Stephen Blair
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Looking to get a carving done of a dog.
Stephen Blair replied to Woody wood cutter's topic in Chainsaw Carving Forum
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Cornish your post has just lit a huge light bulb above my head! I've just realised the winch IS the weakest link!! Of course it is!! Why could I not see that before? Shear pin or no shear pin!! Man that's so obvious now, embarrassingly obvious! R Mac my apologies , looks like the weakest link in my system is me
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This is what happens when a climber is an engineer too! What a set up!
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[quote=Jimbo 76;1434966 And without a doubt the sheer pin should be the weekest point in your set up. They are meant to sheer and be replaced. The winch has jaws that have non return so no danger. Cheers James. It's my understanding that a shear pin is there to protect the winch it has nothing to do with creating a weak point in your winching operation as a safety measure!
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Cracking dogs Mark
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Energetic Labrador with a bit of Mischief and scared of spiders but will want to play with a fully grown charging water buffalo
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Hi Mick, when you say you are climbing just now, is that mountains or trees? Can you do the job and just need tickets? or are you a mountain climber?
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No pics then of the book you learnt everything from? To the OP, by all means buy the tirfor you have put the link up to, depending on what jobs you take on it will do the job. I was given 2 of them many years ago along with a 5 ton with no shear pins. The smaller 2 let me down not only with the inconvenience of the shear pins but they just didn't have the power for relatively small jobs if things were stuck. If you watch out on EBay or Arbtrader you can be lucky and pick up the larger tirfors and although clumbersome to carry they have the power and build quality to endure tree work. I've had this tirfor for 17 years, the other 2 rotted themselves to bits and failed their lolers years ago. The metal and make up just wasn't built to last.
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How did I miss this thread before? I work either by myself or with a Groundie who doesn't use a saw so it's hard work over climbing stuff or thumping out big! I do a lot of zip lining now which saves a huge amount or work and labour. If money and work allowed I would have a team of another 4 guys again and rig everything big and let them deal with it on the ground and I'd enjoy the view more. I've tried VT, spider jack, zig zag and tbh I am at home with the Prussik, which is ok because most of my stuff is pine takedowns so I'm rarely pulling up where all the work is.
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What song is on repeat in your head whilst aloft?
Stephen Blair replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in General chat
Cool thread, it used to be more of a 80's montage scene by the likes of white snake or guns n roses. I had the energy then to go full speed from dawn till dusk! Now it's more Last of the Summer Wine -
you are catastrophising my ways within the debate, not everything we do with a tirfor and strops is going to end up with a huge tree going wrong and killing a household! That's what I weigh up at a glance of turning up onsite. That little box with the shear pins beside the extraction tool was lost years ago on a slippy wild garlic infested banking wrestling a dead elm tree over a house in the rain. The same place I lost a steel wedge in the undergrowth. I look at the winch as the engine of the vehicle, if it goes you are screwed, if you get a puncture or the bumper falls off you can limp home. That's it in my head as basic as I can type for you. I would now be interested to see examples of your work to show me my ways are wrong and hopefully I will learn from you as I am always wanting to change for the better to make this job easier.
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You can't think of situations where your way could be wrong, I know the situations I've been in that worked out OK after something has failed and it's not been the winch . No point going round in circles here.
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Do you know the weight of everything you are pulling or lifting? Why pick up a 2 ton strop or a 3 ton strop or even look at the numbers on things unless you know for sure. Reasons I don't want the weakest link being the winch. 1, it's the most expensive piece of kit. 2, I will be standing beside it so don't want the massive twangy movement beside me. 3, if something else fails I can still rectify the situation easier than if the winch fails. I don't like shear pins, they can get stuck, they are something tiny that get misplaced easily, dropped at your feet in short grass never to be seen again and if I'm taking something with a shear pin it's not up to the job. I work with the biggest thing I have to hand, I have no idea the pressures, weights and forces in numbers, what I do have is years of experience where my brain recognises a big lump of wood, a strop, shackle and chains and says' well it didn't break last time and it was bigger '
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Yes mum is a black GSP, dad is long haired Hungarian Viszla although he isn't very hairy, mum is to the left. That picture is 6 months old, pups are a lot bigger now. Buster( brown) got a sock lodged in his gut as a pup which stunted his growth hugely, he was the biggest pup, hence his big square head to his smaller body. Wallace( black) is huge, giant paws and hairier, he's a big soft lump of happiness
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The Vizsla is the dad! The pups are Vointers
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That's excellent!
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I think the tank capacity is key not so much the compressor size!
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I don't work with things with shear pins, if you don't know what you are doing then the last thing you want is a system seized up under tension! The winch should never be the weakest link, if you don't know what to do, get taught how to.
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I was thinking on buying 1 for doing my trench work around pipes! I was wanting to try and get a pto 1 for the Mog
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Ok forget the fortune I'm just cutting everything down in my head I had no idea the size of the grab and saw though!!! Awesome
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good pictures, although sad to see!
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Oh my! Every tree I look at now I am cutting it down with that machine, in my head I'm making a fortune and there aren't many trees left
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Our pups 1st birthday reunion
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They are at it mate!
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Good stuff! Start a flood thread, plenty guys on here suffered but I doubt as much as yourself!
