Dan Curtis

LOL certainly looks that way.

Im gonna dig out the new 395xp I have here and have a look for any ce sticker it may have but im sure it hasn't. The homeowner saws normally have 1 on the top cover but its almost like its husqvarnas own design sticker that doesn't look out of place and not some ugly general purpose sticker like on that saw.

My 395 has a yellow ce sticker iirc

Lol maybe I described that poorly. The later genuine models have a more sunken into the crankcase vin plate. Same area but more deeper inset.

 

Now show me a genuine Husqvarna with a ce approved silver sticker

 

Some of the homeowner saws have a coloured ce sticker on them but never seen a silver one and never seen any form of ce sticker on an xp model.

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.

They've used chainsaws a couple of times, once in the studio to cut up the cool wall looked like an Echo and in Bolivia to build a bridge, something like an 08S.

 

And to get through the ice in the Arctic

Dan, how can you borrow a load of firewood?

What sort of condition do you return it in?

 

 

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

Hey Dan,

 

If you have any more crappy oak you can dump it all at my place

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.

Curious to see what people's thoughts towards oak are.

 

I bought a standing dead oak the other day, felled it and processed the firewood for the store at home. Very dead on top, very dry.

 

After just one barrow full of exclusively oak, I'm back to mixing it with my other stuff (general sycamore, hawthorn, cherry, ash, willow and birch mix - small diameter, mostly unsplit circa 60cm lengths).

 

I found that I got little heat out of the oak, no embers, not much flame and it burnt almost twice as quickly as the normal hardwood (a very, very full barrow does us two days, but just one with oak).

 

Why on earth do customers love it? I'd rather burn sitka!

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.

Not huge, about 6 inch

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

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

I feel very left out, didn't get one

I can forward you mine if you want

Sounds good, involve throw line?

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

What does the srt climb involve exactly? Sorry if it has been covered already mate

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.

What kind of diameter are you talking? Would love to see some pictures...

Sounds good! Any pictures, as Spandit said?

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.

Hi dan, I've looked for the entry forms and can only find a photo of one on FB.

 

Is there a download I can fill out? I'm technologically challenged.

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.

There is camping available in the main show area to non competitors;

Save money and book tickets in advance

footlocking i think thats referring to Dan.... that exhausting thing nonone really likes doing unless its a special occasion.

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

What systems are you guys climbing these monsters on?

Big trees need SRT

That's 200' if you stood on the tip with your lid perched on top of your hair then.

 

 

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

Have they been reading up on industrial rope access?

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

Is that where you climbed something like a 180' a couple of years back Dan?

Lake Vyrnwy is a pretty special place, went to a mates wedding there a few years back.

 

 

 

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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?

Dan do we need to pre book the camping or just turn up and choose a pitch?

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

the tallest tree in britain was at lake vyrnwy, but they cut it down on country file a few years ago!!

I think that's the one that got carved into a hand. There's a plaque there about it