I've never used the "old style" But I do have first hand experience with how effective chaps are. The first week or two I was logging we were doing tornado timber and when the root ball flipped up I lost balance and put a stihl 660 into my thigh. I didn't get a single cut, the point of the...
Re: Average 50\' F.L. times
WE did. I set the bell height which is what I was referring to. Sorry I forgot to stroke the whitest black man from tennesee's ego!
The guy I used to work for in Logging a couple bad equipment purchases actually bankrupted him. The were newer machines but total pieces of junk. In the shop with things that we couln't fix in the field once a month on $150,000 machines (logskidders) The final straw was a feller buncher that...
Re: Spikes for pruning and other no, no\'s... video.
This guy needs some help. He ought to know better being an ISA member. At 1:50 that one hand looked a little scary. Good rigging and video editing. But poor aboricultural practices.
i've got a wire core and the only time I use it is if I'm doing a spar type removal with few branches. It is NICE for flipping and that the reason I use it. I think tying in twice is the best bet for if you cut something
Well your first chipper is always going to be your hardest one to buy. In my opinion private party's actually tell the truth more often than the dealers do. Even if they don't know as much as a dealer might. I understand your predicament. Even being a mechanic I wasn't familiar with chipper...
For me I used the guide and a tree field guide to go over the ID list. Study the book hard AND make sure you can describe each word in the glossary. Thats all I used and made an 88% my first time. Wished I'd have studied the glossary and could have done better.
As far as more on cableing...
Crazy jimmy thats exactly how I got my chip truck. Bought it from a farmer with a shot bed for 2500 but overall pretty good put 1200 into steel and 500 for power steering pump and built the bed all myself and have a truck for a little under 5000 It's not perfect but It's what i could afford...
I agree completely. I STAY AWAY from dealers as much as I can. With a dealer they are (hopefuly not all) professional cover up er's. They try to fix something easy and if it's going to be big try to pass it off a "a small fix they don't have time for" And just by being a dealer the don't know...