Timbermcpherson

we have both, I havent seen a difference between them

8 hours ago, gary112 said:

Felco are not cheap but are some of the best imo if you want good you have to pay a bit,around £40

do you hang yours on your harness? Id love to see how others do theres. I have tried a half dozen methods with at least a dozen different models.

Over the years I have gone through a lot of pairs of secateurs, its hard to find pairs that work well, have a good locking mechanism, can carry in your pocket easy, lightweight, can be clipped into a harness and that dont cost to much. I have modified all sorts of pairs but recently found a pair that  fit the bill

I brought a set of bahco pg12's for 20 bucks and an R clip for another dollar. Bent and cut the R clip a bit and drilled a hole in the handle, inserted the clip and taped it in place. 8 months of use later they have held out well. (and I have killed 100 dollar pairs in months)  And they are not hard to find with there colour either should you drop em.

Whatever you do, dont mention brand or model to help with diagnosing the issue

Best story I heard as about a guy who worked for the railway in Louisiana post ww2. He had a buddy who worked in a foundry that made the 16 inch barrels for guns for battleships, who was involved in dismantling it all as the carrier era meant no need for the battleships. The foundry included a bunch of barrels made for ships that were not to be built. They were all destined for scrap. 

 The railroad had a deal with its staff that they could take anything they wanted destined for scrap providing the either paid the scrap value or exchanged it for the same weight in other scrap. And scrap value post war was low, they were moving half build tanks, new artillery pieces, aircraft, everything you can imagine. They were even scrapping the rail wagons because there were to many for foreseeable demand that were meant to end up in the war in europe. 

 So the railroad worker acquired several dozen of these barrels, (each about 20m long) and was able to secure storage for them and he waited. 

The Korean war came up, and the outdated 16 inch guns were used to great effect against ground tagets, to the point of wearing out barrels so the Navy tender went out for replacement barrels. (and they aint cheap)

And his very competitive tender was how he never had to work a day in his life again.

So years went by, the remaining barrels stayed in storage, the family had all the money it needed and it seemed there was never going to be a use for the rest of the barrels

Vietnam meant the next 2 generations never had to work again.

On 16/07/2019 at 09:35, john meehan said:

Can I come work for you.

Sure, when do you want to start? 

11 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

These look an improvement on the Petzl design. Handy little backup clip to keep it in place on your harness. I've lost track of the amount of Petzl's i've got through/lost

 

And on the fourth day, God brought forth zip ties, and Lo! Never did a petzl caritool fall to his good earth to be lost for all time to the arborist who doth get right wankered about it.

On 13/07/2019 at 01:04, stihlmadasever said:

The reputation they have is even known in glasgow....

There reputation is known in NZ to, I have had 2 guys work for me from the UK that had worked for them

jezz you boring robotic HR hack, here is how your write a want ad (yes it mine BTW)

First rule, no wankers
You know the deal, you should know your sh**, or at least have a good chunk of it and be prepared to learn. 
Assuming your a physically and mentally functioning adult (for a tree climber) 
Be great if you can drive.

Best you live relatively near us in xxxxxxx, no point having to work more just to pay to get to work, you kill trees for a living, least we can do is drive a bit less but run over possums when we do. 

If your the type that sucks the life out of a room, a general screw up, need mothering or thinks other people will do all the work, you should have done better at school because we get sh** done, being a consultant is a different category.

Everyone works hard, everyone gets along, we have great clients and we do a wide variety of work from camelias to big ass macs. 
We slay giants, save specimens, our work can be seen from google earth, and little kids think we are super heroes. We have fun.
We have the usual tree toys you know and probably a few you dont. I like good kit.
We find joy and coffee in what we do, we watch each others backs and nobody gets hurt, nothing gets broken. 

Now that bits damn important, nobody gets hurt, nothing gets broken.

If you dont fit, you dont stay. Days can be to long with whiners and lifes to short and it can be a hell of a lot shorter for a dumbass in this job.
Must love dogs, because only strange strange strange people dont. And you picked climbing trees for a living, your already stranger than your mum would have liked.

Me? Im the older semi broken climber/business owner who will be your chainsaw carrying ghost of xmas future if you dont come up with a better plan than climbing until your to broken to climb anymore. 

But until then, lets do some treework, because it might be a insane career choice but its the freaking best job most days.

