5thelement
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Have you got evidence of this as it’s certainly not my experience?
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As tree_beard has already stated, they are a left over from the days of pre chain brake saws. They would be the only protection between the left hand and the moving chain. Most gloves are rated to 16m/s, all of my saws exceed this chain speed. The reason these gloves are still on the market is because no one at HSE has the guts to pull the plug, and if they did, you can bet that the first incident where the back of the left hand is cut by the saw would lead to litigation.
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Just had a quick look through it, I will have a proper read tomorrow. Looks like a well developed and very useful app for forestry workers.
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Just looks like FISA are updating the way they conduct their training. Who does FISA training anyway?
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Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
5thelement replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
Arbol del Tule, Taxodium mucronatum (Oaxaca, Mexico). The largest tree that I have had the pleasure to witness first hand. It is estimated to weigh in excess of 630 tonnes and be at least 2000 years old. It also has the largest circumference of any tree on the planet. The insect noise and birdsong in this tree was deafening.- 398 replies
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There are lot more than you think!
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I would certainly be doing a Dogs Tooth Cut over a ‘V’ cut in Sycamore. If you don’t cut the ‘V’ cut at the correct angles you get limited control over the direction.
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Kingswood Training in Kent run the LANTRA one day Basic Tree Inspection course for the novices doing the 8 week course, CS30/31/38/39. It is really useful to them at that level, but with the level of experience you have @richyrich,you will learn zilch.
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The ‘V’ cut is taught in the basic CS31, for use in small diameter timber, under 8”. The Scandinavians use it to fell larger, heavy leaning trees, especially when the temperature is -20’s and hinges don’t function as well as usual. It should look like an equilateral triangle when cut right.
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That’s the ripple.
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My mate has turned two into personal hot tubs, neatly housed in red cedar boxes, Japanese style. One inside and one in the garden, both heated from his woodburner.
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I modified a socket from an old set and put it on an impact gun, works a treat without putting too much load on the clutch, just remember not to depress the decomp button.
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Stihl suggest a ratio of 4 chains to two sprockets to one guidebar. I am pretty meticulous on maintenance and check the sprockets regularly as the wear tolerance is only 0.5mm, you can check the Stihl ones with a little gadget they sell (pretty inexpensive) the Oregon Powerwmate ones have black lines running across them, they are ‘witness’ marks, when they start to disappear, change the sprocket. I use Supertack Bio oil from Clark Forest, have done for years, no problems over mineral.
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I had a pair of Haix Protector Extremes that the soles started to crumble apart on in a matter of weeks, they looked like I had been standing in embers. They asked me to take a picture of the tongue with the manufacturing code. I expected them to ask for them back but they just issued a new pair, it worked out well as I ordered the replacements a half size smaller and kept the others for general workshop work. Just tuck the tongues inside the boot and take the photo, job done.
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Above wall privacy trees
5thelement replied to Emma110871's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
A couple of Olive trees, evergreen and easy to create the shape that you want with secateurs. -
A lot of firewood buyers in the South East are grading Ash with ADB before buying. Any timber with signs of rot and discolouration is being separated into chip stacks for biomass, clean wood for firewood. They are finding that a lot of the timber with rot/discolouration is shattering under the pressure from the ram/ splitter in a firewood processor and creating firewood like rubble that they cannot sell.
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It is Walnut. Usually it needs to be bigger to have the decent heartwood colour that is so desirable, worth it if the price is good, it could be better than it looks.
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All the French ex-pats are hoarding if it up.
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It’s Europe’s hardest wood, they use it for knife scales in one of the factories South of me, dense and silky smooth in the hand. It comes a lot bigger than that too. I removed an 150 year old hedge in West Sussex a couple of years back, four to six inch diameter. I’ve seen it growing near me getting on for eight inches, it’s certainly the biggest that I have come across. It can be a pig to dry and quite often splits itself straight down the middle.
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You can stack most wedges if the profile is right. If I think I may need to start stacking wedges I usually just put a line up before I even start the cut and winch it over. I have not heard that familiar sound of someone pounding steel wedges in for at least 15 years.
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I have Bolle hi lifts that do a far better job than any other wedge that I have used, including steel, personal preference I suppose. If your steel wedges are only 14 degrees, that would mean that you would have to drive it in 8 inches to open up the kerf 1 inch, which wouldn’t finish many of my trees off.
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What are intending to use them for? If felling, forget it and use plastics/hi lifts, the steel wedges weigh a tonne. I use Brades steel wedges for cleaving Sweet Chestnut and Oak post and rail, proper British steel and you can pick them up in decent nick fo £15 each on flea bay, they will last you years if you look after them. The picture attached is of two 8” Brades, the length is stamped on the wedge, and width is indicated with the tape.
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You forgot the Greeks and the Romans, what did the Romans ever do for us?
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Sad to hear about the death of Marvellous Marvin Hagler at the age of 66. I remember watching him fight for the first time in a holiday caravan in Towyn, on a black and white TV. He destroyed Alan Minter and went in to be my favourite boxer, there are not many that came after can compare.
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Braken Spraying - Asulam
5thelement replied to Old Roots New Shoots's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Marcus Spurway (Forestry) has the credentials and works all over Kent/Sussex, I haven’t got his details to hand, try googling him.
