Climbingmagnus

I signed up a while ago for the 'eBulletins' service from the HSE. You can pick from a big list the industries that are relevant to you and it sends you stuff like this. Since signing up I've been genuinely surprised by how many people still lose limbs and are killed at work. It really puts into perspective that H&S is about stopping stuff like this happening not about making arbitrary rules just to annoy people.

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Tale of two trees that cost Northern Rail almost £100,000 – Media centre - HSE

Might be of interest? Fortunately it didn't turn out worse.

Do you have any information on the motor? How much current does it draw or how many watts is it rated at?

I'll second what agg221 has said.

... plus in the instance of the picture on this thread- If the root plate failed, the mewp looks very close to the base and the fate of tree, climber and expensive kit is the same!

I was thinking that too. If the whole idea of using a MEWP is 'it might fall over any minute' then you park the mewp on the root plate you haven't made things any safer.

Also I would of done instead of I would have done should be fixed by auto correct nowadays.

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A big circular saw. That way you can set accurate depth stops and angles and not have to do any tidying up.

I don't know about using it for milling but I've got a 25" bar that I use on mine occasionally. It works fine with the oiler turned up a bit.

it's brake

and 'stewardesses' is the longest word you can type with just your left hand

true but I wouldn't want to be around when the chain snaps and goes over to say hello to the fingers on his left hand.

No, just no!

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I think my Dad has manages to propagate mistletoe on some of our apple trees. I'll ask him.

A fine example of the genre indeed!

I've got a 362 and really like it.

...but if you're saving £70 per month then you can buy a new saw every year and have plenty of change.

I use Stihl bio which is expensive but I've had problems with the Oregon stuff turning into jelly. I use my saws infrequently, maybe twice per month, and often on sensitive sites like nature reserves etc.

I think they do a full chisel chain for it now which would cut better or apparently you can replace the standard 1.3mm gauge bar with a 1.1mm from an MS171 which cuts a narrower kerf so cuts faster.

I haven't tried either of these in practice with my MS181 though, only seen them suggested here.

I don't know if it produces cyanide or not but all wood fired stoves produce Carbon Monoxide which is toxic too but if you have a properly installed flue etc, none of the flue gasses will be able to get out into the room.

A picture of my 'fleet' here courtesy of my mate who managed to get them both stuck in the same tree! Never lend your tools out! He was offered a Silky to cut them out with before we relented and gave him a third saw.

This thread is bringing back some memories for me! I used to work as a labourer/jack-of-all-trades for a thatcher a few years ago.

I'd spent most of the day loading up the Transit tipper with straw we were stripping off a roof. There's a knack to stamping it down just right so you can build a good high stack. (If people don't stop and stare as you drive past, it's only half a load!). It's about 3pm, I've been stamping about in the back of the truck with a pitchfork all day and built a stack that is a good 6ft higher than the cab. I'd better get off to the tip thinks I. Right, where are the the keys. Maybe in my jacket, nope. Not in my trousers. Not in the ignition. It slowly dawns on me that the last time I remember having the keys was in my unbuttoned shirt breast pocket that morning when I started loading. After nearly an hour of looking for the keys and resigning myself to the fact that they're in the stack somewhere I go to sit in the cab to ring the boss to ask him to spend three hours driving out to our site with the spare truck key. Gulp! The phone has just started ringing, I look up and the keys are on top of the dashboard!!!!!

Get in touch with Tim at the Cherry Wood project. He runs tonnes of courses in all kinds of green woodworking and has volunteer days every Thursday. It's a great place to meet like-minded people and pick up skills!

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Well there we go, not home made after all. And not a Husky saw attached to it either but definitely a re-purposed chainsaw of some type (that's not a Stihl so I assumed it was a Husky)

That pipe isn't coming out of it, it's behind. It's an impact wrench for doing big stuff like HGV wheel nuts. There was one at an aggregates place where my mate used to be a mechanic. I assumed it was home-made but maybe someone was churning a few of them out because it looked just like this. A Husky saw body bolted up to a heavy duty impact wrench mechanism.

Based on how low in the water the boats are when they arrive and how high they are when they leave I think that's entirely believable!

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