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If you need to advance past a union, just bring a bunch of slings. Make them, or buy various lengths of ready made sewn tape slings, they're cheap. Leave them in situ as you go up... An underappreciated tool. Instant handholds on branchless stems, footholds when yr creeping out on an upward angled limb etc.

Blue Bird 2-stroke winch , best deal on AgriEuro WWW.AGRIEURO.CO.UK Blue Bird Industries 2-stroke winch with semiautomatic acceleration Anyone got one? They're going for €650 odd. Not much on YouTube about them. Look kind of junky compared to the higher end Eder/Docma/Portawinch etc but half the price. What think you?

Consider/experiment with using chokered slings instead of spikes. Or in conjunction with spikes. Use the slings as footholds, chokered just above groin hight and long enough that you can stand in them like stirrups. Keep your groin in contact with the stem... Something along these lines. Depends on the severity of the lean. If it's really bad, you're gonna need to straddle the stem and use the weight of your legs/feet as a counterweight to your upper body. But you're still gonna need something to stand on.

A family member tried it on some roof trusses, as an aesthetic feature. Very light charring followed by oil. Looks good.

Gwan, elaborate. Especially about the weird auras. This is up my ally, as you know.

Check the windscreen for shit. No shit = not a pikey.

The Midnight Monkeywincher strikes again!

Sounds like thrift to me!

They were a product of the "men were men" era. Two strong bastards and a mule probably. My only criticism of it, apart from the weight, is it's only got a ten meter pull. The drum is grooved to seat an inch thick cable, so using a thinner cable wouldn't work very well, as it would crest the groove ridges and probably damage, as well as being dangerously overstressed by the winch itself... The extension cable was longer, but you still only get ten meters of pull... I dunno, they have a beauty all their own. If one really really had to generate ten tonnes of pull, an easier way would be a big chain lever hoist. Safer, and with modern alloys, lighter than a monkey winch.... I'd love one of those wee capstan winches. Looking at the Bluebird Industries one for around €650... How's the Red Iron working out? Any chance of a review, John K?

My neighbor has a mint one. Not been used in decades though. I tried to pick it up, barely left the floor.

In times of inflation, they key is to be thrifty. Maybe buy German or Canadian made bars, instead of Jap. Is there really that much of a difference? Look after your bars, file the rails, maybe crimp them as they splay, go with a wider guage chain for worn bars, etc. Squeeze the life out of 'em.

Mine is eight years old now. Second head, third shaft, 4-mix motor is still ok. Just wondering if I should buy another one before they stop making them, or before inflation does something silly to the prices? Mine was €850 in 2014, I see they can be got for €800 now. The latest models seem to have got mixed reviews. I know what I'm dealing with, with a 131, tried and true, even if it's not perfect. Any thoughts?

I would like to see "the enemy" (as I perceive them) get jailed for ten years. Extinction clowns who glue themselves to roads, stopping people from going to work, etc... However, it's never going to go well for civilization in general when a government has this kind of power. The shoe changes feet and the same powers could be used on me, for defending a legitimate cause (as I see it) like protesting vax mandates... Better the state has less power to punish, and let public opinion be the judge. Now, there is an argument that public opinion expresses itself through our elected governments, so the law is public opinion, but this argument fails under scrutiny. It's been amply shown that governments all over just do their own thing, or the agenda of their doners, and to hell with the public who elected them... The less power the less chance they can do something egregiously fascistic/communistic when the wind changes direction...

Is that the "kill the bill" thing, or a different bill? There's a lot in there that would be just the ticket for cracking down on undersirables, but it's always a double edged weapon. Woke government makes us the undersreables. Everyone knows the law is not applied fairly. Fact if life.

It ain't just the case for firewood cough - (covid) - cough.....

You could be right. I was going for the John Deer aesthetic.. maybe I'll slap a rainbow sticker on it for good measure.

That's what I'm at this week. Not a windblown but might as well may be. Somebody else dropped it but wouldn't/couldn't process it to logs. I can stand under the high end. I used an 800kg tirfor and the polesaw yesterday to sever and pull a broken and wedged side branch on top. No safe way to do it with a normal saw, I'd wager. You can see the curved branch in the upper right hand corner:

Nice burn! 👍🙂 People get triggered when there's a threat to their doggies. The doggies can do no wrong. In Ireland the rule is you can shoot the dog if it's at large, but the convention is to give a single warning, if it's known who the dog belongs to... Sheep don't drop dead from the sight of a strange dog, it's the mad stampeding when the dog chases them and panic that causes the heart attacks and abortions...yes, farmers move sheep for miles, it's true, but they don't make the sheep run. Totally different. Any sheep don't drop dead when badgers are around because badgers don't chase them.

Don't jynx it!

There was a man killed by his water buffalo in England recently, made the news.

I used to have to walk through cows with calves, bulls etc as a kid. At night. Both ways. The the landowner was afraid of his bull, as it charged him once, and warned me to be afraid of it as well.... Scary times. The menacing vibes were something else.

I was just in the process of editing my last post - just realized I have been talking about this windblow thing from my experience, which is not production forestry. I forgot, in a commercial setting it's saw and wedges, and get on with it, of course, so all the talk about polesaws is rightly OTT if that's what the setting is ... "Windblown" to me means pickup sticks, random species, in neglected private woodland, domestic, without the backup of a company. Lone working etc. So my insistence on exotic equipment stems from risk reduction. Efficiency doesn't factor into the equation, for me.

Hundred percent. I hear you about extra weight and space. A kombi-tool length polesaw is what you want, not the full telescopic one. Situationally dependant. I dunno, I gots the tools, I uses all of em, ymmv. Tirfors are essential, in my view. I know it's a lot of extra gear and weight...

Trust me, it's handy... Lot of bones in the ground belong to men who were quite sure they knew what they were doing.

14 inch. You bore cut the stem with your main saw, in this case, probably vertically, cut out the inside of the stem and leave trigger wood on each side. Wedge it well, and cut the triggers with the polesaw