Mick Dempsey
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Like many I have heard and seen a bit about this method. Bit of a dark art/years to learn etc. So I was buying some files and saw this one and bought it a few months back. Couple of stock 550s in everyday use, had an afternoon free so, without looking at any tutorials or the like got busy. Now I don’t know if the edge will last, but it’s pretty fricking tasty in wood (this is spruce btw) I was on my own so getting a vid was difficult so apologies for that. See what you think. (I know, wrap your thumb etc…) IMG_2837.MOV IMG_2835.MOV
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The converted always make the best preachers eh?
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There’s a special pleasure in using loaders for those of us who have hand-balled brash onto a flatbed transit, or cut massive trees into rounds and then cheese triangles, then loaded then into a wheelbarrow then onto a truck, only to see crimson on their arse-wipe the next morning.
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Massive included bark by the look of it. As has been said, needs an on-site visit.
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The Fox News thing is rather sweet, and another one coming down the line from another company. Lying just to tell their core audience what they wanted to hear for fear they’d go elsewhere if they heard the truth.
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I do, see if I can find it.
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Interesting idea, would get very short shrift from most wives I reckon.
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Arboriste grimpeur: métier/passion. | Facebook WWW.FACEBOOK.COM Ce groupe s'adresse à tous les passionnés d' élagage qui peuvent passer des heures devant le catalogue sda en se pignolant.. . aléluya la bible. Bad one here, but we can learn from it. Guy lived and is still in the game so I feel ok posting it.
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Are the powers that be a different species?
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Still lighting ours every evening, I don’t stack it up overnight though.
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Love these rants where the poster hints at the whole David Icke/lizard people thing, but stops just short. In other words Don’t go full Moonbat Never go full Moonbat
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I’ve put a big loop with a bowline at the end (poor photo, difficult to see I know) I will girth hitch the branch (is that the right terminology?) the snap the Krab on the zipline.
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Mick Dempsey replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
Yeah, that’s a gibbon -
They’ll do for my purposes.
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Nice one, before he got the crane, more interesting vids then.
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Mick Dempsey replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
I have noticed an uptick in this sort of thing in 2023. -
Rattled out half a dozen for some Douglas we have to do soon, no trunk wood just branches. August Hunicke eat your heart out!
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I think my most obvious mistake is to have a Krab at both ends of my home-made slings. Impossible to get any sort of tightness in a cinch. One end should be a loop of rope/bowline type thing that you pass the Krab end through.
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Yes, I’ve seen a video of Reg Coates doing that.
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Any chance you could get a pic of one?
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Yeah, rhythm and quick cycle turnaround is key on making zipping worth the effort, so complicating it with blocks etc. is a no bueno. Height is key, agreed.
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The slings/strops are a fixed length, not enough for a clove hitch.
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Yeah, I was a bit harsh on Daffs. Heres a still from Dr Zhivago from the famous scene, apparently filmed in Spain, which I wish I never found out.
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Tulips are really the jewel in the crown of spring flowers. Daffs are all well and good but a bit monochrome. Stuck a few quids worth of assorted bulbs in November, then you get this..
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Do you have krabs both ends of you zip line strops?
