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  1. Dave Alviti
    Thanks for that, what's the longest bit you've used in one? As I need to drill the full width of the stump
  2. Dave Alviti
    Anyone used one of these? https://www.frjonesandson.co.uk/products-page/machines/augers-drills1/stihl-bt45-wood-drill/ Got a strange job in the new year where I need to drill through 25" stumps and need to know if this is man enough?
  3. Dave Alviti
    Yikes! Figured it would be quite a bit, must have been a big job to justify it. Think I'd use it at every available opportunity too!
  4. Dave Alviti
    Cool, I like the idea, I'm sure it's one of those tools you can manage without but once you have you find all sorts of uses for it. What sort of rope you using in that? How much was it if you don't mind me asking?
  5. Dave Alviti
    Oops! Looks a good set up though, are you lifting that to load it on a truck? Is it a bit overkill for pretensioning then? Is it a capstan style or some other means?
  6. Dave Alviti
    Nice, with rope or cable? What will that lift? Any chance of some pics of it in action?!
  7. Dave Alviti
    Grcs?
  8. Dave Alviti
    Thought you might say that as soon as I posted it! How much are they again? ...
  9. Dave Alviti
    That said it does look the business!
  10. Dave Alviti
    I don't think the Aztec blocks are mid line attachable on there own? and again not 16mm, and the whole Aztec pulling set up would completely befuddle some of the guys I work with!
  11. Dave Alviti
    Always a big fan of the Bosch professional range, well built and seem to take some abuse, same can be said for makita though
  12. Dave Alviti
    3 of us got £20 each yesterday and last week we managed to walk away with about £75 worth of whisky each! Apparently the guy gets given it lots and doesn't like it, fine by us!
  13. Dave Alviti
    I think if the omni was 16mm I'd definitely get one as it's much more multipurpose, trouble is I've got plenty of pulleys for redirects just wanted something idiot proof for pretensioning the line, so figured the stein coupled with a mechanical ascended would haves worked quite well. How did you bend it?
  14. Dave Alviti
    Isn't the rock exotica omni for 13mm ropes though?
  15. Dave Alviti
    The 461 is epic, run mine with a 25" and oversized dogs, it's being used daily coppicing over stood alder at the mo and flys through full bar length stuff without bogging down at all. I now alders soft but still a very satisfying saw to use. Not used it in the tree yet, but used a 441 plenty which are a similar weight with no problems, nicely balanced.
  16. Dave Alviti
    It's quite often switching the single rope as well, sometimes I'll start climbing double rope and then get to a point where I think this would be so much easier on a single line, so then I either tie off the end of my line on the stem, send it down to base tie or tie a running figure of 8 and sinch it up to the tie in point As I frequently have the rope wrench clipped to the back of my harness anyway. Double rope is a hard habit to kick! I find myself reverting to it for a week or so, just because it's so familiar to me, then I'll 'wrench' for a tricky reduction and I'm like ahh why don't i do this for everything! But saying that I do prefer double rope for smaller trees
  17. Dave Alviti
    That's why I love the rope wrench. such a personal thing, everyone can set it up in the best way for how they climb.
  18. Dave Alviti
    Digging up an old thread here but does anyone use the pretensioning pulley on a regular basis? Or has anyone tried it with a mechanical ascender to speed it up a bit? Toying with the idea of adding one to my bag of shiney things!
  19. Dave Alviti
    Yeah I'm quite pleased with how it works, you get a little bit of 'slop' from the krab in the hitch climber, but otherwise works fine, like to keep my hitch nice and short, keeps sit back to a minimum.
  20. Dave Alviti
    This is mine at the mo. A wild country QuickDraw, 2 layers of heat shrink and a petzl string on the krab end. Like the versatility of the karabiner attachment, means I can switch from drt to srt very quickly. Plus the middle attachment on the hitch climber is kept free for clipping to chest when ascending
  21. Dave Alviti
    69 metres
  22. Dave Alviti
    Work smart not hard
  23. Dave Alviti
    Yep agree with the self preservation, ladders may seem like cheating to some, but this job is hard enough, why not make life easier, yeah sometimes I'll use a throw line when it's a big tree, but even then I'll still use the ladders for the first bit, much easier on the arms, even when I'm climbing srt with Foot/knee ascenders. I think part of it may be habit but works for me.
  24. Dave Alviti
    Having to change the blades after 2 days chipping... Kinda says something
  25. Dave Alviti
    I'm not a fan of timberwolfs as such. The 150 is one if the most overrated tools in this industry. Generally the only people who sing its praises are those who have never used anything else or those who brought one and now feel they have to justify it. That said the 190 is actually quite a good chipper, it will eat brash all day quite happily, but on big timber anywhere near it's supposed capacity and it can struggle and look like it might one day shake itself to pieces!

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