Bendroctanus
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- Springfield
Gas and oil on your belt?
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Shadowscape
Been here a while
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- far north
I often keep gas and oil on my harness. Throw away plastic water bottles with each, in water bottle holders.
Yep, but I use ~1 liter MSR fuel bottles with slings and mini-biners to clip it to my saddle, or felling belt. That way if I'm working way down slope (somewhat often in the steep areas I live around) I've got a few extra tanks of gas and oil with me, instead of having to carry around my larger gas/oil jugs that live in the truck.
Bendroctanus
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That’s genius. I may have to look into that.
Here is how mine are setup. Obviously red is gas, silver is oil. Paracord choked and taped in place, mini-biner on the loop to hang at what I found to be a comfortable level. The important part is the caps, with these little snap/swivel things, I can unscrew the caps in the tree while keeping them tethered so I CANT DROP THEM in the tree, but also allows me to unclip the cap-tether if I'm working on the ground, which makes them easier to take on and off when that isn't a concern.
Mick Dempsey
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- France
That is hardcore.
Bendroctanus
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- Springfield
I really like that. Very well thought through. I don’t run into that much anymore but I think it’d be good to have in the tool box. Thanks for sharing.
Muggs
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Canuckistan
That's a great setup. I've had a red MSR bottle kicking around for over 20 years that I've never used, might devote it to this. Seems like a smaller bottle would be plenty for bar oil.....
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Winchman
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- Southwest Georgia
Not exactly where I wanted it, but it'll do.
With that out of the way, I was able get a line to higher TIP to remove a third limb from the side of the tree toward the neighbor's house. So that's tomorrow's project.
I use cat litter buckets to store my ropes, and they weren't quite deep enough. So I cut a third bucket in half to make both buckets deeper by adding the donor top to one and the donor bottom to the other.
With that out of the way, I was able get a line to higher TIP to remove a third limb from the side of the tree toward the neighbor's house. So that's tomorrow's project.
I use cat litter buckets to store my ropes, and they weren't quite deep enough. So I cut a third bucket in half to make both buckets deeper by adding the donor top to one and the donor bottom to the other.
That’s an interesting variety of work for a day!
Winchman
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- Southwest Georgia
Speedline for the win.
I got it cleaned up by lunchtime, and I'm actually looking forward to a couple days of much-needed rain.
I got it cleaned up by lunchtime, and I'm actually looking forward to a couple days of much-needed rain.
More than a day there. Did the curly cue pine with the rainbow today, branch end reduction in a red oak last week. The sgr is from a month or so ago
LOL! Ok, so you did read the title of the thread?
Work photos?
Shadowscape
Been here a while
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- far north
I believe he thinks he is in the "Today" thread. Too many threads of pretty much all the same thing. Work photos, Today, Views, ... Easy mistake.
Oh man. I thought I was in the thread ‘Today’. Guess I went through the alerts too quickly! My bad.
Winchman
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- Southwest Georgia
With all the trees nearby I wanted to be sure the top wasn't going to hit anything that would deflect it toward the neighbor's house. I got a rope around what looked like a strong enough part way up, and rigged a 2:1 ma setup on the base of the tree with a rope leading to my truck. That worked perfectly to snap off sixteen feet which fell close to the tree.
A broken branch high up hanging by a thread prompted me to go ahead with felling the tree. Careful cutting of the notch and a slight pull to the right to offset the lean toward the driveway gave me a perfect drop.
A broken branch high up hanging by a thread prompted me to go ahead with felling the tree. Careful cutting of the notch and a slight pull to the right to offset the lean toward the driveway gave me a perfect drop.
Day one of a multi-day clearing project for a new road and garage/shop. Biggest tree today was about 130' and took a 36' top (measured on the ground because I was curious), then a few logs, then dropped the rest from the ground. Customer just bought an excavator and is doing all the cleanup, which is my favorite thing.
I knew it would be some good carnage, so I actually put on my GoPro this time.
I knew it would be some good carnage, so I actually put on my GoPro this time.
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