It was a compilation of errors. He had already been in the adjacent tree and there was a wide open landing zone to just drop down and flop some logs out of this tree. Alternatively, he could have just dropped the spar in the yard. The stump cut was his fatal error. It should be mentioned...
Someone will articulate this more clearly, I’m sure, but the rigging was this: running end of rope is locked off on porty, working end of rope goes up adjacent tree through natural crotch and terminates near tip of tree coming down. Tree coming down comes off stump leaving it being held aloft...
I am a firefighter and rescue technician for my county’s technical rescue team. I am also an arborist/tree service owner/operator. I was called this evening by my old captain, who was riding battalion for the day, to assist with the recovery of a poor soul who was pinned under the 40’ butt of...
What happens if you do this?
you rich bitch.
not that anyone cares, but I’ll say this - if you’re not on one of these - I’ll never let you give me a massage. You’re obviously into way too much friction.
To be clear, I didn’t strip the bolt - I rounded the head of the Allen key. The bolt is solid - the Allen key is junk. Get a longer one with more leverage or put it in the drill.
Finally got to take mine for a spin. Right out of the box on new, washed Vortex with the bird bollard wide open - runs just like my well broken in OG RR. I’m probably 215-220 sans gear. Yes, I too stripped out the cheapo Allen key in my haste to set her up. Cut it in half and dropped it in...
I should’ve stated - unknown hours. When I got it, none of the gauges worked. I’ve had the machine for about 2 years. I bought and installed an autofeedplus tach and the tach works but the autofeed is intermittent/unreliable. I think the dump valve is sticking. Manual autofeed always works...