Stephen Blair
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Ha ha, Clint Eastwood! That answers all the questions really:biggrin: Good video:001_smile:
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Running logs on a skyline
Stephen Blair replied to Tim Stobart Tree Surgery's topic in Rigging and roping
A top line tensioned, use a short rope on a clogger attached to the top line with a pulley. Attach retrieval line to the clogger or pulley, whatever configuration of gizmos you have to hand. Have a small chord on the clogger to release it, there will be a way of attaching it somehow, again, gizmo dependent. Attach timber with rope from clogger, lift it off the deck and take the slack through the clogger, send it down the hill, stop it at the bottom with something you have or slow it with retrieval line, pull the clogger to release and hey presto:thumbup1:. Or you can do it my way, punt the ring down the hill like Fred Flintsone, I am known as Stevie Twinkle Toes :biggrin:shout at Groundie to catch it!! Steer the timber with the power of your mind while shouting, sacrifice your body? This is by far the quickest and most exciting way of doing it. -
Mines about £400 I think. Nfu. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Hedge man,Bens working with big Chippers that eat 12" oak trunks, it wouldn't drop a rev chipping a wee echo saw. Ben these things happen, I nearly chipped my dog once and did chip a full climbing bag with kit. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Bit doom and gloom that Mark. Crack on and concentrate on the 15 ft connies Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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I wouldn't be concerned about tickets! Insurance is peanuts now, pay it up every month DD. Get the little chipper. But get a greenmech cs100:) Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Start long and reduce if need be. I've never found it an exact science. Longs good for going up, shorts good for going down. I just tie a knot in a long 1 if I need it shorter. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Less leaves to attract the bugs and the tree tree can put more oomph so to speak into fewer branches. Most of the elms that are still alive up our way are pollards or high fells. This is just my take on it. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Has it been cut back hard before? Around the 12' mark. If so then that would if helped it. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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They cut like butter , but power through as The guys have said, they love to rip . Which is good sometimes as it's like its own little lowering rope:) Reducing it will only help it against DED. The wood is really heavy and the branches are horrible to chip. I'd rather be on a dead 1. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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While you had stopped climbing, I hadn't and do it the same way as you remember in 2000. Spikes are better, alloy geckos are like slippers . Harnesses are lighter and fit better, sequoia is comfy and light. I've still got a rope I bought in 98 for big stuff and an orange 1 I bought a few years ago with a Prusik . I've tried mechanical friction hitches, didn't like them, tried VT, didn't like that do stuck to what I know. The best thing to have happened while you have been stuck inside is the invention of micro Chippers. 4", 250kg, wheely bin wide awesome little Chippers. Get 1 of them, everyone has gone all Eco and want mulch and logs. It's easier than ever , good luck Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Reinforce your weak points and motor on mates! Jomoco Now that's a signature!! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Done. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Surely they could make that into a boxer type loader with a few pins and pipes ! Now that would be handy! Looks like a cracking grinder!! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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That's the micro chipping, economic, profit making business model right there!:thumbup1:
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Cut them down, put them in a pile and let him sell the timber.
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It's ordered and my local dealer has been given a link to this thread, he had never heard of it. I was strimming for 15 mins today and really felt it, I had to work into the wind. Looking forward to using Aspen next week. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Most excellent! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Good effort on the first pair. I remember 20 years ago looking at Spikes in a magazine and they were over £200 then, I couldn't afford £20 at the time. I would of been delighted with those. Jomoco are the springs working or for design? I'd of thought the last thing you would want is the spike going the opposite way to in the tree! Or is it for speedy pole climbing:confused1:
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I think I've been there before years ago, is it on the back road from the garden centre to Kilsyth? I'll google it and go and get some, thanks for the info and offer:thumbup1: Thanks Alec aswell.
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I had to google that mate! :blushing:I was expecting it to mean throttle, :001_rolleyes:not aftershave:biggrin: My wife bought me aftershave about 13 years ago, it's still half fool:biggrin:
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Thanks guys.
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I know you've probably typed this lots of times, could you tell me in simple terms, what's bad about fuel and mix, what's it doing to our insides and what's in or not in Aspen that helps and doesn't damage us. Cheers:thumbup1:
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Rhody and escalopes, it was with the extension hedge cutter so holding it at chest height most of the time shaping stuff, so fumes right there.
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Tom I don't plan on working indoors but I used 10 litres a few years ago and hedge cutting was actually enjoyable. The back pack blower is brutal aswell for fumes. I've got a Scagg mower, I average 4 hours a week using it and the fumes blow right at you, as does Gloria chipper, that's why I'm considering the 4 stroke stuff aswell. The battersy pilenic saw, hedge cutter, blower, strimmer is brilliant for light duties but a lot of my stuff is smashy smashy stuff and the strimmer only last 40 mins constant and I can't charge it through the day on the go.
