How'd it go today?

[cory]

Three six foot and one eight foot poles all stuck together with a large corona pruner head on it

I'd call that basically insane.

Probably the same salesman that f'd up those other recent estimates

 

[Dave Shepard]

Anyone have any advice on oiling Felco sheaths? I have a couple of old ones for F2, and a new F20 sheath that need some sort of preservative. Thanks.

 

[flushcut]

I used bar oil on mine, saturated the crap out of it. It seemed to work better than mink oil.

 

[Cobleskill]

Obenauf's is good stuff. Used to use it on my Wolverine work boots. The leather lasted great, but the soles fall apart, so I quit bothering. I still buy them as they are light, comfortable, and I can get them on sale for just over 100 bucks

I remember when I was about 7 my dad had a black man working for him. He got a new pair of work boots. Went to the lithium grease pail and gave them a good coat of that.

He put me on the seat of his bicycle and he sat backwards on the handlebars and peddled down the road. I taught myself how to do that when I was a teenager. No passengers though.

 

[Burnham]

Neatsfoot oil is good for that.

 

[cory]

Obenauf's for me.

 

[friedrich]

i use rayholes saddle butter

 

[Eric H-L]

I got a call from a neighbor with a drone stuck in a large oak. I enjoyed climbing it and rescuing the little flyer. I want to get a picture of the tree later and try to identify it. The most Velcro like thing I have encountered. I was unable to get a good high tie in even with my big shot. Again and again it grabbed my throw bag and line and prevented me from getting the bag down. I ended up using a low tie in and working my way up with two cinching climbing lines around the tree. Part of the challenge was it was very cluttered with lots of dead. I got some dry branches down as I climbed up but my assignment was not deadwooding.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Finally got all my cabling supplies and finished the two oaks waiting on them. Kave on one side and I on the other. Some good 5 hour tree bondage will satisfy the soul in the proper elements.

 

[Kaveman]

It was a beautiful day to be aloft. Kinda cool climbing without a chainsaw.

 

[SeanKroll]

I guess you're on that cablng job.


What is your normal climbing saw(s)?

 

[davidwyby]

Pro saws gathering dust at Lowe’s, no pros around to buy them. $30 less than anywhere I see online. I could possibly ship on the cheap if anyone needs some. Autotuning

 

[WoodCutr]

interesting caps, haven't seen those before

 

[BlackSmith]

They might be just plugs to keep the caps from being stolen.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Sent with a friend to retrieve one of his farm trucks. 5.4l with a stuck spark plug. Kid working on it was a Ford tech with a garage at his house. Not sure how, but he died a couple years ago. Friend got the call to come get it. Hour and a half ride to get there. The coils on one side are apart, and it won't crank. They offer their little Kioti, but warn that they just had a fuel line off to be blown out due to an intermittent stalling problem. We get the truck half way on the trailer and the tractor quits. I mess around for 30 minutes trying to bleed the injectors. Raising the hood only allows enough room to lay on the engine. The provided wrenches are extra long, which is no good on an engine a little bigger than a weed eater. As I'm about to give up, I pull the fuel from the tank. Plenty of flow. I smell my fingers. I offer my fingers to my friend for sniffing. He confirms my suspicion. Gasoline.

They were able to pull our truck up on the trailer with their pickup without much drama, surprisingly, and we were on our way.

 

[Kaveman]

I guess you're on that cablng job.


What is your normal climbing saw(s)?

Yessir, Stephen taught me how to splice the hollow braid and whatnot last year, so I could do a big red oak at this same customer's house. We posted some pictures. We tag teamed both trees. Makes cabeling go much faster when you can have a guy at either end of the line.

Echo hands down for climb saws. Been running one of Stephen's 2511s since I've been here, and only break out my 355 for bigger stuff, for the most part. 2511 is very light, powerful and like all echo saws, reliable, what I like most is it's tiny footprint. It's just not near as bulky to drag through a tree all day. 355 is a tractor of a saw at 35cc, mine still has the spark arrestor but the exhaust has been opened up a bit. Could probably pull a longer bar with ease, but that might get me into trouble, so not worth it. Only complaint I could possibly make is that the oiler failed the other day and now i gots to fix it.

I'm sure electric saws have a lot to offer, but the buy-in is just too high for me.

My fantasy would be a fuel injected top handle. Super light, very compact, adequate power and chain speed for the vast majority of tasks, etc.