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That would have been a far worse crime than watching splits occur. I tend to avoid slabbing work, a- because I loathe the slabber unit for it's tedious slow munching, both of wood and of chains, but, b- because the product is so temperamental and so easily damaged by poor client care, stresses in the log, and slab position within the log. As much as I can even for furniture wood I try to get the client to go for dimension cutting and then reassemble. The quality of jointing with the new glue technologies and the likes of biscuit jointers is producing far more stable and accurate slab like material. That said, it does give me a real buzz seeing a fantastic character slab emerge from the most ordinary looking tree. Splits either add character, or can with creativity, be worked with or around.

Can't see them on Android/ samsung. !

I'm telling my oak and beech customers to hold off processing until September whilst our current temperatures are so high, because of the almost guaranteed serious splitting risk. Especially when cutting beams and cants for resawing at a later time. Any who insist on milling hardwoods now I'm telling to wrap tightly to try to keep humidity in the wood. All my clients air dry, so I try to give as much beneficial advice and help as I can. Part of my job is to get the best possible timber out of the sawlogs for the client. This is currently giving my turnover quite a kicking , but I'd rather be known for a good service than a damaged product .

I have exactly the same thoughts watching my lucas. Often considered ( but never actually done) downrating the springs from 3.5 to 2.6t. Fine for the mill but poor for a good overhanging load of sawlogs.

Have you dualed the fronts as well or gone for wide profile? Never seen dual fronts.

Always phone for me. Any long passages to write I get mrs and her laptop on the case.

Theres a similar standard over here in ireland measured on de bolloxometer. - I'm still working my way up the scales.

What's pink and wrinkly , and hangs out ya undies ? Ya mum !

Says in our news here in Ireland, the tree was diseased and undergoing preservation works. Looks damned brittle the way the limbs have fractured off with little tearing.

Probably something like Crunch Scrape Smash Kipper Bang....... ........ followed by Bxxxxds Bxgger Bxxlox, fxxk it ....repeated several times over like a meditation mantra at differing volumes. As long as no one hurt.

? Is that how they do cloning ?

Thanks Steve ,from one of those die hard app users.[emoji106]

Ok guys, I'll give it a go and see what happens. As with most things once I'm used to it , I suppose the site becomes second nature. ?

On the app version I have it opening up straight away into the timeline of new posts or threads, whereas each time with the web version its a catalogue of sponsors or ads first followed by trending etc. as a list of 5 followed by another list of something else that I can't remember. Just take me straight to posts, - I'm both lazy and old fashioned I'm afraid, all I need is an easy way in, I've also got used to the reply / new post/ new thread commands of the app. It all seems very clunky and awkward by smartphone on web, maybe its better and more user friendly on a laptop or pc?

A shame as I actually prefer the app, I can never quite get the web version to work as simply and easily on my phone.

Says I need to reregister/login but when I try it just freezes

Wow looks like the noisy end of an 076. Lots of weight and loads of torque. Used to use one 25 years ago . We had ab 084 as well for ringing and dropping big stuff, but that was the bosses pride and joy so we weren't allowed to use that ! The 076 taught you to think smart - didn't tend to carry it far or swing it around wildly.

Oh you poor bugger, keep out of the sun til you've showered......several times

Nooooo ........don't you dare put up pictures

Failure to use hearing protection in the past ?

Bloody hell, you mean I've got lodgers?

Is that heavy lump of stihl ironware cable tied to the frame too? Extra weight to keep the wheel from bouncing? Good simple tooth store idea. [emoji106]

Since I rolled past fifty years I've been getting hairs sprouting out of my arse, is this down to 2 stroke too? [emoji847]

Agreed on the good groundy bit. My job many years ago, but it still holds true now, was to "read" the weight of a section , know how much friction would be needed to slow it down, and to let it run til it cleared the climber, no matter what state the gloves were left in afterwards.- climber and team safety were number one responsibility. If it looked wrong shout up bfore the cuts were made, but if it still came down bad get it past the climber before braking. All this in the days before pulleys and bollards, just simple crotch anchors and wraps around the tree. As often the case now, too much attention to devices and technology without understanding dynamics and gravity

I bought one of these and fitted it in the bed of my ifor trailer for loading sawmill components, and sawlogs. It lifts the loads fine though rather slowly, but better than heaving real heavies manually. To be effective and safe you really must give the trailer some way of leveling the deck - jack legs or similar on both sides. If not when you attempt to lift the trailer sinks down on the load side, then you can't rotate the boom uphill to clear over the trailer. When the load gets to centre of trailer and beyond, reverse happens , trailer starts to tilt the other way, and the boom accelerates away to the other side, unless your quick to dump the load. Gravity and load can swing these things quite wildly. The pivot is a really crap bearing setup that is just pants, it sometimes helps to slow a fast slew, but is no way helpful when manually slewing a big load. The rotating lever is made of chocolate and can't take any serious strain, and I'm expecting to bend the boom sections fairly soon, but will then replace with a more substantial box section . Overall does save the back, does a job but you are always very aware of what could be done with a proper crane. Shaun