Joe Newton
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A company I sub to has a retina scanner. Prevents late people calling ahead and getting a mate to clock in for them.
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Ha Conrad has been doing this job long enough to know his pricing. If I recall he worked on David Humphries team in London for a good while. -
The question was about transferring a casualty onto your system. You can connect them to your bridge but there's no way of transferring them onto your climbing line like you learn to do on a doubled rope rescue
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If you can graft and use a saw to sned and feed a chipper don't settle for less than 100. A competent groundy/2nd climber would be looking at 120+ Less than that and you'd be better off on the books. Second Steve's comment. Try to live and breathe tree work and you'll come on much quicker.
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If I could only have one ground saw it'd be the 461. Itll fly on an 18" bar but not be to heavy, but will easily run a 25" bar all day. There aren't that many trees that really need bigger than that.
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If you find anywhere grab me one too!
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Lads, you're playing into his hands. Vesp is a troll looking for a reaction. This is the closest he's been to combat; throwing ignorant comments from behind a pseudonym. Let's not validate his post with reactions.
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You're not putting anywhere near enough downward pressure on that chain. Those file guides are designed so you literally can't file too far down, so make sure your filling as deep into to file as you can. This is why the rakers aren't being touched too. Try a good few passed with no backward pressure just downward to restore the profile and then sharpen downward and backwards into the tooth.
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2nd, the guy can obviously put a big tree down in good time. Gotta say though just from the photo getting it down is pretty straightforward. I wouldn't like to be the one clearing it though.
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But he's got <60" logs to cut apparently
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A tiny bit of work and a lot of noise before it just stops working?
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If he's genuinely cutting 1.5m trunks regularly then he needs a 880. That's 60". Unless it's an ancient woodland I doubt there going to me much 1.5m timber in there. They blunt just as fast when you find dirt or metal!
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Why if he doesn't need a 25" bar? By all means keep one for when needed but a shorter bar will cut faster, be quicker to sharpen and cost less in chains.
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On a serious note these like great: https://www.honeybros.com/Item/Buckingham_Magnetic_Gaff_Guards Could be attached with elastic too
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The leather ones are shite, worn through after a couple of climbs! Didn't stick to the tree anywhere near as well either
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I tend to just file down into the tie straps rather than downsize files. I find I lose teeth before the chain snaps. I'll give it a try though. I find with 3/8 chain 5.5 gives a more durable edge whereas 5.2 is quicker but blunts faster. I airways use a file guide, not for the angle but for the fact it meters the depth accurately. Takes the guesswork out of the equation.
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You make them look small though mate!
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The height of that stump was an absolute piss take too.
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Three problem is that we're in an exciting industry so the supply outweighs the demand. If you're feeling threatened by firemen and lawyers in a mid life crisis I'd suggest you're not marketing yourself well enough. Or you could go into the shit scraping business and have eggs as your sole competitor. Nasty work equals decent pay.
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Nelson Mandela was a right prick too
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Decent bit of veteran tree management today. All but dead Sweet Chestnut to safety prune over a footpath. Plenty of saprophytic fungi present and some cracking habitat. The coronet cut was a bit poor but difficult to do with limited work positioning.
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Cheers Reg, noticed that your using a single beast ring by the look of it. I'm thinking of buying a ring sling type thing but I've read that two rings is preferable for a better bend radius. Interested to hear your thoughts on it? What do you reckon the heaviest log weighed?
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If they're Rotatech then 0.003 of an inch is the least of your problems. With Northern Arb you should be able to buy a specific depth guage meter pretty easily. Actually receiving it might be somewhat more difficult though.
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Panther chainsaw milling - post your feedback and pics here :)
Joe Newton replied to Rob D's topic in Panther Mill UK
Was great to have a chat to you this weekend Rob. Very impressed with the new mills you've bought out, seems to be an improvement in every single way! I look forward to getting one for myself and for the other projects in the pipeline!
