Timbermcpherson

91? I feel better, I only have about 45. I have a bad habit of buying "parts" saws that end up being work saws in short order

The echo 260 is a good little pruning saw, I would look at that over the tanaka. With a 10 inch bar its compact and incredibly light. The cs360t is a great saw for the money, I have 3 of them, but the brake sucks so bad I run ms200t's mostly

But they arent made by silky. They are made by a different company altogether who are riding on the silky name and product reputation but making cheaper rubbish. But have a few drinks, Im on the rum and cokes

Yes I watched it. API are just tracer rounds that are made to penetrate and burn. Not explode (but they would be the round you would choose to set off a charge). If anything AP rounds would do less damage to the tree as the slug is designed not to distort when it hits something. There are explosive API rounds but they arent anything like the vid The most damage done is done by rounds that distort/tumble/fragment as they travel through wood or flesh. A piercing round will be the cleanest, smallest hole possible. A bad choice for cutting down a tree unless you have already loaded it up with a charge. So next time you find yourself behind a M2. Hear vehicle sounds, load the armour piercing rounds For the rumble of footfall, reach for the standard ball

Yeah to many guns and no brains. Being that close to an explosion involving wood (high shrapnel likelyhood) is simply stupid. The .50 round is a big one, but its not big enough to carry that kind of explosive yield. And if it was, rounds hitting other things within the field of fire would be exploding all over the place, especially if he used that "round" later when shooting the concrete. The explosion started from the rear of the tree, cuts its quite straight and lifts it up. Its not characteristic of an explosive round.

I think its a set up, the tree looks pre charged to me. I doubt that a 50 calibre round would have the mass to carry enough charge as a high velocity round to do that to a tree. Well in my opinion anyhow. Still cool of course!

Tried to with a 66, didnt get far, apart from a few stray sharp bits it wasnt harmed but messed up the chain.

Online pro saws? Apart from makita/dolmar, I dont think we do have any choice. They are trying to use regional retail protections in an international online world. They are willing to use global sourcing of cheap labor and materials but dont want us to do the same in sourcing there products? Screw em. Get a source in the US and use it. Stihl cant afford to loose its dealers, as they are needed to keep their distribution of parts open as well as the bulk of regional retail sales. No dealers, less sales and corperate stihl starts hurting If the dealers are hurting because people are sourcing cheaper elsewhere then stihl will have to help increase sales by lowering prices to the dealers, and therefore, to us. Keeping buying from your local dealer, and the only thing that will change is that prices will stay high.

Its stihl keeping prices as high as possible worldwide. Its stihl keeping prices as high as possible worldwide Its stihl keeping prices as high as possible worldwide Im in NZ. I can get on a plane, fly for 9 hours, have 2 meals, hit the drinks trolley and a bunch of movies. Land in LA. Go to a shop and buy 4 ms201T's. Fly back home and still have saved money on buying them from the shop 15 minutes from where I live. And I get to get drunk. Before the restriction of huskys, guys in sweden who worked at a husky plant could not, even with staff discount, get a 346xp hot off the line cheaper than they could from Baileys including shipping. The dealers arent making the money, Stihl is. Its stihl keeping prices as high as possible worldwide. Any other excuse is just convenient propaganda.

I run 2x 2 man crews including myself most of the time, I have another climber starting in a couple weeks as I have a months backlog and just not getting it smaller. Its nice on the bigger jobs to throw 4 of us at if its needed. I prefer 2 men to 3 on 90% of our jobs as theres all to often one guy waiting for stuff to happen, and the truck with a 5 cube bin is just a little stretched carrying an extra kitbag, top handle and that extra amount of much and wood created in a day. Expansions a tough one. If I get much bigger it means getting off the tools full time. inevitable but I dont want to be a ute arborist.

