Dinan

You need corks (caulks) to compete. Do they have them here?

I hate rigging, letting it drop takes skill and balls, f-up and you got no one else to blame. I would never rig anything big out of the tree I am in, especially logs. Equipment, blocks, ropes, etc. all are rated, what and how is the tree rated at?

I lived in B.C. almost my whole life. Vancouver is ok for a few days, but it is a city, you've seen enough cities. Stanley park is in that city, its spectacular, I guess, if you are from the UK. Cool drive, head northeast out of Vancouver on highway #1, Fraser river, that road was originally built by the British Army in the 1860s. Go straight at Cache Creek (HWY #97)and head to Williams Lake. Hang out there for a bit and head out on hwy#20, to Bella Coola. Beautiful country, the best. Also very cool, Haida Gwai (Queen Charlotte Islands), you can fly there from Vancouver in 2 hours. Or you can drive 1000 miles and a 7 hour ferry ride. I have done both, a few times. It is a magical place, rainbows, eagles, ravens, shiny black bears. And massive trees, the trees that are like 150ft tall, 3ft at the butt are small trees, we used to climb them to swing over to the big ones. Working there, hmmmm. If you keep asking, you will find something. Unless you are production falling, or working around high voltage, you do not need certs like in the UK. As that Reg guy that is from here and works on Vancouver Island.

I miss my truck being here in the UK. 1980 GMC 3/4 ton 4x4, 400cid v8 (6.6litre). 33" tires. big bush bumper.......seat wide enough to sleep on, and have fun with a chick. Would cost a mint to drive here, scare everyone on the road, couldn't park it, rip off the mirrors on the skinny roads.

Canadians and those who also log the United States of America use the upside down "gob". Its known as the humboldt undercut. You guys want to check out some good falling, type up Worksafe B.C. falling on Google. The Humboldt is better for logging because the undercut comes out of the stump, not the log. Also, the tree cannot come back at you, like if it hits another tree on the way down. The backcut is always a bit above, the bigger the tree, the higher. On a tree that is 2ft at the butt, the backcut would be about 1"-2" higher.

Gob? Undercut I think. Anyways, the backcut is always above the undercut, you do not want the tree coming back at you. I prefer a Humboldt undercut, never seen one here. Humbolt is better if the log is going to the mill.

395 baby yeah. Make sure you get the wraparound handle and the big dogs. More power than an 066, which is a very good saw as well. Maybe not as much power or as tough as a 2101, which was a killer saw. But lighter.

When I was windfirming old growth on QCI, my line was 200ft. I have rappelled down from around 190ft before. You can only rappel about 95ft with a 200ft line, so you have to be carefull.

Lived in Canada most of my life, right on the border for many years. Been down there, hung out with lots of Americans. I like them for the most part. Trump may be a lot of things, some of his talk I don't really like myself. But I do know this, 90 percent of Americans are sick and tired of the lies and bull that politicians there spew all the time. Trump and to a lesser degree Sanders are seen as different, not bought and paid for whores. I think Trump is going to get in, cant say he will be any better than Hillary, or worse, Jesus, what a choice.

Great answer, you need a decent ground always even it its not the fault here. Old mechanic splained this to me, fuel pump,guy didn't even look, just said ground, sure enough ground to frame was nfg.

Yes, big sharp saw full of gas. Fencepost that thing down, keep going, 5-7ft. chunks at a time. The top always comes back over at some point, that's were the fun is!

This is what I think as well. The Husky vs Stihl talk is kind of like the Chevy vs Ford pickup truck debate. Been going on a long time. I have used Husky more than Stihl over the years, they get up and go. Just talking about the 100, 200 and 300 saws.

Helicopters.... Back in 05/6, the Charlottes, landed high up the hill on a pad shaded by tall trees on the edge of the cutblock. Deep snow over the felled and bucked wood, real deep snow, like a field. We walked over it about 800 ft. icy crust. Then we windfirmed a bunch of trees and left. The icy surface had melted off in the sun, we had to crawl back to the pad. The fog moved in, we could hear the helicopter, the fog cleared a bit and he landed, while we were getting in the fog came back. We took off in the fog, couldn't see more than a few feet in front of us, big trees right beside us.

ms200/020 372xp/Jonsered 2171 288xp 395xp 046 Preferable the last four all Walkerized (souped up, muffler, jets, etc) all 28" bars, maybe a 32" for the 95. Wrap around handles, hightop air cleaners, big double dogs, skip chisel..... Always liked 266xp and 034s, 2101 saws as well.

Cool, second growth cedars are good to climb, the old growth big old veterans are tough. The bark will catch your strap on the other side of the tree, than you have to walk around and free it, all the time. Trees that are like 6-8 ft. at the butt (after the swell). I windfirmed on the Charlottes (Haida Gwai) for a while, same kind of thing. You guys do swing from tree to tree do you not? Guys I know used claws to swing, like a grappling hook. We would rappel down say 70 ft. from 150 ft. then kick off and catch a branch from a tree beside us, and then pull ourselves over. We were not allowed to use a hook. Working out in the bush on a heli show is fun. Kind of miss it.