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Learn how to remove/replace/fix phone lines, fence panels, roof tiles, paving slabs etc.
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It depends. If it’s 75 poker straight trees 600mm dbh and 200 feet tall on a flat dry site with great road access, they’ll sell standing. Then there’s all sorts of other possibilities. I’d take down 75 trees for free for my own firewood if it was local, low risk, I could do it solo, easy extraction, I could do it when I fancied, I could store some there etc. Or maybe it’s someone with no work on who has people he has to pay anyway so he might as well have them making firewood rather than nothing. Or maybe it’s a terrible job and the people who won it are idiots. Who knows.
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The forestry industry.
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It’ll work and it’s what I have. If the Inuits had loads of cherry trees, e make them out off cherry as standard.
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And bents in both axial planes.
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I’ve got several weird ideas for paddles just to be different. A single ended Greenland (I almost exclusively paddle a trad open canoe), octagon shafts, semi flat faceted blades (think Robocop mixture of curves and flats).
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No but watching closely because I have a sliver of cherry in the kitchen reserved for this purpose.
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I've got some game but I'm not especially burly so rig all sorts of small stuff a real man might cut and chuck. Don't think I'm closed-minded about wrenches btw. Happy to be proved wrong if they're really good.
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For sale - Sycamore - very large - green
AHPP replied to Newman Maintenance's topic in Milling Forum
Freehand everything above bicep height off for firewood and then appraise? -
I looked into using an airship for arb work a few years ago. Not straightforward legally and the gas costs are frightening. Hot air better but still not easy. I’ve not totally written it off yet but the setup of tethers, launching etc is a lot of pissing about so you need to be on a big job. If it was quicker, you could do loads of little lifts dropping hot tubs and bags of aggregate into back gardens.
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I'd typed a load of stuff about bar lengths but deleted it because it just wouldn't advance mankind much. Suffice to say I don't think rip-snorting fast cutting matters in arb. It's mainly rigging and the logistics of moving a tree from a garden onto a truck. Forestry different.
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Interested to know your rationale for that, your uses etc? Just seems a bit similar. If I already had a 28, I’d want a 36. Like the op has a 20 so a 30 makes sense in my eyes.
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As well as vibration, consider the ergonomics. The Stihl corded saw handle is fat and tiring to hang on to. The Dewalt battery saw dead man switch is very stiff and needs finger/thumb strength.
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And the rest of the state.
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On full comp 25” is sweet and 36” is OK.
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You’re correct about the pull and hold. Make sure you get one with a clutch. If you stall one without a clutch, you may have trouble restarting it without letting tension off the line. The Eder 1800 looks the best to me.
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I very rarely sharpen outside of the shed anyway.
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Sharpening 1/4 picco is probably going to be the thing that finally pushes me to get a fixed grinder.
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Everyone’s going to say a fire, starting with me. Hire an air burner if you’re feeling posh. Do it when the council aren’t working if you’re feeling realistic.
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You can’t get much more flexible and wide fitting than rigger boots. Cheap to find out if they’re any good. As others have suggested, I suspect insoles will be the big thing.
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A friend sent a cheap ish one (£150 three or four years ago) straight up and it kept going. Based on the battery life and the speed, we reckoned it went up literally thousands of feet and down and sideways on the breeze fvck knows where. Conclusion we came to was the that expensive ones would probably come back to you automatically etc. We never considered whether they’d be clever enough to descend to stiller air if it’s too windy up high though.
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I cut a couple of two foot ish lime rings earlier today with a 120 and used about three-quarters of an AK20 battery on each. Didn’t time cuts. Suspect at least two minutes each. Fabulous little saw.
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Maybe the UK should plant more....
AHPP replied to Squaredy's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
From memory, I think glaucescens and dalrympleana are the two cold-hardiest of the fast growers and then there are some small ones even hardier. J will know. -
Well don’t call it a prosecution when it wasn’t one (it was a complaint). That sort of thing makes you sound like a bullshitter. Not a lawyer. Law degree, some other experience. Unenthusiastic amateur.
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Not much of a persecution. Definitely not a criminal prosecution. Not even a civil action. Well done for going to any amount of effort to hold the goon accountable though. I asked because I’m interested in your legal chops after that other thread about employment/freelancing/subcontracting. You’re the same as Khriss on here. You’ve clearly been on a course or something and know some things about some law but you lack the (absolutely essential) context of how it all goes together. I detect a sense of justice and would encourage you to learn the system from the ground up. Any book called The English Legal System or similar will give you a good start.
