Timbermcpherson

All equipment is contextual to the environment you work in and the operation you run. Everyone has different access to jobs, nature of work, levels of staff, capacity of trucks, size of chippers, client expectations etc etc etc The bit of gear that might build up one company might drag another down The thing is your the best judge of whether it will work or not for you and the arbtrolley is very much dependent on individual situations (unlike most chainsaws, ropes or other universally used gear in our industry) We have sometime similar, gets used maybe once every month or couple of months but even then, for us, its worth it. Why work harder?

I know some chiansaw pants had the armour all on the LHS as thats the side your likely to be operating the saw from

I can get some stainless cable 8mm pretty cheap, korean made stuff 6 strand but not sure about the number of stands within the 6. its half a reel left over and sitting in a shed for years. Im trying to find out more about it. Im looking at Running it on a igland 3000/2 Is stainless alright or should I stick to the usual wire rope. I know theres some loss of strength but not a huge amount. Anyone else out there use it? what do I need to know? thanks guys.

For those more budget conscious http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_18374.jpg

was less than 100. Found a ducks egg in an old crux about 1.5m into the wood!

Mac is cool stuff, lots of uses you could have had this one!

always hard to tell from a photo, but due to the utility room probably stopping any backsaving gear from accessing the job fully, I would think a 1.5 to 2 day job with 3 guys. I would be around 2400 - 3200 plus tax in kiwi pesos

I have made a few, be careful with your winch choice, and be very careful to get the rope guide hooks to be perfectly aligned.

okay I have to add this, I have 2 sources of info for this, the online copy of a James Jones catalog talks of its use in highlead, skyline and ground operations along with the 4000, 5000 and 8000 It gives the max drum capacity as 150m with 8mm cable and 90m for 9mm. BUT Im my Igland perfect 3000/2 owners manual it says- MAX DRUM CAPACITY Recommended type of rope 6 x 19 + 7 Seale Recommended length of rope 30-50m Recommended rope diameter 8 - 10mm MAX PULLING POWER PER DRUM 3000kp on empty drum 1300kp on full drum (yes its printed as kp not kg) Now im not sure if the drum can physically take the whole 150m of 8mm but if it did your looking at a great loss of pulling power with a fully loaded winch drum, which may be the difference between true physcial max and recommended operational max length of cable I will measure the physical drum dimensions next time im playing with it elsewhere it says larger rope diameters 12mm and above as they have a tight tension in themselves and wont rest correctly on the drum hope this is of some help to someone

thought i would ad a pic of ours working Anyone know where to get the shaft seal and bearing for the water pomp?

yeah thats pretty broken! well done! Hope your able to find another easily. Still great to see countys doing the hard yards

Iphones suck for signal, mine stuggles to get a text out while my guys on the same plan can talk to the whole universe on there cheap ass nokias, sonys and my wifes samsung.grrrrrr

Oh im so late to help but in case someone else wants to know, with 8mm cable you can hold 150m and with 9mm you can carry 90m. Not sure with llmm but I would estimate it would be 65m. (they are not spec'd for 11mm)

what not buy the main unit from the company and get them to send the bending specs to a nearby beam formers to get that bit done?

Did VOSA try to weigh the chips to see if you were over? Glad your posting about it, not being posted about!

Really common in eucs but I have also found it in metrosideros exclesia. Its pretty dramatic if your not expecting it

I like the husky combi cans, they have held up better than the other no spills we have tried over the years. If they were really such a poor design, you would think another company would have made one thats superior in cost, pour, robustness, capacity etc. I didnt relise until quite recently that the cap measure the right amount of 2 stroke for a full can. Thems clever.

Stihls probably got a U boat sinking the shipments of the 355's

Be professional, take it on the chin, dont push to hard and you will probably find you get more work from them. (the person you dealt with obviously screwed up and will want to cover his butt and not have you make waves) Had a simular situation a couple weeks ago. long story but the client appreciated us not making a tough situation tougher due to a mamoth stuff up on his part, and we got a heap more work out of it.

Yeah quite a big model plane, electric powered. Threw it out of the tree and the guy took control of it and flew is around while I climbed down

Bring the coolest steel caps you can find!

If any of your guys need work down NZ way, drop me a line and I will see what I can do.

They make one that can do an 8 inch cut now to

There is no other saw stihl currently sells that will run big mount bars (it is the same as the old 090's etc that you mention). And anything older (aside from the 084) your not meant to run due to no brake etc. So why keep it? Surely they could make the run the same bars as the rest of the stihl line up. 88's do come into there own on jobs sometimes

we run 36 and 60 inch bars on our 88's but personally I prefer the 3120xp, has a manual oiler for the big dead stuff and is easier to get bars and chains for. (as the 88's run a bar mount unique to the current stihl line up)