Haironyourchest

Buy one of those and forget about doing a solid day's work ever again!

Reggae music has always been christian no? Not bad, not bad, have to say, not really my cup of tea but I can dig the rhythm. As for the rapping pastor....OMG. OMG. OMG....what in the seven hells was that? Simultaneously cringey and cool. Jesus Christ is my nigga? If that video had been made anywhere other than the USA I would think it was a satire....but Well how bout this then - Christian Black Metal. Yes, its a thing..... [ame] [/ame]

Not sure what you mean bro. I read you worried about damaging your tirfor cable? I have a 1.5m chain, with a master link at one end and a sliding choker hook at the other. The chain chockers onto itself, then the master link (big oval ring) is grabbed by the tirfor's hook.

When are we gonna have an innuendo thread?

Ha, cool. Must have been a Freudian slip....the result of my childhood indoctrination no doubt. Now when I pump up my backpack s/prayer I'll sing "Go-SPRAY-it-on-the-mountain--over-the-hills-aaaaand-everywaaare..."

Quote from Joe "the woman nudging each other as they walk past" Joe your a gas feller - that post was almost poetry! On a par with the Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator speech. If I had a million, I'd do a claymation comedy skit, A day in the life of a an arborist. I'd offer you the writing job.

Monsanto are a nasty bunch, but their invention (glyphosate) is good stuff. The recent UE bans and new regs was just more of the same quasi-religeous hysteria, which the politicians either share in or just cave in to... They were finding roundup in breast-milk and bread, not because granny sprays her gravel paths with it, but simply because wheat farmers use it to kill the wheat crop, ensuring it dries on the stalk thus making it more efficient to harvest and cure. They spray the potatoes with it too. Madness, utter madness. So banning it from the shelves of you local garden centre, making it illegal for Joe and Jenny to spray the bramble patch with it, is obviously the way to go. Still legal to pray it on our wheat, but not on the yard..... That's why I have no faith in the scientists and politicians. And a stockpile of generic gyphosate....but not Monsanto's stuff......

Or.....build a non-temporary shed within 100 feet of the tree. A Light shed, "permanently" affixed to the ground ought to do it. Going to need somewhere to store the wood anyway.....

So I guess the loophole is, for those with a big digger or tirfor, that while it appears to be illegal to (without the benefit of the felling licence, which obviously would simplify the whole thing) "Cut down any tree of any age" it is not illegal to "Uproot" a tree which is under ten years old. Uproot and move the evidence then would seem to cover it. The prosecution would have to convince the judge that the trees had been over ten years old. Reasonable doubt, wouldn't wash, unless they had good evidence, photos, witnesses etc. If one wanted to bother.......

Legal Requirements for Tree Felling The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine advise that, under Section 37 of the Forestry Act, 1946, it is illegal to uproot any tree over ten years old or to cut down any tree of any age (including trees which form part of a hedgerow), unless a Felling Notice has been lodged at the Garda Station nearest to the trees at least 21 days before felling commences. A Felling Notice may be obtained from any Garda Station or directly from the Felling Section of the Forest Service of the Department. A copy can also be obtained on the Department's website. The requirement for a felling licence for the uprooting or cutting down of trees does not apply where: a) The tree in question is a hazel, apple, plum, damson, pear, or cherry tree grown for the value of its fruit or any ozier; b) The tree in question is less than 100 feet from a dwelling other than a wall or temporary structure; c) The tree in question is standing in a County or other Borough or an urban district (that is, within the boundaries of a town council, or city council area). Other exceptions apply in the case of local authority road construction, road safety and electricity supply operations. Penalties for illegal felling can be severe, ranging from fines of up to a maximum of €63.49 per tree to imprisonment for up to 2 years. In addition to any fine, which may be imposed by the Court, the Minister may, by Order, require the person convicted to replant. For further information, please contact Felling Section, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Johnstown Castle, Wexford. Tel: (053) 9170371/ 9170338/ 9165534/ 9170349. https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/forestservice/treefelling/legalrequirementsfortreefelling/ I can dig up the Forestry Act 1946 if you like, but It's pretty well summarised here. But in practice nobody ever lodges a felling notice. Could be wrong, but never heard of it being done!

Pretty much. In non-relegious civilisations like the USSR and Red China they just replaced God with the Beloved Leader/s = same deal. If the world was run by women we wouldn't have any of this nonsense.....

