Mr. Squirrel

It’s about as basic a concept as you can get, it helps reduce our impact on trees and is important for minimising wear on climbing ropes and improves the consistency of systems. In the real world their not optional for moving systems, so get used to em now…

I can see the logic behind an impact driver for something like this, you’re limiting the torque that can be transferred to you, avoiding the whole thing binding up and bogging down. But optimally I’d still go for one of the big 36v drills. The makita twin 18v has more torque and higher speeds than the Milwaukee or dewalt I believe, and is nails. Mines been thoroughly abused and hasn’t skipped a beat.

You’re maybe alright because you’re mixing it yourself. Given it was multiple issues with spark plugs I think their mix is just a bit rich. Could have been a batch or an age issue, I don’t know. I mentioned it to the guy in the husky shop (not my usual) and he just seemed bamboozled. The owner of my usual husky dealer said they thought the husky fuel was shit and that’s why they stock aspen instead 😅

I found a deer leg 10-15m up a beech tree once.

Could try one of those clothes drying/dehumidifying tent things? Might help contain the smell and avoids putting all that moisture back into the flat. Otherwise a dehumidifier in a spare room, if you have one, is a game changer.

Dork.

With TBE at least there’s a vaccination available. Unsure if it’s effectiveness however when I worked in the Black Forest, a ‘red zone’ for tbe everyone I worked with had the jag. Only heard of one fella who got tbe and he was of course unvaccinated… can get the jags through the nhs but have to pay for them. I’ve had Lyme disease twice now and tbf the docs were great at admitting their lack of knowledge around it. Handed them a load of info on it and they were happy to go with my preferences then

I was quoted 4k for my hilux and sprinter van this year by trust. Shopped around and Aviva came in at 1400. Managed to talk trust down to match but went with Aviva anyway because trust were ripping the piss.

Potus… he made a real c**t of that one didn’t he?

Exercise caution doing that, you’re creating week points mid line, and obviously the 14mm Sirius is significantly weaker. As for the novoleen, also have 100m which has taken a fair thrashing. I’ve been pretty happy with it though and would say it’s comfortably paid for itself. Most significant damage to it came from the Eder winch itself, a sharp edge, stupidly. In future I’d buy something a bit higher spec though.

If you’re going to get into the ethics of it, then I’d suggest the ‘clone saws’ are themselves stolen IP, manufactured worse.

No, I don’t like the akimbo either. There seems to be a fair amount of resistance when tending, and, from my brief fondling, it certainly didn’t seem very smooth on ascent.

I had a look at one of these last week and it appears to be a bit like a bigger, worse akimbo. Looks like would make an effective anchor or such though.

Further to my last post, I drained my blower of the husky fuel and refilled it with aspen. Seems to be running fine again. Would strongly recommend avoiding the husky alkalyte fuel.

I think that, but he’s also thick as f**k. So he’s thick as f**k, but thinks everyone else is so thick they’ll believe the same sh** he believes.