Club habitat was good hunting grounds, especially if a big green bus full of foreign food was in. There used to be a woman who was a regular at the pub who had TURANGI tatooed on both forearms. pin and ink styles. And only one arm was spelled right. This would be an awesome job. If I was more mobile, I would go for it. Rents or buying in the area is pretty light, your on the doorstop of SO many great places and stuff to do, you just have to find time to explore. You could easily keep your freezer full of meat for free hunting locally for pigs and deer, you could live in the "town" or find a farm cottage not far away. Things you will need. Mountain bike, whitewater kayak, Dirt bike, 30-30 for pigs, 22-250 or 223 for dear, skis, snowboard, mountaineering gear, waterskis, wakeboard, fishing gear, 4wd, rockclimbing gear, hiking gear, a GSXR1000 and maybe a camera. I hope you find a good candidate.

Thats handy, most people have to attach their saw to a harness, you can sheath yours. Must be a bit warm at times though

Sweet, you forgot that Turangi translates to "Jewel of the central north island". If you like the outdoors, its a mecca. Mountains, great fishing, mountain biking, hunting, skiing, tramping, etc etc. And if you like pretty girls, you can always move.

Its the Trees Without them I wouldnt need the dozens of chainsaws, the chippers, trucks, stump grinders, kilometers of ropes and I would have more garage space for motorcyles. its the TREEEEEEEEEESSSSS

We have the same scam here in NZ. I always say Im interested as long as I can deliver the money personally to there place of work. If I ever find where they work, I will have a new dump site for old stumps and questionable loads of mulch.

Carbs are the ms200's point of grief. They should come out with spare carb kits

Everyone is scared of heights. EVERYONE People who say they arent are in 3 categories 1) Mentally deficient 2) Liars 3) Havent met the right kind of height yet. Its a matter of becoming acclimatized, just takes practice and time.

You can get them for a good price off baileys online

All trees are safe to climb. Falling out of them tends to be the problem. Gums are safer than willows IMHO.

Does it make you have girls???? All the arborists I can think of have girls! (I have 2)

Either way your probably going to be fine. The big huskys are more fun to run but lack the reliability of the stihls in my opinion. I have a 394,a 395 and a 3120. They have all required coils, which REALLY ticked me on the 3120 as it had done SFA hours. While contract climbing I have had half the 395/4's passed up to me not to want to start when hot. I like the way they run and the filter system is a world better than the stihl, but I would never buy another. I have run 66's for 10 years and they have been exemplary, one of them started out life as a forestry saw in 1991, did 2 years felling then got used for a chainsaw mill before I got it, it was the first pro saw I brought and still does wonders to this day. A couple brake handles, 2 handlebars, starter pawl, clutch springs, couple fuel/oil caps, set of rings and a couple starter cords. not bad for 5 saws. When choosing saws, you might want to think about the chains and bars. I now run all 44's and 66's and leave the rest on the shelf, it makes bar and chain choices and stocking parts easier.

Thats pretty funny. I wonder if hes a traveller? We have a couple jobs we have to be careful of them due to they nest on the property we work on. Cute little guys but they smell and make a racket at night during nesting. The container ship aground leaking oil here in NZ is visable from my folks place, I have dived the area alot, its just heartbreaking to think of all those little penguins getting screwed over by the oil. they are quite wonderful little creatures.

What sort of ground anchors? IMHO everything else can be predicted. Tirfir pull, weight bias of tree, "angle of attack" of cable, and the strength of all the hardware in the system etc etc. Its the anchors that are often the unknown quantity and weak point. especially if things such as vector pull isnt fully understood or accounted for. (really, really, really important) The worst thing is that the ground changes so much, so ground anchors effectiveness does to. My "record" was using 3 50m climbing lines and nearly 50 slings and biners to make a self equalizing system using gorse bushes (none bigger than 40mm) to winch over a leaning pine. I stink at math, wish I could help!

One of my guys regularly walks home with a silky on this hip and a fiskars chopping axe on his back. It makes me cringe but he walks up and down the main road every day with no trouble. How did it turn out?

I made my last 4, and Im about to make version 5 when doing dead trees, cut into the tree to bed it in, nothing quite like the winch traveling up the tree when the bark gives way.