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Rookie arbo (well, of the removal kind mostly) here... My thinking exactly. Not going snagging without trusty 4:1 "pocket hoist" and one pulley to make it 8:1 if needed somewhere handy, at least in the car. Five yards worth of 600# pull (or half the travel at 1200#] can move lots of things to...

I was not on the forum for a longer time, but this seems to me... You have the blue wedge. And since you just brought up this topic, I´m suspicious you got the fabled Barbie pink one too :eek:

GOL gives a guideline how to get an "typical, easy average" (regarding height, weight, spread, crown form, lean, slope, soil conditions, temperature...) tree down, usualy the hard and sometimes kinda exhausting way into usualy the easiest direction-but with a bonus of that even someone who knows...

Wow. Don´t know about the angles, but the hinge was realy on the thick side, but more importantly, the jack seems to be of the 10 or at best 15 tons breed. The tree might weigt some 3 or 4 tons, having the centre of gravity some 3, maybe 4 feet behind the hinge (the wide angle lens don´t tell...

It is hardwood, obviously some with high yield and tensile strenght (oak, maybe hickory? I´m not all that familiar with american species). So having the face width of 3/4 stem dia if possible or even a bit more is a good thing, if it´s not a leaner or some nasty thing. Having a high backcut step...

OK, after two years of quite little use, some results: The saw ran great with 78-100-124 timing. Not extra fast, but decent. Way better than stock. Then I wanted to pimp it up a little and made small (2,5 mm wide) short fingerports from the rear aux corner up, opened at 117. I had no angle...

Finished some 2stroke reading, aux opened before mains was obviously infrequently, but used setup. Realy no experience in a saw? Even like "been there, done that, but :p" would be kind of good ansver (joking aside, pls) :reading:

Can´t help myself, but this seems to be a proof of clairvoyance. This song is tailored just to cover all aspects and finesess of the current "hipster/lumbersexual" subculture. Every each of them... Btw, ya´know who is a lumbersexual? A townie kid of feeble build, unable to hold anything than...

Did some refreshing and homework study, thanks for the kicker... Until now I was much under influence from my past when dealing a bit with model aircraft engine with Perry (?) scavenging system, which has deflector on the piston. Flat piston is so utterly different beast, but albeit I "knew"...

I know... Well, realy no lack of torque there. Is that an oak? I realy wonder about the aux timed a wee bit in advance to mains, if it helps anything...

I´ve taken an advantage of a cut slopey this way several times intentionaly. On trees which have wide and flat crown in plane perpendicular to the desired (read: only possible) fall direction and narrow in the other, while there are keepers around and a tight place to land the tree. The side...

You´re right sir, that comes from writing while doing something utterly else, no matter the "around 120°". Well, I was of that opinion that longer blowdown has some benefits for torque and that torquey topend with BD of very close to 24° was a statisticaly insignificant proof-but the fact is...

I have some noname 50mm topend to play with and I´m wondering about this: To make the Aux transfers opening a wee bit before the mains. To get more uniform wash of the chamber with maybe less washout of the fresh mix. Maybe even with a realy slight sloping top, to open the utmost rear corner...

Kinda both funny and scary thread... I was experimenting with making/renewing lead alloy bearings several years ago. Some pounds of like 1060° F molten metal, I had my fingers very near the the top of it while fluxing and removing the mess, when the last blocks of added alloy colapsed while...

Nice and comprehensive book, very nice to see simple, but spot on pencil scetches instead of "killer graphics". Found it online right after it was issued, sometimes in 2010, which made a good complement to Grapple yarder and Supersnorkel Handbook, Worksafe BC, 2004...

Depends on terrain. On flat land, horses can work on their own between choker setter and chaser. Sometimes in the mountains, it is a must. For some time, I was raised in the mountains and seen there horses working on their own. The most extreme thing I´ve seen was 45° to 52° slope (well, short...

Poor little machine... Criss-cross beavering dutchman, you better shut up boys and learn something! LOL I feel enlightened now, always I was of the opinion that this is a job for 50+ cc class brushcutter with 10" circular saw blade if there are thinner ones mostly, or for like Husky 242 if...

Similar problem here on the other side of the pond. Spring temps, occasional rain creating mud atop of still thirsty ground. I spent the sunday on a small thinning job one of my relatives bought standing-poorly managed spruce-fir-veymouth pine stand. I was rushing my ass off to get it all on the...

Get a good laugh at someone else´s stupidity-and those whod don´t know, learn from pain of someone else. Hell, f**k, don´t ever get so lazy and impatient to test start ("just start, for a second, to see if everything is somehow OK") a freshly modded saw right off the bench in the basement...

No nics, just wood filings from dirty hands and mess around the carb area, as he was disassembling it. The "nics" are obviously above the cylinder surface and there is no trace of anything on the intake side in Dave´s pics on the first page. I feel sorry for ya Dave, this realy $uck... I...