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Google "heated footbeds" I got some for the wife a good few years ago to put in her ski boots on the coldest days, she hardly ever complains any more. Some designs are built to last for Arctic expeditions and the like, so they work if you get the right ones.

Yeah, doesn’t look as cool though... like some steampunk mechanical arthropod... Give it another ten years and you’ll have a device that looks a bit like this, but it scurries up into the tree on its own and anchors itself automatically.

Probably the accent.

You joke, but all migratory game birds will be forced to go through stricter border checks come April next year. Most hunting seasons are expected to be pushed back by at least four or five months.

Climate change.

Aside from season 4 of Blackadder being some of the best telly ever made, this particular scene is the second-most emotionally-charged moment in comedy television history (just behind Fry’s dog waiting for him in Futurama episode Jurassic Bark).

" Weighing just 5.4kg including bar & chain " Seems a little light, can't help but wonder what they've left out...

They now operate under the name Treehouse, same instructors but the owner sold on the business at the end of last year. My class of four were some of the last students Kingswood had! I'd happily recommend them, whatever name they choose to use. Best of luck, Jack, with the career change and the new family. I'm currently ten days deep with our second baby. Just wait until they can hug properly and laugh and everything, it's rad.

Hey dude, I've got three replies back, one saying they are out of stock but could order one in, one saying they are out of stock but they are on the waiting list from Husky France to get some of their very limited supply, and one saying they have stock, order away. Here's the Google translated version of the reply from the ones who said they are on the waiting list: Hello; For information, the 346XP is a machine whose official marketing by Husqvarna France ceased in 2011. It no longer meets the standards in force for professionals or for use in classified forest areas. However this machine is still manufactured for some markets in the world Husqvarna France sometimes happens to have a few dozen. That's what happened in the last two years, and hopefully it's going to happen again in 2018. We do not have one at the moment, but we are registering on our waiting list for this machine. ... Wishing you a good reception, and waiting for your return; Cordially. The guys who say they have some in stock are Lambin https://www.lambin.fr/tronconneuse/tronconneuse-thermique-professionnelle/1676-tronconneuse-thermique-professionnelle-husqvarna-346xp-45sn.html Saw and three chains for 589 euro...

That’s a bit unfair, really... you are just as likely to find an insular, suspicious, and inward-looking Brit in England as you are a Frenchman in France, under the same circumstances. You get unhelpful assholes in every country on Earth, the same as you get true blue superstars of human beings everywhere as well. Well, except Paris, of course.

I wouldn't have thought so, as soon as your weight is off the rope even slightly, the bungee wrapped around the uphill strand of the anchor relaxes a little and lets a few centimeters through... and you get around 50cm of wiggle room. I'm not sure how long a branch walk you could get out of that.

If you like the idea of trusting your life to a fiddlestick, you'll love these two... canyoneers have also been known to lay a tarp flat on the stream bed at the top of their rappel, secure the tagline to the center of the tarp, cover it with gravel and sand, then gather the four corners and tie their rope to that, then rappel as normal. Once everyone has rappeled, you pull the tagline, the center of the tarp is disturbed, all the gravel and sand falls out of the sides, and the whole lot follows you down. It works, sure, but... no thanks. A much better idea, released recently, is the Beal Escaper... it works on a system that releases your climbing rope after a series of tugs, so the constant weight of a body whilst rappeling doesn't bother it, but once everyone is down, pulling on it a dozen times releases the grab incrementally, until it feeds through your anchor and follows you. Genius stuff. https://www.climbing.com/gear/review-beal-escaper/ And yeah, having a background in rock climbing and mountaineering, I have to say the size and weight of arb gear is reassuring, to say the least... hopping around at a height of 20m on a 13mm cord is nothing after spending a big chunk of my life on 8mm string with a thousand meters of granite, ice, and air beneath your feet. I definitely need to learn a bit more about the relative strength of the tree, though!

