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Firstly, welcome to the forum. In terms of content and context, when I did my CS units (in 1999) it was given by a qualified trainer to a small group, in my case me and 3 experienced woodmen, in the field (or woodland anyway!). There was no classroom work (that's for diploma type qualifications). We were showed how to maintain a saw, cross cut fell etc and then practiced under supervision. After a few days practice and tuition we were them formally assessed (in those days by the same guy) and if we passed, we gained the relevant CS module qualification. At the time, for someone with limited experience I found it very worthwhile, I carry the basic principals with me to this day and I still recommend the courses. While I agree in part that it can be a little bureaucratic, I can't deny that it was worthwhile. I've learned a lot since then by myself without qualification, climbing for instance, and I wouldn't like to be told I couldn't climb because I don't have the right tickets, but the basic safety and principles are invaluable. Someone I know is out in Oz and posted a photo on Facebook of him spiked up a tree dismantling it. I wouldn't trust him to dismantle garden furniture, he's not had any formal training nor is he experienced. It concerns me that he's not safe, but apparently there is no qualification system required over there. I do believe that at least some formal training is essential. I'm amazed that someone can use a chainsaw without understanding about kickback or what the chain brake is for. There's a happy medium I'm sure between where we are in the uk and places like the us, but it's a case of finding it. That is probably unlikely to happen though! Hope this helps!

Assuming you mean the rubber [annular] buffer which screws to the crankcase and the lower end of the wrap handle screws to it, the part number is 1116 790 9600 and the list price is the princely sum of £4.05p!

Good stuff, keep the momentum up now....

It's got to be real! We have the nordman non drop things because my wife insists on getting it the first weekend in December. A fake one seems kind of pointless to me.....

Arse, I just bought Tapatalk last night...!

Envious!

Interesting Ben. What have you used this method to assess in the past? Presumably it takes quite a while to put together an accurate assessment? So if I follow you correctly, this method would be used where a sequence of events, if they were to occur together or in a certain order, would cause a cosmic level distster, like a nuclear meltdown or similar....? I suppose it would be a struggled to asess that on the same form I use for stripping a roof!

And those of friends [Hence no mewp!!] Besides, no trees left in my garden.....

I think the new ones are a lot better rich.

I use our disto for lots of things, the d5 or d8 are going to be a lot more versatile, although for the cost of them, can they be justified over a trundle wheel for jobs like measuring fencing?

When I was selling Honda they laid on a dealer day at Highclere castle with all our competitor bikes. Everyone loved the Polaris, so much so that all the dealer staff had to do an ATV safety course afterwards! Grown men riding it like they stole it!

Thanks Steve. Save a few quid then!

I don't think there's anything better than progressive snatch....

Welcome to the forum Liam. Where in the Midlands are you? Plenty of guys will splice it for you if you want to post your rope to them, someone will offer soon enough. In the meantime have a look through here - Splicing Forum - Arbtalk.co.uk | Discussion Forum for Arborists - and I'm sure you'll find someone you can approach

Based on that terminology, it was done as a 'progressive snatch' then.. Tt wasn't just tensioned but continually lifted as it was cut, so it could only go one way. The face cut was positioned so that the hinge was under the least amount of tension and the groundie kept walking away and lifting the limb as I put the back cut in. The hinge didn't give way until it was lifted over-centre, at which point the butt came free of the stem and it went down in an arc away from the stem, groundie let lt run, just slowing it up. Worked well!

Not well.... very dry, snaps out quickly

Surely I can't be the only one who cuts in the buff...? I agree with Paul as well, but as I say, I couldn't rig from any higher, it was all dead and splindly... I made it look more substantial in my work of art than it actually was... It cleared the line incidentally, it was tensioned enough to lift and fall gracefully away from the line. I guess a more technical rigger would have used balancer legs and perhaps a tag down to a ground anchor opposite to hold the limb in position and stop it swinging back in an uncontrolled way maybe.... although that would need more groundstaff too.... I reckon I probably did it in the most efficient and 'relatively' safe manner given what I had available, which is all we can do really....

Cheers Paul. Ideally yes, I'd have gone far higher and balanced it out, but the fork I tied the pulley into was the highest 'sound' wood I could find [even that was a bit shaky to be honest]. Everything was horribly dead, else I would have shinned up the leaning limb and nibbled it off, but daren't go any higher than I did to tie it....

There are some nice DSLR's appearing on Groupon & KGB Deals at the moment, worth a look....

Just fiished off the reassembly of a 240 for a friend with a War Tec p&c. Original piston was scored from incorrect fuel, saw is 2006 and had very light domestic use and had no other problems at time of piston damage. Was a straight forward remove and replace. Now finished the compression is crap, whether the piston is under sized or what it is I have no idea, although it does run smoothly.... I wouldn't stake my life on one personally. [i've suggested to him that cleaning up the original pot, fitting a Meteor piston & OEM rings is probably the best solution.....]

Here you go Adam, thoughts. Unfortunately no photos but I'll describe as best I can and do you one of my funny little stickman diagrams. Dismantling 2 dead euc's over phone lines at the weekend. Dead as hell and not entirely suitable for rigging. A mewp would have been better but for the one limb which was over the line it couldn't be justified. I set a pulley in the adjacent dead eucalyptus, and tied onto the hanging limb as high as I could towards the tips [as high as I could climb given the nature of the limb]. The rigging tip was higher than the lowering pulley. The lowering line came down from the branch about 30 degrees to the pulley, then down to a portawrap, back up to a 3:1 pulley & prusik then off to the groundie. We tensioned it on the capstan to pull it up and away from the phone lines and then cut it from the opposite side while continuing to lift it. It went over centre and swung away and down from the phone line and then the groundie let it run down to the floor. As you know, I have a limited quantity of rigging gear because I don't do big jobs, so it's a case of making the best of what I have, but given the scenario, what would you have done differently...?

So what are you treating yourself to then Jon...? Or does it begin and end with the 880...?!

Well he's sold 2 already....

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I do lots of risk assessment and I've never come across this method.... even for craneage of structural steel on urban worksites.... But googling it makes me think it's an even bigger load of bollocks than a common or garden 'linear' risk assessment..... Certainly the examples I found were pretty unreadable!