jrose

You are staying with a friend, 400 miles away from home and no kit with you. They are dropping slight hints about how they would like 15' or so off the top of the 90' western red cedar in the garden. Tree is dead straight, greenhouse underneath on one side nice big drop zone on the other. After saying you might do it, you are offered a rock climbing harness, 50m 11mm dynamic rope, 2 rock climbing prusiks (6mm?) and 3 screw gate krabs, all this of unknown age and history. Saw is a Husky 142 that is a pig to start, seems to have some fuelling issues but will go and does have a new chain. Would you do it as a favour, as it's the Friday of a week off and you're a bit bored? Or would you not even consider it and do it next time you're there with your own kit?

261 16", 461 20" & 660 25"+36"

I've used new England and xtc, both good ropes. Have a length of samson arbormaster as a log strop at the moment, it seems very stiff to me, not sure I'd like it as a main line. My current main line is Liros Ignite 13mm from honey bros, really like it with hitch climber ☺

Mine: 660 on a 36" 461 on a 20" 261 on a 16" Husky 545 on a 15", backup general ground saw 201t X2 one on 14" one on 12", both with holes in muffler 😉

Another vote for 461 on a 25"

New England union on honey bros?

Cheers

On a similar note, anyone know what size the little screws for the adaptors are? Had one vibrate out today, need to order a few more! Apologies for derail

Most of the carvers I know use stihl ms171/181, it might be worth looking at one of these?

I have a Coleman stove that runs on petrol, means I can cook hot food on a cold day! Tins of beans, soup, bacon sandwiches are all easily achievable

I'm a bit of a way, but if you want to come to Cheltenham you'd be more than welcome to try out a few of mine

Where are you based? There might well be someone local who would let you come round over the weekend and cut some logs with a few different size saws to get a bit more of an idea of what you want

I may take you up on that Mark if that's OK - would be quite interested in having a go before buying one! Will give you a ring in a bit?

Check out this item I found on eBay: http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=181370289739&alt=web

Hi all, I want to buy a chainsaw mill for occasional use, nothing too major - in particular for a 24"ish cherry stem, and then to use as and when in the future. I will be using my 660, I have a 36" bar which I'm guessing is appropriate if I buy a new ripping chain. I'm looking at one of these on eBay - is this good enough for what I want? Cheers Joe

Genuine British Army Heavy Duty Canvas Duffle Kit Bag Grade A | eBay I use an ex army kit bag, absolutley bomb proof bags hold a 45m rope, strop and harness with room to spare, can get them for £10-15

I got one a few months ago on a 20" bar, love it! The little husky 545 only comes out for coppicing hazel and snesding up now, anything bigger and I go for the 461

I've got a couple of patagonia base layers that I love, and a couple of cheap ones as backup, or for thorn heavy days! A lot of the time I just wear base layer and a thick polo shirt, when its very cold a fleece on top of that. Nice and lightweight, and easy to move about in.

No Adam, lister wilder told me they had a backlog of stuff to get through and had just issued a replacement - next time I go in there I'll ask them if they heard from DMM

Hi all, I've been considering having a play with SRT climbing for a while now, and am on the verge of ordering a rope wrench and giving it a go. I have a few questions, apologies if they've already been covered - I had a read through some of the threads, and got myself rather confused! 1. I normally climb on a Hitch Climber & VT on 13mm Liroa Ignite or New England Safety Blue. I have a Pantin, some tape slings and a couple of Pintos. If I get a Rope Wrench, is that enough to get me going or do I need anything else? 2. Most of my work is utilities, so throw line use is limited. However we work in a lot of forestry areas with drawn up Ash, Pines etc - lots of long pulls up some days! Once you have reached the canopy, is it relatively easy to advance your anchor as in DdRt? 3. My reason for looking at a Rope Wrench is that I understand its fairly simple to change to DdRT if desired eg. Ascend using the rope wrench, then just remove it and work doubled, is this right? 4. Anchors - is base anchor or top anchor judged on a per tree basis as to what the best option is? Thanks a lot, sorry for the lengthy post! Joe

As someone who's never tried SRT but is toying with the idea... Would you set one of these systems up from the ground, and how would you calculate how much rope you need to retrieve it? Or do you use a running bowline, climb to anchor point and then set system?

Well, I tried giving it a good clean and oil as per the user instructions - got it moving, but definitely felt wrong like a bearing had gone or something. Returned it to the shop I brought it from, they agreed it wasn't right and sent it back to DMM. It took a couple of weeks, but I recieved my brand new replacement in the post today Many thanks to Lister Wilder in Cirencester and DMM, hopefully this one will be trouble free!

Check the date on the first post - I imagine he's found a harness by now

I use a 6m strop with a pulley and vt, as I use it as a short second line most of the time - it only ever goes on side D's when I'm spiking

As far as I'm aware, almost all of the silky saws are designed for cutting green wood (pruning etc) so if you are collecting dead wood, especially of a larger diameter, I'd say a good bow saw would be better.