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Nice one, I got one recently as a work truck. Seems good so far. Glad to hear your hand's healed well. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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We were discussing this at work the other day, spike up a conifer with flipline and main climbing line, clean off brash on the way up. I was taught to just have the mainline around the tree. If gaffs kick out, I'm sliding down the tree. Boss was saying he leaves stubs for this reason. I don't like this solution as you then have to cut again on the way down, or worse, groundie has to clean off the chogs. The other climber was saying how he'd been taught to tie off his main climbline with a running bowline. Seems neat, but now you've got your full weight on prussik / zigzag / hh w/vt designed for a 2 to 1 mechanical advantage, so likely won't work brilliantly either. Did a search on the forum and saw some suggestions for adding in a figure of eight to descend, but can't really picture how that would work. Does any of you kind souls have a picture or two of how to set this up?
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Is that a Landcruiser Prado/Colorado? How did you get on with it? How did the accident happen? Heal well.
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I use a Stihl battery chainsaw for cutting firewood. I don't feel like I need to use hearing protection. It's not exactly quiet, but it certainly isn't loud. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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I started at 38. Been going a year and half now, but only do two days a week. I very much consider myself a novice but find myself getting better / more efficient / fewer mistakes pretty much on every climb.
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Depends on which charger you have though. AP300 battery with AL300 battery 75mins I think Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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They didn't check where I bought mine, though they do know me in there and have bought climbing stuff and a 201 from there too. They didn't check then either.
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I got one of each AP200 and AP300. This morning was with the smaller battery.
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Nice one, just bought it [emoji106]🏻 Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Had the 160 out on these two bad boys out this morning. Both done with three bars of the AP200 battery remaining. That includes chogging down to about head height. Only swapped to the 261 halfway back down the right hand one, the 160 handled everything else just fine. Happy with my purchase.
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I'm happy with my 441
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Indeed.
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What's the music? Sounded a lot like Rage Against The Machine?
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Yup. Though until I get myself a leccy rear-handled saw, I can see it being used on the ground (at the weekend, in my own time) quite a bit too.
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Arbtalk Christmas Raffle 2016
Blah replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Arbtalk Christmas Charity Raffle 2016
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Newbie with boggy unmanaged mostly broadleaf woodland...
Blah replied to Hobby_Woodsman's topic in General chat
I own a similar sized bit of field/woodland, though it's not boggy. It is however on a pretty steep north facing slope. The current tools I use are: Clearing: a Stihl FS400 brushcutter with a shredder blade. Transport: a trackbarrow, which is a half ton walk behind dumper truck type thing. It's slow, but it's much better than carrying stuff out by hand. Inexpensive, nothing to go wrong, and very useful. Also, being tracked, low ground pressure. I certainly have never managed to get it stuck and I use it all year round. Before getting the trackbarrow, I paid a digger man to make a level path across the slope. -
That's what I do. Carry sharp chains, sharpen them at home in the vice.
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Here you go, complete with go faster red identification stripes Was brilliant at the weekend, cutting a bit of firewood without having to wear ear protection, or a saw burbling away while moving firewood about. Obviously two hands on the saw at all times
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Got one on Saturday, very happy with it so far. Thanks for all the reviews/praises/pictures
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Do you have the 10 or 12" bar Silky?
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Also worth mentioning that you need to have passed your driving license pre-97 *in the UK*. I passed mine in Belgium pre-97 and had it converted when I moved to the UK in 2000. I found out that I did not have B+E entitlement after years of towing trailers.
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Tried both on very recently at Sorbus, Pfanner fit me; Arbortec didn't.
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Gransfors Bruks make some of their axe handles for Swedish carving axes from Beech. For a carving axe, that's fine. For a longer splitting axe, probably not so much. Beech is fine for a froe handle because a froe typically gets much less shock load.
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I have Cooper AT3s and have no complaints.
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Not going to happen, already discussed and he feels he can't absorb the extra cost.
