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For the insurers and the ambulance chasers certainly, but in the eyes of the HSE you will be breaking the law using home made kit. Just because you haven't been pulled doesn't mean others haven't. I have had my climbing kit checked against my LOLER records on a site, the HSE were there to look at other things and decided we needed looking at as well. In general terms, in tree work we don't see inspections because the work is relatively transient and we are hard to nail down on a surprise inspection.

That's legally unusable. Have you checked the nose weight?

That tipping gear looks a long way back, lot of localised force needed to tip that body Nice job otherwise

Mate, that's only a bonnet away from a front line tractor where I come from. Hard men would be proud to own that, look at those cab sides, most are rotted away to let the glass out and return it to full hypothermia specification. Nice tractor. What did you have to give for it?

Jammy bugger, although you could hide a small car in that chip pile

Well the HSE are concerned with breaches of primary legislation so they are the main "they" but there are also plenty of ambulance chasers ready to join the "they" brigade if someone got hurt or suffers loss. The "they" camp gets bigger if your insurers have something in the T&C about only using proprietary kit.

It is a handy thing for busting rings up without having to "Hoss" them onto a splitter table, just scoop up big rings and bust them into nice to handle bits. If you were gentle you could load the splitter with it.

It wont just be if it goes wrong, if they find you using it under any circumstances they aren't going to be impressed.

I am using save edge on Oregon chain and they sharpen as well as any other file and keep their edge longer.

I have made a couple of simple drums over the years. Its a bit more complicated with PUWER and LOLER these days so Shhhhhhh

Put it on ebay and put the money towards a "proper" saw

Here is what I did, its a bit of a faff but it got results. Scrape off the worst of it and mix a bit of Hydrochloric Acid with wallpaper paste. Paint it in to the fins with a small brush, wait for it to fizz then rinse off DPQ with plenty of water, repeat as needed. It will bring the fins back to clean bare metal but don't get it anywhere it shouldn't be, wear gloves, eye protection and don't breathe the fumes in

First thing I see is Ivy surcharge. Allow extra time for fighting through that.

Put simply for production forestry they are too slow and that's all about the geometry Forestry cranes are "long arm", their geometry means they achieve maximum reach quickly, they do this at the sacrifice of load. They don't lift as much as a "Short arm crane but they do it at distance and the cycle time is quick which is ideal for the repetitive action of loading timber. Short arm cranes like the one in your link achieve distance by extending telescopic booms which is much slower, the are built much heavier and are able to lift more weight at distance

Not so much the war but the sacrifice that gave us our freedom

I have a pair of Eltens, size 44 ish. Loads left in en and yours for the asking

I have a paraffin bath in the workshop, blow them through with the air line and graphite. You could use a can of WD or similar instead of the paraffin bath.

If you lift yourself in to the hedge with the crane, that counts as a mewp:laugh1:

I bought some cougar blue when I was in NZ, I like it and I have told the wife I need some more and since it isn't available in the UK, we have to go back to get some:thumbup1:

My 390xp is ported and so powerful when I cut with it, it makes the planets rotation slow down:laugh1:

Put a sling and a biner on the branch and lower it on a bight of rope, once the branch in on the deck you can throw the open end of your line down and pull it all back through the biner Proper old school one man band

I never noticed it happening

I have spoken to the guy and unless someone put the valve on backwards you are correct.

What he said. The Bolle Silium is my weapon of choice, the arms are plain and don't interfere with the ear defenders (much) unlike some others. Yellow lenses are great for making a dull northern day look better

Well the man is entitled to his opinion but the facts just don't stack up that way. The engine and gearbox are a fixed load primarily on the front axle. The remainder of the load is men at about 100kg per unit or saws at a lot less per unit. The remainder of the cabin is weightless fresh air, its difficult to put more weight on the front axle. Back in the day I was tasked to check the axle loadings on the vehicles an LA tree gang was using. We couldn't get the 3500kg crew cab to overload on the front axle but the rear was only fit to carry the TM kit, couldn't even carry a small rayco grinder. The load bed is a lot further back than is would be on a single cab even with the longer wheelbase they often have. The load on the back is over and often beyond the centre of the back axle, that's fine for a light load but not very good for tree work. If I were looking to cause mischief I would have given someone the advice you got.