the all aussie dribble thread!

[MCW]

is $990 a good price for a makita 7601

Do you mean a 7901? If so and it's new then SH*T yeah!!!

 

[deye223]

Do you mean a 7901? If so and it's new then SH*T yeah!!!

bloke here is dear on bars oil & stuff but good on saws hey yep i ment 7901 but i will have another look

 

[MCW]

bloke here is dear on bars oil & stuff but good on saws hey yep i ment 7901 but i will have another look

Good deal for sure! You'd be hard pressed to import one from the states for that price.

 

[tdi-rick]

tonights trivia,,,,,
just found this pic.
who is this AS member and regular on this thread.
the saw should give him away, looks like the boys are practiceing or training.

Looks good with the disc dropping, eh, and that's you on the left there too Neil






I think you're taller than me Matt, and you can add 30kg to your guestimate

 

[Rudolf73]

That's a serious log stand you blokes are using



Oh and good work on representing the Dolkita Rick :msp_thumbup:

 

[ausneil 1]

That's a serious log stand you blokes are using



Oh and good work on representing the Dolkita Rick :msp_thumbup:

the boys just knocked that up with what ever they had mate the day before, it was very rickerty but did the job for the day.
that was a training day where we train in post cutting, crosscutting and disc stacking.
Rick came over for the day and of coarse got amongst it, we normaly use visualy standard saws for training as hotsaws wear to much.

thought you might like that one rick....

 

[ausneil 1]

Looks good with the disc dropping, eh, and that's you on the left there too Neil






I think you're taller than me Matt, and you can add 30kg to your guestimate

i can email that pic to you rick...

 

[tdi-rick]

Yes please

I had a go with a couple of other saws too Rudi, a big Stihl of Mark Jones and I can't recall who's Husky ?

Was it one of yours Neil ? (a 395 ?)

Those billets were hard even though they were green, (Blue Gum ??) and my chain was probably a little too aggressive for a bog stock saw, but it didn't go too badly.

Speaking of Blue Gum, bloody Longicorn has really gotten into my Sydney Blue gums, hopefully they survive.

 

[David (saltas)]

spray your blue gums with something systemic

 

[MCW]

spray your blue gums with something systemic

What do you recommend David? We've had no luck here with systemics on Fig Longicorn as they go straight for the hardwood - they love Persimmons for some reason. Systemic Imidacloprid (Confidor, Confidor Guard etc etc) did nothing at all which is what I suspected but had to have a crack Not enough sap in the hardwood to effect them one little bit. Most systemics follow the path of highest sap flow (ie: young growth). This also tends to be a long way away from where boring insects attack and the dose they get from penetrating any bark does very little as a rule. If you have had any success with a systemic let me know mate - I'd be very interested. To the best of my knowledge even forestry has had no luck with systemics on Longicorn beetles as they tend to work best on sucking insects (ie: scale, mealybug, Jassids etc), not chewing insects.
Best way is to keep trees as healthy as you can and when young spray the crutch every month with Bifenthrin for example. If something was systemic in a plant to kill beetles then it would probably kill a donkey as well at 200 paces I'd reckon
Little bastards...

 

[Nardoo]

A bit late but there are lots of attachments for the old 08S saws. I have this one - it is a brute of a brush cutter.
:msp_biggrin:

Al.

 

[gmax]

Al, that thing is a real beast!:hmm3grin2orange: , is the other one a FS 150?

 

[MCW]

Don't post any more photos of those old things Al. Wayne will dribble on the keyboard and short his lips out...

 

[derwoodii]

Best way is to keep trees as healthy as you can and when young spray the crutch every month with Bifenthrin for example.
Little bastards...

Agree sadly when you find your got longihorn your most likely found your trees are kaput or heading that way. Their presence is an indicator of a tree that no longer has the resources to defend itself from critter pathogen attack.
I've tried many ways to control Longihorn none have worked 100% some slow the progress in the end its 026

Shigos tree dictionary always some good reading here

DICT2003

Protection / Defense - Protection is a static condition designed to prevent injury. Defense is a dynamic condition to survive after injury and infection. These words and their meanings are often confused. Trees have protection features: bark with waxes and suberin, aged wood with low amounts of nutrients and water (and with biological wood preservatives called extractives), arrangement of wood cells in a constant crisscross pattern as longitudinal and radial cells abut. Trees also have defense systems: chemical changes that produce antimicrobial substances, chemical and anatomical changes that form strong boundaries. After injury and infection, the still living cells near the wound respond by beginning to form a great variety of materials that resist inward spread of pathogens. The new materials may be just as harmful to the tree cells as they are to the pathogens. Some individual trees of a species respond to injury and infection rapidly, and the pathogens spread very slowly. It appears that this ability to respond rapidly is under moderate to strong genetic control. Some tree species have much stronger protection features than other species. Consider some of the species of Eucalyptus that have high amounts of extractives that prevent rapid spread of pathogens. Other tree species have weak protection features, and these trees usually do not live long.
In other words. Defense is dynamic, that means it is moving – something is happening. Protection = static. You have protective gear. You have dynamic move. Static not move. Building a wall is a defense process. Because you are building and it is kinetic. After it is built, then it becomes a protection boundary because after it is built, the wall just stands there, remains there, whatever word you want to use. So the degree of defense and protection in trees depends on the amount of stored energy they have. If you have a lot of money you can have a big insurance policy. You can have a big defense. You can buy things – defense. If you don’t have much money you don’t have much defense. And if you have something to protect or save, what are you going to use? Because you have no defense. Think about it. Use the words correctly. Defense, something is moving, it’s a dynamic process to maintain survival at the high quality state. Protection is a static situation. It’s a static feature. Protection is a feature and defense is a process. So think about these words. They are big powerful words. Don’t misuse them, please.

