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50% more power, but out of the box it will be set up for longer bars with more cutters in the wood, where more torque is needed. I imagine a larger sprocket, one or two teeth up, would be required to get the chain speed where you'd see the power for smaller stuff.

I dont have a before pic, but a reasonable spreading conifer with thick ivy up the main and dead right stem. Interesting as it had a big hazard beam crack on the furthest spreading left stem, I wanted to get a decent amount of weight off that before I tied in. Mostly an easy drop zone, spear cut all the rear brush as nothing important behind. The new Meteor cyl kit is working well! I had some issue with it bogging but each time the air filter was clogged and had to bang it clean. There was a very dusty dead stem but seemed to clog excessively fast. Long steep garden on this and I wouldnt have wanted to be a groundie, perhaps should have cut them smaller! Cutting the low stump was exhausting at the end. Jobs like this I would like a 3120XP as it should be 50% quicker cutting the big bits.

A bit of hedge trimming. Used the Makita UH006.

Would you have a carb for a CS340/CS380 in there? Or a rebuild kit? I replaced the leaky accelerator pump O ring but when reassembled its leaking fuel somewhere.

The split is past saving. The subsequent photos show soil/rot/fungus/included bark in the split, so its unlikely to callous up nicely whatever you do - it is destined to be a rot pocket/habitat.

Cut off the ripped limb to minimise the bark peeling off, as that will only make it worse. Theres not much you can do for rot, perhaps get as much of the soil out as you can. Looks like a very substantial part of the tree ripped out. Do you have a photo of the rest? Apple trees are very commonly in bad shape, most I have seen are rotten.

Not since my inherited graphite spray can lost its propellant. I also have a huge tub of Rocol Moly disulphide tho I wouldnt put that on or near climbing kit, just incase it reacts in some unexpected way.

I disagree it doesnt take much dirt to gum up a carabiner. A mate had a new DMM triple lock that wasnt closing, a squirt of oil instantly fixed it, but it was sent back only because it was new he couldnt trust it. Rinse after as washing up and soap can leave a salt residue and fast corrosion. A squirt or drop of oil is a good thing. Not wd40 but a light machine oil/sewing machine oil/hair clipper oil. I have a compressor but havent turned it on in years. Its buried behind chainsaw stuff in the small standing gap between the lathe.

Looks to have been freshly cut, revealing the inner brown. They are only green where they recieve adequate sunlight and the brown leaf has died off. Leylandii is quite slow to recover but will eventually go green, if it doesnt die off. Its not an ideal hedge tree.

Theres no grown men here, we are tree surgeons.

Generally things are only banned if they become a nuisance. Use the correct gear and dont fall is the answer to that one. Anyway some other suggestions are cricket/golf clubs tho they can be somewhat public. My training and tickets were done at a cricket ground in a small village. They gained some light pruning of the trees and a dead birch felled.

Recreational climbing is a recreation, no difference really to running or riding a bike around a park, the latter is frowned apon if its a busy public area, at the back of my local park has mountain bike trails. You wouldnt want to come across a pair of elderly walkers whilst bombing down a trail, but if you knock somone over in a predomantly pedestrian area - you'd get the book thrown at you. So the back of a publc woodland is quite acceptable. Chance of seeing anyone else is slim, just be sensible about it, be aware of people around you. My first 7 trees were frends and neighbours and removed them, one was a bit of a hazard tree so had help/reassurance with it. Also was November so doing it in the dark after work to make it more interesting. However they were all fairly basic trees. Theres a lot of parks where the grass around trees is kept long, up to knee or hip level thick grass. People and dog walkers will stick to the path. Those trees are ideal for climbing.

Local park woodland, might be hard to find a decent tree for limb walks thats away from paths and busy areas. No saws etc just climbing kit, no one had any issue with it. The park was a conservation area. Never asked permission - leave it tidy and no damage, no spikes and be aware of people nearby. A few roaming walkers didnt look up, didnt see me, and started nosing through what they thought was an abandoned bag until I shouted down ! I'd suggest taking any excess kit in a backpack and bring your rope up well out of reach, if your on your own. A friend owns a large oak so I was playing on that, and it needed deadwooding, so I dropped that for her whilst I was in there. I would not climb any trees overlooking houses or gardens without permission, sadly most of the decent oaks in my area are in residential green spaces. Or drive until you see a nice domestic garden oak. I dare say most owners might allow it if asked nicely and you can inspect/deadwood/light prune for them if they want it.

That was quick! Ordered Sunday from Amazon Japan. Should make the long reach hedger feel about 500g- 1.1kg lighter depending what size battery I use.