slack ma girdle

If you know what the breaking strain is, then you can work out the working load limit, via your safety factors. Take into account knotts, chokers and other shiney toys used, as these will effect the woking load limit. i.e. chocker reduces by 4/5's Rope going through a pully doubles the load to the chocker etc etc Note all of these in your log book, so when you have and inspection all the information is to hand, and it should pass. :thumbup:

Bob has one of my sons old jumpers, when it is cold. The only trouble is the hem is too baggy around his middle, and he keeps weeing on it. Solved it with a bull dog clip

If only it was that easy. The ground has been so wet, the cost of re-instating the ground will be more than the day and half that it will take us to demolish the tree

I humbley bow to your worldly knowedge. I have got some fun rigging over a caravan this week, and i shall give it a go. And when it goes belly up i will know who to blame:marchmellow::bowdown:

Do you not wory with all this extra mechcanical advantage, that you are going do overload the limbs that have to carrying this extra weight. As i seam to remember from my 41 training, when a rope goes over a pully you are doubleling the load to the anchor point. Or do you have a cunning method for dealing this

On one of the master of stone videos, this crazy man is testing quick draws which he has cut to various degrees. He then leaps off the top of an enormous cliff and keeps falling until one of the cut quickdraws decides to hold. About 200 feet he falls until his fall is checked. Bloody fool

Don't diss the pies, eat them

£15 per tonne, that seems a bit expensive

Sthil tends to be 30 degrees, and husky/ Oregan 25 degrees. This is only a general rule and there will always be exceptions like ripping chains

Tried that and it did not make any difference

We chipped a large area of elm, and the stringy bark jammed the fly wheel, which cause the drive belts to snap. The belts tangled around the wiring, and striped the lot. Hire company not very happy when we returned it. We were chucking the Elm from the top of the bank straight into the chipper, so by the time we had slid down the bank and turned off the chipper it was too late

I have been trying to split some Elm for the home fires, and i have forgotten just how hard it is. Picture One, After repeated hitting with splitting maul, i resort to a splitting wedge. Wedge goes in and the log does not split. Pictrue two, go all around the log where i think it might split hitting it with the maul. Log still does not split Picture three, Resort to brick bolster and finally crack log. The log still required a further 10-15 blows with the maul Total time to split log in half, about 1/2 an hour. Still got another 10 logs to go !!!!!!

I have alway worn glasses. I can not say that i have noticed any difference. But then due to my bad eye sight i can not work work safely with out glasses. I like the sordin ear defenders because the padding is softer and more comfortably

Looks like you are having a worse week than me. Still looking on the bright side, i will bet that there is somebody having a worse week than you

A pointy stick, always available, and free. Can also be used for toasting lunch items, and tying onto the climbers rope to annoy him

Back to Laylandii in the caravan park next week yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Is that bur in the oak tree as big as it looks, or is it an opitical ilusion

The force is strong with this young tree feller my son now wants one, and i will never be able to to anything that good. Thanks alot

Where to start Leave the house 6.30 to get trailer. The pin for the ring hitch has become bent with use, and now can not get the high enough to get the trailer on. Return home hit said pin with large hammer. 45 minutes later trailer and landrover become one. 8.30 arrive to hire tracked chipper. Tracked chipper is at the back of the shed behind every thing else. 1 hour later having played wacky races with various machines and tractors, chipper is on trailer. 10.30 arrive on site, chipper slides off trailer whilst onloading and gets stuck. Use winch to unstuck chipper. 11.00 Finally get chipper to edge of site. Due to steep nature of site, use of winch is require to support chipper. Chipper slides into ditch when we are moving winch. Chippers hydraulic drive no longer works due to the chippers angle and the hydraulic fluid is out of reach of the pump. 12.30 Chipper now extracted. Get almost to chipping site, only to find out that the local youth have in their wisdom during the night thrown the branches all over the site, and pushed over an old wall blocking the only way in. 2.00 had enough. Winch chipper straight up steep slope to avoid ditch and now a very muddy slope. Next Day Tidy up branches and start plant 45 apple trees. Get about 20 trees planted when irate local starts shouting from the top that if any of the trees are planted in front of his house then he will pull then up and throw done the hill. Try to ring man at council but he is in a meeting and his boss is on holiday. Stop work, drink tea, enjoy sunshine, listen to birds singing, and locals becomming increasingly irate with each other. Council man turn up and trys to resolve planting problem. After an hour he admits defeat and the remaining apple trees are to be planted elsewhere. We go home

Try climbing a decent sized hardwood, by the time you have got to the top and come down most if not all of the resin will be gone. And you will have had some fun to boot. Dairy products are for your toast and/or sandwitches and/or cooking.

Here's mine. Site risk assessment.doc

Try the army with some large caliber guns/cannons ? Will be able to a large amount of damage very quickly

Good inventive stuff. A couple of questions: 1 what are you doing in photo two ? 2 What are you using to retrive the system from the tree when you are one the ground ?