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Never tried it tbh. If I have some spare time I will give it a go on some old climbing rope (as I don't have a condemned rigging rope to hand). Might even try and cut it with my 200t if I fancy having an accident 😂

I'm confused... Just for reference I have never cut myself with a saw, got caught up in my rigging, had any rigging or anchors snap or had any real "accidents" in general minus the usual silky cuts and general bruises. That doesn't mean however I'm going to remove my rescue knife that's tucked into the harness in a position that it never crosses my mind? There's a reason some companies and all training companies require you have one on your harness... No amount of planning and training has ever stopped all accidents

Well, that's all very well and good until something snaps, a redirect breaks, a rigging point breaks. The saw shouldn't be in a position where you get hit, doesn't mean I don't have a first aid pack. You shouldn't be in a position in a tree where you end up injured and unconscious, still have a rescue climber... Best laid plans of mice and men and all that

Well, That's the preference. I'm on about the point where the saw is off, the branch is free and falling and it's hooped around you or something. I know for sure I would drop the saw on the lanyard. I can easily reach back and grab the knife which is held on with a carab on a cheapo cable tie so I can pull it off when needed. Rather have it than not

Those fuel mixing bottles leak like sieves! Leave it in the aspen bottle and it won't be an issue. If you want to get a can then I suggest the Stihl ones. They are very good quality, not heard the same about the husky cans

Yea I 100% agree for the device, I think it would work a treat, especially if climbing srt like you say. If he has fallen and the arrest tether has popped then the tether is for the bin anyway. Cutting the strap isn't going to effect anything. You can still re-use the ASAP (although I'm not sure what the manual says about re-using gear that's experienced a fall) just have to buy a new strap which you would have to do anyway as once their popped, in the words of Bridgerton- "She's all loose and ruined". I'd be curious how you would rescue a climber by climbing the 8ft above them and releasing the ASAP that is loaded with their weight whilst simultaneously having a bridge to bridge and supporting them on your climb line? IMO you would either cut the strap or just undo the carabiner from the harness? I wouldn't cut the rope that the asap is on especially as I would have to climb past the ASAP to do it. If you're assigned rescuer or even climbing anyway I think you would be mad not to carry a knife, I have a petzl spatha next to the first aid kit on my treemotion. If a crotch breaks on a rigging line and it gets caught on your leg or wrapped around you I would much rather cut it free with a knife in a second than trying to hack at it with a silky.

This is what I'm saying though, a fall from 250mm above your anchor on 250mm of rope (A fall of 500mm) is a fall factor of 2 although the guy would come to a stop from 3.13m/s. A fall of 40M on a static line is supposedly a fall factor of 1 although the guy would be doing 28m/s when he comes to a stop. Static lines aren't like hitting a pavement but they sure as hell aren't like hitting a mattress. If fall factors worked for this industry then a 40M fall would be half as bad as the 500mm fall?

only way to test that sort of thing is to fill the system up, bleed as required, top the reservoir up to overflowing and then do a coolant system pressure check with a pump gauge. Be interested to know how he gets on. It's the M9R engines in those iirc, same as nissan xtrails and they have a habbit of sipping coolant

I don't think fall factors can actually apply to this industry in a realistic, useful way. Fall factors are only really applicable for a fall from above an anchor which is never (unless you're doing something profoundly dumb) something we come across. Our maximum fall is 0.5m which means that our fall factor is always tiny and it's not something we can actively change. Considering we never climb above anchors our worst fall can only really ever be the length of the rope or a fall factor of 1. That being said, if you fall from an anchor point 0.5m and stop then you fall 10m and stop, both fall factors are the same but you're ****************ed after a 10m drop onto static line You are also able to have a fall factor of over 2 in rock climbing. If a climber is say 3m above the belayer who is anchored on a ledge and falls, the belayer could panic and pull rope in. The climber then falls past the belayer which means he's fallen 5.5m on 2.5 meters of rope giving a fall factor of 2.2. Unrelated but still... Only reason I say this is because it's all well and good to know about fall factors but when using climbing kit the loading matters not the fall factor as we have no springs in our systems like dynamic rope so a 14ft fall is a lot more brutal than a 3 foot fall as we don't gain a 14ft spring to help us. Lets take a bad day example= A treemotion harness can handle 150kg maximum weight (good effort getting in the tree but for example sake) if they both climbed 250mm above their anchor then they would both get a fall factor of two The guy on a dynamic rope would experience 33.75kN and the guy on dynamic would experience 16.87kN Same factor fall, big difference in factor ouch.

