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    Today....

    Missed this. I tell my apprentice climber that it is the job of the groundsman to watch out for this where possible on big blocking down work. Even a quick ‘am I alright here?’ Is 2 seconds work. Glad you were tied in elsewhere.
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    Broke two rules and paid the price.

    I know that feeling. Anyway, sorry to see this, I was thinking about you today, you’re 68, you’ve done bloody well to still be bending your back in anger with a saw. I’m 63 this year if I’m still at it at 68 I’ll be a happy man, but I hope circumstances don’t bring it to full stop in the same...
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    Broke two rules and paid the price.

    Yes, if it’s not too much trouble could you (the op) provide more detail.
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    Broke two rules and paid the price.

    Can we assume you weren’t wearing chainsaw proof trousers?
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    Passing of Boomslang

    How very very sad. Experienced guy as well. Thoughts with his family, only 39, young man.
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    June 1, 2001-Happy Birthday, Treebuzz!

    Happy birthday to the Buzz. All the forums have become a shadow of what they were in the glory days of 2008-2015 or thereabouts. The rise of Instagram and FB sites and others meant fewer and fewer new (younger) members on the forums. It’s a shame because you don’t get the same in depth...
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    TCIA WTF?

    Every cloud and all that.
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    Possible damage from impact of felling a large tree close to a house.

    I’d say slim to none, but photos would help.
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    Morbark tw280phb

    I had never considered this. I don’t think it’s why though, My German built Schliesing has controls on the left hand side (looking from the hopper forwards) like the Timberwolf/mobark. The discharge chute is on the right because a disc chipper ejects on the upward sweep. Or am I reading your...
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    Avant Thread!

    Bit of a rarity, this one was a co-dom that had split out. They do ok here, fast growing, quick dying normally, but a few seem to get really big and hang in there.
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    Avant Thread!

    According to the website it’s ‘adaptable’ to the 5s You’d need an optigrab addition to the joystick. It weighs 236 kg (520 of your US duck prostates or whatever it is you use) so on the smaller avants that’s biting hard into your lifting capacity.
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    Sequoia
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    Great! Did you feed the chipper with it? How’s that work out, awkward or not?
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    Avant Thread!

    You’ll get it! Ps we are talking about the same grapple aren’t we?
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    Mines being delivered in the next week!
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