many contract climbers down this way and seeing as some of the outfits down here are busy cutting each others throats price wise I thought I'd just leave it for someone with bigger gonads to do. I'm past all that ugly stuff. Spent a year climbing monster gums next to the 500KV in Oz but that's a different thread. And I'm not sure these things would be classed as branch walking anyway.
  24. Taupotreeman
    Haha, not even going to make a comment on putting my spikes on to do gums. I remember the last thread on using spikes on trees that weren't coming down. Just had to look at some huge ones in Taupo that needed dead wooding and, of course, the dead wood is right out on the end of the limbs. I think I just said I wasn't interested. Chickened out basically.
  25. Taupotreeman
    You can leave my V8 well alone thankyou very much.

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