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  1. Dan Curtis
    Yup, just found out about that. Not great for rounded nuts though unfortunately. I'll be getting one for the future though
  2. Dan Curtis
    Just spent an hour and a half under my 90. Front uj went this afternoon and who ever put the prop back on last time used metric spanners on an imperial nut. Managed to get it off with a lot of swearing and a chisel in the end. Couldn't get a splitter onto it.
  3. Dan Curtis
    Fine grade paper is very different to a file. My loler inspector uses sand paper on a few bits of my gear every six months. What do you mean by "overtime impact fractures?
  4. Dan Curtis
    Perhaps, but the entire group the first one was at college with were in the same boat
  5. Dan Curtis
    Nice one. I know of two guys who both started their arb career at the same time. 3 years down the line, one was a brash dragger who'd just finished his apprenticeship, still waiting on his college to put him through cs38 so he could learn to climb. The other was ticketed up to 41, lead climber of 10 staff, having paid his own way through tickets and grafted for any experience he could get. Maybe it's the colleges output I'm more disillusioned with.
  6. Dan Curtis
    I don't mean they're then qualified and should be sent out to do some tech rigging job. What's the use of a brash dragger that can't pick up a saw and whip off a fork before putting it in the chipper? What use is a groundsman in a 2 man team who's not aerial rescue trained? Training starts on the job and imo, you should have this bare minimum of qualifications to get a start.
  7. Dan Curtis
    Ditto that.
  8. Dan Curtis
    Totally agree. You could have cs 30, 31 and 38 in two and a half weeks from never touching a saw or a rope if you tried. Just a case of getting on a course. I'm not keen on apprenticeship schemes due to a combination of seeing many talented workers held back by the duration of the courses and time it takes to get tickets. The other side of it is that you get someone who's hopeless but can use a rake and drag brush wasting their employers time and money to get through the course, never showing much sign of being a profitable worker.
  9. Dan Curtis
    Everything of mine is now uploaded. I think the suggestion of stickers is a great idea, at least it's something to act as a deterrent. I'd be happy to pay for them.
  10. Dan Curtis
    Haha, tea out my nose!
  11. Dan Curtis
    You won't regret it Jon, he's touched a couple of my saws and they're incredible
  12. Dan Curtis
    I've heard and tried various things over the years. Run through a full tank of fuel on tick over, auto tune saws want burying in big wood full tilt, gentle use for the first few tanks etc. Nothing seems definitive to me, I haven't yet (touch wood) killed a new saw. Currently running in a new 550xp, it had a few tanks of two stroke through on demo then I've switched to aspen. I've run about 7/8 tanks through and it's loosening up and flying. I reckon spud is the man to look to for anything with an engine
  13. Dan Curtis
    I've just had all of my saws in storage for 4 months while recovering from an operation. I filled them with aspen 2 the day I put them away. Every single one has started and run without problems, and had a fairly strenuous first fortnight back at work since being brought out again.
  14. Dan Curtis
    I slightly fell in love with the beam. 10"x6"x8'
  15. Dan Curtis
    A few more of the product
  16. Dan Curtis
    A few I've been sent by the guy I was working with. I have some more of the end product on my camera I'll sort out when I get to a pc. I now just need a mini mill and an 090
  17. Dan Curtis
    BFG's again. Had some Grabber AT2's and don't rate them.
  18. Dan Curtis
    I've used nearly the same method today milling a 40" or so Oak log. I free cut the two sides off to get the width down to my mill size (36"). Took a 6" through sawn board off the top to use as an outdoor table top, boy was that heavy! After this I took a 14" slab the full width, flipped it sideways and ran it into 3" boards. It's got some great burring and figuring. I'll post pics tomorrow. This was a log that we quoted about 13 months ago but lost on price. They got another contractor who made 4 cuts and never came back. :what:
  19. Dan Curtis
    Heaven forbid someone suggesting SRT! I avoided it this morning Seriously though, it is a good option, especially where you can redirect and be working from an anchor that's above your working position. In this case, you could also spread your load over multiple points to reduce strain on individual branches that you might be concerned about their integrity.
  20. Dan Curtis
    *in the land rover. Yes, that makes more sense
  21. Dan Curtis
    Kelly. You gotta love fire! I even have a mount made up for my big one land rover
  22. Dan Curtis
    Luke Chapman uses lengths for his stargazer seats. Look him up on Facebook, he's got a carving page. Distance might be a bit much though
  23. Dan Curtis

    New MS661

    Dan Curtis replied to keptenjim's topic in Chainsaws

    If only...
  24. Dan Curtis
    I think there's a Japanese Elm that's more resistant than most. Councils went into planting them big time for a while. Then they found out it has a tendency to have serious structural issues, compression forks and associated failures. Bit like Norway maple, but more so. An older guy I worked for who's been in the industry since the 70's reckons that you can prolong an Elm's life by pruning out any wilting foliage as soon as you see it. I've not seen this myself, but I've seen mature living Elms that he's worked on. Not sure how you go about pruning out galleries and overwintering beetles though!
  25. Dan Curtis
    We've planted a few Aesculus indica in the last year in memory of a friend. Saplings of parent trees that he planted 40 odd years ago. I want a grove of Sequoia personally, so much so I started it three years ago with the intention of adding to it over the rest of my time.

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