Spruce Pirate
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There are very few trees in this country that truly need a big saw, most of the time they can be done with a 660/395 or even a smaller saw. But, as said before, the big saws can come in really handy for ringing up or cross-cutting big stuff and for felling in one cut. I really like the big bar if there's any seriously big windblow that needs off-rooted, much easier than doing reduction cuts and moving around the stem. Well worth having access to a big saw in your arsenal.
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Office for National Statistics Business Survey
Spruce Pirate replied to Paper Rustler's topic in General chat
Short answer - no (not got one). -
There are people out there who insist changing them every 3 years - regardless of what the manufacturer says. If you feel your ear defenders aren't up to scratch I'd say change them, you only get the one set of ears after all.
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Don't see a strap - is it highlighting the dangers of an insecure load?
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Going to offer myself for charity......
Spruce Pirate replied to Arbtech Tree Services's topic in General chat
It's always nice to see someone doing something for a good cause. I've never done services in a raffle, but I've put in a few loads of logs into different things. I always make them transferable as some folk don't have a fire, but I always put limits on it both in terms of time and location. So for example in the last Christmas raffle I said the prize could be delivered within 20 miles of my base and had to be claimed by April. You could probably do something similar. It's good to do things for charity, but some folk have very high expectations - you don't want someone winning a transferable prize and then expecting you to travel hundreds of miles to trim their parents hedge. -
I was told laurel releases cyanide, hence the reason for feeling crap after working with it. Never heard of ODTS before, so good to know something about it.
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Is the thread title meant to mean the oldest saw that physically runs, or oldest saw that goes out and works for a living? It doesn't make any difference in my case, don't know if it does for anyone else.
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Following a recent adventure with a fuel cap, I have two surplus keys for a Td5 fuel cap. Key No: A125. If anyone needs a spare of these drop me a note and I'll quite happily post one or both on. Apologies if this should be on Arb-Trader, but I'm not sure how to do that.
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I agree, but in this health and safety conscious world in which we live in I think we can expect to see more of them. I was once told, unfortunately I can't remember by whom, that it would/should replace normal felling cuts, ie every cut should be dog-tooth!!
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I assume this is at least a semi-rhetorical question? But it does stop things moving both on forward and back leaners. Forward lean, obviously stops it going too early, back lean lets you get the hinge set and a couple of wedges in, tension the winch line without pinching the bar of the saw. Seems very much the flavour of the month at the moment, but it does have its uses. If the tree is biased or leaning towards where you want to fell it then why the winch?
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It is amazing how many people think that wood is worth a fortune. People are continually surprised when I tell them it will cost more to take their wood away, rather than leave it for them as firewood.
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My first whole tree dismantle, its a monster.
Spruce Pirate replied to Tommy Hutchinson's topic in General chat
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My first whole tree dismantle, its a monster.
Spruce Pirate replied to Tommy Hutchinson's topic in General chat
Felling should certainly be a viable option, even with only a 24" bar. That said, dismantling is also an option. There are plus points to both, which you choose to do is up to you. As with so many things in life there is more than one way to skin a cat and it often depends on what you're most comfortable with. At the end of the day the tree is on the ground, you're safe and the customer is happy - you can't argue with that. For the record, I'd have dropped it in one. Also agree monolith could've been good, but if the client doesn't want it, then what can you do? -
I still like the 254, it's a little heavier, but other than that it still feels like a modern saw to use. We've been taking dead hedge material up there for them, so I've seen the stick in place, but I've not taken any photos. I think there might be some more stuff to go up, so if I remember I'll get a couple of pictures. Personally I think the dead hedges spoil the whole appearance, I can't understand why they didn't plant a proper hedge instead, but, hey-ho.
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254xp from 1997. Not used every day by any stretch, but still fires up and still gets occasional use if needs be.
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Its not a question of how much the pile is worth, its whether or not you think its worth your while cutting it up for that. If that's the whole lot in the picture I'd be round like a shot (if I was in Lincolnshire). Looks like easy money to me.
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he who ......... into wind gets his own back.
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NPTC requirement for crosscutting with 25"
Spruce Pirate replied to openspaceman's topic in Training & education
Don't know about CS 30, but my old CS 14 covered cross-cutting, it was a stand alone unit so, for example, saw mills could put guys through CS 10 & 14 (as was) so that they could cut a 7.4 log into two 3.7s without having to go to the trouble of having a felling ticket for someone who was never going to drop a tree. I presume the cross-cut element of CS 30 is still in place for this reason, so it would seem daft to have it limited to 15". On the 15" diameter thing for felling, I totally agree, we had a job a we while ago thinning some southern beech, knocking on 100' tall, less than 15" diameter, and yet the 30' tall beech sub-compartment just 100 yards up the hill couldn't be felled without a CS 32 ticket as it was all over 15" diameter. Ridiculous situation. -
Killearn Kirk isn't it?
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So no-one knows of any reason that only elm or beech should be used. It seemed strange to me at the time, but as I had a bit of elm in I didn't question it too much and just took his money. What the customer wants, after all, is what you should sell them (within reason obviously).
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Is that due to scarcity of clean stuff?
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Are you getting good money for infected stuff or only clean stuff? Is there any clean stuff down your way?
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The oven was brick built, by my father-in-law as it happens, to a traditional Italian design (apparently), so there was no supplier as such. However, someone must have come up with the idea of how the oven was designed and they could well have said to use elm or beech. I have been to Italy, but don't remember noticing a lot of beech or elm, so not sure how "traditional" they are in this sense.
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Could be. I think I asked him about that at the time, but didn't get much other than, "it has to be elm or beech" out of him. I wasn't sure if they burned particularly pure, ie almost complete combustion with very little emissions? Are there any species preferred for cooking charcoal?
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I always assumed there was some basis for it but was never sure what that basis was. Personally I would assume that if you get it hot enough it doesn't matter what species it is, but perhaps I'm wrong.
