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Anyone heard any update on the Isle Of Wight fatality last week? Tree surgery death suspect arrested WWW.BBC.COM A 42-year-old man is fatally injured during tree surgery work on the...

I have one since about four years now. Extremely reliable. For limbing, small fells, blocking down poles, excellent saw. Super lightweight and nimble, even more so with a 12" bar. One big plus that is seldom if ever mentioned is it has a pseudo 3/4 wrap front handle, which let's you cut from left to right horizontally, using the bottom of the bar. This had been extremely useful. Very low vibration, less that the top handle version in the specs.

If by swaged you mean compacted, as in the individual wires are not circular in section, then no, Tirfor Maxiflex®️ rope is the same as the bog standard kind, but instead of six outer strands it only has four, with a steel core strand (or possibly a solid wire core, I don't know).

The prisons are full to bursting with people who used top handle saws on the ground. The people who one-handed them on the ground are confined to solitary for life without parole.

I found a distributer of Brano winches in the UK - a lot cheaper than I expected! BRANO Wire Rope Hoist / Winch Lifting Capacity 3.2T FPANDG.COM Use: Wide range of use particularly in construction, agriculture, forestry, transport, etc., for example: for lifting and towing loads in all directions for extricating items...

How does it compare to a Tractel? Ever opened up a Tractel to compare? Is the rope the same 4 strand as the Tractel rope?

There are three flavors of Tirfor. First is the Tractel Tirfor genuine article. Ropes are proprietary 4 strand in oddball diameters. Twice the price of generic 7x16 wire rope. Better - more tolerant of bending etc? Maybe. Second is the ubiquitous Chinese clone. Always aluminium, always the exact same design whatever the badge. They're ok. Common 7x16 strand wire core galvanized wire ropes, cheap to replace. The third flavor are similar to the Chinese clones but have small differences in the design of the case. Case can be aluminium or steel. The Yaletrack is in this category. From photos, they appear slightly better finished than the common PRC clone. Same ropes as the clones. They seem to run about twice the price of a clone, and about half the price of a Tractel. There is a fourth flavor...the Euro-made clones. Habegger, Brano (if they still exist?) and maybe others that I couldn't name, or say where they're made. Probably as good as a Tractel, and similarly priced. Then there are the older style MOD second hand Tirfors. Cheap on eBay etc.

Go to a crane rigging supply place, they'll have huge rolls of grade 80 (lifting) and up, all sizes and all the hardware bits.

Well I'm only 38, started climbing a few years ago, but honestly don't do enough to get in condition, so it's always challenging, but on the plus side I don't wreck myself either. I have no shame about going slow, and using as much mechanical advantage as I need. A quick-roll hand ascender comes in mighty handy when I need to pull my weight up, lanyard or mainline, just clip on and pull down, and up you go, slowly but easily. Maybe this is an option to explore for some of the folks who have shoulder issues? I also do things that are frowned upon in the industry, like using a polesaw to in the crown etc. It may be "wrong" but it sure makes life easier. I'm in the back of beyond though where it's jungle, almost only removals and the first plan is always pull the tree over with a tractor or push it over with a big digger, and employing a climber is a last resort when the first two options are no-go. Asthetics are pretty low on the priorities list for most of my clients. And that's the way I like it, uh-huh. I suppose for what you call production climbing I'd be next to useless.

For in-tree use, looks good and easy to make. Anyone seen this or tried building one? (Edit) - now I look at it some more, I can see a few limitations.

LED road beacons. Seen them for €30 at the Tool Hire, found them in Lidl for €8 each. Nine flashing modes, torch mode, waterproof, floats, can run them over with a lorry, magnetic, hole for a zip-tie, runs on 2 AA batteries. I have four magnetically attached to the ceiling of the van. Very handy when working the roadside on hedgerow, strimming etc. Slap a few on the van, or balance on top of a traffic cone, or zip tie to the cone. Hang em on the sides of the ladder when working on the street. Have used them once at a car accident scene. Local, rural firefighters hadn't seen them before, thought they were brilliant. Cheap enough you could sacrifice one to mark a road hazard at night when you could leave it and continue on, maybe saving someone's life. The batteries last for ages..

Could you rig up a length of two inch diameter metal pipe to carry the exhaust vertically away from the operator? Like, 8 feet tall?

How'd it rupture? Like what were you doing when it happened? Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a quick recovery!

One of my Clients shared this same one on Facebook recently and her sons who work with the homeless and handicapped were livid with her!

Sorry to be blunt, your grace, but I don't agree with any of it.

There is a GM strain of maize that causes sterility in men (don't know if permanent). If we are talking about keeping population to replacement levels, then the UK and west in general is already there, or slightly de-populating. Yet the same folks who want lower population support immigration of cultures that reproduce themselves at levels higher than replacement. Why is this? Also, let's define the boogiman. Is it "pollution", "resource depletion" or "global warming" ? Which is the one they say is going to kill us all? - It's global warming. That means CO2 emissions. Don't be lumping CO2 in with the other stuff, it's a separate issue. The plastic wrapper on your ? will not kill the planet. The transportation of the orange will. China poured more concrete in the last decade than the USA poured in it's entire history. Yet we are down on people for building second homes. Yet at the same time we want to import immigrants from low carbon economies, and build homes for them.

For fine dust: goggles. No issue wearing them over glasses. Fogging can be an issue though. Gave you thought about prescription goggles?

I bought a couple of 4 tonners from Van Beest (Holland) through a distributor in Ireland. They were 150 euro each, 10-12mm groove and about 170mm diameter. Very good value I thought. They came with 6 ton shackles included. I'd say check out the Van Beest catalog, I reckon they give best bang for buck.

I'm thinking about getting chevrons. Watched a few vids about sticking them on and peeling them off, don't you have to heat as you peel?

Yeah, that's pretty much what I hear. TBH for the price/quality ratio of their stuff I can live without a warranty. Bought a battery reciprocation saw, a battery jigsaw, a 5 amp hour battery with Samsung cells and fast charger all for 110 last week. Just the battery alone would have been that money for a name brand.

I've read the Aldi/Lidl warrenty isn't all it's cracked up to be. But who knows? I bought the Lidl version recently, it's fine, starts, runs, cuts, what more can you ask for for 100 Euros? Especially when you consider the bar and chain are worth fourty-fifty bucks. The value in these saws to a pro is that they are sacrificial, for making dodgy cuts that "could" potentially end up wrecking your good saw. I know someone will say if you know what you're doing this situation should never happen, but let's be real. Also good for a loaner for those situations where you just can't say no. All in all, good buy.

Thinking of getting one of these, where did you get the green skip from looks a useful addition? Like you I have some spruce to extract with no clear drop lines so I also bring them down sectionally. Given to me by a pal, it's a fiberglass tub from an old two-wheel farm barrow, quite old. Im sure similar barrow tubs can be bought separately somewhere. It's actually slightly too wide for the dumper unless you open one side panel, so building something to fit exactly would be a better way to go I think. The tub is breaking at the corners, so I'll be making a new one at some point.

Well I'll stick this one in the thread since the track-barrow/dumper is in frame....a first for me - never before met a tree that was actually be happy to be felled! Or could be one of the fayrie folk was trapped inside for some reason and happy to be released??

Today's job was topping a Cypress hedge to 6 foot. Depth was probably 5-6 foot and no access from the other side. Ground uneven, lumpy etc, step ladder was no-go. So I configured a deck for the track-barrow out of old ceder staves (ex hot tub). Perfect hight for me to stand and work, stable out, and easy to reposition as needed.