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Lol, i feel like an idiot-couldn't figure out why he cut that flare off the back, didn't think it was needed but figured maybe it was something he picked up logging. Wasn't till the second chunk he took off that i realized he didn't have a longer bar.:jester:

Interesting, how was i to know that was a picture of you when Stihl-O-Matic posted it first in this thread, i thought it was him and was tweaking him a bit. I'm actually not hating on anybody for investing in new gear, i do it all the time, but there was only once when everything was new at...

It's funny, this picture seems a little fishy to me, completely new gear, including boots, from this year. Looks like the first tree this guy has climbed, definitely the first tree this gear has seen. Is the guy less experienced than he lets on, or did all his gear, including boots get stolen...

I honestly agree with a couple things troy said here. I don't use a lanyard on my saws either, and i've never liked the "chucking" the saw mentality. I climb with a bigger saw-hate having to reel the thing in from below me as it's dangling off the lanyard and having a 395 hit the the end of a...

Husky 346

Pretty much the same here for years-steel buc's with the super wrap velcro pad with steel inserts.

Actually, take a minute and put that friction saver in. As a big guy, if i'm going up drt, it's easy to tell the difference when a friction saver is in place and when it isn't. More effort than srt, but still easier than drt without a fs. I tend to be a footlock guy if i can't do something...

I don't know, now days i'm working a fairly tall sheave block. When i'm actually riding it, i don't like dangling around underneath it like a worm on a line. I tie in near the top of the sheave, put a foot in the hook, lean back on my climbing line and ride that way till i drop off to work...

I'm not in pa every day like lxt, but we are down there a lot. The thing is, Pennsylvania's only permanent weigh station is at Clarion, if i remember correctly, all the rest are portables. So it is possible to get through pa without ever hitting a weigh station, but there have been times i've...

+1 I've never even touched a palm tree, am always keen to read posts about them. Another spike, spikeless argument?:popcorn:

Really, seriously???? I can't stop laughing! You are going to come to commercial and brag about your 391, 039, and 340??? Oh man, i spend more on saw gas and bar oil in a six month period than what you spent on all three of those homeowner saws combined. Your lineup may be impressive in the...

Lol, at seventeen, i went straight off the farm to a job dragging brush. Thought five dollars an hour for doing the easiest job i'd ever done was awesome. Even now, when i start thinking my job is too hard, a couple hours working in a hay mow puts things back into perspective. Oh man, you...

Forget about "fitness stuff" and lifting weights. The best way to get the strength and fitness needed to do the job is..........doing the job. Honestly, i could care less about strength in my groundies, there are dozens of ways to lift and move heavy items. Stamina is what i look for. I...

A buzzie is usually a job done by a company climber on his own. They are huge around here for the row guys, they'll be working a homeowner's yard for the power company and they'll be asked to do other tree work. Sometimes the job will get done right then, but usually the climber will come back...

Can't quite understand the mentality of this site. You guys ##### and moan about the hacks you have to deal with in your area of operation, but are chomping at the bit to drive halfway across the country where you will be competing with hacks from the entire eastern seaboard. And guys lower...

That clevis looks too small, what size is it? On a lot of crane balls, hooking onto the top of ball doesn't mean you are hooking onto the actual cable, it often means you are hooking into the ear (can't remember name off the top of my head) that sticks out of the top of the ball that the cable...

Sugar Maple. Custom chains built to my specs, and let's just leave it at that. I'm tired of having to argue the pros and cons of my chains, arguing the aspects of my chains that i have added over the years to make the specific job they are built for easier, and oddly enough, arguing a part of...

Huh, your week started about as good as mine. Third pick this morning, snapped a brand spanking new chain on a load that was several tons under its rating. The second chain held it but was ruined in the process. Out over $1500. There will be some phone calls made tomorrow morning.:angry:

046, I have no problems with chaps, or glasses, or hardhats, or earmuffs, or gloves, or etc. Years ago the safety inspector would show us the benefits of chaps by strapping them to a phone pole and running a full throttle saw into them. Hell, my grandpa lost his hand to a saw before they...

The human brain, the most overlooked piece of safety equipment available. These threads always make me laugh, kevlar can only do so much, and if you are in the air and can't keep from cutting your arms and hands, what's going to keep you from cutting your climbing line or lanyard.