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(Quote - 5thement) "I’ve got a better idea. Rather than f**k my quality gear up trying to prove a point, why don’t you do it, make a YouTube vid and post it instead, I work for a living." I only got the China clone with the generic 7x19 strand steel core wire rope. :-( I work too, but not hard enough to afford a genuine Tirfor. I suppose I could stretch (pun intended) to just the Maxiflex rope, for the sake of experiment, but I know how it would end. Steel rope is steel rope, regardless of the construction. There is no such thing as a non-elastic type. All steel ropes are elastic, store energy. Even chain stores energy, and will recoil some when stretched to breaking point. I'd like to know where you got this information that Maxiflex has no memory. I'm guessing its Tractel marketing speak refering to the property of being able to tolerate a smaller bend radius over snatch block shieves without suffering plastic deformation. If this is the case, as I suspect, it would mean the Maxiflex rope is actually more elastic than the bog standard kind, and therefore more dangerous in a breakage scenario...now, as for operating a Tirfor in reverse, this is one of the intended modes of use. Tractel's own literature, and common sense, indicate this. It don't make any difference to the winch whether it's pulling the rope and load through itself, or pulling itself and load, along the rope. In any case, nobody is going to be able to break a medium to large size Tirfor rope in a month of Sundays, assuming the rope, hook etc is sound. The danger is the sling or strop failing, or slipping off the load.

Quote - ("Yes, the maxi flex has no memory, no one will be decapitated if the strop comes off") Well, you sound pretty certain of that. Care to test your theory? Set up your tifor with the maxiflex cable/rope at full 20m span, anchor Tirfor and rope hook to immovable objects and tension the rope till you break the shear pin. Now take an angle grinder to the rope just behind the load hook. You'll be perfectly safe - if the rope springs back under tension, it can only spring away from you. Video the test and I'll send you a brand new rope.

Does Stihl really expect people to buy a new HD2 filter every month??? I thought you were supposed to blow them out and wash them once in a blue moon?

Are you sure the maxi flex cable has no memory? It's a steel rope. Maybe you're thinking of Dyneema (Spectra) UHDP textile rope - that has no stretch therefore no (or little) backlash.

Oh I see. Wouldn't be too bothered about having to bend down, sure half the work is bending down for one reason or another anyway. Longer handle = slower pulling, so what you gain in ease you lose in time. It's nice to have options though, hence a telescopic is always preferred.

Honestly I've never used one, they don't sell em in Ireland, but the YouTube vids look good. Cutting through tyres, roots etc. Googled that Hawksmoor top handle - the specs give the handle vibration at 9.0 m/s!!! That's MS800 territory! There's always a catch... https://youtu.be/BGYPktUc8kg

I'd thought about a longer handle. I believe the unit would take the extra force before the shear pin goes. Yale has a slightly different 500kg model - the upmarket version - which has a much longer telescopic handle. So far, the short handle has been ok, didn't feel the need for more pull. I should try and lift 500kg with the short handle and see if it works, if not, then I will modify the handle.

The ones with a scissor type lift, what goes straight up, then tips, can double as a mobile work platform for tall hedges.

Get a reconditioned TS400 consaw and stick a carbide cluster blade on it!

At risk of teaching my grandmother to suck eggs, could I suggest you set up the Tirfor in reverse? (Don't know your Tirfor history so I'm assuming you're an amateur - if that's not the case, please disregard and forgive) It's just that the cable end could pop off the stump as the stump angle changes, causing decapitation. It's always decapitation for some reason, Murphy's Law maybe. If you set the winch up the other way round, with the cable hook end anchored to something really solid, it's safer. If the chain or strap or whatever pops off the stump, it's the Tirfor that goes flying, not the hook and cable. Just be sure to stand next to the Tirfor, so you don't get hit by it if it goes. This set up also allows you to be "on top of the work" so you can see what's going on with the stump, and work it with the space or prybar as necessary.

