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What brand? Mine are all CT, teeth not as aggressive as Petzl, apparently. I've never had issues with mine, just have to advance them slightly as I release the cam. What kind of rope are you on, that could make a difference.

You can also claim the tree is your home, though I think you have to notify the postmaster general in advance to make it stick. The eco-warriors used to do this, I presume still do, when they occupy forests slated for bybasses or whatever. It's legal, and the police actually have to defend you against the council unless a court order eviction come down.

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I rented a fully hydraulic hi-lift one and a micro digger recently. Moved about 160 tonne of bog and hardcore with it, and it was fantastic. Now I'm looking at a cheaper, lighter, battery powered one with a box bed for general work. Had to move two large ash trees in bits up a steep garden a few weeks back, with a sack trolly, and it took all day and wrecked me. With a pedestrian dumper it would have taken an hour. How's the build quality on the transmission?

They can only nick you if they can catch you. Stash a sleeping bag and food, water waste bucket etc in the tree and if they spot you just wait it out. They will eventually get bored and go home...

Is it wrong to point and laugh?

Well, the round earth theory was pretty nutty untill it was proven true...sometimes there really is a conspiracy. Thing is, the real conspiracies are too complicated and mundane for conspiracy nuts to bother following.

Smashing! Thanks for that!

What's the max diameter you are happy cutting at with the 160? I'm happy using mine for stuff up to 10" but it is slow. I can push it a bit though and it doesn't seem to slow the chain at all, but at a point it will "stall" when the motor senses too much resistance. I really think small felling dogs would work well with that saw, as I could pivot rather than push and take strain off the wrist. The only way to retrofit thought would be to add them to the plastic chain cover, which would not be ideal...

Stubby, I can't find him on eBay, any chance you could post a link to his page? I've put the saw on the back burner for the time being, twill be a winter project.

That's for sure! But when you say "traditional remit"....well, that may or may not be true, POTUS is a long tradition. But tradition and legality are not the same. Has he gone beyond the legal remit? I don't think I so. If Trump does anything illegal, his many enemies both on the Dem side, in his own party, and the deep state will Immediatly pounce.

I doubt that's correct. Maybe a very small minority, but then a very small minority of Obama supporters would have supported him if he had gone full Stalin. There are radicals at both ends of the spectrum. So far Trump has only enforced existing law, and everything he has done has been within the remit of his office. If he, hypothetically, turned into a true dictator, his supporters would abandon him. Trump people are for liberty with a capital L, and voted for him because he promised to shrink the power of government over their lives, which he has done.

I have the MS160, the top handle version of last year's model with lower chain speed. My impression is powerful and constant torque but low speed, so you have to push the saw through the work, unlike the petrol version where you "let the saw do the work"...the 161 platform might be better in this respect with a higher chain speed, but I would think the torque will be the same - pretty constant. Therefore, go for the 12" bar, as the efficiency is not really a factor of speed, but torque. The speed will be the same for both 10 or 12, and the difference in maximal torque will only be limited by the diameter of wood being cut. So, to put it simply, you will be able to cut 10" diameter, with both bars, but cutting 12" with the 12" bar buried will be approaching the safety cut-off for the motor. You can do everything with the 12" that you can do with the 10", will miniscule loss of performance, but have more reach and visibility. Very different to petrol, where bar length can make quite a difference. Sorry if this is a bit confusing, I've hade a few Guinness'.

Just googled "avulsion (degloving) injury", wow, glad I've not eaten yet. Another great reason to ware gloves all the time for heavy manual and machine work.

Know that if they let you climb, the trees will not be the same nice spreading trees that you climbed on the course. They will be partially dead, covered in ivy six inches thick, with limbs that just out at 45 degree angles so you can't limbwalk on them. Bring webbing loops for footholds, several (2) lanyards, one 5m rope and one 3m wire core. And outfit both your lanyards with micopullys and eye-to-eye hitches (distel) will save a load on energy on your arms. Extra carabiners, a throwbag, attached to a small carabiner for advancing your line and lanyards, a mini-reach telescopic hook, and so on.

Try a battery impact driver with the right socket, needs to be 1/4 hex shank. No need of a piston stop then.

You can recharge flywheel magnets, if you take it to a shop that offers that service they could do it for you. Or there are homebrew remedies. Whether they work or not I don't know, but it's interesting. Here's a YouTube clip of a guy using a welder to recharge them. There's also a trick where you get the magnets out if an old hard drive and leave them in for a week, and they supposed to give some of their charge.

Find a new age traveller site and offer the sawdust to them for their compost toilets. Seriously.

I use stove ashes to clean greasy pans and roasting dishes. Put the pan outside and fill with ashes and water to make a slurry, and leave overnight. Next morning, agitate with a brush, and put some sawdust in as well, and then rinse. I have to wash again with washing up liquid anyway, cos there's always grease residue, but the ash gets the most of it. Need a bit of waste ground to rinse out onto though...

Just used my aluminium access tower to top a cypress hedge, some of the stems were 3-4 inches thick as it hadn't been done for a few years. Very "easy" (relatively) working from the tower, if ground conditions allow. Did most of the work with a €150 Lidl polesaw, first time it's been used. The motor was fantastic, easy starts, no problems, vibes not bad. The saw head gave trouble, being juddery in the cut (though smooth with back bar cuts, strangely) the oil cap cracked and leaked, requiring reinforcement with fiberglass resin, the plastic cover worked loose once, the chain threw once, and the tensioner mechanism needed minding. Bit of a headache really, but for the price I was happy. If this thing could be modified to take a pro saw head it would be dynamite.

I do it often, I'll give you real ones are expensive, but you can get one in Lidl for €150 or Pound equivalent. I said small bites mind, like something you could handle dropping on your head. I've dropped lots of stuff on myself, it's no problem when it's small/light and hasn't fallen far enough to gather momentum. Oh well, to each their own.

Doubtless. But still, that branch was so fragile, look how it shattered as it came down. I would have roped it with a dyneema winch rope from the ground, and just broken the branches off with chain come along. Have done this before, there's no stretch in the rope or chain, the branches just snap and fall.

I have a couple containers, very bad condensation problems! What about insulation the inside, tarring the roof for longevity, and painting the outside to look like a shed, with painted windows and everything. A friend did this, and it actually looks lovely.

That's dead tree, hinges are not going to function like normal, it would have been ok with live wood. Should have taken some of the hight out of it in small bites with a pole saw before going for the pull.

Salt is ace, great stuff for health in moderation.