5thelement
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You may not set any world records but probably won’t be expected too either. Practice, patience and good technique is the main requirement. The development of equipment used in the modern Arb industry has made it easier than ever to learn how to climb whatever you age or experience. It has also extended the careers of many of us who have been doing it for a good while.
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I trained a 60+ gentleman a few years back, he had no experience whatsoever. The rest of the group where young guys, some where Gym buddies and physically strong. By the the end of the week the older guy was by far the best climber in the group. Why? Because he paid attention, listened to the more experienced guy and applied himself to it, no YouTube or Google was required.
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Bought the missus a great pair of Pffanner chainsaw pants and matching red chainsaw wellies for Christmas last year, she looks great in them and doesn’t realise how hard it was for me to source them in such small sizes, I’m still in the dog house.
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I had a Berlingo for years, very economical and reliable, unfortunately it’s will loose traction on the slightest wet incline. I used it when cutting on sites with hard woodland tracks. I now have a Defender 90 for all year round access. A 4x4 is essential unless you work with someone who will take your gear in, or you will be humping gear to the cutting site, even harder to hump it all out again after a day on the saw. You could buy an older Jimny and put some off road tyres on, relatively cheap to purchase and run, they will go just about anywhere.
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I dodged one for years purely on it making you look like a c**t. I finally gave in and it has turned out to be worth every penny. No issues with ear defenders falling off like some have reported, really comfortable, you just need to adjust it properly to fit.
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Get a new one and use that one for Brushcutter, Strimmer, Hedgcutting etc, anything that doesn’t risk heavy impact.
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Total shitbags the lot of them. They are currently hatching a plan to lockdown/circuit breaker over Christmas or New Year and are laughing in our faces whilst doing it. If the UK population tows the line on whatever measures they put in place this time, after seeing the way they are behaving privately, I will be flabbergasted. Saying that, with all the made up fear being peddled around that seems to make grown men cower at their own shadows, nothing would surprise me.
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They will be available to the public in 55 years.
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I saw one on fleabay a while back that had been retrofitted with 4 pneumatic tyres, the description claimed it made the mobility of the machine far easier. Given the weight of the cumbersome lump I think they where probably right.
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What does it do except make the saw louder?
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And don’t forget the obligatory ’Bark box’.
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It can be done, it’s just a faff to do so. You can get a .325 sprocket with a different spline size, then get an adapter for the larger Husky mount to allow a .325 bar to be fitted. When I looked around, the only combination I could find was an expensive Cannon bar in .325 with an adapter to allow it to fit the Husky.
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You can put a .325 sprocket on but will struggle to find a .325 pitch guide bar carrying the correct Husky mount to match it all up, e.g the 560 bar won’t fit. You can get bar mount adapters from Rob D at Chainsawbars. co.uk to make it all compatible. Fit a semi chisel chain first and see how you get on.
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This is a genuine image from the Conservatives own site. He makes the cop out of The Simpsons look athletic, talk about the “Fat Blue Line”, he’s like an egg on legs!
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I’m offering you good advice to prevent you being injured, take it or leave it.
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If I was you I would go out with an experienced arborist and learn some techniques and applications for different cutting methods rather than taking a few pointers on an arb forum and jumping to your own conclusions on what the purpose of the inboard/outboard cuts ‘lark’ is all about, as you clearly haven’t a clue.
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I will definitely do a full scribe at some point, even if it’s on a micro scale, just for kicks. The guys I knew who went to Devon where dealing with timbers that needed offering up with a telehandler, Canadian style cabins, very, very nice. They bought woodland in Bulgaria and never came back, one of them was on the run from a Glaswegian gangland mob though!
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If I owned a saw mill I would certainly be going down the timber framing route rather than log scribing, especially having access to decent saw log. I think theres potentially a reasonable sized market for pre made/self assembly framing kits.
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The best we can hope is that the screws are vigilant enough to prevent them committing suicide and let the inmates serve real justice for the boy.
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A long way off but there was a guy in Devon that used to run week long courses in full timber scribed cabin builds. Accommodation on his farm and as much Cider as you could drink. A couple of guys I know attended one and really rated it, they went on to buy a Black Pine block in Bulgaria and developed a holiday cabin complex, never saw them again.
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I was informed today that there is up to a million tonnes of wind blown crop at Keilder Forest.
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I have cut old sleepers for landscaping jobs/retaining wall plenty of times. They can be a surprising variety of timber species, ranging anywhere from Oak to exotic rainforest growth. I usually scraped the surface first to remove any large lumps of bitumen/stones then cut with a combination of chainsaw with tungsten carbide teeth (Stihl Duro) or large chop saw for neater joints/corners. They are still hard on the cutters and I suspect it would ruin a bandsaw blade per mantle, if not quicker.
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Those 4x4 type pulleys are designed for winching your Ranger out of a ditch, leave them alone. The swing cheek one in Mick’s image with the swivel hook is the way forward, I use them often, just compare both of them in your hand and you can feel the wight/build difference. Just check the compatibility of the block with your steel rope diameter. ‘Ace’ brand are made in Birmingham, they do a good snatch block, they are on Ebay and have a direct website.
