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Another mill stone? What are all these HSE mill stones you talk of? Can you do us a list (just for grins )
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Well, its a reply, and its a good point. As anyone who has done CS41 knows, you should follow the 4:1 ratio of pulley diameter to rope diameter if you wish to maintain rope strength. For a 13mm rope, you need 52mm diameter pulley (which is a cracking size for a cambium saver). Anyway - its only an point of interest I thought I would raise for you to bring up at posh dinner parties when you run out of small talk. Hmmmmmm - arbmyths, now there is a thread idea.
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The wrist thing is a very loose rule of, er, thumb. As you said, it depends on the species, but it also depends on the crown architecture. If the branch in question is at the trunk, you are probably OK. If the branch in question is on a long side limb or a side fork, it may bust out. Oak is especially bad at this, because the novice may think that oak is 'strong'. In my opinion, the wrist thing is more to do with the minimum radius that the rope should pass through rather than the strength of wood. Therefore a 13mm rope ideally wouldnt pass through a pully smaller than you wrist (I do have very small wrists though).
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Never heard it called that before, but been there loads of times, great location. Be sure to take your trunks if you like swimming in rivers :-) Are you also taking in the Wistmans Wood bit? Now there is a strange little bit of woodland...
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what vehicle or what chainsaw brand poll do you prefer
Bolt replied to tommer9's topic in The Lounge
hurt trees OR hug trees keep carbon locked up / imprisoned against its will, OR covert into free CO2 (using big noisy V8 engines). -
Fair pay Blazer, going for CS30/31 at 61! Glad to see that you were having kids at forty, a route that i am currently taking . What your lad needs is to be as useful 'on paper' as possable. I would try to get him qualified so that he can be the 2nd man in a two man team. CS30, and he can use a saw to dice up what someone else has felled (or dismantled). CS38, he can do aerial rescue. Emergency 1st aid, and he can patch his workmate up as required. CS31, 39, chipper tickets, trailer licence, etc, etc, can wait (after all, he's only 19).
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PS, it looks nice and sunny where you are - is it the US?
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As steve says, its an eyesore, but its only an eyesore when viewed at certain angles. Go round 90 degrees, so that the tree is between you and the OHL, and you won't see many of the cuts, and you won't the pole holding the lines up for the tree either. Its not supossed to look pretty, its supposed to ensure an appropriate clearance from the line, and its also doing a great job of drawing attention to the lines by screaming "stay away from these wires because if you get your ali ladder them, you are a gonner" to anyone who will look. Your tree won't, or shouldn't ever get to look normal again....... If it were mine I would certainly look towards having it removed.
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I don't mind delivery charges, but I really hate where the charge is hidden deep in the website, and you can't find it out untill you are in the latter stages of paying. Keep 'em up front, it stops the charges feeling like a sharp practice ripoff Have an "orders above £~~ are free" as your customers feel like thay are getting something for nothing (and it encourages them to spend more)
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How would you go about getting into a conifer with no crotch?
Bolt replied to YoGi_93's topic in Climbers talk
What?, no crotch at all! That sounds like a nasty injury. After recovering from that i'm not sure I would want to get into a conifer, but if I really did, I guess I would just pull myself up using my arms.... -
Do you get autoglass adverts on telly? God, they are annoying on the radio. Bad actors pretending to be technicians who are bad at acting. and then there is the bit where "autoglass repair, auto glass replayssssssss.
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Congratulations to you all. Glad to see the little one has your taste in hats :-) Hope your good lady has a speedy recovery.
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It really seem to be a bit lame at 1:22, don't you think? Reminds me a bit too much of my 338xp as it struggles through the upright sections.
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you have been pipped... http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/video-forum/27853-has-been-posted-new-husky-vid.html and http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/27772-t540xp.html I wouldn't worry though, at least it wasn't a pair of chaps climing to the very to of a reaaly tall transmission mast :-)
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I also saw this... I notice that they don't race them head to head...........I wonder why not Another Husqvarna arb-disaster on the way I fear
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I, on the other hand, can think of a few farmers who would be up for doing that..... They do, after all... spend a fair bit of time on their own Drink lots of beer act stupid when they meet up. what they don't tend to do though is chew on bits of grass sit under haystacks say proooooooper job.
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Looks great, and I can hear it now... "Hello Mr Tennant, you know that new defender I just got, well - I popped out one of the headlights lenses whilst winching down in the woods - do you have any in stock?...........No?.................can you get one in, its the drivers side - oh, and how much are they, £40? ...........ewwwwwww £400!" Probably best for supermarket shopping and inner-city drug dealers.
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I have been running one for a few weeks now...... I got it from a nice chap on ebay. Balance..... Power........ Performance....... It's unbelieveable.
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I my experiance it isn't worth Jack. The last one I took down went for logs (about 10 years ago though). One bloke, who had been pestering and pleading for walnut for months ("I'll pay you a top price, bla-bla-bla") gave us a couple of quid as (it turned out) he "only needed a slither" for wood turning. This didn't supprise us at the time, as it's what always happens.
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Only 'blessed' Max Clifford (a thereby lies the problem).
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The correct term (in the interest of education) is Mothering Sunday (not mothers day - geeee, you lot are godless ) So I says to my misses when she woke up "I suggest you get up and do some mothering" ha ha. (yeah, like hell I did, I scampered around like a right house elf at first light getting all the little ones sorted )
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really though, why are you still up at this time of night!!!??
Bolt replied to Chris Gagen's topic in The Lounge
DVD box sets are what you need to entertain you throught those long hours...... Red Dwarf...... Spaced.......... Blackadder........ ahhhhh, the list goes on! I (or should I say WE) worked through the lot. Amazing how quick it goes from 10/10 annoyance when they refuse to settle, to 10/10 love when they nod off :-) Keep smilin...... -
My project to help you and arboriculture
Bolt replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
How are you doing Dave? Still on the mend I hope? -
Is she still around, I thought she had died...... O no, I'm getting confused, that was Bernard Matthews.
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God, you are right I feel such a fool. And the two up the top are just typical landrover dodgy window seals
