Bolt
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Yeah, that looks about par-for-the-course. You would, however, be a bit miffed if you had burnt through a tank of aspen in 15 minutes cutting through that with a 200t.
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Battery saw run time time seems far more affected by what you are doing than petrol equivalents. General trimming back, pruning and dainty conifer dismantling easily gets you a morning on a T540i and a bli200x battery, but clogging down an oak stem with bar fully buried in the wood gets about 20 minutes. When I put my heart into it, I think my record to flatten a fully charged battery is about 7 minutes (firewood logging). The battery gets nice and hot when you do this, and the charger won’t recharge it till it’s cooled off a touch.
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Not really. PUWER just treats chainsaws differently to all other bits of work equipment. For all the ‘non-chainsaw’ stuff mentioned above, it’s up to the employer to identify and implement adequate information, instruction, training and supervision.
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In general, yes, but for chainsaws PUWER makes it clear: “workers should have received appropriate training and obtained a relevant certificate of competence or national competence award”. Some jobbing gardener, or passing tree surgeon is not likely to be going to be handing out a relevant certificate of competence or national competence award.
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But, as @daltontrees has already said, for chainsaws, PUWER 98 makes it completely black and white: "All workers who use a chainsaw should be competent to do so. Before using a chainsaw to carry out work on or in a tree, a worker should have received appropriate training and obtained a relevant certificate of competence or national competence award, unless they are undergoing such training and are adequately supervised. However, in the agricultural sector, this requirement only applies to first-time users of a chainsaw." For the workplace (except agriculture) workers should have received appropriate training and obtained a relevant certificate of competence or national competence award. simples.
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Not convinced that statement actually passes fact checking.
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I found that every climb in a T22 was, in effect, a trial.
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I doubt it is as ‘memorable’ as a Willans T22.
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Seems a little harsh, not all cyclists are so selfish that they just ride on the pavement. There are plenty that stick to riding on the road.
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Nice. I never buy newspapers, so I use the money I have saved to buy old-skool Zip firelighters which I set fire to under my free bone dry kindling.
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When I was younger and foolisher I would probably have stuck it in a vice and tried to straighten it with pliers and hammer. Now, I would just replace it in a heartbeat. By the time that bit of bent metal has seen forced back, it will be so stressed and weakened, you will effectively have nothing more secure than a plain gate karabiner. If whatever happened to bend it whilst new reoccurred in the future, I can’t see it putting up much of a fight!
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The gate damage looks like what I would imagine if force had been applied to open it whilst the collar wasn’t fully rotated. Did you use anything to ensure the karabiner stayed properly orientated?
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Zigzag or zigzag plus?
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Definitely.
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Wouldn’t that be premature ‘treejacyuleation’?
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That would make it a ewe hedge.
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Childish…. And inaccurate, as you have clearly only drawn two of his three nuts.
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*that, and that the battery has probably just fallen out.
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Old Renault, and a couple of tins of gloss…. Bargain of the century.
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Not sure about this one if anyone can assist
Bolt replied to Archie Harkness's topic in Tree Identification pictures
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I run a collection of 70s and 80s Homelites for a number of years on premixed Aspen, without a single problem so far.
