Dan Maynard

That's about it, fairly light when dry like willow. Burnt a fair bit myself, it's just fine.

@northumbriaforestry

Yes just watched it, enjoyed the program and thought they came across well.

I'm in Showa 451 when it's wet, they don't keep the water out but decent thermal performance stops them being too cold. They are fine for climbing and saw use so not sure on your machine.

I think grit is the enemy with rock climbing, not such a problem for us in the trees.

Sometimes they need a clean - took down a couple of Scots pine in a garden where the lady kept chickens around the base, it rained and that turned the ground into clay and chicken shit soup. I bought some Beal rope cleaner and brush, soaked it in the bath at 30C per instructions. Made it better but never really got rid of the smell from the rope. As I remember the rope manufacturer said not to put in washing machine, that was a Marlow rope.

I have just bought a pair of Haix as an alternative to Airstream so will see how that works out. Now I look at it, these ones don't have Vibram soles but the more expensive Haix boots do. Think the Pfanner Tirol are the most old school around.

I had a customer ask the council when I suggested a Saturday to take down a tree, the answer he got was there isn't actually a rule for tree work but we suggest you follow the construction site noise rules which are basically as Kevin says above. Had to find a weekday because they didn't want to upset anyone. Personally I'll go for 8 on a Saturday, but wouldn't fire up chipper before 9 on a Sunday.

That's really intriguing, inner edge of blue looks to me like inside of sapwood but I wonder if some other mould or fungus working in there?

I've managed to break the cycle a couple of times by offering complete removal for the same money as cutting in half. Far rather take the whole thing out by felling from the ground than clamber around the top, even if there is more chip.

As others said there is so much on YouTube now it's amazing. I picked up bass a few years ago for our pub band having been a mediocre guitarist since a teenager, I spent a lot of time watching this bloke Paul at how-to-play-bass.com He built his site having taught someone to play using a series of 50 songs which get gradually harder, it's a good method in my opinion too. Play songs not scales, you learn scales and stuff along the way but no point obsessing. Depends what sort of music you want to play too. Most important thing is have fun.

Sounds like a result all round.

Maybe mount the crane on a pickup and then keep full payload in trailer? Obviously need a long boom.

I knocked the saw insurance on the head, it was going to cost about one saw per year and there's a £500 excess anyway. Trailer and chipper though just have to grin and bear it.

It's the number of keys that pees me off, especially when I lose a bunch in some trouser pocket or put down somewhere.

I'm using pragmasis, above 16mm at least they won't be able to use bolt cutters like my old one which pinged off in maybe 2 seconds. 19mm or 22mm bar takes longer to cut through, hopefully twice to get a link open. https://securityforbikes.com/security-chains.php I realise it's not totally proof against the grinder, they can after all cut the gate apart around it. Still one of the layers though.

If you're thinking of investing then get on and do it, few weeks ago I had lock broken on my gate and landrover window smashed. I had a high security chain on order at the time, sadly the one actually on the gate at the time lasted about 10 seconds. Wish I'd ordered it when I first thought, but you can't turn back the clock. Luckily they left without taking anything, and I've since moved the vehicle and invested in more security.

There is a sort of laburnum quality to the bark colouring but that would be a garden tree, the canker still makes it interesting. If you can see black buds in opposite pairs on the twigs then good clue it's ash.

And then at 12.5k didn't sell well so they got discontinued?

You need my box of Echo oil.

I think to be honest most people probably start using something and then don't change because they have no problems. I've been given a load of Echo 2 stroke oil by a neighbour, don't know what to do with it as I don't really want to risk it in my saws. I'm also working on assumptions, some of the Stihl literature is contradictory but the ultra is fully synthetic and stated to be lower ash than the super which is semi synthetic. It doesn't make sense to me that the super would have stabiliser but not the ultra, but like I said I've found it hard to get details. I think I've read somewhere to not mix more than you'll use in a month but I haven't found it to be too critical, some of my bigger saws sit longer than that between uses. I keep all saw tanks full because it reduces the chance of evaporation from the fuel, and any moisture being absorbed (it does say to do this in the Stihl saw manuals). I also buy super petrol because the E10 is more likely to absorb water and separate. So far my saws are all good, so I carry on like that but I can't really tell you which of the things I do are essential. If you are going to be regularly leaving petrol longer and going stale is a worry then maybe you should just start on Motomix, this has ultra oil and shelf life measured in years.

I can tip logs free, they get chipped up in bulk for biomass.

HP ultra is higher spec than the super, it also has the stabiliser in so I don't think there's any advantage to super apart from price. Personally I run the ultra, performance and lifetime of the saws is better in theory although it's not easy to get any details behind that from Stihl literature. Given that a litre of oil mixes with 50 of petrol and I've just paid £1.60 a litre for super I don't think the ultra is that much more expensive to run.

Thanks for the replies, Jones reckon they have a pair of Trekker Mountain in 13 so I think I'll give them a punt. Stock very patchy in all boots when you really start looking.

Bit of a thread bump but I have been looking at these Haix boots and I can't work out which ones are better for climbing - they all seem to say protection for forestry and outdoor workers?