Mick Dempsey
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Well, it was a decent job done anyway.
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Best rope size for pulling outsiders in?
Mick Dempsey replied to drinksloe's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Yeah, I get that, tirfors are heavy and slow though. Just throwing it out there. -
Best rope size for pulling outsiders in?
Mick Dempsey replied to drinksloe's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I’d definitely get one of those little portable petrol winches. -
In fairness, it’s exactly what this thread is about, safety.
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Rope wear? who gives a toss about rope wear?
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How are you diversifying your business during Covid-19
Mick Dempsey replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Reminds me of one of my old bosses oft repeated jokes about an ex employee. ’he claims he worked for me, I have to say, I never caught him at it’ -
How are you diversifying your business during Covid-19
Mick Dempsey replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Diversifying is one plan, specialising is another option. -
They are a nice tree as it goes, reduce/pollard well, look good generally.
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In the spirit of starting an argument over nothing. Holm oaks shed leaves all year round and are a pita.
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Well I wasn’t there, so I have no option but to believe you!
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Thats a false dilemma Khriss, you can touch up rollers lightly, and have pull-in power like new and keep its ability to eat the spindly stuff.
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Trouble is once you get medieval with the rollers it increases the gap and changes it’s ability to pull in the stringy stuff.
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Angry grinders are too aggressive, a tickle with a dremmel is sufficient.
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Who knows? It’s a Forst, anything can and will break. Read GA Groundcare’s post on the last page, he explains it very well. If you put a fork in it usually reaches the rollers horizontally, if it doesn’t as soon as it hits the rollers it flips it to a horizontal position, if it’s too big to go through the aperture it’ll either block and the rollers will skid over it or it’ll block the rollers which will stop and the relief valve kicks in, if the pull of the rollers is strong enough it will snap the fork leaving no chance of this explosion/spring back you talk about, sometimes a noggin will lodge in the opening where the top roller moves up and down. Then you shut it down and a 10 minute dismantle will sort it out. Manufactures sell these machines on their ability to take awkward shaped material, if it can go in, and it’s wood, it goes in.
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Ahhh whataboutery, the preferred tactic of the gun lobby. No outrage here, just stating facts.
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As terrible as this is, for perspective, it’s worth remembering that 31000 people have been killed by guns in the US so far this year.
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You were wrong before and you’re wrong again. As I said, you clearly never spent much time feeding a chipper.
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Love a bit of civil engineering Bob, good work.
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I think it’s real enough.
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Fair enough. Maybe someone who knows about palms can chime in...
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No Stubs, I believe it had grown like that naturally.
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I would be interested to hear of anything that happens in a tree that isn’t, to a certain extent, climber error. Short of a crane driver dropping a ball on his head.
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I think they can do that naturally.
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Ok, the penny is dropping, I get it now.
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Right, gotcha, not using a base anchor. Edit. No, still don’t get it. if you’re using a base anchor then there’s the same pressure on your top anchor point when ascending, cambium saver or not.
