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You seem to be defending the effort, or reacting to something? Maybe I misunderstand your tone? I have nothing but respect for the people involved and support controlled burns by all forest owners 100%. Pyros comment was making light of the discussion a few pages back about how hard it is to...

Did you help with that burn? I really hope to see a lot more of this, our forests will thank us, heck, most of nature will thank us.

I guess you can get volunteers if they are pyros.

The knives have to work against something. The bed knife may be part of the housing and not adjustable, I've seen that on homeowner chippers in the really low HP range. Sure seems like a PTO chipper should have an adjustable bed knife. Also it should cut the small stuff too, our chippers cut...

Looks like you have it worked out. Chippers like RPM's. Only time our big chippers have ever clogged it's when the autofeed lets it bog too much on leafy material. It's going to be an hour to fix that with the service truck on site, that much HP jams them up real good and fast. Only happened...

Did you have enough rope to get that to the ground?

I don't think you understand just how huge the forests are, or how expensive machines are. I do this work, for private people around their homes, and it is physically very hard work. We use mostly machines, just sitting in the seat wears you out because the ground is so steep. Then comes the...

We are on a thinning project right now and looking at snow over the next couple days. Last Friday I was rocking it in a short sleeve shirt and loving the mild fall weather. Now we'll be starting in the Morning and it's supposed to be about 22°

Part of the thing with model turbines is that they are not made in huge factory with years of R&D at every step. Going from memory, they started with some guys playing around in a garage and saying "yeah, I think we can make a working one." At least the early turbines had to spin at insane...

It will be interesting to see if anyone else steps up and builds one. The model turbine engines have come a long way, used in flight suits and other experimental applications. There are a few flying helicopter models using turboshafts, it would seem a likely place to start looking for parts. I...

I wonder if it has flippy caps and what kind of oil it takes.

That would work. Little more involved, but a couple tries should help a fellow figure out the right tension on when weaving the strands back into the rope. Used to be a company that made a wire rope swaging kit that went in a shop press, I don't know if that is still available or not. It would...

How did you secure the ends in a neat and usable manner that didn't slip away from your spliced rope end?

You put cable inside a three strand flipline 40 years ago?

I tend to think of the fires in terms of what I see on the ground. This takes a look at how the fires are being used for political manipulation. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/10/experts-climate-change-not-cause-wildfires-eco-imperialists-prevent-forest-management/

Looks like the Caldor fire has a hard on for Tahoe. If the wind forecast for the next few days holds I don't think they'll stop it. They are trying nighttime helicopter flights, I think it's just one helicopter right now. Pictures and video of fire activity today looked really aggressive, fast...

Had one start and get big about 17 miles from here. Reached 600 acres in four hours. Pretty big cloud over that thing. Got a friend in the path of it, he's out of power so we got a generator to him, that will keep his well going for his livestock. He has a pond near his house and a gas pump...

You need some way to connect the wire to the eye so they move together. The rope on a wire core flipline is so your adjuster has something to grab, it really isn't load bearing beyond traction. If the two different materials are not attached at the end they move separately. Same with a hollow...