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I've tried that and absolutely no result at all ☹️

The simplest ever, but funny... oh yes, the best. Thanks

Jeezus, looks like the making of a great chilli con carné. Prob give me the shits for 2 weeks

Is there more surgery ahead for you to correct the foot orientation?

Hi Dan, no, I don't recall knee issues, I did get a bit of soreness just where top end of shin bone joins knee, but a small cut off slip of the wife's pilates mat sorted this out. It's well made, but as a generic one size fits all design, personal pad adjustments do need to be made. The vid that comes with it is very clear to follow. Once you get the heights sorted, and strap lengths personalised, you don't have to do any more changes. Clip on and off superfast with the quick release buckles for getting into cars, sitting down, weight bearing training etc. Vibram pad on the sole too so not skiddy on most surfaces, but even if if does slip, your natural balance reactions take control as normal. Without it I'd have been beyond unbearable

6am? The only time I see this now, months shy of 60 yrs old, is when I have to get up for the first piss of the day. Yep, you're right, train, train and train again til it becomes second nature, and you're not scrabbling about trying to find the cheat sheets. To anyone offered the chance of getting on events like these, take it willingly. Your bleeding out buddy will thank you forever.

Fookin ' ell. We've some well dodgy tree identifiers in this group 😆

Great to see Greg Marah, Douglas Forest and Garden, involved with this one. He organised an event called Trauma in the Trees probably about seven years ago now, which covered both aerial rescue, and the most stunningly memorable first response training for our sort of catastrophic injuries, I've ever seen. Great stuff. He's also a supplier, with a try before you buy attitude, of top class arborist kit in county Cork, SW Ireland. Events and training like this are worth the weight in gold for giving real life experience in emergency situations, when panic just wants to take over the brain and stop you observing the whole scene.

I bet the smell was at least divine, if not overwhelming. Did a few Lebanon logs with the lucas mill, and found it like catnip for cats - just wanted to roll around naked in the sawdust 😁😁

Those pics looked like I'd had half the leg removed . No, the knee takes the weight passing through to the metal peg leg below. The shin is supported on the table running behind the body, with the ankle and foot hanging off the end. Clips on and off superfast. Best thing....look - no crutches. Takes maybe ¾hr to truly set it up for your height and balance, then you're away with it. Great instructional video comes with it. Best €280 spent...says my wife

Absolutely delighted for you. A massive weight and encumberance removed. Your skin is your own again. Regarding the crutches issue, now that all difficulties are from the ankle down, investigate the 'iwalk 2.0'. I had tremendous freedom with it following ankle fusion. I couldn't bear the hindrance of crutches for 6 months. You can't carry the cup of tea you've just made over to the sofa with 2 crutches, in fact can't do feck all when both hands are occupied. The iwalk allowed me to do all my farmwork unaided, ride my quad bike, dance, go to rock concerts (and dance there too!), cook for the wife coming home from work, up and down stairs no bother (though it's easier and safest to come down backwards). It most definitely changed my recovery and gave me independence. It also meant my wife knew I was capable of living each day without her needing to be constantly in attendance. The Florence nightingale bit isn't her strongest attribute! I hate being reliant on anyone and get really cranky if I can't do it my way. Previously with your pins and frame this would never have worked for you, maybe it's time now. Do check it out, it could be the release you need. Shaun

A 36 hrs later its still there making me break out in a childish giggle. Thanks

Isn't it normally the point when all reports have been submitted by the "independent " consultants and risk assessors, and their grossly inflated, double it,treble it and add a bit for inflation bills have been paid. Suddenly the initial idea finds it no longer has the funds it started out with, and the cutbacks financial prioritising starts to bring the whole project down on its knees

I milled some very large logs for a client once. They owned a liveable castle, and wanted some tables - large! Only the very centre boards (21' long, 4½' wide and 6" thick ) were kept for this. Other boards were cut thinner, but didn't really do it for me. - Too much going on with all the knots. Even with the lucas mill at its best, it was difficult to keep straight cuts as blade constantly alternating between rock hard knots and really soft intermediate trunk wood. The table pieces were lifted up over the steps into the front door and onto 2 waiting powered barrows to get them into the correct rooms. Even after kilning still over 350kg per slab. Another castle/ hotel I worked at, smaller diameter trees, got me to simply cross cut each whorl of branches, then sent them away to be bowl turned. One for each guest room +larger ones in foyers, dining and lounges. - never saw the outcome. Messy, oily, difficult wood to mill. Wouldn't be my choice timber.

