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I think so as long as it is non dynamic non stretch rope. I have used it with an ordinary 13mm rigging rope.

Actually we had two of the first tracked 6" Forsts for getting across fields but I agree with where you are coming from. The 8" chippers are for putting bigger branches through for productivity as well as not having to tote so much roundwood. I only used a TR6 and felt it fed in more aggressively than the the Jensens they replaced, We had some problems including return to Forst for repair but they had clocked up 400 hours by the time I left. We had the tracked 9" A430 Jensens too but they began to have big bearing life problems so went. We also had 5 safetrak 1928 which ran well but had major repairs following "contraries" damage and a couple of Heizohacks. The tracked machines basically chipped everything they could and left it on site, for which the 13" Heizohack excelled but and 4 tonnes involved transport logistics which meant it was not deployed as much as it should have been. All the while the small tree gangs used an ancient pair of Greenmech 6" chippers, which the mechanic somehow kept working, and they would bring back mixed transit loads of chip and log wood even though for disposal purposes chip could have gone on the biomass heap. A bigger chipper would have suited better but none of the younger guys could tow bigger. I disposed of 3 decent Kwikchip and Entec chippers solely because they weighed more than 750kg

That's okay for little fellas doing a bit of domestic but the big commercial guys want to push as much through the chipper as possible and away without the bother of handballing shortwood onto the truck and having to sort it at the other end. When I was last working in November with the geriatric Dosko I reckoned I would be faster snedding out everything to 4" and putting the shortwood into the truck but for the fact I would have to bend over and pick up small branchwood to throw in the chipper. Also throwing roundwood into the truck and chipping as you go gets more weight for the volume of truck. This latter not being of value in a 3.5 tonne chipper as you are always overweight in any case.

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Once the lesson was learnt I'd bring the reel indoors

I thought there was a different strike-droop characteristic between stick/TIG and MIG I've seen these spool guns for aluminium welding but don't you have to use pure argon and AC? Could you use them with a steel wire? I know the reason for them is to pull the wire rather than push it as the aluminium sticks from friction and kinks when pushed. Naughty, at least use some copper to keep the I2R heating down in the plug.

Hey how many years does it take to get any good, I can trump your 30 with another 20 but don't claim to be expert. Most of my welding has been emergency repairs when I couldn't get to a workshop so my 200 A 4kVA genset loaded in the back of the LR got me alongside most times, cellulosic rods burn off crap and give you a strong weld but you would never use them in a workshop for fabrication where surface preparation and MIG give a perfect weld. For the most part I agree MIG are better, the 440V ones we had at work were amazingly productive. I keep a JASIC stick welder at home and go down to ~2mm with it on clean metal, one of the things I found with MIG is that with my infrequent use the wire got damp and rusty in the garage not to mention the hassle of getting gas.

The wire is specified as a cross section so I think he is referring to 10mm^2 which is the heavy duty cable for a 30A cooker circuit in a house but can actually carry 1.5 times that.

Because of viral mutation - like the flu jab changes periodically , looks like it could be a yearly thing ;/ K That doesn't change the point in any way; yes the virus will mutate and yes people will catch the mutated version, their immune system will then not be naive to the virus and it's various surface proteins so if a future infection contains any of those strings of proteins they will be recognised and the immune system will go into action against the virus. Similarly as long as the jab has "educated" the immune system of the right sequence of proteins that uniquely define the virus then when the virus enters the body the immune system is fore armed with knowledge of these proteins and can attack the virus. My point was why should a jab offer better protection than having had and recovered from the virus. I had my first ever flu jab this year, some 10 years after it was offered. I had never bothered before because I have never knowingly had the flu but suspected the combined effect of covid and the flu may not be good for me. Of course if these various tiers and lockdowns work any infectious or contagious disease should be reduced but as I am an asocial being probably high on the autistic spectrum, my lifestyle isn't largely affected apart from not going to supermarkets (I get anxious in queues and have to make multiple passes of aisles in trying to find what is on my shopping list so likely to upset other shoppers) so I have groceries delivered or use the local shop where I tend to be the only customer and the higher price, less choice, doesn't faze me.

As no one under 50 will have the vaccination unless they have extra risk factors I doubt 80% will ever be vaccinated. Anyway with 5% of the population having had the disease there is no need to vaccinate them, or is there? I still cannot fathom how a vaccine can prime the immune system any better than surviving a full fat virus. Herd immunity only drives the R value down, it doesn't offer any benefit to someone naive to the virus. Speaking as one who the bald statistics indicate would be 90 times more likely to die than if I were half my age.

