Joe Newton
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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! -
My brother in law has recently started a wood shop, I'm hesitant to recommend this to him as it could make for a really awkward funeral speech, but if we have an open invite and can organise the journey we'd be very interested! N.B. He's an automotive engineer by trade so not a total fuckwit unlike myself
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Where are you based mate, it's pretty interesting (and scary)!
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Done. You going eggs?
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Well sure, wasn't expecting them for free! Didn't think it was that much though!
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Where you based?
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I'll take them mate
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What are you hoping to learn? There might be a few seminars there but courses?
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Looks pretty amateur to me, the first cut is the deepest/ most important. Every other cut follows it. That one looked way out. Just buy a ladder on Facebook for a tenner.
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When you know what you have mate give me a should with what you want for them.
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Yeah figures. To be fair if you're mates pumping claret you're just going to connect them and get down sharpish. Two crabs would do it.
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Pretty sure between you and Mark you'd have done just as good a job tensioning that line. Bet Danny would have been glad of a second climber up there, save a lot of up and down...
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That would work mate, but on either system that's not ideal. Current best practice is to have two connections. The harness to harness one that you mentioned would be a secondary, with the primary attachment being a prussik or similar from the rescuers standing part of his rope to the casualty, taking the weight and allowing for better positioning of the casualty. That is the part srt doesn't seem to allow for. Of course the reality is that in a pinch we'd use whatever works.
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Yeah, if an access line had been used, or if another climber in the tree was working srt... It's by far the quickest way too get up a tree, but it doesn't sound like there's much thought to the rescue side of it. Yeah refresher training for rescue is always a good idea. I wouldn't say I learnt loads of new stuff, but I try and keep up to date with it and practice it fairly regularly. It's all about keeping yourself familiar, especially if you trained many years ago and haven't done it since.
