Joe Newton
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So what kind of kit do you find to be replacing the most. Obviously chains/fuel/oil are all budgeted for, but if you're replacing ropes etc more frequently than needed that'll add up. You should easily get a year out of ppe. Climbing kit should last longer than that, same as rigging kit. If machines are regularly breaking or getting replaced you'd need to look at why.
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What is your weekly net target for a team of lads? 2 or 3 man team?
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Fair enough. The gauge tool I gave is for standard 1/4" but it doesn't fit. It's so sensitive though that I'd worry about taking off too much with a file.
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How do you guys set the depth gauges on them one-fiddy chains? My angle grinder is making a bloody mess of them.
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I had that, cutting discs off a rotten willow with the 460. On ladders, harness but not strop. The ladders gave out under me, and I ended up hanging from my saw strop (bar wedged in the cut). The bar bent 90 degrees, and I new the next thing to go would be the rear handle/fuel tank of the 46. So I cut the strop with my silky. Landed on my arse and ankle, but the saw was fine, minus the bar!
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Next time you need a toothpick let me know...
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I missed that. What happened? I once had a saw shot out of a bore cut, handle first, into my gentleman sausage. Not life threatening but my dignity never recovered.
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Cheers dude, that's a 460 with 25" bar for scale, about 35' up. Interesting cross section at the base. Still not figured it out but possibly was previously a multi stemmed tree in it's youth. I love jobs like that but I'm knackered now. 3/4 of a transit of sawdust!
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Couple more from the Monterey Cypress.
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Good god! I'd end up as your human butt plug!
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An elephant never forgets...
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Finished the stem today.
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I was just going to use profanities and brute force
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70' at the most
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brash off, 3.5 transit loads. Onto the chog.
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Yeah, just drop it down the end if the garden, would ya?
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Nice work Ian. Why the short window? And what's up with the TM? I'd be looking for a deal there.
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I like my wrench more than my Mrs. What's yer point?
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Or just ascend with the wrench and don't bother switching to ddrt?
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That, and the extra force tearing out an anchor point if the system got snagged. If you're really too old, fat, lazy or generally knackered to get up a tree buy one of them wrapt or things. I've been pulled up a tree by 3 burly groundies before, for funsies, but I'd never let myself or entwine get winched up.
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Not smart at all.
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For some reason it only works for me when I don't need a throwline. I.e. When ladders and a quick scramble to the top would be just as quick. Give me a tall tree where the first decent branch is 40' up and that throwline is going anywhere except where I want!
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Gwan Jamie! Heavy lump that!
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Yeah I was climbing. Not to bad for the lads either. Most of it got roped down next to the chipper. Monday will be more fun when I crash down the garden side
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That's the one.
