Merle Nelson

Search throwline reels. A person could think of it like a fishing reel for throwline, You hold it in two hands as you wind it up and drop it on the ground in front of you for the throw or shot and it neatly plays the line out as the weight sails toward your desired destination.

I must have missed something in the translation. I am clear that Write saws are done and dead as far as production tools are concerned. "difflock's" discription brought the Write saw to mind and I wondered if he had ever seen it.

Write Blade Saw on YouTube?

Everybody is probably right as far as being safe and intelligent is concerned. However, if you want to get a thing done, find a risk taker (or be one.) We will all be dead soon enough in the grand scheme of things. What does a person want to do with their life is a major point to consider in my mind. Not can x be easily done. Do you know how many famous people in their fields were told to quit a thing, including opera singers told by famous voice coaches that they had no talent - take up sewing? Henry Ford’s engineers came back to him at 3 months, 6 months, and etc. and said it just can not be done. Fine he said, now go design me an 8 cylinder engine. At three years he had one. Historical examples are endless. Are our current selection of battery operated tools sufficient to take us out into what we need for the future? No. Well someone is going to design and build those. Core is one co. in the US that is putting out tools with interchangeable batts and brushless motors. That is one start. Batts are close to exploding in capability. Look up all the info you can find on graphene as it relates to batteries and storage etc..

kevinjohnsonmbe, If I am not mistaken one of David’s points from earlier in the thread is that they can’t be consistently purchased any cheaper than marked XRRings. Darrin Turnbull, David can update on sources. Actually I think Antal is being a true to their agreement company (true to David) soon will be supplying items not thought of previously without David’s creativity. I will send David a message and see if he can weigh in and tell us the facts. I know he has been sick and under the weather for a while now. I look forward to sometime when David has this all down on his website under “History” or some such. I have pieced bits together from going and working with him for a couple of weeks and having seen XRR “Testing To Destruction” video that he has since taken off YouTube etc.. The time and money he has put into learning the parameters of what is safely possible with these Rings is over the top. That single video not only amazed me for it’s content and what it showed but also that he worked his crane and four guys there doing set up testing for at least two days just to prove out what was safe, and how far you could push beyond safe.

David (Xman) is a stand up guy, anyone who can see their way clear to buy rings branded X to support his efforts in bringing them over to the Arb industry will be doing us all a favor. I happen to know that his creative and driven mind has things stacked up that are waiting to come on line and into production. The THT is just a minor example of that. Being intrigued by innovation and invention I also happen to know a number of the back stories of people that have invented things for the Arb industry. It surprises me actually that to a person they have not all told us to stuff it - the $ just are not there in payback. What is left if we take away the emotional gratification as well. David will do fine and keep going anyway, he may well see this some time and tell me to shut up. Other inventors I could list off, if I had their permission, not so well. Many have stopped inventing and developing new tools for us already. My request; lets treat our inventors and innovators well.

My opinion is that bullying and flaming are very specific things far closer in character to abuse and rape etc. than squabbling. They are about power over not about back and forth evenhandedness just like rape is known to be far more about power over than about sex. If this is the case then it is better (more impowering) for the community to say we will not tolerate this than for the community to go to the victim and say, are you ok with it? Any sound functioning adult can control themselves. If they are told that x is not acceptable behavior and they make the choice to continue - THEY have selected themselves out. If we chose who will be our companions and contempararies in life based on their value to us in this endevor or that then criminals and some of the worst leaders in history would be what we surrounded ourselves with oftentimes.

Jim thanks so much that is exactly what my dealer needed to move forward. I'll get it to him after the weekend. Can't wait to be fumeless on a bunch of my lighter work.

JimM I’m ready to buy a Husqvarna 536 LIXP (significantly due to members posts and reviews here). What part number or contact person at Husqvarna headquarters can I use to make sure I am getting product post battery drop production or issue? I already tried to have a saw shop figure it out through their supplier here in the USA - no luck. Thank you for your efforts, I have certainly benefited from it already. Merle

Thanks, was going to order today. Am not an 'early adopter' anyway. It would have been annoying to order and then find out there was an important improvement. Arbtalk and it's members - information at the speed of light!

Lawrence Schultz who has the great good fortune to be an Arborist in Central Park thinks you might be referring to the big FAKE stumps that are over there. He says that things are pruned and removed way before being dead.

Toyota avoided taking responsibility for “sudden acceleration” on some of their cars here in the US - just got slapped with a 1.2 BILLION dollar fine. Plus there are hundreds of personal lawsuit cases lined up waiting for court dates. Head in the sand avoidance till some one gets hurt or dies - thats a good plan.

Can’t wait to go through all the pics and video with a notebook in hand, can already see tons of uses I was not focused on. Thanks for posting David and others.