Yup it's backwards. Get the cable hook as high up the anchor tree as I can reach so the pull angle creates a mild lift. Keeps the butt of the tree from digging in. Also saves walking back and forth from the tree when I need to de-clutch the Tirfor to run the cable out for the next pull.

Can I hijack your thread Harvey? Tried to post a vid of my baby micro Tirfor (500kg) in a new thread but I'm using Brave Browser and it doesn't mesh too well with the Arbtalk site, so I think I posted an "artical" instead. Here's the vid anyway. Handle is so wee it's funny. I have made a new handle for my other Tirfor, the 800kg one. Used a bit of thin wall galvanized tube from the scrap pile, used to be a washing line thing I think. Reinforced the bottom end of the tube where the leverage is fiercest, with a piece of fiberglass tube (old shovel handle). It's way lighter than the original handle and works just as well. https://youtu.be/F9WAMn8fGz4

I bought this wee baby Tirfor last year, only used it really today, it was just the thing for pulling well dead and dry spruce out. Trees were light, in fairness, but a fair bit of friction involved aloft. It's so light and small, no excuse not to bring it along for all jobs. Was €208 delivered from "MTN Shop". https://youtu.be/F9WAMn8fGz4 View full article

It's safer not to ask too many questions.

I just remote viewed it. Totally unsafe. OP, expect men in a black SUV tomorrow early, they will remove the tree. You don't need to know where they take it, nor should you seek to find out. Your neighbor will be quite happy the tree is gone. And this conversation never happened.

Lithium cells can last a long time, with proper care. Apparently, the cells in electric vehicles lose their capacity after five years or so, and need to be swapped out, but they are far from useless - just not good enough to run a vehicle. These old cells are repurposed for other, lower drain applications. The issue with multiple cell electric storage is if one of the cells goes bad it can derange the whole system. "Intelligent" controllers can compensate for this.

Ah, so it's not a myth then. So what happens to a saw when you run it on E100? The Brazilians must be putting a lot of pure ethanol through their 070s / 090s down in the Amazon no?

That's a "Sherp" or a varient of same. Russian invention. YouTube is full of Sherp vids, they seem very capable and fairly simply built.

I read somewhere that in some South American countries the "petrol" is basically pure ethanol, from sugar cane. Wonder how they manage with that? Ring any bells, anyone?

So, I've been pretty tired all the time for the past few years. All my life really... I just put it down to being fed up... By pure chance, a few days ago, a couple of wee sachets of Magnesium Aspartate supplement came my way - a freebie in an order of other stuff. I mixed with water and drank it, just because. Later the same day or maybe the next day, I was full of energy. Didn't associate it with the magnesium. A few days later, I saw the second packet lying around and consumed it. A few hours later, energy started coming back. Mood greatly improved... So I kind of made the causal connection, and googled "magnesium for energy" and yes indeed, that what it was all about, I had a magnesium deficiency. Bought a box of the stuff at the pharmacy and have been on a daily dose for a few days, it works. Energy levels "normal" which to me feels like being on speed or something. The boost lasts all day, maybe a couple of days, not like a caffeine kick though, which is more of a mental stimulant, this is really a physical cellular type deal. Just thought I'd mention it, as there might be some folks on here who could benefit from trying it. Apparently a lot of people are Mag deficient and it's a malabsorption problem, not a dietary one.

Blue Stain Fungus is my guess. Transmitted by bark beetles. Blue stain fungi - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

Had crossed my mind. I know nothing about metal detecting (it's illegal to detect for artifacts in S. Ireland so we don't have much of a culture of it here) but I would imagine if lead shot set off detectors then many fields would already be undetectable. I presume the mass and type of metal make a difference.

A few decades late to suggest this now I suppose, but... what do think of the idea of seeding the land with thousands of ball bearings and putting up a sign to advertise the fact? Surely that would "ruin" the area for detectors?

Maybe post a photo?

Seen this before in Ireland...that holly was a fayrie tree. Just be glad you're not the guy who felled it.