I've not had a problem myself when I banged an ecoplug into some big stems.

Slow down then, whoever you work for will have adequate tools, you don't need chainsaw trousers till you need to use a chainsaw and steel toe capped boots with reinforced mid sole is all that is needed , gloves eye and ear protection are essential for by a chipper and to avoid hearing problems like I have consider ear plugs as well as muffs if you get stuck on the chipper. Also if you wear safety glasses they tend to make the muffs let more noise in.

Nothing good about me, I'm just tight

Yes this is why I suggested going back to basics and mounting it again, I suspected the adjustment pin was not in the hole in the bar correctly and hence was being clamped onto the bar. ...and yes I have made this mistake when I first came across a saw with the adjusted in the clutch cover.

The fold up ones are expensive. When I was working I sometimes had the job of replacing Silky Gomtaro blades for the climbers, as they had to be in tip top nick for them. I would bring the old blades home and sharpen then with a feather edge diamond file, wrap tape around to form a handle and give them away. The chap that owns the narrowboat I used to crew on uses his for collecting firewood on the canal. I've recently done the same for the blade off a telescopic Silky and will use that for volunteer work on public rights of way when we are allowed to.

I keep a fold up Bigboy in my day bag, just in case for eventualities, as I have both curved and straight I have a choice and I can't explain why but prefer the straight.

If the average width is 44" and 6'6" long that gives a quarter girth of 3.4 and a volume of 75Hft, 27Hft to the m^3

Have you taken the clutch cover off and screwed the adjuster through its full travel? Then when you put it back on are you sure the adjusting pin is correctly slotting into the hole in the bar before you tighten it? Then with the bar nuts screwed up by finger and backed off half a turn before doing final adjustment, then tightening bar nuts.

I put them in my earlier post

I have added some pictures to give an idea of how it would work

It's a fleeting comment in his first Reith lecture where he mentions this and not doing enough to combat climate change. Surprisingly he also mentions the need to address growing inequality of wealth. I have not listened to the rest yet. It worries me when people at the top discuss inequality because to my mind it's not wealth distribution per se that's the problem but the spending decisions that go with it that effectively means the decision on what to spend money on becomes the province of the very rich and damage to the environment results. I am reminded of that actress from tutiftuity who stood by that pink boat and spouted about climate change and how she wished she didn't have to fly for her work, of course she didn't need to fly at all but she did in order to retain her position as a rich and famous person and that meant she was willing to pollute more. This sort of decision doesn't worry me , people have always aspired to reach the top, but it results from a financial management system, which has out competed all other ideologies, by not having the constraints of worrying about the fact we exist on a finite planet or the external costs to the commons of air, water climate etc. Of course man's ability to cause these global problems has only emerged in the last 150 years and only recognised in the last 40.

Me too but only got 2 days use there before the job was called off because of covid.

Yup, mine too for the little use I have had out of it. @Mick Dempsey the eder 1800 has two speeds but I have only used the low speed high pull one. When you tighten it up for a fell the tension on the tail applies the throttle, once tight and you ease off the tail "falls" into a cleat which holds the tension. I always, so far, leave the engine running until I need to pull the tree over. I also always use the decompression valve when starting. rope wound on capstan with tail running round white pulley which is on the throttle lever, in this position the throttle would be wide open. Here the tail is slackened and the throttle is closing, the rope is laying into the holding cleat here the tail is released and the rope is fully held by the cleat were the live line in tension which I didn't go to the trouble of demonstrating fully.

Hey I guess you're taking a bit of a break while I'm getting a bit bored not getting out and about.

With my granddaughter being grossly over weight I have been pleading with her to take more exercise and snack less but she doesn't seem to accept the advice. Mind I also try and clean for another elderly lady who won't do anything to help herself she is getting worse too. Of course as has been said before our health services have been extending lives of people with underlying health problems into old age so failing to address this disease means lots of people are vulnerable. I mentioned before my primary school friend, 2 years younger than had to be carried out of the house by the fire service as the lady ambulance technicians couldn’t manage. He's 6'4" doesn't look too large but apparently 18 stone. He got home and I saw him, his next door neighbour, 62, died in the same ward. BTW Mark Carney seems to think the government made a decision not to be prepared for a scenario of a pandemic.