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You should be able to get that lot in a rucksack and a box on a sack barrow (maybe minus one or two of the saws). I've posted a picture of my setup on here before. Two saws, fuel, oil, axes and wedges, toolbox, climbing kit and ancillaries like lunch and water. Into and out of a garden in one.

May be the next one if I don’t get on with the curve.

Perfectly logical. I find these kind of logistics pretty interesting. Arbtalk has been long been the poorer for not having a “today’s burst shitpipe” thread. You could model it on Paul’s.

Quite. As arbtalk’s number one man in the number two business, what’s the solution to the water issue? Rainwater tank in every house? Send untreated water through the pipes and let people buy drinking water in bottles? Or is it even an issue? The taps very rarely run dry in the UK. Maybe it’s wet enough here to allow us to be wasteful.

It’s both hilarious and depressing as fuck. On the one hand, just £2 a month can keep a clueless twenty-three-year-old whose mother didn’t teach him how to cook in avocados for one day. On the other, the current systems of taxation, land ownership and regulation are going a long way to keeping people renting and slaving their entire lives. It’s all relative of course; we flush toilets with drinking water.

It’s a poverty issue. Many would agree the UN, Oxfam etc should be in the South East of England.

Comms are the one thing I always end up discussing with tree blokes. I don't believe anything should be compulsory but I do believe you're mad if you're not using them. For a paltry £30 a helmet, you're making everything a lot safer and absolving yourself from a lot of liability. Not to mention how much easier, more efficient and less stressful everything is with them. There's nothing preventing people from looking up while using them of course. Even I do sometimes.

While in danger of being boring on this subject, I wear my chin strap all the time, ground or tree. Firstly, I think it's a good habit to be in so I don't forget to do it climbing and drop it out of a tree. Secondly, if one thing falls on your head, there's a good chance a second thing might fall on your head. Thirdly, if you get thrown, swung or whatever, you want the helmet strapped to you so it doesn't fly off before your head lands on whatever it's going to land on (there's a great video of an experienced faller (Pacific North West, North America I think) getting caught out and kicked miles by a barber chair or something - his helmet flies off as he gets launched across the screen like a rag doll). I get the argument about it slipping off potentially doing your neck a favour but I think the three things I've listed are more likely to help you than that one thing. I'm genuinely interested in why a lot of people believe no strap is better on the ground, besides a very minor improvement in comfort and the neck injury issue the OP mentions. I think a lot of people just think it looks silly or is unrealistically anal. I should probably ask Pfanner or Husky (and probably other manufacturers/branders of gear) about it because they both specifically do "Forestry" helmets without chin straps.

Obliged and noted. I’m fairly used to checking lines though. I climb with so much tat on my harness, I have to. Agreed, It’s a man’s saw! I’m not used to the curve. Very hard pulling by the time you get to the tip of the blade.

I thought about a Tsurugi. Have used one and liked it. They’re cracking for getting in tight spaces. I fancied a big (long) one though.

Phase one complete.

More excellent thinking. My mate, Pete will have a drawerful.

They look good. Much obliged. I was planning on a bit of foam/leather so it wedges in tighter. I've only used it for ten minutes in the garden and the scabbard has already has gone from 3/10 to 0/10 retention.

Heads up for anyone buying a Sugoi. The 360mm one comes with a curved sheath that retains the saw well and has the little chisel blade on the tip of the saw. The 420mm one comes with a symmetrical sheath that retains the saw less well and does not have the chisel blade tip.

I can’t recommend casting resins but I can recommend you look at the various threads by Chad Dixon of Longrifles Inc in Sturgis, South Dakota, USA. They’ll be on the snipers hide forum, Facebook and possibly on his main website if you can do the google time machine thing. He’s done a lot of composite stock work that looks excellent and has given plenty of tips for working with resins, including mixing on a piece of big, flat, cold glass rather than whipping air into it in a pot.

and the Dutch!

Then I beg your pardon, I've been little help.

If you already climb double rope with a pulley, just add a rope wrench with a stiff tether to that setup. You’ll need a foot ascender too. It’s not black magic.

"ID this petrol station receipt." I joined a bricklayers group on facebook the other day. It's just like the tree groups.

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Do you mean the next size down would go round a ring or that you’d buy the next size down if you bought again?

Reckon it would splice round a big X ring or a Fiori ring? Or the 32mm or 36mm even?

@woody Paul and @White Noise, how does Polysteel knot and handle?

And while you’re at it, how do I tag someone with a space in their username?