Joe Newton
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Not sure when it's booked in for, I'm just exploring avenues to make the job go efficiently. Save me ringing up 60" discs to split and handball to the vans to take to a yard with not enough space for all that timber. The tree has armillaria I think.
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Both really helpful, guys, nice one! Didn't think of Simon, I'll message him when I have photos.
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Crane is only really viable as long as I can get someone to take the timber away in lengths.
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Oh I will! I'll probably end up chogging it!
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Good point, but if I can save getting a crane in and pick the remaining bigger bits with a timber lorry crane it might save hassle.
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That sounds like what I need! I can probably rig it down to 50' but after that ideally it would be picked.
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It's dying Matty. Still got needles on but pretty browned off by now. If anyone has any contacts for a timber lorry with crane in the midlands I'd appreciate it!
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I know Wayne, to be honest the labour saved would cover the cost. Not looking to make money out of the timber, but if I could sell it for enough to cover the plant and haulage it would be a bonus.
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Rugby
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I remember watching that video Yeah my options are either leaving it to be milled on site or a lorry with a timber crane. I don't know of any in the Warwickshire area so may have to look around. I'll get some pics this week.
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I should add that I'm just the climber, I have no real input as far as management goes, so I'd need to be able to find a cost effective was of dealing with the timber, since there'll be a point where the stem is just too big to rig.
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I reckon so.
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So I've got a decent sized Welly to kill coming up. I'm looking for ideas to help it go efficiently. We're a TW and Tranny outfit, with no experience of cranes etc. I'm not worried about the brash, top, or the upper half of the stem. It will all have to be rigged, but that's fine. Just wondering what the best way to deal with the timber is. We don't have room at our yard, and could do without ringing and hand balling it.
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It's the worst and the best. Depends on what you're doing on the day. The worst jobs I'd rather be in an office. The normal jobs I'm happy. The great jobs are the ones I can believe I'm paid for!
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Do you have your strop on the left hand side? I use the same caritool, no gate. At work I use a standard lanyard which keeps getting wrapped round the caritool. I just live with it. My own topper has a bungee strop. It still happens, but not as much.
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Lucky sod!
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Looked a fun fell. It's a bittersweet feeling, felling a big tree. It's fun, until it lands and you realise you have the mother of all rakathons ahead of you.
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I'd have trimmed the buttresses
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Why dont you post on ARBTALK so much any more ?
Joe Newton replied to eggsarascal's topic in The Lounge
Oh cock, I thought you'd gone -
Anyway, the poor bloke only wanted us to recommend a saw for him! Look where we've led him! I'll shut up now. Put the chain on the right way round and all is well
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My word certainly isn't gospel, but my understanding regarding ethanol degradation to the rubber pipes is that the ethanol softens the rubber, which isn't such a problem when the pipes are wet, but once dried out and exposed to the sir they can harden and crack. A bit like methylated spirits on skin.
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Don't run the saw dry! If you haven't used the saw for a while just empty the tank and put in fresh fuel before you use it! The pipes will degrade much quicker if they have been softened by ethanol and then left to go dry. This is how they split. It's better to leave fuel in the tank and pipes then just refresh it when you need to use it again. Or do as a Stubby says, and use Aspen.
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Hope you like it mate. Use non supermarket petrol and decent 2 stroke and you won't go far wrong.
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You're not kidding anyone mate :biggrin