Canyoneers, an inherently weird bunch of people who are known for some pretty odd rope practices (and to a lesser extent, rock climbers and mountaineers), have a device called a "fiddlestick", you can buy purpose-built ones or knock something up yourself at home similar to jfc's piece there. You use them so you can abseil down the whole length of your rope, instead of only being able to descend half of its length with the rope doubled over, and then give a single sharp pull on a much thinner, lighter strand of abseil cord or tagline, which works the stick free from your anchor knot and sends everything (hopefully) crashing down on top of you, without having to haul the rope down constantly. You've just got to be careful you don't bounce around too much or accidentally snag the tagline on your way down, otherwise your knot might undo itself a bit too early, and your descent is markedly faster than intended. Scary stuff! Anyway, I was wondering if a "fid" and a "fiddlestick" shared any etymological history, but sailing doesn't really seem like an activity where you'd want knots suddenly coming undone at the slightest tug... http://www.canyoneeringusa.com/techtips/fiddlestick/ edit: in the photo below, the carabiner is left in place for everyone except the last person to rappel as a failsafe, and the final person takes it with them, leaving only the stick.

Very useful reply, cheers.

Okay, so here's the thing dudes. Prompted by the thread asking if anyone is in France (where I am now, for the next three weeks), I've just been looking for prices for 550xp and 346xp online, it seems there's a whole stack of 346xp still available brand new, if anyone is so inclined. With just a bit of searching, I've found 346xp for 589 euro, 599 euro, 619 euro, that kind of thing, which works out at around 520 to 540 sterling. 550xp mostly go for around 615 sterling, with one ballsy outfit asking for 700. In Ireland (where I will be in three weeks time), a 550xp will set you back around 625 sterling. But FR Jones (first hit, not bothered looking for any other prices, does anyone know of any cheaper off the top of their heads?) are selling 550xp for just 465 sterling. I've been reading what a load of other bods on other forums (there are others?!) have to say about the differences between the two saws, and it seems that although both are great tools, the people who prefer the 346xp seem to do so only out of a sense of nostalgia, or if they actively don't like the new-fangled electronic side of the saw, and it's only when they've been ported that they are a demonstrably better bit of kit. Off the shelf, people tend to think that they are effectively the same saw... just that one has fewer bells and whistles. I can get a £520 346xp delivered straight to my door in a few days time, whereas a £465 550xp won't be with me until mid-January (don't ask why). Discounting the time difference, why should I pay fifty quid more for a saw that doesn't have that fancy new computer? Why should I pay more to keep alive your memories of a favourite saw from the past? (I mean that in the nicest way possible, of course, I'm genuinely curious.)

I've just been having a bit of a rummage around, I've got these two links for you: https://www.lambin.fr/tronconneuse/tronconneuse-thermique-professionnelle/1676-tronconneuse-thermique-professionnelle-husqvarna-346xp-45sn.html https://www.jardiforet.com/tronconneuse-husqvarna-346xp.html And I've emailed three other dealers to check if they still have stock, if they reply with any decent info I'll pass it on!

I’m over in France, but only for another three weeks, then we are leaving the country. And I’m afraid I barely even have time to wipe my own arse at the moment, as we’ve just brought a brand-new tiny baby back from the hospital, so chainsaw shopping is pretty low down on my list. Sorry I can’t help.

A few seconds of Facepage stalking suggests Little Sutton Road, Sutton Coldfield. These trees, to be exact: 52°35'11.2"N 1°48'25.9"W

Idverde, according to social media. Blower Man knew exactly what he was doing though, he wasn’t just pushing leaves around mid-fell, he was getting ready to blow the explosion of shards and splinters away from the moving traffic. Safety first.

Cheers dudes, solid knowledge.

In France? Is it the sort of thing you’d be taught as a matter of course getting your French saw tickets? And I guess it’s more of a CS32 thing in the UK, as no one mentioned anything like it for my 31. It would definitely have to be used for something other than the size of the bar, as I’ve seen it on the stumps of some tall-but-skinny larch and spruce, no fatter than 40cm. (There’s some absolute horrors of a hinge on a few others, I’ll post a couple on the Rate My Hinge thread...)

Makes perfect sense, cheers dudes.

Convince around 170 of your fittest cycling friends to hang around on a load of dynamo bikes all day, and you’ve got enough power to run a Timberwolf 280. Pedal-powered wood chipper. Not sure how you’d price that in a quote.

Hi, Question from an FNG here, I’ve seen this on a few stumps whilst walking around my local forest, and I was about to take some pictures and start a new thread to ask about it, but your photo illustrates it perfectly. I see you’ve cut out the center of the hinge (with a bore cut from inside the gob?), can I ask what that cut is called and what kind of situation you’d use it in? Many thanks for any knowledge you can share.

Labradors are nothing but a stomach on legs with life support systems. They eat as fast as they do because their taste buds are in their anus. That said, they are among the most noble and loyal of breeds.