Dan Curtis

Wedges stacked back to back will work if you forget your plate

My 395 has a yellow ce sticker iirc

Pretty sure all husky saws come with a CE sticker on them somewhere. I'd say the 3120 is real, but might not be what you get if you bought it.

And to get through the ice in the Arctic

It's returned in the form of lovely sopping wet cord, stacked and ready to process.

Ha. It was my dad's. He lives next door and he was looking after my fire while I was laid up on the sofa. He thought it would be easier to bring his own logs round (from a well lit shed) than try to load a basket out of my covered (unlit) ibc's.

I borrowed a load of oak over Christmas and can agree with your distaste of it. I'm usually burning Beech, Elm, Horse Chestnut, lots of Leyland's cypress but the Oak was by miles the fastest burning, lowest output wood I've had. I normally get through a small basket a night in my burner, with the Oak I was getting on for two, sometimes a little more. No lasting embers either. I guess the poem must be wrong.

Maybe landforce then. Do you know what colour it was?

Landforce hardmet have a ridiculous roller speed. What size chipper are you talking?

I can forward you mine if you want

There was throwlining last year, not sure of the setup this year yet.

Adam Bourne can probably provide a better answer as he runs it. It's basically a standard work climb; stations, targets, bells etc but geared towards SRT. There'll be redirect points and the routing is key to a successful run.

I'll get out and get some this afternoon as long as it's not raining

I missed this thread first time around. I've got a similar thing going on here at the moment. About 20 years ago, my dad planted a couple of acres of mixed natives under a grant and management scheme. The scheme meant that the wood had to be beaten up until it was 15 years old, and no felling of live trees was allowed until the 15 year mark. Somehow, at the beating up stages, we ended up with a load of Sweet Chestnut, provided by the FC. We've got about 25% Oak, 25% Ash, 15% Cherry, 10% Field Maple, 10% Sweet Chestnut and the rest is a mix of Hazel, Hawthorn, Holly and a few Elms have crept in. The Cherry is yielding the most timber, but it's not particularly nice to process, being crooked and multi-stemmed. The Ash is doing great, lots of lovely straight trees that are growing fast. The Sweet Chestnut has really been forced by the older trees and grown well, there will be some nice timber trees at some point in the future. At 20 years old, the wood is looking great. I started thinning it 3 winters ago, mostly taking wolves and whips out, along with a few dead trees. We left a certain amount of deadwood standing and lying down for habitat, the rest we've extracted as firewood. I've coppiced most of the Hazel, and I fenced the stools with the brash from the other trees that were removed. The rest of the brash has been used as dead hedging top replace the boundary trees and hedges that are slowly disappearing. I coppiced a handful of Field Maples too, as an experiment and they're coming along nicely. I cut them high, about 2ft. The higher ones have done better than the ground level, mostly I think because of rabbit and hare grazing. I tried striking a few Willows two years ago in the wetter areas, nothing survived unfortunately.

That's the one. Download it, scribble your details on it and post it back. Or scan it and email it back

I ditched carrying a first aid kit when the little clip on bags wouldn't last more than a week before bursting their seams. Since then I've always carried a large wound dressing in my pocket. When I actually needed to stop a serious bleed whilst aloft, I tore the sleeve off my shirt and made a tourniquet/pressure pad. To my mind, it was the quickest way I was going to slow my bleeding. Getting a dressing out my pocket, unpacking it and unravelling it would've taken much longer. Perhaps my sleeve wasn't very clean, but neither would a bandage be after I'd fumbled with it with dirty hands.

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I thought that, but it's in the "work positioning" section, rather than "access"

Big trees need SRT

I put my lid on my helmet to make it 200ft

It makes you wonder. Some of the contributors to the document seriously know their stuff, but comments like that put some doubt in my mind that they know much about this subject.

Velocity is great but can be a bit tiring on the hands and forearms

No, I've never climbed there 192ft:001_tt2:

From the link above; "two sections of rope to be run parallel in order to facilitate a friction hitch or a mechanical device to be secured around both parts simultaneously. this could be a single rope doubled over and secured to prevent separation" Does anyone actually use this configuration? I know people have been playing with two independant srt lines, but this sounds ridiculous! What kind of mechanical device can be used on two legs of static rope at the same time?

Camping is free to competitors, so send in an entry form. First come, first serve basis:001_smile: