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Welding's a black art....maybe keep the amps up then but try a thinner rod? Keep the arc shorter maybe?

"Tirfor has legendary status as far as i'm concerned....Rock steady pulling power!" Well that's two supporters! Relieved that you guys love the tirfor! That's what I think Jon, the tirfor is like a scalpel to the plant machinery's sledgehammer. There is a time and a place for big winches, but a trifor will go where a big winch never can. Part of the beauty of the thing is the zen-state you get into while cranking the handle. Sure, it seems like nothing happening, but its all about the journey....crank...crank...crank...rest...crank...like, "wax on, wax off"...

Have you seen the "Artesian Firwood" guy's video? So mad it could work...

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Have you tried turning down your amps and going slower?

I really love this thing, and the more I use it the more I appreciate what a truly elegant tool it is. There's a lot of ballyhoo on arb forums about chainsaws and heavy machinery, but hardly ever a mention of the humble Tirfor. I find this sad, so I'm going to undertake to champion this divine gadget. Before buying my 800kg tirfor I tried to glean information from the web, only to come up with nothing much. There are a couple of youtube vids and a few mentions on various boards, and thats it. No real reviews, no fanboys.... Cant understand why this gadget doesn't have a massive fan following?? Its bloody brilliant! A real honest-to-god work of inspired engineering, elegant, reliable, simple to build, astonishingly effective, incredible versatile. Mine is a chinese copy, but TÜV stamped etc, and has been fabulous, for €145.00. Some years back there was a thread on Arbtalk about what size of tirfor to get and the consensus was 1.6 tonne. I personally feel that the baby tirfor is better, for the simple reason that I can position it with one hand and tighten the shackle or lock the clutch with the other, basically that I can manage the weight of the thing on my own. I often want to rig it at head hight to get some lift on the end of the log I'm dragging... I also use this little guy with two massive snatch blocks and 12mm dyneema capstan winch rope to pull 2400kg. Below is a vid of me pulling a rhododendron stump with this setup. The combined weight of all the gear adds up to a big tirfor, and takes longer to set up, but the versatility is unbeatable. The one thing I want to finish with is that tirfor cable isn't really designed to be used with pulleys. It works, but puts a hell of a strain on the rope wires and will prematurly ware out your rope. There's been a pile of research done on this...So I only ever use the winch for a straight pull, and use the dyneema extension if I need compound rigging. Next addition to the collection will be a 2 Tonne ratchet lever-hoist. Anyone got any Tirfor stories? I dunno about the rest of yous but I'd love to hear them.... [ame] [/ame]

If you worried about it just empty the petrol tank, half fill with aspen (orange bottle - with added 2-stroke oil) and idle the machine for a few minutes, let the aspen saturate the works and clean out any petrol mix left in the carb, lines and filter. Then leave the machine to overwinter full of aspen, next season start it, run for a bit, then pour the aspen out back into the can and use petrol mix as per usual. Should be able to make a gallon of Aspen last forever that way.

And get the biggest chinese ratchet cable puller you an find, and plenty of heavy-duty rope (not cheap blue stuff) and read up on rigging. You will encounter trees that are leaning the wrong way you want them to fall, or, like stubby said, are stuck. Better to pull from a distance than mess around close up to a dodgy tree.

My (yesterday's) job somewhat more pedestrian than the previous posters...Clearing some 20-30 year old ash, birch and sycamore that were planted close and never thinned. Wires on the side they were leaning, so had to pull them over with my wee ratchet puller and then skull-drag them out of the mess with my baby Chinese tirfor. Love that little tirfor, what a gadget! https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipMCcbzrJ3im0s0y3-Qb46p2jx8yBne7ED_fQAvv/photo/AF1QipOa_ijuTAsovkl2VAY5tpzyVgXuGP7i3n2QPfUm

Strim with a mulcher blade?

what about a cheap small quad and trailer?

I drive a '04 1.5 diesel Kangoo, and tow a 4x7" Paxton car trailer with mesh box. The box is pretty rigid, and with a few planks strapped on the top makes a great stable work platform. Kangoo is nice cos you can drop the passenger seat for longer cargo space if you want.

Kveldssanger, I just started reading your thread, way back fact 3 or 4 about the failed attempt to reforest the Black Country and how some of the derelict land greened up naturally. Im fascinated by the regenerative power of nature, around here, when they harvest spruce and leave a no-mans land of sticks, mud and churned up bog and clay, it takes about ten years to completely regenerate a forrest of sallies, birch mountain ash, holly, rhododendron, just from windblown seeds.

Seconded. If it's your own home, and older than a few decades, why mention it at all? If the house burns down, and they question it, just say you don't know anything bout it, the previous owner must have installed it , it was always there etc. House unlikely to burn down with a properly installed flu liner anyway, less creosote buildup, easy to sweep etc.

Aspenarb that's awesome mate, that's what I'll do. Cheers buddy!

bodge it with a clamp or vice-grips until welded

Massy 35, big mesh sided trailer. Ladder. Chinese Kombi-System.

Micro Arb Truc | Timber Transport | For Tree Surgeons | Woodland Owners That what you mean? Looks handy!

Yeah, that's what I'm hoping! And I think ur probably right, I mean especially with the climbing saws, if you couldn't run them for snedding what would the world come to?

Thanks Harrythecat, I'll ask them and see what they say.

$4000 ?!?!?! For $500 cash in hand I'll fly over from Ireland and knock-em - If I can keep the timber....

ArborClimber, can you expand on that please? Im interested in your thought as I have recently bought the 201-C (m-tronic) and I use it primarily for snedding, blipping the throttle all over the place, and I noticed today that is cut out a couple of times. I didn't realise it was m-tronic until after I got home.

Hi guys, I'm trying to acquire pdfs of the Workshop Manuals for my: MS461 MS201-C (rear handle but doesn't really matter) HT131 Pole Saw I can view stuff for all the older saws, but not the newer ones. My local Stihl guys are hopeless and an hour away so I want to do my own work, and also, its just nice to have them. Is the 461 pretty much the same parts wise as the 460? Likewise the 201 and the 200? If so, maybe I can just use the manuals from the older saws, if the salient points are the same. Cheers guys.

Oak if its well seasoned. Don't have to fill up so often = more time to make whisky sours and surf the net...

Jon, your consistent positivity, good will and easygoing style are some of the reasons I keep coming back to this forum. Here's to another six years