I pick up an MS192 from e-bay a while ago and can't seem to get the saw to stay running properly. I replaced air boot and rebuilt carb. It seems to constantly need to be adjusted. My next step is to pressure test and look for leaks. I don't have all of the tools I need to do this but I think I...
I working a Nursing Home for a week as maintenance and I met a German woman that could not speak English and had no family there. I spoke German and talked to her. She died that week and I quit. Couldn't be around that I lost both of my parents and my best friend in a matter of a few years. I...
That is the exact story of my life in a seriousness the only difference I don't have my own tree service. I climb part time for a guy when his bucket truck doesn't fit.
Ted
I agree if there was a notch it must have been small look at the end after the BC as much as that tree bent any hinge wood should have let it go. Can't see the other side of the tree but the BC ac-cured on the outside or down hill side. Maybe there was a small notch but I don't think so. Just my...
I have been following your site Mugg's and I think it is great!!!! I downloaded the knot book and still can't get over the fact that sailors so many years ago created these knots and systems out of necessity. Isn't there a saying the goes something like Necessity is the mother of invention. Or...
I just finished reading your post in the Midwest people are generally a little more laid back I grew up in Wisconsin if that guy saw me doing that here in New England he would have thrown the book at me. I have allot of dead Ash around here too. The freaking Beatles are everywhere I have 4 acres...
That is great to here I am 53 and my body is falling apart. Did allot of lead paint removal for a while! I just keep hoping I'll wake up one day and everything will work as it should!
Ted
Using a come along with rope and prusik
I have done that with a strong come along with a not so long cable. I tie the come along off put the prusik up the rope as long as the cable pull the tree and tie off the rope above the come along and let cable out advance the prusik and repeat. I am...
That was the first time I ever tied a noose great book it is amazing the knots we know now were used so long ago. I can't wait to show my wife the noose that will make here happy!! Knot!!!!! I have been following your educatedclimber.com series good work should help new people and old too...
Thanks for the welcome my climb did not go the limb I wanted to isolate wouldn't cooperate!! Now its going to rain for a week or two!!
I have been hanging out on the tree buzz. Thought I would come here to see if any thing was different.
Tomorrow I am going to try the BDB with my new Tiger Blood from TS. I was using the Yale Aztec i.e poison ivy and it was pinching it and creeping on some spots of the rope tested it with the Tiger Blood Tachyon and it tended well with the 3/4' bollard and grab very well. That rope is a great buy...
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