David Goss

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:

Damn! thats what i was thinking but never said cos i figured you or Gerrit would come on and mock my terrible fung id:blushing: Oh well looks like i am an expert after all

pole pruners are great for this kind of job to take off the higher limbs, so if she rolls while doing the limbs under tension then your less likely to get hit by anything from above. Mainly just take your time and be very very careful, always have an escape and always be ready to run like hell. Try to never work with anything above you and just keep nipping away at it till its down. Having a winch on it or being able to tie it off to another tree is always a good option. Most important of all is being able to understand where it will roll and when but that aint easy and i guess is what gets people killed:thumbdown:

Wow and here was me thinking i was going to be the lightest but you beat me by 9 kilos! i get told i look like the side of a fiver so you must be the side of a fiver thats not been printed yet:lol:

I dont wash mine, I like em stinky so they wake me up in the morning:puke: I also like the way i can just prop them up against the wall, it saves folding them. As long as i keep the door closed to the spare room where they are kept then the wallpaper doesnt curl in the rest of the house and the burglars will give themselves away with the gagging sounds so i can get up and beat them with a tea spoon (anything heavier and i might get arrested)

Guess i am one of the lightest then at 59 kilos, i have the skinniest legs in the world, like toothpicks they are. I eat more than most people i know so i dont know where it all goes:confused1:

What is this summer thing you all talk about?

My sentiments exactly!! wow

i like the long gaffs, especially good when climbing an ivy covered nightmare!

legend why not? at least you would know who to punch while walking along the street:001_rolleyes: seriously though "no jewellery policy" i think theres your joke right there. Also i think you will find that a wristband isnt jewellery its a symbol of support. Wake up Britain you are becoming a joke:thumbdown:

it is tiny but you are also huge so the scale looks funny:laugh1: gimmie a shot!

i havent:001_huh: thats a big BIG mistake and you never start cutting till your 100% sure its the right tree.

Nice post button

rip it off and smooth out your new edge by sanding and live with a slightly slimmer table, simples. That comes from someone who has never done any of this before so feel free to ignore me:001_rolleyes:

looks more like rabbit dung to me.