Joe Newton
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I haven't given mine a proper chance yet but for big saw work or SRT they're good. Could do with some padding on the shoulders though.
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I'd imagine lighter, cheaper and easier to set up.
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What saws and bar sizes are you running in the vid?
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I'm gonna take a stab in the dark at "Large X Rigging Ring"
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That's the one!
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I think I know what he's after. A small rod that clamps onto the end of the guide bar to allow accurate boring once a pilot hole has been drilled. I think it was Delabodge who posted the video. I'd be curios to know if it was custom made or bought.
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This
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I can 't, I'm employed. Fact is employed or self employed, I won't work if I don't feel like I can do the job without requiring a rescue. You're right though, commercial clients will know what you should be doing, and expect you to dot the "i"s etc I never climb on a system that isn't lowerable. The 660 is always next to the base, running with the chain brake off.
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I agree with both. Ideally yes. We don't live in an ideal world however. Practically it's unfeasable a lot of the time. Like Treequip reckons. If I do myself a minor mischief I can get myself down. If I proper do myself at 60', and can't get myself down, with an arterial bleed, I'm buggered. I'm not against the idea, but I do wonder how far I'd get in this business if I only climbed with another competent climber on site. (FWIW - I know unqualified people who could rescue me more efficiently than a lot of lads who have their 38. Qualified doesn't mean competent.)
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By unqualified I assume you mean qualified up to 30/31, but not 38.
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It is by me. Depending on the job of course. Big trees, we tend to have all hands on deck. Smaller stuff, not so much. Why don't you ask every subbie climber to raise their hands if they've climbed without a competent climber on the deck... ...This month.
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You won't like it. Terrible terrible saw. Still, buy one anyway and I'll do you a favour and buy it off you for a fraction of the cost
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Perhaps ideally, but if that were true of the real world then contract climbers for the most part would go bust. No firm is going to sub in a contract climber when they have a trained climber on the team, just so they have a spare rescue climber.
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My thoughts exactly. Every time I have to take the karabiner off the rigging line gets shorter by a foot or so!
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Ha it's certainly a beast! It was pulling 190 when you did it, I think, I'd be interested to see if it's gone up any now the pistons well and truly bedded in. I'll send it your way at some point for a check up on the carb, since my little 211 has been misbehaving anyway. Hopefully it's shagged and I'll have an excuse for the Mrs to get a new one.
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Cheers, that's settled then Just so I'm sure, you put a husky bar on a stihl, and suddenly it shaves 4.5 seconds off its time!? I've got you porting types sussed
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Cheers Jay. The 357 is a joy to use on a 15" bar. Spud ported it and I geared it up on the sprocket. It's fast, so much so in fact that I almost fully severed a hinge today before the tree was committed! Problem is that when flicking it through brash it can flick up at you if you're not careful, and is a bit of a lump at full arms reach. Hence a lighter saw is on the list. The 550 seems to tick the boxes. I'll probably whack a 13" bar on it, and I've got a spare 8t rim lying around somewhere.
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Hmmm, looked online and it appears they stopped selling them in 1902!!! Any reason in particular Wyk? I'm inclined to go Husqy but the 241 looks like Stihl have accidentally made a decent new ground saw!
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Nice short clip there. Liked the communication with the ground crew. As a contract climber to you find you have to talk the ground crew through the rigging quite often? If often wondered if it gets frustrating when every day is a different team with different skill levels and experience.
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So I've been doing thinning work for the last couple of days, dropping and snedding hardwoods. For the felling I've been using my 357xp 15" that had been send to Spud for some work, and when it returned it was properly angry. I never asked what he did to it. Thing is, the 357 is a tad heavy for snedding in dense undergrowth. A touch aggressive too, but that might be down to my enthusiasm with the depth gauge file. Looking at a smaller saw, to run either 15 or 13" bars. What would you recommend? Doesn't look to be much between them.
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The arbotec Breatheflex are brilliant. Snug, stretchy, and very hard wearing. I'd buy another pair tomorrow if mine went.
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A nice thank you from the Childrens trust
Joe Newton replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Wow, almost 40 grand! That's more than I earn in a week! Fantastic "Thank you" card, very personal and I'd imagine hugely appreciated by all involved Cheers for sharing. -
No criticisms here mate, just a bit of piss taking think I may have mentioned the groundwork thing in the other thread. No problem with a bit of screaming here either Was the tree deemed unsafe to climb or was the Mewp just available?
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Nice vid mate, don't know why you bothered with filming that boring ground work at the beginning though! MEWPS scare the hell out of me. It ain't normal being that far out! One question: that bloke singing, is everything okay at home with him?!
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Moving to the UK, what's the certs to get working...
Joe Newton replied to swingdude's topic in General chat
Yes, having a laugh. Just a joke mate.
