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    Olathe 12 pto Wood chipper

    .200 Blade height .045 blade to anvil clearance. 7/16" drop table to drum blade clearance. It was over 1/2" and would not self feed. but now will self feed up to 2" stuff well but not larger. The in feed table is concave under the drum, is this right? And 7/16" is as close as I could get it with...
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    Echo 620p

    Hello y'all, I just got a cs 620P and cs 590P handed to me from Echo for testing and reviewing. I have a couple of large pines to take down sat. that should give them a pretty good workout. I have lots of cherry live oak and pecan at the house to test them on. The saw is well designed with...
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    Topping a 90' pine

    average about a gallon a day.
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    Topping a 90' pine

    Yes once the top has folded over and is against the trunk it's limbed out, your working from a height thats much lower than the buckets reach. On smaller trees we use a lowering line to lower the top down, alway leaving a strong hinge of wood and moving well away before the hinge is broken. I...
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    Topping a 90' pine

    The top had lots of room to fall, if I had tried a lowing line would'nt the loads on the line or lowering device have been more than any could take. It was just strapped to try to arrest the fall and secure to the trunk. Everyone was 150' away and it was a learning experience. We cut larger than...
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    Topping a 90' pine

    Thanks, for all the replies, this is standard procedure in my area, leave a lot of hinge drive wedges in the back cut and have a 1" rope in the top hooked to a 4x4 or in my case a 4x4 backhoe and pull hard to make the hinge break. I thought it was better to be 150' away than hanging around up in...
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    Topping a 90' pine

    Good afternoon all, I have removed a lot of tall pines here in south ga, but saturday I had something happen that I have to get some input on. I have a 57' wh bucket truck and on a average (75-80') pine I use a 3" 27,000 nylon strap or a 1" rope to make a hinge in the tree and just let the...
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    New spur climber

    I had a friend look at it with me ( he worked for the electric company for 10 years on the tree crew ) and he thought for my first tree a leaner over power lines and by the road was a bad choice. So I set a 1" rope up in it and blocked it to the base of another tree and we hooked the rope to the...
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    New spur climber

    Good morning, I have been climbing some for practice lately and this is what I have found, The spurs push in to the upper part of my leg so hard that it's very ucomfortable after just a few minutes, I have climbrights with the t pads. Is there a better upper pad to use or do y'all have some...
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    New spur climber

    Good morning, Nope, i,ve been so busy rotory mowing for people and cleaning up storm damage I had'nt had time to think. I have it planned for sat. after next. I'm going to have someone video it for me so y'all can point out my mistakes( if I make any). I've got a pine limb at my house about...
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    New spur climber

    Double rope and self belay sounds good to me. I have been cutting on the ground for 20 years intermitently. I have 9 saws and 2 pole saws, 4 are husqvarnas and one is a bow and one is a old homelite 66 gear reduction, and yep I still use them all. The bow sure is easy on the back! My favorite is...
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    New spur climber

    Good morning, I thought with the line set much higher than me the swing to the other tree would be a slow one. I guess 10' is still a long swing? On the carabiner I was thinking one of the non locking with a 75lbs rating. And would one of them work also as a chainsaw lanyard breakaway? I'm sure...
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    New spur climber

    Man what some info., y'all have done a little ( or a lot ) of all of it. I'm much more comfortable with the spikes now, i'm going to breakout the rope this week and start with the double rope method first and then the srt. I'm going to use a big oak in our fruit orchard and yes it will be low...
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    New spur climber

    Thanks y'all for all the good info, I did change my prusik from loop to 2 single fisherman knots and attached it to the lanyard by 4 coils and the saddle with a delta link. It's working very well for now. Thanks for all the new friction hitch pics. I'll try some ( after some testing ) later. I...
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    New spur climber

    Good morning, I tried your climbing method yesterday late, and even with the long spikes it was much easier. I would like some info on the flip line of choice, what do you use? I'm using one I made up myself, it's 1/2" 3 strand tree master, I know that 3 strand is supposed to be stiffer than...
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    New spur climber

    Thanks for the reply, that's a lot of good info. My 1-5/8" spikes and weaver suspenders should be in tomorrow and i'm going to try your style and see how it works for me. I have bought the stuff to rope climb with but thought I should learn spikes first. I have a 150' arborplex rope, leather...
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    New spur climber

    Yep, only climbing trees marked for take down.
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    New spur climber

    Thank's for the reply, I have ordered the pole gaffs from Treestuff. I'm having a hard time getting up on the spikes and moving up, it killing my legs. My wife was watching me and said she thought I was taking to large a step. How far should i be stepping????? I'm 6'2" 225lbs. She said me being...
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    HUSQVARNA 365 sp

    No doubt about it the 288 is an awsome saw. I bought the one I fixed for my friend actually for myself from the local husqvarna dealer. They were selling it for one of their customer who had been doing storm cleanup after hurricane kate and he did'nt need it anymore. They checked it over and...
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    HUSQVARNA 365 sp

    I've run the 365 vs 039 stihl, both with sharp chains and I can make 1-3/4 cuts in 10" oak to it's 1. I can cut 1-1/4 to a muffler mod. 372. I just fixed up a 288xp for a friend of mine and didn't test it with the 365, but I did put both of them in a 36" oak at diffrent times and cound'nt tell...
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