Well good man to sit through that. I owe you 45 minutes of youtube time. Yeah, I think he's a bit of a gobshite really....but I'm not shooting the messenger. Ok he wasn't a founding member but he was with Greenpeace since the early days. As for the open mind thing, I think its a wonderful idea, but in reality we cannot practice it. For the simple reason that we would then spend all our time looking objectively at ALL the arguments, and all the origins and sources of the data to support those arguments. It just aint possible. At some point one has got to take a position, not necessarily for life and death (like a religious conviction) but just in order to function. Or take no position at all and be boring. I am waiting with interest to hear what transpires at this big summit. As for politicians and scientists having nothing to gain by pushing an unpopular agenda, well, I can't really argue with you there. In any event, we cannot possibly stop using fossil fuels, not in a month of sundays - just check out the figures - there's Nothing with a capital N that remotely approaches hydrocarbon as a fuel source for the world. It just ain't gonna happen. Not unless we can get moving on Thorium based nuclear power in a big way. Now, as you say, back to the Christian Bashing!!

Another great thing about the clones is they use standard sizes of wire rope, so if you do kink or otherwise knacker your rope its cheap to replace. Any proper crane-supplies place will have the right kind. The genuine tirfor rope is a little bit thicker than standard and horribly expensive and genuine tirfors are designed to only use their special rope.

Just when you think you've seen it all.... If money was the issue then why would the owner of the track machine allow his valuable asset to be put in the line of fire? Unless he is the owner/operator. I reckon some people just have no imagination when it comes to danger...

Sorry for a wee little hijack, but the mention of flamethrowers made me remember this vid - just gotta share it, honestly its pretty awesome. [ame] [/ame]

Thats frightening. I wonder if my Lumia800 automatically does that. It uses the Explorer browser. I have location switched off anyways....

Captain Beef-Heart, song was "Bat Chain Puller". Not everybody's cup of coffee thats for sure! I was handling a new genuine Tirfor 800 - the open frame model - in a crane-and-lifting place a few months back. Was crazy money, but way nicer than my Chinese clone, in fairness. You can really feel the quality. One day when Im rich I'll buy one of each and mount them on the wall......

If the winter diesel works when the day warms up, then its probably only a few degrees difference in the tank between working and not working. Could you warm the tank on the chipper? I have read that in the old days in the USSR they used to light small fires under the trucks in winter to warm the workings. Not suggesting you do that. But maybe a propane blowtorch bungeed or taped the the body of the chipper, with the nozzle just warming the metal wall of the fuel tank would be enough? We know that diesel is non-flammable under normal conditions and in any case the mass of the fuel tank would distribute the heat pretty evenly. Might be an expensive way to do it, but if its only one tank.....

I have the 800kg one, for € 145.00 and its been great. Hard to know how much it will pull by looking at the object to be pulled, unless you have an eye for these things, which Im starting to develop. It will drag a massive tree across a field, but if there's a few stray broken branches catching the ground, forget it. Likewise with pulling stumps. An unassuming stump can be the devil'd work to pull if it has a good root system. Its all about friction..... I like the weight of mine, easy to carry the machine, cable, handle and straps all in one go. The 1600kg would be to heavy for me to do that. Also inch thing about the small puller is you can rig it with one hand at shoulder hight, holding the mating one handed while fussing with the shackle and strap with the other hand - hard but doable. Not so with the bigger machines, unless you are pretty butch. I was worried that my clone would let me down on bigger pulls, and it has, so I also have big snatch blocks. Each block costs more than the tirfor., and the dyneema rope twice the price. I imagined myself doing complicated directional pulls etc, but so far haven't needed to. The nomad snatch blocks are too small a diameter for the rope and will mess it up. Homework required.... Heres an idea of what 2400kg will pull. The clone, with two blocks, thats tree time 800kg. I was fairly heavy on the handle, and it was just enough power to pull out the stump. Tried with the just the clone, then one snatch block, no cigar. As you can see later in the clip, once I had the rootball free of the ground, I could skull-drag it with just the wee tirfor on its own, no block needed. [ame] [/ame]

Cheapest supermarket Rapeseed oil, straightup off the self and outta the bottle. More and more converting every day, no need for special tackifiers and antioxidants. Keep saws and bottle where they can't be got at by rodents or they'll chew through the plastic oil tank to get at the oil. On long bars there is some controversy on shorter bars, under 20" say, no problem. They bee using in in Canada for years, pile of research done on it.