I noticed that it's missing from the CS30 course. Start from cold, check chain brake is working, rev the tits off it and check for oil sling, make sure chain isn't running on at idle, turn off to check off switch function. There's no bit of "just gently rev it to 1/4-1/2 throttle for 30 seconds or so just to get a little heat in there....

Depends on your helmet I suppose. would be useless for any of the Protos ones or ones with a filling. Better off with it on your harness. You could end up in the tree without a helmet if it gets taken off on impact or you get caught up and undo your chin strap but if you're in the tree without a harness you're probably not in the tree anymore. Other issue I could see is fumbling up pulling it out your helmet and then dropping it, you're f'd then...

Stuck up a few mm like you say. Not as bad as people who fit them upside down which I have seen on ebay before!

there's no leaks anywhere onto the ground? You sure it hasn't been dropping over time and your daughter hasn't been regularly checking so didn't notice? For a start, check the oil level, make sure coolant hasn't got in. I'm 99% sure that the oil cooler is cooled by the coolant on these. They take 6.5L of coolant so it has to have gone somewhere. The old italian tune up can point out weak links in a system. Bit like people who slate holts radiator flush because it gave them a headgasket leak, if your head gasket was in good nick it wouldn't have been broken by some radiator flush!

Got to watch what people are pulling on ebay. I just saw this one for £400. It's covered in non genuine parts (look at the switches and trigger etc) and has the logo and numbers drawn on with a permanent pen? 😂 Apparently its been completely rebuilt but the piston and cylinder has no scores? Which sounds like it's not been rebuilt but just dipped in degreaser... Stihl MS200T Petrol Top Handle Chainsaw - New 14” Oregon Bar & Chain WWW.EBAY.CO.UK New Oregon 14” bar & chain. New chain brake cover. New chain catcher. New crankcase and head gasket. New impulse line.

I'd be interested to know the outcome. I've never returned something on a private sale!

This is the risk of eBay, "starting brilliant" to one person is different to "starting brilliant" to a mechanic or someone who knows their stuff!

Maybe just do a few days for free for a random company and see how it goes? If you live up to their expectations in speed etc then you're away. I've been on jobs before with climbers who have charged good money, turned up with blunt saws, left massive stubs in the tree so rigging is a pain in the ass and you spend the whole time on the ground waiting for them to stop f'ing about after you've cleared away the branch they just dropped. I guess that kind of blew the image of super fast Spiderman climbers out the window. It would at least give you a couple of days of experience so you have a good idea of what you're doing. Being a groundie isn't rocket surgery and being a climber on small jobs isn't brain science either!

That's not too bad... Mine came missing the starter unit and all sorts. Shit happens and you overpaid a little for what you got but oh well! Chances are the seller may not have known anything about chainsaw mechanics and thought that because it was old it was a bit slow to start and that's just what it is. You often find people like that don't inspect or service their gear properly so things get missed, engines run lean, fuel filters get plugged etc etc which would explain the damage. Give it a good clean, strip it right down (leave the crankcase together) and stick a new head/piston on it and give it a good vacuum test with the intake boot fitted and go from there. No leaks, no worries. Rebuild the carb with a genuine Zama kit and you should have a pretty bulletproof machine

Whilst I agree with the rescue issue, when doing the cs38 rescue portion the training was (at least in my case) based on the climbers gear being cut/unsafe so you would transition the casualty into your gear by a bridge to bridge and tying an alpine butterfly into the static side of your ddrt or using a prussic to do the same then clipping them into that so you can take the casualty weight up on your gear and disconnecting the casualty from their kit completely or in reality cut it away so it shouldn't make too much difference?

Can't help with the rest but on the first aid kit front, you can very easily use an Israeli as a tourniquet, you can also utilise ropes, slings etc in the tree to make one. Personally I would leave out the tourniquet and substitute for celox gauze or another clotting gauze!

On the front of sending it back, how much did you pay? I paid £113 for a non runner pos that was destroyed 😂. The pulling into place at tdc, you sure that's not the magnet on the flywheel pulling on the coil?

It's dead Jim! If you replace it I highly recommend going OEM, especially if you want it for future use!

That seems a bit silly if that's what they are worried about. The force generated during a fall is going to be the same be it a petzl asap, grigri or a hitch. Or are they saying that the asap creates more force as it drops a little bit before it locks in? Which would be deminished by the shock absorber system? I take it somewhere in the asap manual it says that the anchor point must be rated to 5kn and that's the issue?

That's true, does mean assuming you take no holidays or sick days and no working days off you pull in £574 a day which isn't unbelievable as a turn over but... I wouldn't be asking for current rates or building a better business plan if I was pulling that in 😂

Yes flat rate! I wish I turned over more than 150k a year 😂