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Stephen, not sure if you're serious or taking the p but honestly no apology needed. You've been a member for 6 years and still alive and kicking so your way is working for you. The trouble is that I or I suspect the OP don't have the practical experience so all I can do is go by what I was taught and what the guidelines say and make the same recommendations. In the end it's one subject on one thread on one day in the life of the forum, your views/experience are as important to me as those of anyone elses and if in the future someone disagrees with something you say and I feel you're right I'll back you with the same commitment that I did today when I was in disagreement.

To be honest I don't care what procedure you adopt, the OP has purchased/is considering purchasing a winch exactly the same as I own, he asked about strops/shackles etc. I told him what I bought which is in line with the training I received and what the afore mentioned and linked to document states. I'm stating my understanding of why the recommended procedure is as it is. Feel free to disagree but that doesn't make my suggestion wrong. Your analogy isn't strictly speaking accurate anyway, as I've already said the shear pin is designed to prevent your winch from failing. I'm finished with this.

The winch doesn't fail when a shear pin breaks, that's the whole point. I agree that you can't exactly know the amount of force you're going to need in every situation, especially debogging but that only means that you should choose the highest rated equipment that you can reasonably use, the heaviest part of the system will be the winch but that still isn't a reason to use strops/shackles rated lower than the winch itself. If a strop or shackle fails the system has failed catastrophically and you've just lost all control of the object that you're pulling/lifting, you also run the risk that the cable suddenly relieved of the significant amount of tension placed on it will whip through the air like a guillotine with a shackle on the end carrying enough momentum to kill on impact. If a shear pin breaks you still have a degree of control. As for loosing a shear pin, you should be carrying spare shear pins and a means to remove a broken one. Finally I can't think of a situation where I'd want a strop/shackle etc to fail before the shear pin (shear pin designed to prevent you overloading the system) so give me an example.

I did, kind of, winch use is taught on CS-32, as I understand it the shear pin of a Tirfor type winch should break 1st but the winch will still hold the load, the handle has the fail safe on a Lugall, I don't see how the winch shouldn't be the weakest link, are you suggesting that the strop/shackles/etc should break before the shear pin? What would be the point of having a shear pin if the rest of the system was going to fail 1st? Here's an excerpt from the pdf I linked to. "When making up winching tackle for debogging or tree takedown operations, care must be taken to ensure that all components are rated appropriately to cope with the anticipated force under which they will be required to operate. The safe working load of a system is that of the lowest rated component of the system. If any of the components in the system has a feature which will prevent overload of the system or failure, e.g. sheer pin in a hand winch, then that element of the system should have the lowest safe working load (SWL) of all components (see page 10). Wire rope should have a SWL that is compatible with that of the blocks, shackles and other components used."

Nice, love those old saws, Pioneer, Homelite, McCulloch, Lombard, Danarm etc. I'd love to get my hands on a Danarm 125 Automatic, an absolute minter complete with original bar sold on ebay last week for £275.

Ford Mustang, early model I'd guess 64/65.

The shear pin should be the 1st thing to let go. Everything else needs to be rated higher than the winch. With vehicle recovery it's extremely difficult to calculate the forces involved, a good resource is 'Winching Operations In Forestry - Tree Takeown and Vehicle De-Bogging' http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/FCTG001.pdf/$FILE/FCTG001.pdf

I have exactly the same winch, I bought the following strops, 1 x Duplex (eye to eye) 3m x 3000kg Sling 1 x Endless round 5m x 3000kg Sling 2 x 3.25 Ton Bow Shackles As for a pulley, it's recommended that the pulley sheave is x18 the diameter of the wire rope, I couldn't find anything that matced that and the rope diameter at any price, the closest I could find cost more than the winch. If I eventually do get a pulley I'll use a regular recovery snatch block rated at 8 ton and run a separate synthetic line through the snatch block, something like Noryb 10mm synthetic which has a minimum breaking strain of 5 ton.

Unfortunately the last time (well most famous time) someone took them on he ended up being criminalised. British Justice used to be something to be proud of, now it's a disgrace, the Police used to uphold the law now it seems the only people they serve are themselves and the establishment. Rather than the powers that be protecting us from each other they place vastly more importance on protecting us from ourselves.