Xman/David will give you the exact answer but in general, no it’s not a problem to ‘let it run’ from the top of a tree to the ground including with some very heavy weights. I’ve run near vertical speed lines with heavy weights also. One 40 minute video I mentioned above covered lack of heat issues and other things. The Hardcoat covering the rings is uncanny for durability.

David, I’ll say it again - thanks for bringing the rings over from the marine industry. I would have never known about them. Every job I use X Rigging Rings on goes faster, easier, and brings back some of the fun of early days in tree work for me. Please, please, please bring back out that first video of testing the rings to destruction. I only watched it once and hadn’t robbed all the good ideas out of that one yet. No one would guess what these are capable of without seeing it on vid. Not all of our videos need to be 10’s for entertainment. I use the XRR to make more money more quickly and can watch a 40 minute video to learn how to do that better. August please make all the videos with Rings you want, this last one I learned at least one more trick I had never thought of. Can’t wait to see what other ideas your creative mind comes up with.

Morbark chipper website has a tool listed called Bevel Buddy that allows you to sharpen 2-3 times on the machine before you have to pull the blades and do a proper sharpen. Looks promising for minor touch ups.

No, not sure what is best available now but 35 years ago I soaked a new chain for a one meter bar in bar oil and put it on the saw to run it. Tackifier was so heavy a 5 cubic inch engine wouldn’t even turn it. Today I would say I commonly see about one third the tackifier in bar oil.

I agree with your thought that this is a great use of a forum Roni, and I think we may have a learning curve that this discussion is a part of. A lot of Arbs are more independent (lone wolf) by nature and have healthy egos (I can take care of...). There is room for all of it - and, I value you publicly standing up for a saw purchasers rights with a big company. As soon as the Husky electric top handle hits the U.S. market I hope to be able to buy one. When I do and it has a functioning retaining device I will be thanking you and Arbtalk. My wife and I frequently think of how banks here used to be open 10 am to 3 pm Mon. thru Fri.. Come in then or too bad. Now we go in a Wells Fargo Bank from 9 am to 6 pm six days a week. Plus they have a manager ‘floating’ behind the tellers to make sure they are being friendly enough with you and engaging you in real conversation and service. Big companies used to be able to give you follow up service and warranty help that basically said take it or leave it. That is soon coming to an end and again this thread and your open efforts is a part of that - thanks.

Thanks for sharing Roni, not only will this possibly save someone from injury but it is good to band together to get results. On another forum a guy was being jerked around on a $2,200 refund and it was going nowhere until posted about. All of a sudden it magically got refunded. Similarly another guy was getting jerked around by a dealer on a near new chipper regarding warrantee work and damage incurred while performing the initial fix. Once posted about and some other guys jumped in and made phone calls to the chipper manufacturer all of a sudden it is getting handled appropriately - to the manufacturers credit and that dealers shame. I once supported a person who had been the recipient of domestic violence and went to every court appearance with them. Was surprised that they have a rule you can’t bring any form of recording device into the courtroom. I personally think that if you are afraid of facing your words on tape you shouldn’t abuse women and children, and if you’re afraid of facing your words in an customer service email you should step up and do whats right. That being said, I highly suspect that Husky is busy doing a redesign on batt retention. (And that their legal dept. compels them to admit to nothing.) But that will only happen in a timely manner now and in the future if we keep the information flowing. Thanks Roni for posting about this and thanks Arbtalk for being the place for it all to come together.

RopeKnight is worth every bit of its money to me (bought an extra in case I ever lose primary.) I deal with a lot of trees that are dense with dead interior brush or live sucker growth. Additionally a lot of them require a high tie in point. I put it where I want it with a Big Shot, let it run till it comes back to the ground. Bags often got hung up coming down, and often got hung up when pulling them back up over an undesirable limb or few. I thought it paid for itself in saved time on the first day and made me a significant amount more money on the rest of that first one week job.

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Bob, Do you mind sharing what you were disappointed with about the SA? Thanks in advance, Merle

Global , Thanks for putting that feed wheel video up, that is amazing how well it feeds the brittle stuff. I hate to be greedy but, if you get footage of that chipper/set up running brush and vine at a demo day I would love to see it. Thanks again for your time and effort. Has anyone been running the 75XP long enough and hard enough to know how the “cantilevered” bearings are holding up and for how many hours?

That does look ingenious, curved grabbers. The feed wheels locking up on a brand new double feed wheel chipper just because some dead or brittle wood was being chipped has never made sense to me with all the force the wheels are supposed to have. But to come up with that as a solution, I can’t even imagine what you have to know. Can’t wait to see it perform as the Bandits excel in so many other ways. Thanks for posting that.

Wow, if you have solved the deadwood jamming issue on those feed wheels you deserve a medal. Can you post any video, or at the least pictures? Perhaps from your upcoming demo?