Joe Newton
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Everything posted by Joe Newton
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Don't lend saws out if you can't afford to replace them. My saws only use fuel that I've personally mixed. Not that I don't trust people per se, but people just don't take the same care with a borrowed saw that they would if they've bought it with their hard earned.
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Worked for me. Just clicked 'watch on YouTube' Stick with White Lies. Proper track that. The tree work was pretty good too.
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Who cares if they're tougher? They look flipping awesome! Dammit Rob, you're killing me!
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Oh. Crap. I ca drop mine in on the 18th if you're about?
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2nd Keith. You wouldn't mess with him though. Got a scary look in his eye!
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Haha good sport.
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I can't really see the point of the x rings. They look good but I can't really see any advantage to them. Most of my rigging is done with an ISC swing cheek, ally rigging crab and home made whoopie sling. You should be able to get all that for under £100 The block pulley and big boy rope rarely gets used. Only for blocking down big stems, which isn't very often.
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Don't know, I just don't like the Marlowe ever since I spliced it. I use 12mm Sirius for the majority of rigging. The 18mm line only gets used for blocking down big ass stems. I have really pushed the 12mm on rigging limbs, and it's still going strong.
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Sirius is tough as hell. I keep trying to break it! Marlowe rope is okay too, but I'd go with the Sirius.
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Worth a watch:
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It's not m tronic. Bloody good saw though. 25" is pretty much max, I run 20" on mine and it's brilliant.
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Of course you can.
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Is it really? Who specced that!?
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You utter bastard. I was just reading that and thinking how much it would help my skinny ass.
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Not questioning that. The echo will run way better on the Stihl bar though. Period.
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I saw a little bit you attached to the end of a chainsaw bar a while back to allow precise bore cutting for holes like that. Never been able to find one though.
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If you don't prefer it I'll let you off the hook for that Stoli
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The time has finally come
Joe Newton replied to Steve Bullman's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
Because you're adding a pivot point by adding a carabiner. -
Always makes me laugh when you see UK climbers with 16" bars on their toppers. Different story over there though! Do you not miss topping purple leaf plums?
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I thought Manchester. Near as makes no difference. Probably moved there to feel intelligent...
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Nice work Reg, liked the use of the double redirect pulley. Got one knocking about the van somewhere, but never used it. How you finding that beast of a pickup for a chip truck? Did you get it converted to a tipper? What's the capacity like compared to a Transit?
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Yeah maybe I am a bit sad, but I don't see the point in buying a great little saw and not getting the best out of it. Bit like buying a GTR and capping the speed of at 70!
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The Tsumara bar on it's own is a very good bar. However it's 0.050, which takes a heavier chain, requiring more energy to pull. Have you seen the Stihl 150 with it's 0.043 bar and chain? It'd be like a 150 engine trying to pull a bar and chain from a 200t. The 150t is a good engine, but it's the specially designed tiny bar and chain that allows it to work. Echo made an even better engine, but didn't bother with a tiny chain, so that engine is trying to pull a heavy chain.
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Can't see why it looks brilliant really. Lot of cool features but it doesn't solve any problems for me.
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I dragged a small lime tree through a house yesterday. The client had to chase me up on that one, more than once.
