Joe Newton
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I'd rather reduce a mature tree by less than more. Getting to the tips isn't usually a problem, but at 30% you'll struggle to find decent growth to take over, whereas at 20% there'll be much more choice, making doing a good job with a natural shape a lot easier.
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Why does it need 30%? In my limited experience the harder you go the more the tree reacts with epicormic growth, and the lighter you go the better the choice for growth points.
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Stein do a very reasonable pole set with pruners and saw blade. Check F R Jones
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Fair enough. I love the works 460 on 25". My own 441 (manual carb) is okay on a 20", but if a 560 can beat it with an 18" bar I guess it's a winner! Matty, I love cutting oversized timber with a fast saw on the deck, but couldn't be faffing with spiking round the trunk doing it!
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Fair enough! So what do you use your 460s for!?
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I can see that. My ported 357 would be close. However I often use the 460 on timber well over 36" so it's not quite redundant to me Plus you wouldn't use a 560 in a tree on 25" timber, would you?
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So a 560 would pull a 25" bar better than a 460?
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Same here, I've had mine for 2 years before my RIG is battered enough to be worrying.
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How do you retrieve yours Steve? Throwline? Or just let it drop? I've got an old DIY pulleysaver that's looking a bit, err, ropey, because the pulley has taken a few hard whacks. I've just ordered a new pulley and some tenex and am gonna splice myself a new one. Cost about £60 in materials and takes less than an hour.
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That is a disgusting euphemism!
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From what I can see on my phone the grass looks well looked after, maybe that's why? Either that or they'd priced it for a dismantle and the clients just wouldn't bugger off!
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If mine is supposed to look like that I'd better get to the wang doctor! Fat stem on that Jay, nice work. How long?
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Does your juice not taste of pork and vice versa? I've heard of pork and apple in a casserole but never in a smoothie!
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Masticating... Mincer... My immature brain has gone into overload...
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Well you can buy your own sodding beer next event then! Cheers Uncle Eggs, He just needs a nap, I'll ask him again after his supper.
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Take me that long to decide which shiny bits to put on my harness that day.
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Looks like a nice job Did you have to chip and tidy or was it crash and dash?
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Where'd you get that from Mark? I need a skin graft every time I change sprockets.
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Sod cutting and chucking that lot!!!
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Someone will be along soon to say 2 lads half a day.
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Me neither, was watching on my phone so wasn't the biggest pic. The guide bar looked a bit big for a 66 unless you're 5'6"
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Nice fells. Personally I'd have used a 660 over that 88!
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And sticky, in this weather...
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Bit personal, that!
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Funny, today was blistering, and the first time I've had trouble with the t540. Wouldn't start from warm. I was rigging out a larch, so lots of quick cuts, with the engine off in between. Almost threw it out of the tree!
