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Weird timing. I watched a tree video yesterday and caught myself wincing at the guy unclipping his flipline to descend. It wasn't what he did (because abbing out on just a mainline is fine) but how he did it. Didn't check anything, didn't think for an instant, just did it. Spent the whole night thinking about it. Guilty of Treeson btw. He's going to die.

I've just bought a digger sight unseen 😆 but was cheap and got a bit of a spanking 😆 If it was me I'd be proper anal from now on on checking things. Pins and bushes play. King pin play. Slew ring play. Any leaks..... tracks, chains, sprockets all costly... tip up either side and check idlers.... Make sure all hydraulic functions work seamlessly and smooth.can it pick itself off the floor... Tracks well, 2 speed works if got it. Check antifreeze, engine oil etc. Radiators for condition and if clean... something rarely cleaned and shows! Run it with rad cap off and make sure coolant not circling all the time as in no stat in place. Id even ask if you could check the final drive oil levels to make sure it has bloody oil in! At 2k a pop or so on an old machine that can take shine off things. Take a bloody good torch... look into the diesel tank and into the hyd tank for milky oil. I know your probs looking at an older machine so will get some of the above problems but everything within reason is fixable! I was looking at machines recently and even when spending 8-14k you were getting 18 year old machines plus with big hours ... all with play in things and most with issues. Good luck 👍 😮 One thing can be said though.... if you bought a right machine and spent more money and looked after it you'd probably recoup the brass better.... Buy and old beater... stuff breaks and you pile a fortune into it and maybe recover the brass if lucky? Hard decision to make Ohhh and keep main brands if possible for parts avaliablity!!!!!

I love England but I don't know why The place is fcking filled with spies Local whingers, council snitches Police informers, little big-state bitches So if your neighbour fcks a man or goes to a synagogue or doesn't have a UTR or a licence for his dog Heed this advice that could save your life and learn to mind your own fcking business

Dunno if it's got a name, trick ladder or circus ladder? It's only attached in the centre at both ends so flips, rotates around the central axis, at any given opportunity. There is a technique to doing it, I've found out now. Got to keep your weight completely evenly distributed at all times, obviously I suppose. By moving opposing arms and legs simultaneously I think.

Why such a small breadth of content? Oldfeller points to sexual deviance so why not can porn full stop? Then as you say beheading and other violence? Perhaps we should stop people even extolling violence on the Internet, like setting fire to hotels with people in? I mean its the same ball park isn't it? What on earth does this even mean? You blame people who point out that people kill people rather than scapegoating people of a certain race or religion for killing! Bizarre

What a crap list. Where's Stalin for a start?

What is it? Never seen that before, I guess the far end moves around to throw you off?

The only way I've ever found to remove barbed staples is to hammer the pliers spike into the staple and lever it out. Over the years I've done hundreds, probably thousands, on weldmesh animal enclosures built with old telegraph poles. It's very tedious and easy to damage the mesh. If you don't need to reuse the post a cordless grinder with a 1mm disk used carefully is quicker. With animal enclosures there's the added problem that you have to account for every staple and every fragment that might cause injury.

I've also ordered one of these 18v Fakita clones as it looks like a better version of the DUC150, if it really is a brushless motor it may have more power than the original. While its a 1/4" mini chain, I do prefer those narrower bars. Arrives Monday, will put a mini review up if its any good - if the motor is rubbish it will be going straight back.. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0DHZ2T186

You pay too much attention to the political posts on here....

I cant complain about recovery i could of easily been killed but even more likely paralysed. I would like to climb again but im probably a year away from that and 51 so im getti g on a bit climbed most of my career on spurs just a fliplne i had a second rope on me if i had put that round the trunk beforei would of been ok . Well live and learn .

Its not been out yet, I'm getting quite irritated at DX for not delivering my new ladders, so cant do a small prune job I had lined up. I will hopefully get to test it on Mon or Tues. The guard is off, its three screws then an E clip from the inside. I got mine from PowerToolWorld who are now out of stock and put the price up to £400! As far as I know, theres no stock left in the UK.

Sounds like a good recovery for a 40ft fall! Get well soon. Do you want to return to tree work and climbing? I like to use a cinching anchor for pole work. Its a bit of annoyance but I prefer the extra safety of it.

Looking at the picture again it does look like the die back is coming from the ash tree behind but the photo quality’s making it hard to see what actually is going on!

I’d be more concerned about the one on the left as it looks like die back in the crown unless it’s a dead ash tree behind ! The die back from chestnut is usually caused by bleeding canker and when it gets to the stage of visible dieback it’s usually because the branches have large areas of non functioning cambium that makes them prone to branch failure. The tree on the right just has severe leaf minor which most chestnuts do … it usually starts to get very noticeable by the end of August.. best way of dealing with that is take all the leaves as soon as they drop and remove from site as the larvae will over winter in the ground once crawled from them .. it won’t stop it but trees I see that have this done look noticeably better.

I honestly dont know my other injuries were more severe and was on a lot of drugs for a while so never really had rhat much thought into it. i will have look to see if can find it but i think i threw it out so may never know. Did like the helmet seamed a lot lighter than other helmets

How did you got head injury , is helmet straps fail? You are 3 person i know,who hade accident wearing Kong helmet ……..

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@kram Have you used yet? Been considering that XGT saw

As above, our daughter and son in law, who is a mechanic, are intending to build on a derelict outfarm, we were up there today and the SIL said that he intends to buy a digger to clear the site and be there for the build. Which makes sense. Something about 8 tonne (ish) and at the rougher cheaper end of the spectrum. So what to look for, or what to avoid? I am entirely out of touch. Marcus

Nasty, nasty Get well soon mate Wake up call to look where your putting your krabs

Is it to replace post. Just cut with disc cutter twice.

These pictures wher taken weeks later when got my hair cut dont know why my helmet came undone

Hi, I have two, what I thought were horse chestnuts trees, are they? They both look sick especially the one on the right, is it okay? There does not appear to be any conkers on them, may be a few. I am sure they started off back in the spring with lots any idea why they would disappear?

I get you now. I clipped my flipline into a caritool once and leant back. Went arse over tit but luckily landed in a bush and only from about 10’, so only pride was damaged.