Climbingmagnus

 

This is absolutely bonkers. Surely if there is sufficient risk of sparks igniting flammable vapours that you have to wear antistatic boots at all costs then there is no way you should be using a chainsaw there. There is no way the risk of a static spark from your boot is a higher risk than catching your foot with a saw.

I'm really curious as to what job you are doing that would require those properties.

Anything flame retardant isn't going to be flame retardant once it's soaked in chain oil. Is this to protect against arc flash around big electrics?

I can't see why anti static would be necessary. Are you felling inside an electronics lab? If it's for working around flammable vapours then your chainsaw is going to be a much bigger problem than your keks

Tree surgeons taking all the women

Good old Daily Mash:

"Researchers found that 82 per cent of the UK’s female population currently has feelings for trees surgeons, who are strong and brave but also know about nature.

Professor Henry Brubaker of the Institute for Studies said: “‘Tree surgeon’ isn’t so much a real job as a contrived female fantasy."

al least you can roll the logs there!

I add tweezers, two eye wash pods and a small bottle of iodine to my personal kit.

The other day a mate of mine had to explain to someone who has a PhD in Physics why driving up Brassknocker Hill in Bath (1:10 with 100m vertical ascent) at 4mph in second gear slipping the clutch the whole way would "make the car smell like hot brakes"

I find my 181 is very fussy about stale fuel. It gets used very infrequently so if I buy a gallon of pump fuel I find even after about 3 weeks it won't run or will be an absolute c**t to start and I have to chuck half a gallon away.

No problems since I switched to Aspen.

CS30 is the cross-cut and maintenance. CS31 is the felling.

Personally I think you'd be best off doing the full course. The home-owner thing is aimed at you cutting up some firewood on a saw horse in your back garden but with five acres of woods you'll need all the felling techniques etc from the full course.

I found my CS30/31 course to be five days of genuinely useful training. I had no idea how much I didn't know until I was shown it.

If you're looking to save some £££ then don't do the final day for assessment if you don't need your tickets.

Also the Moon would be 2.5mm in diameter and be 276 mm away from the Earth.

you could fit about 30 of the international space station in the diameter of a human hair and they'd be 0.3mm off the surface of the earth. This is fun

Massive thumbs up for doing this with your kids! More kids need to do fun stuff like this and realise science isn't about sitting in a classroom being bored.

The thing that always makes me appreciate the scale of these things (and the fragility of the Earth) is the 'Pale Blue Dot' photo taken by Voyager from the edge of the solar system and Carl Sagan's description of it here:

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Neptune is 324m away so your road is long enough but is your eyesight good enough to see a 3.5mm planet at that distance?

The sun's diameter is 1,391,684,000 metres so our scale factor if the 'sun' is now 1m in diameter is 1/1,391,684,000 which is 0.000000000719

This means that Mercury will be 41 metres away and about 3.5mm in diameter. Venus will be 77.7 metres away and will be 8.7mm in diameter. Earth will be 107m away and will be 9.2mm in diameter.

Just type distance from sun to Mars and diamer of Mars into google and multiply the value by 0.000000000719 to do the rest. n.b. don't forget to add an extra 3 zeros onto the 'real' numbers before you convert them so they are in m not km.

Thanks everyone. Lots of genuinely useful info there. I'll see what he wants to do. I'd lean towards having a crack at doing it in-situ with a hoover and a load of grease then blue roll on the piston. Quite interested in the flogging it on ebay and buying a new one plan though!

Hi All,

A mate of mine has an MS180 that he says has just blown the spark plug out of the cylinder head. Is this worth bothering to fix given that a new MS181 is around £200?

Presumably it will have to be stripped down into bits before the head can be drilled out and helicoiled? or is it possible to do it with the saw mostly assembled and blow the swarf out of the cylinder with an air line?

Do you think it was running lean to have caused this and will it have damaged other things like the piston and bearings?

Cheers.

beware that you get what you pay for... the cheap chinese crap will likely be poor quality LEDs which will fail before long or they will not even achieve their rated output when new.

Like this guy who bought some from ebay to find that they are very dangerously wired up (they've used hot melt glue to attach the earth lead to the case FFS) and 10W LEDS sold as 20W

EDIT: you get what you pay for but you also often end up paying premium price for dressed up chinese crap too! I have no useful advice as to how to avoid this

Sounds like he was in a funny mood because he knew he was pushing it. By refusing to climb the tree you've exposed him as not having planned his job properly.

You definitely did the right thing!

I think I've got these in the right order. Apologies for blurryness, phone leads a hard life in the chainsaw trousers etc.

This is completely amazing and works great with either venison or lamb. Leave out the juniper berries if you're doing lamb. Also I like to use half port, half red wine for extra sweetness.

http://imgur.com/Sh3OhxZ

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It's from here:

[ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Cookery-Tom-Norrington-Davis/dp/1906650101]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Cookery-Tom-Norrington-Davis/dp/1906650101[/ame]

That would be down to not having the internet. I would bet a lot of money that there were more chainsaw accidents in the 80s than now. It's just a lot easier to find out about them now so it seems like there were less then.

I spotted these in the HSE eBulletins this week. Stay safe out there!

Contractor fined for worker?s 60ft tree fall | Media centre - HSE

Firm sentenced after worker’s leg injured by chainsaw | Media centre - HSE

Mine have done the same. Feels like the kevlar has rucked up right by my little toe on the left foot, just as it goes into the toe cap.

Army surplus Goretex jacket. £30 ish, waterproof, hard wearing, breathable, lightweight, not too hot, hood fits nicely over helmet and ear defenders.

Just have a good rummage through the rail in the shop and make sure you get a decent one.

Excellent soundtrack! Find us some more.

We've all had a friday afternoon like this before...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDY6bWT5oTM]Corb Lund - Truck Got Stuck - YouTube[/ame]

or more appropriate for the bloke using a pick up as a tractor...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94JprHdeTuk]Truckstop Honeymoon - Know it All - YouTube[/ame]

Crap audio unfortunately, couldn't find the album version on youtube. Great band! They're on Spotify. Check out their track 'Magnolia Tree' too..

Caught one of my lads using a 1/2 inch ratchet as a hammer. He got the message I was not impressed.

Caught my housemate using my torque wrench as a hammer once. I still don't think he understands why I shouted at him

I have a mental list of people I'd lend tools like chainsaws etc to. It is small. VERY small!

This thread needs this for a soundtrack

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwGrC0KicSo]Corb Lund - Hard On Equipment (Tool for the Job) - YouTube[/ame]

There's a roundwood framing place near me that use a jet washer for de-barking. It's a pretty big one (3phase from memory) but worth a try if you've got access to such a thing.

Anyone want to join in with my slightly Grandpa Simpson like complaint to them on their facebook page?

hopefully this link should work...