I use these exact ones from oregon. Damned effective on 45cc+ machines. They're so good at mulching anything to pulp that you get complacent and lazy and just plunge into any size scrub. I can't seem to stop myself from smashing into large size gorse bushes that should be done with the chainsaw. Gearboxes, pinion shafts and the occasional driveshaft outer tube are all too frequent victims to the massive impacts, cutting too heavy material.

Well your luck just ran out with me I'm afraid. I only have 2 sections, the smaller diameter ones . At least my broadband mounting is safe and doesn't need disturbing

You know what... looking at design of poles and connector, I'm pretty sure I have all of the poles and connector holding up my broadband amplifier antenna up at optimum height outside my house. I'll measure up from dimensions given and come back . Obviously if I take it down I'll lose internet and won't be able to reply at all.!

I initially thought it was pure gimmicky shit. It came as part of a multiple order that logosol f@@ked up on and sent it to me at ridiculously low price due to a mistake on their part. They took it on the chin though and honoured their mistake and said " our error our loss". Anyway it actually became one of my favourite bits of kit for swinging big timber onto sawmill and repositioning when no loader available. Use it often and get used to it,your opinion may change as it gets looser. I use it for changing wheels on trailers, building work, lifting and swinging my quad out of where I've bogged it down this time... the list still goes on. Glad you're sorted Shaun

Feck, I'm coming round to your gaff for meals now. Seeya in a couple of hours 😋😋

I bought mine solely for use as a log lifter and positioner so to remove excess weight I intended removing the pusher bar. This proved to way easier to think about than do. The construction of the simple square bracket which the pusher bar slides through was constructed so incredibly tightly that there was no way it would simply pull out. I remember almost ½ a day spent beating with a club hammer to stretch the bracket, beating the bar upwards, and pulling / pushing and generous spraying with silicon to get it finally out. The lifting spike element was almost as tight, and slightly misaligned too. Lots of silicon spray and judicious hammering around its slide bracket to stretch the metal made it a great bit of kit for what I needed. Don't use oil on the slides. It only attracts dust and makes it even more likely to stick. Perhaps yours was equally badly constructed. The winch element is simple to dismantle to clean up. Lay each piece out in order of disassembly and clean off any corrosion and contamination from sliding and rotating surfaces. Spray with a ptfe based spray.

Nice one, thanks all. Slugs are definitely a problem on a damp mountainside in west cork, Ireland. So burying is def the best for that. However my available soil depth varies from 2- 6" before I enter packed gravel or rock, so the tunnel stays on the same site where the trenchwas dug out with excavator whilst doing other drainage work nearby. No one solution fits all situations!

Without using the ratchet handle does the spike assembly slide up and down the shaft freely? It should.if it doesnt its poor construction making it bind. If using the handle under load, the handle doesn't want to lower said load again, then the brake is operating as it should until you give even more effort to lower down again. Under load it wont just slide down. It's a safety mechanism. If the load jolts going down it applies the brake even tighter, meaning you have to heave even harder to get it to move down again. You have to physically wind it down over brake resistance. Don't worry theyre really robust. You won't break the mechanism. As I said I've used it with logs way heavier than recommended - just have to put more effort in

Oooooh that's an interesting idea.

So as as a seasoned skinner of tunnels, which is the easiest method of securing the plastic? Digging into the ground or wrapping it round a batten then tec -screwing batten to tunnel frame.? I know the installation guys use the latter but id prefer not to be drilling the frame unnecessarily