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The capstan is lovely but too much violence otherwise. I’d tolerate said violence if it was productive but it isn’t.

The bark made me think of American cherry at first but plum is a much better guess.

Why of course I have photos of it as a tree. That's why I'm trying to ID it from a piece of firewood. Found at a tip site. How fresh? Old enough that it has those massive drying cracks. Three or four weeks down at a guess.

Oh give up, you bellend. A fellow can say something nice without wanting to hold his hand.

And modest to boot. I reckon you're quietly a pretty good climber from what I've seen on here.

Still good going for a man of your maturity and seniority. Four and a half hours for the whole thing would have been very, very good going.

Was that side still on when you felled it?

Don't think so. Bark seems wrong and wood seems harder. I've cut a fair bit of alder and wrote it off fairly early.

Assuming I was satisfied with legality, I'd have an operated hire picker drop a climber onto each stem (3x £500 for 3x hotshots with a 462/500/661 each) and then support them with saws/fuel or a bit of basket time as required. Boss on the floor for security and saw admin. If anything needed rigging, I'd swap the picker for a grapplesaw and use that to run climbers and gear around instead. Saturday morning: 07:00 ring bark it with a battery saw while people gear up and get up 07:30 start saws and rain it down 09:00 down to the splits 10:30 down to ground level 12:00 stump will be flakes Swap stump grinder for chipper while lads have lunch Chip up and ring up until close of play Locals will take the wood This all assumes you couldn't just make three cuts at 20 feet. Then it's even easier. £10,000 in advance, another £10,000 on completion. And I'd put boards out with company details facing every direction. Fabulous advertising to developers etc. Big tree gone and not coming back before the pubs are open. It's the regime of TPOs that causes this kind of nuclear option to be taken. The fear of your property being burdened. If there was no such danger, a lot more would get left standing. I'm aware they're leaseholders btw. My point is general, not specific. But I'm sure there's a reason they did it.

Yep. Like Mike Yardley with a side by side vs a firearms copper with a semi/pump with a big mag years ago. First ten shots the copper obviously stormed off in five seconds, then couldn't reload fast enough to keep up.

On car fuels, anything that adds a step, conversion, need to synthesise, refine etc is going to pollute. All the people driving to work to do those things and so on like someone up the page explained. Perhaps we should be using the rawest material available, like vegetable oil or heavy crude oil fractions? If I end up doing more tree work locally, I fancy using horses and carts for moving heavy stuff. They smell nice and I'm ****************ing sick of road tax.

I did think that as I was cutting it. Salved my conscience by observing the severe shrinkage.

It's only "left as a pollard" because they didn't have a big enough saw.

Over one cut maybe. Or ten cuts. Will it keep up over an hour? What about all day? Overheating.

How much patience after the pub do you suppose I have?

How to do them?

Omelettes interrupted for an early easter treat. Lucked into a bit of lamb. Sailor had already had some bits off it. That’s a backstrap I’ve just had. You can tell why we breed sheep rather than deer for food. Way easier to butcher (and I prefer the taste most of the time). Like how ash isn’t really any better a firewood than lots else but it splits easily so it’s held up as the best.

And since I was weighing things, this is a shopping bag that contains 50m of 12mm double braid, three deadeyes, two Pintos, a ratchet strap and a rigging device that pulls half a tonne in a straight line.

Please and thank you.

GRCS standard strap and bar - 10.5 kg Three bloody long ratchet straps - 8.5 kg

Aye. I'm watching him cut needless corners on the other screen in a different video. I didn't say he was perfect. I said you can learn a lot from watching him.

How I see eating at my house: Actually eating at my house:

I’ll be eating omelettes until the chickens stop laying. Bacon, onion, mushrooms and cheese in this one.

Yep. I’d even log length the stem. They’re not going to have a way to cut it are they. It’s nice to be nice. Plus there’s every chance they’d run them out to the road while I’m packing up and I’d have said firewood.