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And a massadam rope puller or similar to use with the big block. Can't use a tirfor with those rigging blocks, shive diameter too small. It'll come in handy.

I blame the catalogs...happy, attractive people, sculpting their little box hedges... Power tool version of recruitment propaganda.

Carbide drills are more for ploughing through rough stuff like timber with metal in or masonry+ timber. I thought. Not sure a carbide is capable of precision cutting?

Also check inside the muffler for a "catalytic converter". I remember reading something about makitas and cats. My McCullough blower came with one, looks like a wad of fairly thick wires kind of (not the same as the spark arrestor screen, this thing is big, and inside the muffler), not designed to be removed ever). I noticed the cat would glow red hot after a short time... Had to force the flange oof the muffler with a hammer and chisel to open the thing and extract the cat. Putting the two halves if the muffler back together was an awful bodge, but it works.

If the bolt goes all the way through, I'd start the drilling on the other side, against the factory bolt end. Drill it right through.

The sheared surface is probably slightly angled, so that bit it just gonna skate around on it. Are you drilling by hand? I'd make sure that head was clamped tightly to the table of a piller drill and get that cobalt drill precisely centered, and go real slow and easy. Cobalt should cut anything, but maybe it's taken damage to the bit and needs a new one?

I thought the decompression button was to decompress the top end? Sounds like a miss-communication.

The rescue scenario is always assumed to be an arterial bleed, 3 minute window, etc, not a hope etc. There are other potential scenarios where time in minutes isn't a factor, but rescue is still required... Injuries that wouldn't preclude self-rescue but would make self-rescue potentially dangerous. Injuries to the hand, eye, knee etc. The effort of self rescue might further damage the injured part, or risk getting tangled up or something. A concussion, might not render the casualty incapacitated, but could introduce the risk of doing something dangerous on the way down, like unclipping etc. Stress, impairment, pain, etc. A climber could get stuck. Not injured, but unable to self rescue. If he stayed stuck for hours, some kind of injury could result. In a scenario like this, only a rescue climber would do. Maybe the tree is inaccessible to fire brigade etc. maybe the fire brigade is out on call, at a car accident or fire. What are you going to do? Call around other tree firms begging for a climber? No harm in practicing rescues. The rescue climber may not be the real deal, but if time isn't a crucial factor, a little training is better than none.

No kids here, so not qualified to opine, but I will anyway: It puzzles me on some level, why people who work/ed hard and dangerous jobs often want their kids to not follow in their trade. Often read "I worked this crappy/risky job so my kids could have a "better" life"... between the lines, "better" usually means third level and a desk job. No dirt under the fingernails for my kids. If one extends this trend... we end up with a nation full of third level white collar types and nobody to empty the bins, weld stuff on the seafloor, unblock the sewers, cut the trees etc. Ok, import immigrants. Fine, but the immigrants also want their kids to have desk jobs. They cycle continues. Somewhere in the world people are expected to raise kids destined to empty bins for other people's kids. Nobody wants their kids to empty bins, or put their life a risk, but the job needs doing and somebody's kid has to do it. I know its sweeping generalities and stuff... And I get people not wanting their kids to put themselves at risk. Kind of interesting through..

Enjoyable thread. Comparing arial tree work to rope access is apples to oranges. Industrial rope work is big building projects, orders of magnitude more money involved than arb. The investor money at stake, insurances, public profile, company reputation, company size, etc... thousands of times greater than a four man arm team. The sheer amount of money involved allows for top notch safety and skill progression.

Use the special 100:1 at 50:1 - can't go wrong then.

Guessing he's down on truck pulls from watching YouTube fails but not having direct experience. Like everything, there's a right and wrong way to pull a tree with a truck. When it goes wrong, it sometimes goes so badly wrong it ends up on YouTube and adds to the myth. Not too many tracked chipper/tirfor tree pull fails around, because the people who bother to aquire these devices already kind of know what they're doing, regarding trees, for the most part... But trucks ? Every head-the-ball owns one, and uses it inappropriately.

Greta is protesting against wind turbines now.

If there's space around the building you'd be safer with a beefier machine like a teleporter. They're rated for a ton or something at full extension.

Mine broke in quite nicely. Try and don't lace then all the way, maybe they'll feel better.

Right. Also "pay is dependant on experience" ? Surely if self employed, pay is dependant on whatever you think you're worth?

Talk to the MOD, they might need it for bows.

Nice one. Yeah I have watched some vids, seems a pretty strong fix if done right. I'll try it, can't make it any worse anyway.

I've got it clamped with a jubilee clip, seems to work fine. I might just carry on... Told a lie, it's the second head. Third shaft. First head cracked at the collar after a whack on the ground, on a rock probably. This time it cracked after getting the bar stuck and pulling it around too much. Is it aluminum alloy or mag? I actually have one of those alloy brazing rods, did consider experimenting with it. If I get round to it, I'll post an update. I might just order the farmertek head anyway, as a backup if/when my jubalee clip bodge fails.

Just broke my Stihl 131 polesaw head again. Cracked at the tightening screws, like the last two heads. I'm tired of this crap, not gonna pay €300+ for a new OEM head. Anyone tried the Farmertec clone head? It's €100 with shipping from China. https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32875229001.html?src=bing&albslr=200096191&isdl=y&gatewayAdapt=Pc2Msite

Curious to know: does the Elder 1800 have a planetary gearbox? It's got high and low gear settings, right? Just looking at pictures of it, it (appears) to not use the bulky oil filled reduction box that the other portable winches have. If this is so, as I suspect, how does it work with lubrication? Do you have to lube the planetary gear regularly? The oil bath reductions on the Hondas etc dissipate heat, but a planetary gear is more compact, not really built for constant duty cycle, I would have thought. Interested to discuss this.

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