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Any other experience or thoughts?
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I flip the bar every time a chain comes off. If I forget to, it makes less of a difference than if I forget to at chain replacement time. Inspecting and dressing rails more important than flipping on the numbers I’d say.
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Looks rougher and more mature from the bark than the OP one. Good inside?
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Aye. That’s basically what I’d use it for, tensioning zips and reeves, maybe the actual reeving on light/static picks. I’ve got a petrol capstan for heavy pulls but it’s loud and the unfamiliar struggle with it. I can rig with it and get it to start under load etc but I wouldn’t trust many others to.
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It's mainly the base I'm worried about. It's aluminium. I'm used to a steel Hobbs that you can be strong with.
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Maybe pay something like half way between firewood price and low end softwood sawlog price?
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https://www.harkenindustrial.com/gallery/b5b6aaf5-c587-416a-a917-d28b0b8272b1.pdf https://www.harkenindustrial.com/en/harkenindustrialcom/riggers-winches/riggers-winch-500/ Is anyone using one of these? I've got a Hobbs (which I'm going to keep using because it's indestructible and fairly foolproof) but I want a sailing winch device for quick, light stuff, gunning lifts with a drill and making groundsmen's lives easier (juggling ropes to lift with a Hobbs takes practice). Trying to stay away from the bigger ones like the GRCS etc but worried the Harken 500 will be too dainty. Especially worried about mounting it firmly enough for cranking and the back plate not snapping with ratchets or under load (though would probably base choke, strap lightly and expect the designers to have made it so it sits nicely under load). Interested to hear direct experience and general musings.
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My lunchtime view of a beech yesterday. I thought I was making excellent progress. Turned out my watch had stopped working at 10:46. Caught on when schoolchildren were returning home while I was chogging.
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Partridge kebabs. Boiled a partridge, pulled the meat off, fried it with chilli, garlic, coarse black pepper (use a coffee grinder), turmeric and cumin. The cumin was ready ground but I’d love to try it with toasted seeds. I like a gritty kebab, like the ones I basically lived on in Germany in 2007 when the decade-old-meat scandal was raging. That laid on some breadstuff. Next layer is red cabbage and red onion, steeped in white vinegar for the tang, balsamic vinegar for the sweetness and sea salt because I needed to empty a mug of it somewhere. Last layer lettuce then top with siracha and yogurt+mint from the squeezy bottle you get at a takeaway (middle aisle of Aldi).
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I think I follow him. He's OK. Learned the daisy chain knot from him. That's mega handy. Probably picked up other bits and pieces. Wasn't impressed with how he did a tree on a lake shore the other week but I wasn't there was I. I'm relatively closely aligned with him politically (though not religiously) but that's not why I follow people on instagram. I use it to learn to kill trees better and make money from doing so. I have arbtalk to be a bit more sociable.
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tomo_ueno_1919 is quite good.
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I bought my first battery saw to fell a tree (in which local children had built a swing) at 07:00 on the Saturday morning of a bank holiday weekend, to make way for a developer's garden grab. I made loads of money for doing so, on the doorstep of an arbtalker that I don't like. Brings a tear to the eye.
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It's that or Tempilaq.
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Thirty seconds a side from when the teflon starts bubbling. Any longer is cowardice.
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Relax.
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I have to borderline argue with groundies about oil when I send a battery saw down for a battery change. "It's still got some in." It's no different to a petrol saw. They're built to fail safe, i.e. to run out of fuel before they run out of oil. It doesn't matter if it's liquid hydrocarbons or positrons and electrons.
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A roux with some stuff added or just a cream base? When you think of sauce for mussels, it's just cream and wine poured into the water.
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And how would sir like his steak done? Kicking and screaming, please.
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CAREFUL! Paddy will surface like an activated sleeper agent. Good tip on the 1xDRT, 1xSRT btw. That's what I usually do when I double system.
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The only advantage to DRT there would be that you could get hauled back up with your tail but even that's still pretty pointless when you can get hauled back up with the rigging line. I too have felt occasional urges recently to climb double rope but luckily it's not got as far as actually doing it.
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My experience: A 161T sings on a 10" 1/4 picco bar. Great for cut and chuck if that's your style and you've got the wrists to balance the saw. Far less good on bigger stuff. I use a Stihl 220 with a 16" 3/8 picco, which is pretty good but not breathtaking. Still fine for big takedowns though. My research: If I wanted more power, I'd look at the Husky battery options (and that's from a man who's never felt the need to look at any other Husky saw). They've got the reputation for being better than Stihl for the burlier work. I saw one in a shop the other day marketed as being equivalent to a 40cc petrol saw. Conclusion: Aware I didn't totally answer the question: Nevertheless hope I said something useful.
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What machinery is best to move stuff on a slope
AHPP replied to Slad's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Well if you're at a loose end, I'd read them. I like capstans. I've been sporadically pondering a rapidly deployable ski tow based on them. -
What machinery is best to move stuff on a slope
AHPP replied to Slad's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
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Pigovian manipulation is an alluring compromise like Georgist LVT but serfdom compromise is still serfdom.
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How did you find the controls?
