I recently made my own long sling. I've boycotted Weaver products awhile ago and needed one for my 261 and bigger saws. I used 3/8 Trex hollow braid. About a 6'' loop with locking brummel. Instead of burying that tail, after the 3rd brummel, I added a ring then buried the tail, and lock stitched it. I slid a length of 1/2 chafe sleeve to cover the main body of the saw lanyard. With that, I spliced in a dog leash snap, 3 brummels and a bury. Absolutely love this lanyard.
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- Thread starter Mark Chisholm
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Wish I could. I haven't been able to link my phone to the computer. I'll try another way tomorrow. I get shitty reception here at the house for the phone. Lead paint on plaster walls don't help.
Jehinten
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- Evansville
My "Today" got an upgrade for my skidsteer. Bought an old vermeer s600 6 years ago, finally tired of keeping it running and picked up a new mt100 wide track.
Look at the treasure chest on the trailer tongue! Bobcat looks sweet. Are you setting it up with a grapple?
Jehinten
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- Evansville
Yes, I have several attachments for my vermeer already including a bmg. They only had the bobcat interface (attachment plate) available in stock. So they let me take it home as is for some home projects over the weekend, and I'll return it Monday to bolt the universal interface.
Treasure box is funny. I'll have to start calling it that.
I carry everything on this little trailer, so no matter which truck I take, I have all of my tools. Climbing and rigging gear in that job box. Saws in another box on the curbside fender
Serf Life
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- Maine Island
Congrats, give an update on tracks vs wheeled mini. You already have mats? Cost and terms?
Muggs
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- Canuckistan
Anyone else get the northern lights last night? It was spectacular. First time I've seen them since I was 5 years old in the Yukon. First a total solar eclipse and then northern lights a month later, what a year it's been for sky watchers around here.
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Jehinten
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Many people saw them here locally. I've been so busy as of late I didn't know they were coming. Last night me and my wife went to bed early to get some sleep, all 3 kids were spending the night elsewhere and we often don't get an uninterrupted nights sleep.
Jehinten
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- Evansville
Thank you.
Tracks vs wheels, I really liked the wheels although limited options in that category without bumping up to an articulating loader. I am excited for the speed and capacity increase from my old machine.
I have 1/2" plywood that I've almost never needed with the vermeer, but I'm looking into mats now.
Cost was a hair under 43,000 with the wide track upgrade and the universal interface. No attachments. 48 months 0%
Serf Life
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- Maine Island
Wild! I haven’t seen them since I was wee. Never saw the red colors either, it was magic. Thankfully a friend texted us to get outside, we were giddy.
Removed a medium-sized Sweetgum today. Tree was declining for no obvious reason and was dropping large limbs a couple times a year. Upon felling, it was taking up very little water and there were roots at the surface that were dead and others that were getting crispy. Boy the leaves smell great!
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ClimbingTN
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- Columbia
While on my way to helping folks with tornado damage, I had to help a pleading 75 year old homeowner whose husband just died. She was hauling brush to the burn pile. This was probably the 2nd most difficult/dangerous removal I’ve done. First climb just gaffs and raining. I really got a small taste of what you everyday guys and gals go through. It wasn’t fun. I came down and went and helped a guy a barber chair tree. I was just about to quit at about 1pm and the rain stopped. Well, I felt obligated to finish and why wait until rain again tomorrow. I climbed back up and cut the back weight towards the power lines. Started to the top and nope. Hanger by a thread and not going to risk it dragging me down or flipping on the power line. I got lucky, the neighbor was talking to a tree service and I walked over to see what was happening. I already volunteered to trim her sentimental tree that really needed to be removed but, I explained the It wouldn’t be pretty and may not survive. I said what’s up and 3 tree guys were just helping if they could. Really…want to pull for me…yup if ya put a rope in it…pulling climbing line out now. Awesome guys, we dropped it between house and well house. Good day!
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Matias
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- Butte County
that sounds like a shitty day. My heart goes out to everyone there that wasn't so lucky.
Did you fell whole stems or top & drop? Were logs extracted as you worked? Trying to imagine how so much could fit in such a small space. Beautiful hinge.
Trees were brushed out and then I started sending mill logs into the small gap between a redwood tree and a big fir rootball. Logs were sent from 130 - 65 ft, so with such a narrow lay keeping the DZ clear and clean was imperative. We couldn't get a piece of equipment within 75 ft of the logs so the boys set up some rigging (holdback included) and pulled the logs down to a driveway below..They had it well dialed so I spent almost no time standing around waiting between logs. By the time I set a tagline and got an undercut in the next log they were pretty much ready to go. The spars ended up being about 65 ft and were sent straight up the hill into the gap. Unfortunately the upper portion of the lay for the spars was a messy mine field of debris from the fire so we employed high stumps and redundant butt hitches to keep them from running down the hill. All in all a long but enjoyable day working with some kick-ass young men. There is hope for the future gentlemen!
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Dan Thornton
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- Smithsburg
I need to get better at judging the center of gravity of a stem. Today I spent about 7 hours in trees. This picture is what happened when I thought I had tied the stem above the center of gravity, but instead got it pretty close to balanced. The GRCS worked great - my groundswoman is excellent - then when I kicked the butt off the cut the whole thing slowly tipped horizontal. Happened one more time today - but no picture.
Bendroctanus
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- Springfield
Endomatic
I love trees, it's why I live in a forest, but I also live in a group of dramatic islands where the water, boats and literally living an hour from the mainland are the defining characteristic of our daily life. This is the before/after of yesterdays work, solo, transformational, and only required the full removal of two doug firs. (no cleanup)
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