Blah blah inspirational bs blah blah blah
 

The GRCS, no more smoking ropes or shock loading, positive rigging made the job, smoother, faster and safer for climbers and ground crew alike.

There is a saw company called stihl

Whose first run of new saws can be dismal 

With warranty denile 

They will cost you a pile

Those build after are much harder to kill

Grab it with 2 winch lines throwlined into the canopy , if its leaning at 12 oclock, winches should be about 7 and 5, give it a little pull to make sure its not rested on the other tree. climb it and bomb it down carefully to where winch lines are set.

Set 2 more points lower, get out of tree and change winch to lower points, tighten them again and bomb down to those points. By then you can probably either climb it without the lines or winch and fell it.

In 1966, upon being told that Charles de Gaulle had taken France out of NATO and that all U.S. troops must be evacuated from French soil, President Lyndon Johnson told Secretary of State Dean Rusk: 'Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!' 

So, at end of the meeting, Dean asked de Gaulle if his order to remove all U.S. troops from French soil also included the 60,000 plus soldiers buried in France from World War I and World War II. De Gaulle never answered.

Come on, its Stihl, they were short of making 3.8 billion in revenue last year. They didnt make that kind of money giving good things away, heck sometimes selling good things can be beyond there reach!

I was thinking what they stand for

scum travellers illicit hot loot

saws treeworkers ignorantly hold loyalty

Saws that induce high loans

suckers told its honestly labeled 

sweetly tuned it horrifies logs

spends time in hell logging

scamming teutonics imblaze homeowners lies

echo

Every chainsaw hastily operated

Or husky

Hopeless undertuned saw quits very abuptly requiring  neverending accessments

Has ugly starting qualities varying annoyance regularly neutering arborists

handmade under swedish quirkyness values really need altering

yeah its friday evening and the Gnt's are going down well on an empty stomach

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

Epic.

Did that plate lie back down?

Most diesels weigh quite a bit more than the petrol. The 35hp petrol is 59kgs and the diesel is 170kgs in the Kohlers. Thats and extra 100kgs + of tow weight that your trucks hauling about, day in, day out,  adding to your truck fuel bill, brake wear, and trailers wear and tear.

Its probably not a huge amount, but I doubt its often considered.

On 11/04/2019 at 13:37, dig-dug-dan said:

Both much of a muchness. Hoping by the time my cabstar needs replacing, isuzu have a double cab out, so i can choose between the two. I looked at the mitsy, but bluetooth wasnt even available! Way behind the times

I was looking at new trucks a while back -35,000 pounds worth of tipping isuzu 4wd on the yard. Dealer was going on how it had all sorts of features including a rather impressive stereo with all those other add on mod cons.

I asked if it had a limited slip diff (as my current 27 year old NPS 4wd tipper doesnt) and he said no

Am I the only one that sees idiocy of a 4wd WORK truck not having LSD but an entertainment system? I can install bluetooth cheap if I think its needed, but it would be nice if they worked harder on the critical aspects of a work truck.

I have got 2 years faultless use out of my first 2511 with the other newer one not giving any trouble so far, but I have been thinking about that muffler mod.....damn you all! I dont need the encouragement!

I havent seen one of the predators in real life, but the chainsaw grinders look great in short vids but the reality is they require VERY sharp teeth design (as they lack weight or power like other grinders have) and blunt really fast on dirt, stones etc due to that design and the higher grinding wheel RPM from the saw, and the teeth tend to be expensive. 

They  are pretty hard on the operator, you certainly start to feel it after a couple hours.

Any idea how much the teeth are? your going to be changing and sharpening them a lot

On 07/05/2008 at 10:58, MasterBlaster said:

Did someone say stump grinder accidents?

Hey thats Jims sexy leg. If memory serves me, Jim was using a backpack blower and wearing a set of clogger chainsaw trousers, this brother was operating pedestrian stump grinder. The brother pulled the grinder out of the hole and rested it on his handlebar with the cutting wheel spinning at calf height.

 Jim walked backwards into it. it took his chainsaw trousers clean off and broke both his fibia and tibia. It was a long road to recovery for him. 

We use a scopro ladder with a bamboo pole lashed to it horizontally to help stop it moving. Climb up, tie in with flip line and trim as far as you can reach, climb higher, rinse and repeat.