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Bit of initial chopping down to size. The Basic shape is not too much of a problem. Loose bark! Dead wood! All work halted by the environmental auditor so she can undertake a bat survey :lol:

My good lady wife is due any day now (#3) and looks fit to burst. No2 child was supposed to be a home birth, but due to a series of hilarious events we ended up having the baby in the maternity unit. This time, a home birth is planned again. What I need (she declares a few weeks ago) is a birthing stool. Any chance you could carve me one up. TBH, I don’t do carving (and I am rather proud that in over 20 years I have never made even a mushroom (but I am not dissing those that have)). I am simply more into destruction than construction!! Did a bit of Google research to find out what its all about.... This is how they once were (you can probably work out how it works yourself) The new ones arn't quite so pretty!! Anyway, It’s a poor plan to turn a heavily pregnant woman down, so I kept my eyes open on the felling course I was taking, and grabbed myself a 'prime' willow fork..... ... and set to work :biggrin:

Greetings all, Normally skulk around arbtalk at the office (nice proper fast broadband) as the home internet connection is mobile broadband via a 3g skypephone (can't be doing with BT). The skypephone sometimes manages to slow arbtalk down to a stop. Anyway, took up microsofts kind offer of ditching explorer, and choosing a browser from a company that understands how to write a proper bit of code. Decided to go with firefox (as I have heard of it before). Wow, the speed! Home arbtalking (or should that be arb-reading) is fun once more.

We've probably spent more time on this than a tool box talk would have taken:lol:

If you want to really cover your back, pick up afew ready made loops here and there. How could anyone ever prove that a loop that failed was one you joined?

Its a slim chance a chain will snap, and if it does, its an even slimmer chance it will be on your join, and if it is, its an even slimmer chance it will injure someone, and if it does, its an even slimmer chance they will be seriously injured, and if they are, what are the odds of HSE getting involved.

Question is, Bob, Who has been asking you such impertinent questions?

It's never the accident you expect that gets you (well, not unless you are really stupid) (and if you are really stupid, we have the darwin awards)

hopefully about to be used to remove the little red bit on top.

not smart

As you are making up the chains, using the links provided with the links, on a rivet spinner designed for the task, what could possably be the problem? If in doubt, do yourself a generic risk assessment to make pen pushers feel better:lol:. after all, do you have a history of the links you have spun snapping?? NO? I thought not. There is no problem then is there! (is it just me though, or are there never quite enough links in the box:blushing:)

ironic really, the 200t wont stop, but my 338 dosn't want to go at all!

I was going to give the hint about making sure you remove the little bolt from the orange switch before trying to seperate the handle. And the one about taking a photo of the linkage positions in the handle before it all flys apart on reassembly. Don't think i'll bother now, its all gone hostile. Interest anyone in a used 338?

Fear not, Thelogstore, you could still be the first . It maybe a 90 tipper picture, but its not a picture of a 90 tipper. Just a picture of a 110 tipper thats been cut and pasted a bit, see below for origional picture found elsewhere on this thread. I had a 90 truck cab a while back that I was toying with removing the butt and replacing it with somthing else, but I couldn't decide what (flatbed, built in chipper, etc, etc). Although I took the back off, and even got as far a purchasing a rear bulkhead, I never did any more, and the Landy finished its days just pushing chippers round the yard

I think it looks like madness, but I can't decide if thats in a good or bad way?? Bet it would be a crack to drive (Log deliveries by airstrike), but probably it would handle like a whale when loaded (especially on tired old springs) On the good side, if you wish to try it, Take off the landys roof and butt, get a few brackets knocked up to fit a rear bulkhead and stick on a truck cab roof. You dont need to chop up anything. If you dont like it, refit the origionals (you will prob sell any bits you dont want for what you paid for them). Landys...... great for lifes experimenters

They are also built bomb proof unlike some other brands of saw I own. ...and they come with more than a half-hearted warranty. Used to use them for training, and they just went on and on (except for the chainbrakes which didn't like too much operation). All in all, good robust saws, which will carry on going after you've broken all your other saws.

best thing about Makita, is that you can keep out of the whole "I love Stihl... I love Husky" thing.

this kind of thing??

Mittens like these I hope.... First ever chainsaw gloves I was given, and I have still got them (yes, they are THAT useful )

Fair play to you. Always good to come across someone who has turned up with the gear, and the knowledge to use it. :-)

anyway (I got distracted with my yew confession). If you cut of the sunny side first (to encourage regeneration) and cut the shadow side a few years later, wouldn't the shadow side be even more likely to fail (as there is loads of lovely high-quality growth already established soaking up all that lovely sunshine) (This is a genuine question, rather than a hole-picking argument)

A utility team I was managing hacked off a whole side of a yew tree along an LV cable in a Churchyard. They must of taken of about 200 years growth. Village up in arms (Devon village in bloom runner up 1994 or such like). It looked awful and I was deeply shamed to be involved. Anyway, 11 years os so later, its not looking so sad, almost ready for a recut (now then boys, steady).

after all, what finer sound is there, than a near silent summer woodland, and the rythmic tapping of a pair of hi lifts, and a sledge.... :-)

And that would be GOOD advice, as its a whole load easier to get a dogs tooth right, and the tree, when it falls if far more likely to hit the ground (unless the tree wasn't forward leaning, in which case you done the wrong cut foooool, and you deserve to fail----er, I mean you are not yet competent ) Anyway. Wedging trees over is not part of the 31 assessment, but I don't think it hurts to drop a little wedging in on 31 training. It dosn't ALL have to be simply about passing an assessment.

A very intersting tale-and-all, but unless I am mistaken, a criminal offence was committed. Maybe you should have posted :- "My Uncle Ed climbed a horse chestnut on monday. 3 different nests all jackdaw eggs 11 in all. all of them were stone cold. so he carried on"