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Yeah it was fairly hard, lifting half my weight on the downpull. I think it technically is RAD/Yo-yo. Noticed that's what the industrial rope access guys are using, with a backup second rope and travelling fall arrest gadget.

Just thought I'd put this out there, kind of amazing really - the action is at 1 minute in. [ame] [/ame]

Luxury...a walk in the park mate.....when I were a lad, we started at 3 in the morning, after walking barefoot to the site in knee deep snow, for ten miles, then we made a fire to warm the wood for a bigger fire to warm our hands so we could hold the saw - crosscut mind! No chainsaws in my day - then wed work twelve hours before breakfast, which was usually a squirrel, eaten raw because no time to cook it....and that's if we were lucky!!

I helped a guy drop his 6KW turbine one time to fix the brushes then pull it back up agin with a big tirfor. It was fracking huge! At peak, produced three times as much energy as he could use, so he'd dump the excess into heating a 10,000 lt water tank.

I have a couple of original and genuine floorboads from HMS Beagle captain's stateroom for sale - only asking £300 each, half of the seat of King Henry VIII personal earth closet (that's £700 no offers) and if you take the lot I'll throw in a splinter of the True Cross as well!

If Hillary has an "episode" we'll hear the howls of anguish and the cheering from across the pond, loud enough to wake us up so we can tune in.

I wonder if the length of the bar/number of teeth has any influence? More teeth = takes longer to bind up the sprocket = more possibility of running out of fibres and sustaining injury? Why would chain speed have any effect at all, does the chain actually cut some of the fibbers if its moving fast enough?

Yeah, why risk it? Give the old trousers to a friend who never heard of chainsaw protection, and show him/her some internet photos of injuries to frighten him into using them. :Edited: - hah! Just checked mine and they are class 1 as well! Looks like the auld piggy bank is due a hammering soon...

Dont foget your depreciating assets as well - generally the cost of the item spread out over a number of years. Any equipment that you use, but which is not a consumable, basically, including equipment that you already had before you started your business, if you use it for work. Saws, Trailer, Machinery, Rope, that kind of stuff.

Make yourself a spike for receipts and put them on in chronological order. Also have a "scroll", for the year, with the item and cost, and make several columns with headers like "Van Deisel" "Saw Petrol and Oil" Phone Credit, Van Repairs, PPE, Sundries etc etc. This will make it easier and quicker for your accountant to do his work. If he's charging by the hour and you trust him, it could bring down his bill a lot. If he's a flat rate guy then don't bother.

I just posted this in another thread - this was actually the appropriate thread so sorry to repost, I'll try and phrase it differently - What about a descender device on the harness, combined with a hand ascender further up the rope, with the tail of the rope going back up to a pulley attached to the hand ascender? This is working pretty well for me. Its like a moving DRT tie in point on a single rope. When the desired hight is reached, the ascender can be left in place and limb waking can be done with the descender. When returning to vertical, just pulling the tail gives a 2:1 advantage, like with Drt. If something happens to the hand ascender the descender device still holds you and allows return to the ground. This is how the commercial rope access guys seem to do it on buildings. Anyone else going this route?

Does anyone here use a SRT set up like this: Rope comes down from tie in into -a descender device (RIG or whatever) -back up and over a pulley -which is attached to a hand ascender. This is what I have put together, first proper use at work this afternoon. Pull the tail and it advances the descender which then captures progress, then advance the hand ascender and repeat. When the tie in point is reached, leave the hand ascender just under the tie in and work position using the descender, while keeping the tail on you, through a harness point or whatever. Sorry if its a tangent, just ignore...Im just pumped to be climbing.

If you have a wood lathe, you can mount a hook and loop circular sandpaper disk and dress the bar at 90 degrees very accurately.

Another vote for wood wasp here. They love spruce. IF you gonna eat them, don't go native - fry them as you would shrimp. If there not enough to make a side dish, bulk out with woodlice. Yum.

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Sounds like this has the potential to be a long and juicy thread! Details - more details!

Jamlala's thread on the new x-cut chain lead me to the Husqvarna UK youtube channel where I found this. I suppose this is what the Swedes get up to in winter when its dark all the time and booze is too expensive. They look like they're having fun though. Incidentally, did y'all know that the Husqvarna symbol is actually a gun sight? They started out building muskets. [ame] [/ame]

Fly Agaric is said to be a delicious culinary mushroom when prepared the right way - plenty of articles online how to - basically slice and boil in a large pot of water for half an hour, then drain and boil again in new water. It leeches all the ibotonic acid which is the harmful element. Apparantly they can withstand serious boiling without turning to mush. Then fry in butter - reportedly the most delicious mushroom going. The Italians and Japanese use it in their cuisine. Can also be pickled. If the hallucinogenic properties are desired, then drying, powering and boiling and drinking the boiled water is supposed to be the way to go - the drying process neutralises the ibotenic acid. Start with a small amount, wait an hour as it has a slow absorption time, and increase as required. I haven't tried it, but did try eating a raw small one once - didn't turn me into a berserker but I was vomiting like a real Viking about half an hour later. Didn't notice any psychoactive effects.

Thats global warming for you....

Round slings are a sleeve filled with a single continuous fiber that circles round and round, the mass of stands are loose in the sleeve so when a load is applied they all tighten simultaneously, sharing the load in a way that cannot be achieved with woven slings. This makes them much stronger for their weight and bulk than woven flat slings, and also makes them last longer as the ware is distributed randomly in a different place each time the sling is deployed. The jacket sleeve also protects the fibbers from abrasion and UV - the downside is it makes inspection of the interior difficult if not impossible. Here is a video of how they make round slings - the ones shown have a transparent sleeve so you can monitor the inner load bearing fibers. [ame] [/ame] I bought mine from a crowd in Germany, Grube.de - very good prices, can't remember how to get the english version of their site though. https://www.grube.de/polyester-rundschlingen-2-t-gruen-44-115/?c=992

Something similar happened to me a couple of times, the chain was too looses and the centrifugal forces forced it out of the bar groove and contacted the body of the mill.

Fussy....ok then bring your skillet and kelly kettle and have a fry up in the woods!

Why not bring sandwiches?