Yeah, to be honest at this point I dunno if this thread is really helping anyone. At least it got us talking about something deeper than logs for a change. These things are so complex and unfathomable that one would need the processing power of a god to figure it out.......we all just stumbling around in our own minds. Part and parcel of the human condition I suppose!

And you, my friend, are not the idiot you claim to be! Lives in a yurt. A man after my own heart - I lived in a treehouse for 8 years, solar 12v etc. Still use a bucket toilet but little bit more luxury now. We are the true philosophers of the western world. I dont agree with everything I say either......as Whitman said: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." Good to know there are still a few tent people around, sleep well bro - hugs.

I wish I had the eloquence and erudition of some of the folks who have posted here, as I acutely feel my lack of.... but I'll blunder on regardless. Like the heretics of old, I feel it is my duty to the truth to provoke, yes. Those who provoked and argued against the "conventional wisdom" of mass religious feelings in the past were vilified and victimised. I now repeat their sacrifices by pointing the accusing finger at the modern religion which I dub: "CO2=climate change=Bad And We Are To Blame" I hope you are provoked just enough to bear to watch this 44minute video, and not too provoked to simply dismiss it with disgust. A lot to ask of anyone, I'll be the first to say I wouldn't bother to watch it myself, and I wouldn't blame you if you don't. This guy was director of Greenpeace for fifteen years. Did more to "help save the planet" than all of us put together. He has embraced manmade CO2 emissions as a vital and necessary part of the continued survival of the Earth's biosystem. I **** you not. I believe him. I have FAITH. You can put scientist up against scientist till the cows come home and generate nothing but controversy and anger. At the end of the day (when the cows come home) we are gonna believe what we want to, and find supporting evidence for it - its just the way we are wired. To state that "science is right" is just another belief, or faith, that science is right. Science is not always right, and the media and politicians distort the findings of the scientific community. We don't know if the scientists are right about manmade emissions contributing to climate change. Some say aye, some say nay. Lets check back in ten years and see how it panned out. [ame] [/ame]

I kind of, sort of agree with you there Ed. Im sure there are certain areas of forests that are protected here as well, but in general the rural Irish are not great tree enthusiasts - at least not in the south west anyway - attitudes may well be different up the country. Trees grow like mad here and the timber quality isn't great, we don't really have a managed forestry system in place at a national level, and commercial timber is pretty much just plant spruce, wait 20 years, clear fell, plant again. There may be private folks who do manage their stuff properly but I don't know of any. Bearing in mind we also have a MUCH lower population density than England, trees seem to be viewed as more of a nuisance than anything. Turn your back for a decade and your property will be a jungle of sallies, rhododendron and birch - seen it happen. Re. counting the stump rings - thats what diggers are for! There's a standard €84.65 fine per tree (assuming the very remote chance that someone will care enough to report, and the equally remote chance that prosecution will be enforced). Was a farmer locally who knocked a whole wee wood of oak, and was done for it, cost him dear, but the trees were in a particularly picturesque area. Any tree within 30 meters of a dwelling is automatically exempt anyway, is that the same in the UK?

Christianity is on the wane in the West, and Islam is going down in the Middle East. Judaism has always been a sideshow anyway.... In short, Monotheism on a global level is dying and its in the terminal stages. What we're seeing in Syria and the middle east generally is a symptom of this, as the Moral Majority and the rise of fundamentalism in the USA a few decades ago was and is simply representing the death throes in the west. Monotheistic apocalyptic, guilt centric faith is leaving a vacuum which is bing filled by enviro-climate delusions. Now CO2 is the sin and we are the sinners. Gotta replace original sin with something.... Problem with the twenty first century is everyone can access the experts in a flash, and the argument and debate is not limited to the universities. Not everyone can claim to be a Bible scholar, but we can all tap the ideas and knowledge of real Bible scholars any time we like. The churches tried to repress the printed Bible, for fear that people would interoperate it in their own ways. Now the internet offers us not only interperatiations but a ruthless breakdown of the whole thing in minute detail - if you care to go that deeply into it.