Ben90

Another little benefit to the gomtaros that all of you lefty arborists out there have probably already noticed is that you can put the saw in the scabbard either way.

Tell him it's sempervirens

Does oil appear anywhere else? Like under the guide bar? Check to see if it's flinging off the end of the bar, or if the oil holes on the saw and the guide bar are lined up to eachother.

I've cut down a few skinny Douglas fir, ever-so-loosley owned by Lord Bath for college training...

On second thought, he probably wasn't even aware it happened.

Awesome work!

Forget the welcome sign, put a picnic basket there! =D

Congratuations!

Throw toilet paper over his house...

what i can never understand is people who put in their description "listed elsewhere"

whats that supposed to mean? do they not understand that once its on ebay, thats where it has to be sold?

Not before anybody has bidded for it. It's just a load of pictures on a page until then. You can edit descriptions and such too, but once someone has bidded it's carved in stone so to speak.

Unless it's changed. It's been a while since I sold stuff on eBay.

Brilliant photos!

Cheers. Yeah I've been looking around but they either look too fragile or don't extend far enough. Seeing I'll probably have my sawpod on and reaching to a branch above my head will be a good 2 meters. Someone I know uses a spiral boogieboard cord which seems to do the job.

There are times when sawpods make the silky fall out more often, because it can actually be turned upside down, unlike when it's suspended from your harness when it's (almost) always the right way up, but I still love it, one for the cool factor and two it keeps it away from your harness.

I think you can get something like your description on ebay. From what I can remember, it was used by police or prison warden to secure bunches of keys - so it would support a handsaw, and not be too cumbersome. Might be worth a search?

I will do, thanks a lot.

silkies are nasty enough with out attaching a bungy zip cord to it i reckon lol

Try telling that to the groundie it inevitably falls on I wouldn't just drop it though, it'd return it near enough to the yo-yo thing and just let go, there are times when you really, really don't want to be trying to aim your silky back into your sheath.

I have a sawpod, they're great =) I left it on while chipping though and i stood on the wrong side of the chipper exhaust to adjust the chute and burnt most of the strap away

I meant a smaller one

^ I've been after one of those, maybe a bit smaller, to attach my silky to my sheath to stop me dropping it all the time. Not the whole frame obviously, just the yo-yo attachment. I got the idea from my girlfriend's yo-yo ID tag holder thing.

I wondered why a wash bag was needed to wash rope. In times like these I'd be more than happy to use a pillow case

I'm glad I didn't know this during the 2-week 'honeymoon' after buying my kit, otherwise the washing machine would see my rope after every climb!

Karl, looking at your display picture hurts me =|

According to the Husky site:

Recommended bar length, min-max 18"-36"

May be a different species altogether and I am barking up the wrong tree.

That was the Pun Of The Day.

It's also to do with insurance, they love to see 'industry best practice', purely because they know people won't comply fully to it. To them, large annual payments going in + excuse to pay nothing out = business!

They probably lifted that onto the trailer themselves.

Awesome photos!

Greedy boards - Typically made of plywood or aluminium, greedy boards are put up around the edges of the tipper compartment to hold many times more woodchip. Usually reaching the same height as the crew cab, so as not to affect aerodynamics. Most incorporate a roof to stop shredded leaves from blowing everywhere.

Not only that, we need to print them off at photo shops like Jessops and stash them away. Digital photos stored on a hard drive are vulnerable to all kinds of stuff happening to them.

Awesome, thanks!

As far as I know its all contracted out to tree companies, nothing is done "in house" by mod employed personell. Occasionaly they carry out some dimsantling work on salisbury plane using tanks and therefore combining tree work and target practice at the same time!!

We did some work for them on Sailsbury Plain widening a tank crossing and clearing some hawthorn. My boss had a hard time negotiating stuff and working with them, they were just a pain. On Monday, one squaddie rolled a Jeep by hitting a pothole on the tank track right where we were working, the same tank track I drove over 2 hours earlier in a Pug 306. Here he his looking proud of himself.

The funniest/most concerning thing was the resulting rescue operation, and the sheer length it took. The day after the Jeep rolled, some huge 6-wheeled vehicle used to carry folding bridges came along to tow the jeep away, but that broke down...They couldn't fix it, so 2 days after that, another 6-wheeler came along to tow both vehicles away. By then it was thursday.

Personally, I hate working for kids playing soldiers.

We were taught the same flow as that in college, it's like a 6-step 'dance'. Though it does take a bit of practice, and compared to him I look like a robot.

You should've done your felling training in longleat woods, you would have got all the winch practice you could ask for! The fact that the trees were so densely packed (and that we were amateurs) means they were hung up a fair few of times a day.