Can't call them Nipples, that has sexual connotations and might cause repressed males to break the bounds of decency and start engaging in rampant intercourse with your machinery.
I like to keep the stumpy clean of excess grease, it just attracts dust otherwise. Not really a problem on the bearings, as the new grease pushes out the dirt, but on the nipples the dirt gets pushed in with the new grease.
Yup, wheel nut indicators.
If you dont have them the early warning sign is usually a little spray of rust around the loosened nut. Shortly followed by the wheel falling off.
Because you can't move as fast from a kneeling start.
I've been clobbered by a big hanger while felling, they can come at you like an express train. Seconds or fractions of a second can make the difference between being hit and avoiding it. Think like a boxer, on your toes, moving like a butterfly.
Took one big limb off the Sycamore (left of the group), reduced the height by about 2 metres and spread about the same. Thinned the limes a little, they get very congested, and lifted the a little too.
Wouldn't call 2 metres off an 18 metre tree a hard reduction personally? I guess with the...
I loves me a Leyland!
50 cube of chip off site so far, and he's keeping all the timber! About 15 ton in the main stack, hope he's got a big wood burner!
Flopped some uglies in close quarters today, nasty bark inclusions and splits, mostly heavily back/side weighted.
Last pic is some dirty hinge porn for Jed, but it might be just too nasty! :lol:
Time lapse my brother made with his phone.
https://youtu.be/4AbZo9-8F1s
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