 

[MCW]

Protection / Defense - Protection is a static condition designed to prevent injury. Defense is a dynamic condition to survive after injury and infection. These words and their meanings are often confused. Trees have protection features: bark with waxes and suberin, aged wood with low amounts of nutrients and water (and with biological wood preservatives called extractives), arrangement of wood cells in a constant crisscross pattern as longitudinal and radial cells abut. Trees also have defense systems: chemical changes that produce antimicrobial substances, chemical and anatomical changes that form strong boundaries. After injury and infection, the still living cells near the wound respond by beginning to form a great variety of materials that resist inward spread of pathogens. The new materials may be just as harmful to the tree cells as they are to the pathogens. Some individual trees of a species respond to injury and infection rapidly, and the pathogens spread very slowly. It appears that this ability to respond rapidly is under moderate to strong genetic control. Some tree species have much stronger protection features than other species. Consider some of the species of Eucalyptus that have high amounts of extractives that prevent rapid spread of pathogens. Other tree species have weak protection features, and these trees usually do not live long.
In other words. Defense is dynamic, that means it is moving – something is happening. Protection = static. You have protective gear. You have dynamic move. Static not move. Building a wall is a defense process. Because you are building and it is kinetic. After it is built, then it becomes a protection boundary because after it is built, the wall just stands there, remains there, whatever word you want to use. So the degree of defense and protection in trees depends on the amount of stored energy they have. If you have a lot of money you can have a big insurance policy. You can have a big defense. You can buy things – defense. If you don’t have much money you don’t have much defense. And if you have something to protect or save, what are you going to use? Because you have no defense. Think about it. Use the words correctly. Defense, something is moving, it’s a dynamic process to maintain survival at the high quality state. Protection is a static situation. It’s a static feature. Protection is a feature and defense is a process. So think about these words. They are big powerful words. Don’t misuse them, please.

That description is a bit too wankish for me mate The plant's defence to a boring pest is easily described with one word - SAPFLOW (or Keno). This floods the entry wound - evident if you hit a healthy gum with an air rifle for example. In a healthy tree it will suffocate the pest - pests "breathe" through their cuticle which has a whole heap of little holes called spiracles. If these get blocked the insect suffocates. Trees under stress produce very little sap allowing boring pests to continue on their evil little way. A lot of our gums here were smashed by Longicorn after 18 years of less than average rainfall. The easiest point of entry for these little bastards is where the bark has split to the heartwood where there is no sapflow.

Speaking of air rifles I received my new Nikon 3-9 x 40 Prostaff Target EFR air rifle/rimfire scope from the states today. Fitted it after work to my .177" Diana 350 Magnum and the only slugs it shot properly were the super heavy RWS Supermags or the ultralight Prometheus nylon jacketed steel pointed pellets (and ubér expensive). This little turd copped one in the head at about 30m. I missed his mate hiding under the same bush when I clipped a stick
Need new mounts though or need to drill a hole in them for an anti recoil roll pin. I jury rigged a small piece of brass rod (note white cable tie on rear mount) after noticing the mounts and scope shifting backwards. It sheered off after about 30 shots dammit. For a sluggy this thing has some super funky scope forces compared to all the other air rifles I've owned...

 

[derwoodii]

That description is a bit too wankish for me mate

Yeah true dear Shigo can be a wee flowery in his teachin ways but he is still my tree guru :msp_smile: yours is far more succinct and to the point with a good metaphor and example yup. Shoot it, if it was healthy it will bleed sound like Arnie in predator eh

Nice kit on yer .177 bunnies beware silent killer in them trees. My new leupold 6.5 x 20 40mm turned up fitted and zeroed the No1 last weekend in 4 shots but now I gotta get it off get me some lower rings as the old 56mm hubble scope needed the high Ruger rings so its way outta wack with the 40mm.

 

[MCW]

Yeah true dear Shigo can be a wee flowery in his teachin ways but he is still my tree guru :msp_smile: yours is far more succinct and to the point with a good metaphor and example yup. Shoot it, if it was healthy it will bleed sound like Arnie in predator eh

Flowery Bahahaha. Good old Arnie "If it bleeds we can kill it".

Nice kit on yer .177 bunnies beware silent killer in them trees. My new leupold 6.5 x 20 40mm turned up fitted and zeroed the No1 last weekend in 4 shots but now I gotta get it off get me some lower rings as the old 56mm hubble scope needed the high Ruger rings so its way outta wack with the 40mm.

Pretty quiet with the Supermags but cracking the sound barrier with those Prometheus. Last time I chronoed them they cracked 1180fps. I'd love to know where they pulled 1250fps from in their specs!
Nice scope with the Leupold mate. Rugers are bastards to get right with their rings. If you want a set of lower Ruger rings for a 40mm objective I have a set of stainless M77 ones here if you want them.

 

[RandyMac]

The No.1 light sporter in 30-06 vertical strung groups as it heated up, playing with the fore end screw tension put a stop to that. The No.3 in 30-40 didn't do any of that nonsense.

 

[MCW]

The No.1 light sporter in 30-06 vertical strung groups as it heated up

Yep they're a bastard for that old son. Once they're fixed all is good

 

[derwoodii]

Daughter 2 is sleeping rough in Hattah park 6 nights survival navi trek lucked in the weeks weather looks tip top for her . The son is at Air cadets marching polishing and saluting anything that moves for the weekend.