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Why the spikes? Sorry but I just do not get it, you posted so you obviously want feedback, but to be honest you did a simple job pretty badly and have created more of a hazard now with more expensive future maintenance for the client.

 

You shoulda just felled it.

 

And sorry if my comments are negative its been a long day.

trees that are being kept generally shouldn't be spiked, yes, but i don't see a problem spiking poplars or willows.

Plus there is hardly any spike marks, its not like i was spiking up and down it all day, ladder up as high as it would go, climb up then spike up to one branch that needed cutting off, spike up to to put the winch rope in, back down to the level of the cut, then just lowered myself down on my friction hitch.

cheers for all the comments guys, appreciate it

Nice work, hope you tested it by pulling a big tree over!

thanks, yeah man once the paint was dry, had to pull the top out of a poplar http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/39860-knocking-top-out-poplar.html

Do you drive to Scotland in you landi ?

 

Nice job on the bumper

cheers man, yeah i did 280ish miles, pleased with the old thing

nice but when are you fitting that harvesting head:lol:

dont give me ideas...

cheers for all the comments guys! I really enjoyed this job, nice a simple, also got try my new Home Made Landy Winch Bumper

The reason behind the job is that its for a land owner that my granddad does a lot of work for, we had a few other trees out of that woodland, and they wanted the top out of the two poplars as they are by the road and just for aesthetics from there house i guess

And yeah that is a home made pulleysaver, does look a bit weird in that pic now i look again.

it really is handy man! it has 2 cranes on it both being able to lift 2 ton

Alright everyone hows it going, some of you may or may not know that im at Barony College in Dumfries, Scotland at the moment studying a National Certificate in Forestry Engineering.

It is great, i love it.

Well i thought i would share a recent pictures from in and around the workshop

Heres the last job i did on my Christmas break before coming back up to Scotland, had two poplars to knock the tops out of. Only had time to do there one, as we kept getting a lot of really bad wind so had to keep putting it off, they aren't bothered though so i can finish it when i go back down at Easter i think.

Simple job, lop a few branches off, put the landy winch rope up there a bit of a cut and off she comes, did smash the hedge a little bit, but i said that might happen before i did it and they werent bothered

Alright guys, havent posted on here for a while.

Just before i drove back up to Scotland after Christmas I needed the landy winch to pull some poplars over, it wasn't working properly, seemed to keep cutting out, so i stripped the winch down to find it was full of water... as the power input terminal was very loose and corroded, so cleaned it out, and re-wired it all, works like a beast now!

I thought as i had it off the landy, i would make a new bumper. See before i had a winch tray sat on the top of the standard land rover bumper. I wanted to sit the winch down and have it all as one bumper. So cut the middle of the bumper out sat the winch tray down in and welded it and reinforced it abit, lick of paint and now looks tidy! Well i think it does

after today alot of my climbing gear is in the footwell of my landy... so it can live there for a while

you looking at buying new or old? by what you said about handeling anything a big old stenner or forester is what you want, but having said that we push some fair size stuff through our norwood, probably bigger than recomended.

I guy i know has a mobile pezzolato mill and its brilliant, im not sure on the model, will take some fair size stuff, and he found it cheaper to buy the eletctirc version and then buy a second hand pto driven generater that he ran off his mog, so that could be somthing to think about

my rigging gears in one bag and my climbing gear in another simples aha, the climbing bags starting to over flow abit, but having said that stuff ends up getting mixed around bags, i dont mind really as long as its all there somwhere

real nice mate!

wheres the throttle handle on the saw from? or did you make it? never seen one of them before

Ace, what make is the bar on the 153? Do you have a part no.? Is it solid or sprocket nose?

 

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alright man, i have 2 old dolmar bar for it and an oregon one i bought 2 years ago from clarks i think it was, its a solid nose. I'll get the product number, i think the oiler holes lined up more or less, i may have had to grind it a little bit, i honestly cant remember, i'll check

Did you still have decent power and chain speed with that mike?

depends what saw its on, really big bars are great on really old saws as they have a lot more torque, chain speed is always a lot slower on old saws, i would much rather be running a extra long bar on an 070 or 166 than a modern 880

grandad has a 48" on the 070AV, i have 3 36" for the 153 and 166, and a 44" for the 166

Saw all the homemade rope guides that people had been posting on here, so i had a go at making one. I cant splice so it was knots all the way, did a eucalpytus take down yesturday, so gave it a go there, seemed to work really well, and it retrieved ok, only problem is that because there is no wire in the eye just the hose it did get abit compressed and was a fiddle to get the pulley through on retrival, but it worked none the less

i use a prussik on my wire core flip line, dont really climb much but thats what i've always used and works well for me

looking awesome stevie, with that engine, whats she like on fuel?

i can totally see where your coming from, you being brought up around it and visiting it so often, but surely this wood was planted for timber, as a crop, like most woodlands, so whats happening is just the way it was intended?

i think planting more willow is the way forward, it may not have as higher calorific value as other stuff, but its sure as hell grows fast, and we manage to shift tons and tons of it as firewood

ahh fair play, thats awesome, hell of a versitle bit of kit!

nightmares ????????????????????? why

it dont half kick

the only night mare i will be having is about it going walk about in the nite

 

 

now what my next old saw going to be

dolmer 166

old danarm 125

or a stihl 070 or 090 :confused1:

166 i have and will never regret buying mine

ace, i have a lot of draining to do, i have teamed up with my mate who has all his own diggers.

So with clamshell i can self load and fill with gravel.

also run the spoil off site and it will be a 1 man, 1 machine operation.

we will shift it locally by driving it over the hills and thru gates, if it needs shifting further i will just use a local haulier.

 

Ground condition really effects us, this machine will now ensure work right thru winter now. As we will do very little damage

 

Chris, nice 1. we are only here once.

ah nice one, that would be sweet, you going to get something fabricated that fits between the bolsters to hold gravel, soil ect.?

ahh i see you can get around most places without going on the road? thats ideal

would love to come and see that beast working!

what are you planning on have a clam shell for? and what about moving it from job to job? use a haulage contactor everytime, or would it be possible to fit on a trailer behind a tractor or mog?

thats awesome, hardly any effort at all

nice one stevie! looks like a hell of a bit of kit!