You could try these guys, Chainsawr — Chainsaw Parts Online | Chainsaw Replacement Parts in Stock If the part isn't listed use the 'Request Parts' feature, I was able to get parts for my Pioneer 620 that weren't actually listed on the website.

Can you remove the oil pump to see what kind of seal is used? it may be a regular 'O' ring. I wouldn't be put off by your 'local lawnmower man' saying you won't get spares, in my experience that's a stock response from people who've just seen something they've never seen before. Chances are it's repairable one way or another.

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Nice what age would they be, early 80's?

Echo saws but what models? My Echo CS701S-VL. Owners Manual is dated 1975.

There are people who will try anything rather than a days work. Over here we have R plates, once a learner passes their test they drive for a year with an R plate. This instantly marks them out as inexperienced drivers and are fair game in the event of a minor accident that isn't their fault for the other driver to come across shouting the odds and saying it was the young drivers fault, young girls are most at risk especially if they're travelling alone, the f***ers that try this sort of stunt need educating with a wheelbrace.

It is but it's a fact, I personally don't pull out of a side road if a car is coming even if it's indicating to turn in, I'll wait to see his wheels turn 1st, the minute or so it takes to make sure is better than the half hour at the scene and countless hours grief spent if you pull out and they then decide to drive into you regardless if it's on purpose or not. They'll also try to brake test you so I keep a couple of car lengths between me and the car in front. Sad but you have to be on the defensive all the time.

I assume you're talking about the Petzl Avaho? just goes to show how different we all are and how something that's comfortable for one person won't suit another. I found the Avaho really comfortable and liked the position of the gear racks and tool loops, also like the way the waist buckles were situated, so much so that I'd go for the Sequoia SRT rather than the regular Sequoia. The only downside with the Avaho that I found was the fixed central tie in point which was a bit restrictive for good work positioning, standing sideways on to the canopy tie in point tended to pull the harness to the side/twist against you.

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Aye if you're not sure best to at least try them on, what's comfortable for one person may not suit someone else.

I have a Petzl Avaho and to be honest creating a bridge that attaches to the side D rings would be unbearable if you were hanging in the harness, ever tried hanging in the harness from your lanyard? I recently bought a TreeUp TH30, it has a floating bridge (webbing) and I've added a DMM small swivel. Been trying it out today and it's pretty good, look identical to the Treehog TH5000 and I've read that they are both made by the same company, Protekt. I bought mine from Germany via ebay, £110 shipped. It doesn't have as many slots in the waist belt for carabiners as the Petzl and isn't as nicely finished but it does have 2 gear loops and one carabiner slot on the right for clipping a saw. TreeUp TH30, See Here www.treeup.com Obviously I'd have liked a Petzl Sequoia SRT but it's close to £300.

Is the white thing and ball bearing something to do with the fuel filter and to weight the fuel line to keep it at the bottom of the fuel tank? did you pull the fuel line/filter? The white thing may well be a fuel filter. Possibly it came off when someone was trying to remove the fuel line and they simply replaced it and left the parts that came off in the tank.

I don't, I can't think of too many training centers that expect the trainee to supply the equipment, climbing centers supply climbing gear, dive centers supply gear, ski schools, parachute/sky diving etc the list goes on. I imagine that HVG training centers don't expect trainee's to arrive in their own 40 footer and they aren't cheap to maintain. No, IMO if a training company can't be bothered to supply or even hire equipment to trainees they should be avoided.

Agree, same as stores opening late on Christmas eve so that people who always leave things to the last minute can be accommodated. The reality is that if every shop was open 24/7 there would still be someone running at the last minute. I've got to be honest and admit that I'm as guilty as the next man but if the shops were closed I'd have to deal with it. Not everyone who works a Sunday does so by choice, many would prefer to be with their families as when they're off during the week the kids are at school. There may well be those who are glad of the O/T if it's actually paid as O/T, they may just be contracted to work weekends, but the reality is that those who benefit most are the directors and owners and you can bet that they aren't working on Sunday (or Saturday either for that matter)