I use canola in my climbing saws. Works fine for pitch.
Bar oil MIGHT be better than mix gas. Less smelly, at least.
I put some wood on the ground the last two days, at an 'a la carte' bid in a driveway island. They think they can handle some of their work, need to pace their spending, etc, so they picked a cottonwood, maple, triple fir cocktail. Neighbors of friends. The homeowners are cutting and splitting (renting my wood splitter...pays for the splitter in 10-15 customers, only rented to customers. Flat rate of their job. Let them peck away at it a half-hour to an hour a day for a week. Makes it way easier than a rental where you're trying to do a full day of splitting and moving wood).
In the island, the closest to the house looks okay, but is infected. The next was one stone dead doug-fir, laminated root rot, easy peasy 100'er, dead vertical. Next one over is fading. Between the bid 3-4 weeks ago, and yesterday, a slightly larger fir, the fourth in the row, tipped into the neighboring tree (left in the picture. Don't know why it looks so mossy), just a bit, 10-15 degrees. I noticed right away when I showed up to set up the job, with my employee waiting on the tow for the chip truck.
Easy add on.
Just after a new clutch, on the way to dump the load of chips that's been in there for 2-3 weeks, the brake system started leaking onto the engine, ready to start a fire. Being without a dump truck was only slightly more work to Arbor Trolley 6-7 tall loads (Pvc extensions on stakes) to the next door neighbor's place where the old fella always wants chips for his gardens. Hard, flat roll. AT, FTW.
Magic cut most of the logs. Enough aim to slot them between one another, laid out for rolling to one side of the driveway.
Guy'ed the root-pulled tree. Not laying much into the neighboring tree. Strange, and slightly heart-pumping to see it start to stand up little by little. Limbs between trees were somewhat tangled, and I could feel them pull apart, ever so slightly. Then the tension on the rope started to go slack, while the stem was still obviously tipped (after checking my head a second), but less so, so I liked that. Equilibrium point. Got way up to the top to pop it. Didn't need to suddenly let go of a lot of wood at once, rocking the spar.
Used the stick clove hitched to the throw line, next to the rope to try to work the rope closer to the collar. never used that one before.
Cheers.
