Albedo
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Why aren't you at work Tony C?
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What difference does the capital letter make Tony? My guess is noun/verb or noun/adjective:001_smile:
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You deffo need some cookin lessons Silky. Plain rice is fine...but you can do loads with a bit of pork or chicken. Try some basic marinades.... You could just add a bit of balsamic vinegar, or mustard, or soy sauce...to the pork and leave for ten minutes along with a bit of garlic. Also fry up with a few onions ...shrooms...corgette etc. You can do so many things to make life a bit more interesting without being a fat ...so and so. I'll be keeping an eye on your efforts.
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Good post Spruce Pirate. You're a forester with forests in your head and I'm a back garden tree surgeon with grannies and house wives in my head:001_smile:
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Cheers Dan..... Judging by your avatar ...Ben...you must know a thing or two about felling trees. This and your earlier post added a bit to the thread. What is it with leaning ash? or do you mean the same thing as when hung up?
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Sorry Dan...I can be a bit of a dog with a bone sometimes...Steve is always telling me off for it:001_smile:
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Yep but.....Spruce Pirate and Land Skills Training.....it's not the only reason is it. Half the people on this thread are using the bored hinge for felling poles, and me in particular with connies. If I had the bar length problem on any kind of regular basis I'd buy a bigger saw...this would be safer....because your back cut will not always marry up perfectly with your bore cut. Dan Curtis outlined the reason that bore cutting a pole before felling makes the operation safer. You are not tempted to go right through the hinge when it won't go over with no top weight. So the bar length thing is not..... the only reason.... and also not the best reason. Unless you know different which is the purpose of this thread:001_smile:
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Just a word of warning to the less experienced. I’ve said on here before that kickback is not some mystery accident that happens without warning. It is 100% avoidable if you understand how it comes about. I don’t want inexperienced users going out and bore cutting hinges as a result of this thread. You need to understand kickback and how to avoid it to safely do bore cuts. You also need to understand why you are doing the bore cut in the felling scenario that you are in. If you haven’t done a bore cut before, get someone who has, to show you how to do it safely, before trying it yourself. That’s how I learned although these days you probably have to pay someone 300 quid:001_smile:. The internet is not the place to learn these skills.
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This is what I mean...unless you mean Polish people:001_smile: An unusual demise of a saw has turned up as well....I guess some caution required if doing the bore cut after the event.. or maybe a complete no no. Thanks for the replies regarding official CS course reasons... good bit of revision. You never know what's gonna turn up in an arbtalk thread aye:001_smile:
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I threw this one in to see if there are any do's and don'ts or whatever that I don't know about. Interesting on the milling front as I didn't know that. Also on bar length as that's not the reason I use it, but would clearly be useful as I am a man of few saws. I do find that a conny trunk that has been stripped, so no weight in top, will go over easier with a bore cut. Those who have done the CS unit that included it.... I would be interested to know what the reason they give for utilising it is. The question about % of hinge that is cut ... I don't really know, but on medium conies it's just a bar width.
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It's dyscalcula mate and I have it too. I have missed flights by 24 hours due to not understanding the 24 hour clock and most recently got stuck in London for 6 hours having got the trains wrong. I can cock it up even if it's written down in front of me. I completely understand your mix up on areas....It was just a big garden and not a amall one...that'll do:001_smile:
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Was just discussing this with someone so I thought I might put it up for discussion on here. I find that bore cutting the hinge, mostly on connies, makes the beast go over more easily. This is done through the gob side before doing the felling cut. Your views will be appreciated:001_smile:
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I've always been an environmental bod and have a degree in it. I agree with all of the above assessments and am impressed by the collective adroitness of said above posts.
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No worries mate......enjoy:001_smile: Steve (our leader) gave me some advice about ...not knowing when to stop...type stuff. I am trying to take his advice and I am grateful for it. It made me think....for once:001_smile:
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It's the way I tell em.... You had to be there:blushing:
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My comment means.. There's no such thing as an odd firewood complaint:001_smile:
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Your title becomes a contradiction in terms by the addition of the word ...'odd'.
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I use a weighbridge all the time for tipping mashed up with chainsaw stuff (It’s a long story). I can tell you that an LDV load to the top of the greedy boards weighs approx. 900Kg. This applies to any branch matter from any tree including connies give or take a few kilos. I forget the number now, but a chipper would chip at least 4 times the volume of branch matter into the same space. So a …full of chip …to top of greedy boards LDV/Transit must be carrying at least 3.5 to 4 tonne. I don’t have a figure to answer your question but in terms of overloading you can only carry a load which is ¼ full. Edit: Even then the groundy has to walk home:001_smile:
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I hate having a new blade on my silky, they will work ok for years with a dulled blade. I only replace mine when I drop it in a pond or something. If you wear gloves you get away with minor scratches and it still works on the small branches I use it on. It's more effort to use but less pain by far. The best silky is a blunt silky:001_smile:
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Skyhuck got it for me through his supplier......Don't know what happened to the wine:confused1:
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Got mine today and I'm really pleased with it. Stays on much better than the last version.
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If you were my dad, I'd be treble checking then checking again:001_smile:
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Skyhuck's got shares in Stihl That's why he says all the people with oily leg syndrome are stupid:001_smile:
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That's a proper tree surgeon's bunny rabbit that is:001_smile:
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In my experience it has a lot of advantages. It acts as a detailed inspection exposing loose bits, damaged bits, leaks etc. I can't understand people who don't see the benefit of keeping any mechanical piece of kit clean...and I'm no petrol head. Try it on your truck, you may find diesel leaks and save loads of money.
