New sport

**shorty943** · 6th April 2007, 02:59 PM

Bugger.

Unstable things, tree's. Worked as a tree lopper, a wood-getter, and the general farm and work site stuff. Heavy things, in unstable conditions, are always dangerous to be close to.

I've seen fingers lost in gun breeches, arms and legs lost by ropes and cables, lives lost in fires and accidents.

Then I got out of the Navy, joined the local CFS, and saw what the untrained can do to themselves. Sad.

Shorty.

**Blknight.aus** · 6th April 2007, 07:14 PM

dunno what your complaining about, 2 turns of det cord, 40m of lead to the detonator, trees come down no problems, If your worried about it falling the wrong way, just barber pole wrap it with the det cord and run a longer lead to the det...

Tree, what tree.

and whats wrong with mculloch chainsaws, the 2 i have a (got them free) are a lot less finniky than some women and landrovers Ive had the umm pleausure of having to work on/with

**George130** · 9th April 2007, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by Reads90

Thas what a winch is for , tie it to the top and winch it over towards the way you want it to go. Easy

Did that with the ones out the front. This one had no access to get to it.
All is good now. The drive to Ace's on friday killed my foot. Couldn't walk when I got there but after a day I got movement back so alls good.

**EchiDna** · 9th April 2007, 02:23 PM

In my experience trees are very reliable - they fall 95% of the time exactly where you intend them if you know what you are doing... that said, it's the 5% that don't that cause problems!

Stihl all the way in my family... relo's in the 'trade' for decades - anyone heard of Jack O'Toole and his family of world champions

**Ken** · 9th April 2007, 04:30 PM

Ive got a Stihl Brush Cutter and let me tell ya that sucker will cut a tree down no probs 24.5cc's of pure 2 stroke muscle baby yeh

**George130** · 9th April 2007, 04:31 PM

All this talk of chainsaws is giving me saw envy!
Only have the hand saw so far.

**EchiDna** · 9th April 2007, 06:18 PM

Originally Posted by Ken

Ive got a Stihl Brush Cutter and let me tell ya that sucker will cut a tree down no probs 24.5cc's of pure 2 stroke muscle baby yeh

i think we have different definitions of what consitutes a 'tree'

they are great for saplings though

**Ken** · 9th April 2007, 06:29 PM

hehe yeh got a bit carried away gota luv a brushcutter you can put a propper steel blade on tho

**moose** · 9th April 2007, 08:57 PM

I used to work casually as a labourer with a tree surgeon mate of mine. I have watched him do some mighty impressive stuff felling trees.
Once saw him fell a 40 metre pine tree in boronia (highly populated melbourne suburb) and place it right between two fruit trees next door (3 metres apart) that the owner didn't want touched, without touching them.

**Datt** · 9th April 2007, 09:43 PM

I heard of a workmate that was felling a large gum tree in a long grassed paddock. He tied a rope from his old falcons tow ball to the top of the trunk and planned to drive forward to pull the tree in the right direction. While he sat in the car ready to gas it his mate cut a wedge on the felling side then proceeded to cut the rest of the way through. Once the tree started to go he gassed it. It was all going to plan until he went only about 3 metres in the falcon and hit a stump that was hidden in the long grass. Luckily he thought quick enough to get out of the falcon moments before the tree absolutely flattened it.

Dangerous job being an aborist, that's why they cost a bit.

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