David Goss

Mine is set real loose on my legs and it feels fine, maybe you have it too tight?

Sell it and go on a short holiday to the seaside, something like portobello or even north berwick if your feeling adventurous

Get all your greedy eyes off my job! I got your back mate no worries

what has an ms460 with a 20" bar got to do with CS32? I know your limited to bar length on the course but if you go out with a 20" bar or even the biggest bar you can stick on your 88 and cut down a tree thats the same size as your bar length then your still working under CS31 specs.

lots, thats probably not much help either:001_rolleyes:

you wont regret it:thumbup:

i am skinny too (59kilos) and had the same problem with the butterfly, i used to have permanent bruises on my hips but with the treemotion it doesnt hurt at all.

What the C4? you gotta video it if you do:lol:

that just adds to its waterproofing, i would still have left them stinky:thumbup:

Doesnt take that long, maybe about 10 to 15 minutes max but once you set it up then thats it for the rest of its life. Its the difference between night and day with comfort though in comparison to the butterfly.

do yourself a favour and spend the extra cash on a treemotion, i had a butterfly before the treemotion and i am sooo glad i changed. Plus you can add your silly swivel thing if you really want to:001_rolleyes:

contains content from Beggars and EMI so they blocked it on copyright grounds.

Nice job:thumbup1: I like speed lining if its practical but a lot of jobs there just isnt the space to do it. Only thing i can say negative is i didnt like your groundies helmet, it was so lightweight you couldnt even see it:001_rolleyes: Oh yea and his gloves were the ones i use for climbing

Just as Big J suggested a shallow gob (not too shallow mind) and as big a hinge as you can. Also i would put a pulling rope up just to be sure if at all possible. I do like the C4 method better though:001_rolleyes:

found this if its any help.... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FLiFUlXWNE]unicender - YouTube[/ame] looks a bit too bulky for my liking though and i cant see its benefits over anything else.

i am waiting for the invention of hoverboots and anti gravity devices for chainsaws, Wish they would hurry up, my back hurts.

Maybe the americans like to replace their saws more often and dont mind straining the engines to breaking point...

Very good point that. I will stick with my smelly safe ones:thumbup1:

There you go then thats the safest way to do it so far, just clip on the charges to each load bearing limb, stand well back and boom problem solved, just need to cross cut it and your done. I am guessing because its explosives then it will be very difficult and expensive to use in this country with all the anal twits we have in the HSE making our work more difficult by the minute, just to justify their existence sitting behind their desks. They would much rather we risked our lives doing it the old fashioned way and spending ages setting up ropes or whatever to keep us safe. Not that i am against the HSE in fact the contrary but it does get rediculous sometimes. I would guess the paperwork you would need to be allowed to do this wouldnt justify the costs involved getting it all, for the few real dodgy trees like that we come across. Please someone correct me if i am off the mark but i just cant see it being worth it, although i really would like a shot:thumbup1:

but its close right:001_tt2:

Thinnings you say hmmm.... Ok new guess is you didnt do a gob and just went for the back cut, but the tree slid off the stump and took the tip of your bar to the ground with it?

Very cool:thumbup1:

my guess is you got a tree hung up, and you tried cutting it off the hinge with great success but your bar got to find out exactly how heavy it was.

Welcome:thumbup: To answer your question of first experiences doing this kind of work well my first day was an eye opener. I was being shown around a forest by the boss with him explaining where we will be working, what we will be doing etc and we see this landy parked up at the side of the track. The boss knows the owner and stops for a chat, which very quickly turns into my first experience of outdoor work. The landy owner turns out to be the gamekeeper who has recently shot a big red deer and was just about to call for help getting it in the back of the landy, so the boss offered to help and obviously i had to show keen and got out to give a hand as well. The gamekeeper had also just gutted it so there was a mess of blood and guts all around. If you have ever tried to shove a huge dead and bleeding red deer in the back of anything then you will know it aint pleasant! i was pretty well covered in blood and guts cos the new guy obviously gets to be at the back pushing up with gravity doing its work on all the nasty liquid stuff. Even though i was covered in blood and just shoved a dead animal into a landy, 20 years on i still remember it as the best first day of work ever and i have never looked back since. Love what i do and hope i can do it for another 20 years although things hurt a lot nowadays i wouldnt change it for the world.

now that IS a great idea:thumbup1: