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weedkilla said:
Just thought I was going to see a bloke squished.
Tree next door is leaning over my fence and I get home to a tree service in my drive. I say no worries - have at it lads. They got the top down and blocked it down to about 5m stick, heavy lean the wrong way. Sling a rope around it, use a gum as a pulley and attach rope to ally bullbar on a nav. Guy doing the cutting looks like he can use a 200t just fine, and they hand him the big dog - echo 6700. Cuts a a deep and skinny face after about 5 goes then mismatches the back cut, cuts through the hinge as they give a pull with the nav and it all comes back at him and tries to squish him into the stump. How he made it clear I dunno, he had to squeeze between the fence and the stump as the stick was coming at him. Faaaaarrrrrkkkkkk!!!!!

Fence is flat!
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Gravity, pushes straight down and is hard to beat. With 5m of trunk leaning the wrong way, (towards the fence) it sounds like it won again.
I wasn't there and can't judge it though.
The best thing is no one was hurt.
The bad ones like that I have two ropes/cables, one to pull it over in line with the scarf and one directly opposing the endangered item, in this case the fence,
to limit the travel that gravity will exert.

It takes a bit longer in urban areas with area restrictions etc and can be difficult getting the two ropes/cables attached.

If the faller was the climber and he's in another tree like this it's pretty possible he'll block quite a bit more off the top of the trunk before the felling cuts.

Climbing - I have zero ability in this area and gave up climbing trees round 50 yrs ago which coincided with wearing long trousers..........:D
 
Creeker said:
Gravity, pushes straight down and is hard to beat. With 5m of trunk leaning the wrong way, (towards the fence) it sounds like it won again.
I wasn't there and can't judge it though.
The best thing is no one was hurt.
The bad ones like that I have two ropes/cables, one to pull it over in line with the scarf and one directly opposing the endangered item, in this case the fence,
to limit the travel that gravity will exert.

It takes a bit longer in urban areas with area restrictions etc and can be difficult getting the two ropes/cables attached.

If the faller was the climber and he's in another tree like this it's pretty possible he'll block quite a bit more off the top of the trunk before the felling cuts.

Climbing - I have zero ability in this area and gave up climbing trees round 50 yrs ago which coincided with wearing long trousers..........:D
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I'm not a climbers bootstrap - but I'd sack this bloke as a faller. Cutting through your hinge is never going to end well.
This was an accident waiting to happen, in classic form if you do one thing wrong you probably get away with it, do four or five......
My personal favourite was the pull rope attached to the top rail on a modern airbag compatible ally bullbar.
 
I had to ring tech at Stihl today about something and he said my ears must have been burning and I said whys that and he said they where doing some gold training over there and I came up in conversation about some old saws. He couldn't believe we where having an orange and grey wedding
 
bennn*e said:
I had to ring tech at Stihl today about something and he said my ears must have been burning and I said whys that and he said they where doing some gold training over there and I came up in conversation about some old saws. He couldn't believe we were having an orange and grey wedding
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Do I have to wear my Stihl chaps and undies?
 
Stihlman441 said:
I see the 660 is a US model.
So no dual port muff or high output oiler and probably carb jetted differant as well.
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I emailed an Aussie guy on eBay once and asked whether the new 660 he was selling was an Australian model or a US model. He replied saying there was no difference.
I gave him a bit of an edumacation on US market 660's compared to Australian ones and he actually thanked me for the lesson. He'd been told they were the same...
If you start whacking a dual port muffler and HO oiler on that 660 from Klika you would end up spending more than buying one in Australia, with warranty.
With the current exchange rate it's basically cheaper to buy a 660 locally now providing you get a good deal.
 

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