August Hunicke

Nice work, welcome to the right side of the pond!

 

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Thanks

Nice vid and what looks like a great product.

 

Good work on both accounts.

Thanks : )

Nice vid. Welcome to the forum August

Thank you

Won't play on the iPhone mate, sorry.

 

I'll get my life together and try it on PC.

 

 

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Good to know. I didn't know that it wouldn't play on mobile devices. Bummer. That's what happens when I use most copyrighted songs though. It still plays on my iPhone, but I think it's just because YouTube knows it's my video.

As far as the rings go, If I didn't like them I wouldn't highlight them. I would be loudly silent. But since I got them I was thinking a whole series of videos could be done. I don't want to belabor the point. There are other cool things in the world. Still, they will be easily spotted in future videos.

wow, I tell ya, there are some really cool, solid, helpful people in this industry. Yes, there are some that try to tear you down, but more really great people.

 

I've never met August and only recently learned about him. He hasn't had the X-Rigging Ring slings long, but ALREADY did a video showing them and even titled it referring to the rings!

 

Wow, thanks August for spreading the word.

 

Maybe a small guy like me will make it after all.

 

Steve, you are coming to the states real soon? I'll give you a bunch free. You going to be near Maryland at all? Or email me an address in the states I can mail them to.

 

I have not contacted any arborist supply company in the UK yet. I don't know them, or who to contact. But I would be very interested in helping supply them with X-Rigging Rings and knowledge on splicing configurations and allow them to splice "in-house" if their company does that.

I know of Stein a bit, due to Reg, but I never contacted them.

If anyone wants to steer me in a good direction, please write me at my Xtreme Arborist email. [email protected]

Other new products will be revealed soon too. Plus we have some amazing new sling configurations that no one has ever seen before.

The rings are made it Italy, so I could have them shipped directly from Italy to the Arb store in the UK; so shipping would actually be quite cheap instead of it coming to the USA and then back to Europe.

 

Thanks August, didn't know you even used this arbtalk. Someone texted me to check it out.

Yeah, I'm not much of a forum guy it seems but I like Steve Bullman so signed up here.

I made a video of the first try at using the X-Rings. Overall, I like them.

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A lot of great surmising here. Yes, I feel like it rocks the spar less to Humboldt-cut when topping but it could just be my imagination. When falling a tree uphill the Humboldt stump holds it on the hillside better. It may be that one can get a lower stump with a "traditional" notch, thus technically keeping more of the merchantable log. And low stumps do cause less grief when cat skidding or running a yarder, but the mills want the logs squared off which would mean an extra cut on every stem. Plus the grainy flair of the stump is harder on chain, not to mention getting close to the "silt-line where dirt may have splashed up on the bark of the tree. It is thought that cutting ground-level through the flare and making a "traditional notch" is overall too time-consuming to be worth the effort for a logging operation. Thus the Humboldt stump is our happy compromise. There it is in a nutshell from my experience. Having said all that, the reason I used the Humboldt in this video and all my videos is one of pride. To me a Humboldt stump is a thing of beauty. It is not upside down. The way a cutter leaves his stump is his signature. You can tell a great many things about The attitude of the tree the day it fell, and also about the man who cut it, by reading his signature-stump. Where is he from? Is he working safe? Is he hasty? Perhaps he was tired? Was the saw dull? Was he heartless and all business or was he an artist? I love reading stumps.