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  1. Dan Curtis
    I'm happy for you to buy one and try it out on my behalf
  2. Dan Curtis
    Having witnessed you strip and fix a saw before I had time to drink a cup of tea, it's pretty obvious you know what you're doing. Keep it up spud. Ps, any thoughts on hotting up a 550 in the new year?
  3. Dan Curtis
    It takes a little wearing in ime. How much rope are you pulling from above? A little bit is better than a full arm's length to start off with until you get used to the action
  4. Dan Curtis
    Yup, just found out about that. Not great for rounded nuts though unfortunately. I'll be getting one for the future though
  5. 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.
  6. 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?
  7. Dan Curtis
    Perhaps, but the entire group the first one was at college with were in the same boat
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Dan Curtis
    Ditto that.
  11. 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.
  12. Dan Curtis
    I don't have many pictures to hand but I'll try to find some of the Oaks when I get to my pc. The fire was 6-8 months before we worked there.
  13. Dan Curtis
    I had a job like this last year. Someone had set fire to a paintball site in some woods and a few Oaks and Beeches caught fire. The beeches were mostly killed, or became weakend to the point that they were open to multiple pathogens. The Oaks though severely scorched weren't too structurally damaged, and didn't seem to unstable as a result. Based on my experience, I'd think hard about bringing the Beeches down to a size that they aren't going to fall onto any targets, of the 10 or so we felled, at least 9 weren't even stable enough to climb. I'd be going for short monoliths personally. The Oaks were felled within falling distance of the cabins. The further away ones were reduced, fractured and/or monolithed. As far as I know, fire isn't an evolved part of British habitat, but you might create some interesting opportunities if some burned material can be kept.
  14. 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.
  15. Dan Curtis
    Haha, tea out my nose!
  16. Dan Curtis
    You won't regret it Jon, he's touched a couple of my saws and they're incredible
  17. 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
  18. 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.
  19. Dan Curtis
    I slightly fell in love with the beam. 10"x6"x8'
  20. Dan Curtis
    A few more of the product
  21. 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
  22. Dan Curtis
    BFG's again. Had some Grabber AT2's and don't rate them.
  23. 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:
  24. 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.
  25. Dan Curtis
    *in the land rover. Yes, that makes more sense

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