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My Nephew Rob riding the ball and setting the slings in the UK.

Extracting a fallen ash out of a river. Couldn’t get the last 5metres of trunk out, still rooted into the bank, too deep to get to with the chainsaw.

True, caught me by suprise, by the time we moved the trunk sections, were were having the cut the rings in half just so the avant could move them. Sopping wet poplar is heavy.

The precursor to clearing the branch out the river..

Pop I did yesterday.

Yes, that hedge was a bit tall for that though.

Yes, a wheeled one so he could move along the hedge from the basket.

Me too, but in the UK it’s a brave start up that turns away hedge work.

Not me my nephew in the UK. Big leylandii hedge he’s just finished.

All left logged on site as firewood. Ps, I don’t have a log truck. I do have a sawmill guy who will collect decent firewood or stuff for milling. But he wouldn’t come out for useless crap like this.

And before any of you start getting a fit of the vapours, it lost a stem last week, exposing this rot in the middle.

40 year lapsed pollard of a lime tree. I brushed it out, young lad chogged it down. His first real chogging down experience. He was pleased with himself.

Laski are a Czech company, pretty decent by all accounts.

@Maximalist have you ever used a woodchipper? What sort do they have in Russia?

Bizarrely here in France guide bars are measured in ‘pouces’ (inches)

Battery saw is heavy, I know what you mean.

S’funny, because i notice a lot of peeps run 2 climbing saws these days. A smaller echo 2511 or a Stihl 150 like you for the smaller jobs and a 201/540 35cc (or in your case a ported 194) for the takedowns. Go back a few years you ran a 200t or the like for everything. For me it’s a 2511 and a...

What do you use as a climbing saw these days Rich?

Apologies if seen elsewhere. This was the tree of the week. Big oak to remove back weight and fell (then leave) Just two of us. Me aloft, youngster running the ground. Ps, more work pictures needed, Max is doing all the heavy lifting on this thread lately.

I’d guess 10/12 years.