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I felled a dead tawa tree that was 2 feet in diameter at my campsite in nz, considering I was using my gomtaro 330 I had very little pull and had to go from both sides. Was a bit of effort but had to be done! I misjudged the fall distance and ended up breaking our gaslamp haha.

Nobody has mentioned the most simple method of opening the front vent on all zippered trousers.

the difference in having a bit of extra airflow and not is rather substantial.

Sure you might have to walk about cautiously when nearing children and clients but give it a go you may be pleasantly surprised.

If you have work where you are -keep it!

Good luck, It's Damn difficult!

Give me NZ any day over the work scenario here!

This one from Otago NZ

Cleaning up some palms over a large swimming pool in NZ and thought it would be easier to put the ladders in the pool with a scaffold board running between. Job went fine and cleaned everything, packed up and went to the next job. Two days later we got a phone call from client asking if we could come back and seal the holes created in the pool liner as there was no water left in the pool.

Had a lowering strop snap and drop a large piece of eucalyptus on to a corrugated iron water tank, it looked like an accordian all consertinad (spelling)

Thinking of you guys back home in Godsown!

So glad to hear nobody was killed with very few serious injuries sustained.

Seems so strange for Christchurch to get it and not Wellington cause that was always the fear that Wellington was up for the big one!

Hope you guys affected can still get stuck in and carry on!

Just bung it in with your work shirts and chainsaw pants, a bit of laundry powder on a low temperature and a easy care cycle. I normally knit/braid my ropes and stuff them in the machine with prussics included. Come out a treat!!

How about Cryptomeria japonica if you wish to go down the conifer route or have a look at Grisilinea littoralis. both will tolerate salt conditions well.

Great looking table!

Just bite the bullet and go for it!

It's a cracking country with some of the best isolated places just hours from major centres.

Look on trademe for jobs or seek.

I found my jobs by just cold calling from the phone books.

Good luck!

I love them, but I am yet to find someone here who uses them.

We had one on my course and one of the lads was still up the tree at the end of lunch so he got blasted by apples and whatever would splatter on the stem in front of him. Was a good laugh!

The accuracy is fantastic and they can come in handy for those tight sites where you don't have a lot of room to swing your throwline.

I found a old canvas sign from a winery sale with ropes running top and bottom worked really well. Plenty strong enough and plenty of room.

When I was a wee nipper we used to just use fertilizer sacks with bailing twine.

Come summer time you wont be wanting to wear your type A's in NZ, It can get so hot we were stripping off into shorts at lunch time and jumping in the river to cool off.

Not sure on the license thing as I've got the NZ license but will have to get it exchanged for U.K license pretty soon.

Gear seems expensive but you will get used to thinking in $ and not pounds.

why is it you pay a pound for a beer from the supermarket here and only pay 1 NZ $ for the same thing?

Last I heard the NZ dollar was sitting fairly high so you may find your pounds dont go as far as they used to.

NZ $1 = 0.48 p

Good luck and

"Sweet As Bro!!"

Build a frame (pergola) and grow some wisteria and grapes. That way you get fruit and flowers:001_smile:

or go for a japanese maple like Acer palmatum -Senkaki or similar.

In NZ you will need permits and gun license. Pretty easy to get though and plenty of places to go stalking.

I could go for a walk in the hills behind my place and be on to some reds in about half an hr. Mind you D.O.C (Depatrment of Conservation) are often in the hills culling the pests as they like to call deer!

The south island has the wider range of species including Chamois, Tahr if your into that sort of thing.

Plenty of goats up on the hills for a bit of target practice, just watch out for the wild pigs.

Had both the zubat and the gomtarro, find the gomtarro slips out more but i prefer it as you can whip it out for the smaller sticks and tighter corners.

Mind you I only generally use a silky for anything smaller then the thickness of your thumb.

I'm still waiting for the cringing day a dog gets all excited regarding a stick being fed into the chipper and chases after.

I can handle deer, pigs, rabbits and possums but to kill a dog scares me.

Just use a contractors wheelbarrow. carry your gear in and can even put your feet up on the handles when lunching/napping.

Bet you couldn't use one of those to mix concrete or move large logs about narrow properties.

Cracking pic!

Looks like a cool spot.

Like the gypsy stick idea!

Save a bit of weight off the shoulders on a large job crown-lifting.

May just have to work on the coms next time then. And that bus driver had a feather for a accelerator foot!

Should have got a pic of the firewood guy and his trailer today -that thing would have struggled with just one ring off those two trees! I've used bigger wheelbarrows!

A friendly tenner in the hand after a job well done always puts me in a better mood.

Never had a bonus scheme and I dont really see how it could be beneficial in a arb business.

Think I'll stick to the beers in the fridge for the staff at the end of the day.

Great shots keep them coming.

Must be a great spot your in with all those monsters lurking about!

arbsafe helmets are too hot and lack airflow, go for a petzl vent.

I'm waiting on some funds to come available to go back to the petzl helmet.

gotta sort out the harness first though.

electrical tape on the handle and I used bungy cord to tie the scabbard to the loop clip. avoid using any sort of bungy cord to attach saw as if it falls out and you pull on it or it gets caught on a branch you stand a chance of having a flying saw blade heading in your direction at a great rate of knots! I use some old throwline with a small keyring krab clipped through the saw handle.

Works for me.