Today....

Looked at 10 new jobs today, including complicated multi-day ones. Will probably get most or all of them. About 6 weeks out on the schedule right now, and my only employee leaves in about 4 weeks. That part was planned/expected, but it does mean I need to start turning work away again.

That said, I need a break myself, so looking forward to not having to keep an employee busy and taking some me-time.
 
Fun project yesterday. Removed a good size EWP (for these parts anyway - at least 100ft and 30in dbh) that was actively failing with a 10-15ft vertical split at the base. It was on a small island on a lake where I've done some work before. Beautiful old growth trees amidst nearly 100 year old cabins that were once a summer camp. Braced the trunk with ratchet straps, set remote TIPs in two neighboring pines, and clipped my flipline to an accessory carabiner. Fortunately the tree leaned away from the main house and towards the shore, but we were trying to minimize damage to other trees, including a hemlock growing directly under the lean. So I climbed high enough to send the top past the hemlock and partly into the water. Was able to take the rest of it by pulling chunks 90deg to the lean into an opening. No major cleanup other than stacking logs and brush out of the way against the bank.

First climb with my new Kinisi - total game changer from the Sequoia (not surprisingly)! The adjustable bridges actually ended up being super helpful in this particular case, allowing me to extend both bridges fully and get my systems out of the way while chunking down the spar (occasionally even operating the handle of the 462 through one of the bridges). I'll be curious to see how useful they are in other scenarios. To manage the tails, I used a technique I saw somewhere on Youtube, installing a microvault on the back of the harness to clip them to.

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Treemuel said:
First climb with my new Kinisi - total game changer from the Sequoia (not surprisingly)! The adjustable bridges actually ended up being super helpful in this particular case, allowing me to extend both bridges fully and get my systems out of the way while chunking down the spar (occasionally even operating the handle of the 462 through one of the bridges). I'll be curious to see how useful they are in other scenarios. To manage the tails, I used a technique I saw somewhere on Youtube, installing a microvault on the back of the harness to clip them to.
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Now that I've cut the webbing down to size and kinda figured out new hanger positions when I'm climbing, Kinisi me too! Only hiccup I'm having now is with the MB basic suspenders - the straps need to be cut on a bias near the neck for my shoulders. Was rubbing on a bit of a sunburn on the neck the other day and it wasn't comfy as the cut seems too 'straight' for me. My old timey Matt Cornell suspenders were more comfy it seemed. Maybe the more expensive MB suspenders woulda fit better as they look to have this bias/ sloping cut for the shoulder straps. But the Kinisi is a win me thinks. DMM did a nice job on this.
 
ghostice said:
Now that I've cut the webbing down to size and kinda figured out new hanger positions when I'm climbing, Kinisi me too! Only hiccup I'm having now is with the MB basic suspenders - the straps need to be cut on a bias near the neck for my shoulders. Was rubbing on a bit of a sunburn on the neck the other day and it wasn't comfy as the cut seems too 'straight' for me. My old timey Matt Cornell suspenders were more comfy it seemed. Maybe the more expensive MB suspenders woulda fit better as they look to have this bias/ sloping cut for the shoulder straps. But the Kinisi is a win me thinks. DMM did a nice job on this.
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I am trying to hold out for the DMM suspenders. Curious what they come up with
 
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southsoundtree said:
Thanks!

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beautiful work and a present worthy of such a special occasion.
 
Finally got to climb with the new T542i and very impressed after running the 540i for a few years. The clutch really does solve the issue of the motor cut-off when pushed too hard on the previous one, which was honestly a safety issue when making critical cuts and just frustrating with bigger cuts in general. A dealer I spoke to said it has the same motor but bumped up the power 10%, and I can't say if that is true, but it is certainly more powerful and much better with larger trunk wood. Like any battery saw, it still chews through batteries once you get into the bigger cuts. It is ever so slightly heavier with the addition of the clutch, but you'd only notice that if you were using both saws side by side. And it has a second battery holding tab which is nice, because that was an occasional problem with the older one. Overall very impressed and it will 100% become my primary climbing saw from now on.


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It expels chips much better than the 540 as well. Mine has thrown the chain about 5 or 6 times, sometimes from flicking stuff sideways and sometimes for no reason at all. It's tons of power it really is.
 
I noticed it spits chips way better too, I guess because the cover is significantly wider. One 'issue' I've had with the previous 540i series is that they wind up holding just a ton of debris under the clutch cover. That is annoying but honestly never caused me problems....
 
A few months back I bought the RE Downrigger, and today I finally used it, ha. 80-ish foot madrone with rotten roots over water tanks, landscaping, fencing, etc. We speed-lined all the brush off as usual, but once into the proper trunk wood, threw the Downrigger on with a second rope and I had perfect control of the pieces from in the tree while my guy on the ground worked the speed-line and unhooked the pieces.

We cut and tossed brush into the truck because getting the chipper down the driveway would have been a nightmare, which I know from past experience here. Same reason I didn't bring my 'new' bucket truck down here, I was worried about getting it back out. The rental lift worked great though, and meant we could buck a few pieces of firewood, put them in the basket and fly them to the ground.

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