Today's Posts

The petrol Hondas on the 125 and 160 are great. The bigger ones (makes escape me) less proven. A couple of clients with the petrol 280 have had hot starting problems, some vapour locky kind of thing I think. The Briggs EFI gets a pasting from one guy in particular on here but I have heard of others with the same problem. The Kubota diesel that goes in everything is well proven. Mick said the engine code. 1505?

You youngsters don't remember the days before chippers were ubiquitous, climbing into the back of the truck to rasher down lop ad top, several times . Probably achieved a 3 or 4 to 1 reduction, compared to the 15:1 I saw quoted for a chipper. Actually rashing was a reasonably dangerous activity , often involving remounting saw chains. Doubly dangerous if done in the back of a luton body.

There are a couple of ex-solders on here, maybe they might chip in with any advice using your background that might make you more employable - perhaps give general hints and tips about transitioning from soldiering to tree work.

I think that's the thing, no one setup is ideal for every job. I have a 12 foot trailer and mini chipper, I can take chipper and either muck truck or mini loader in a bit less than half the space. Perfect for 1-2 man jobs, can do reductions or take down small-medium tree and fit everything on, or run off and tip chip before taking logs home. Take the chipper to the tree saves a lot of dragging if there's any distance involved. Bigger trees with 3 or 4 people, having only one muck truck starts to be the bottleneck, but at that point I'm getting mates in - they bring a tipper and chipper and we now have a 12 foot trailer as well as the tipper, which can shift 2.5 tons of wood per load legally. But - I'm mostly around the villages nearby. Landrover and trailer is a bit of a nightmare when heading in to the city. Then you want a nice Nissan with 2p turning circle. One more thing - trailer is the ideal setup if you live anywhere near a vosa weighbridge, transit has almost no legal payload.

Hanged.

I burn a reasonable amount of euc that I grow and coppice myself. I leave it lying sometimes for 3 months or more after felling and don't find it hard to split with an axe. Though I don't tend to let it get much bigger than 25cm dia or so before I coppice it. I also find it seasons quickly in a polytunnel, once split. The bark is thick & quite watertight, though.

Lifted from the insufferable morning people thread. What are the business pros and cons?

Gradual progression for five today Wordle 1,509 5/6* 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Good morning Arbtalkers 😊

A bit of hedge trimming. Used the Makita UH006.

Loni Anderson. Remember WKRP in Cincinati?

Careful now the conspiracy theorist accusations will be coming your way soon, try to remember this thread is dedicated to TDS.

@Abbey CIt is perfect for rough undulating ground, not so good for formal bowling green type lawns. in fact I will probably being using mine tomorrow.

Good experienced climber around Oxfordshire paye £40-45k

Good luck finding a church of Scotland pile down there mukkah

Absolutely, for reductions. Repollarding lime, or reducing conifer hedge though - just lots and lots of cuts under 1.5". No need for power but light saw that doesn't have a pull cord.

A couple from MaJorka

In that case you're back to the general rule of climbing gear - if in doubt bin it. It's not worth risking yourself to save a few quid.

Just try one they are not cheap but a lot of steel fixers use them no pilot holes and drill straight through 20mm thick steel you need high powered impact 1/2 or 3/4 drive and plenty of cutting grease it’s a easy tool to use especially up in a cheery picker I’d link a video but haven’t a clue how to

I wouldn't blame either of these, rather a combination of cutting back too far in the past and branches being shaded by the tree that was removed. What is dead, is dead. Conifer like that has no buds on old wood, it won't sprout back from the bottom so they will always grow like lollipops. I'd take them out, surprised whoever took the other tree out didn't recommend it. As above laurels not a bad shout, otherwise Thuja, maybe yew. There's no magic, fast growing to cover the windows sooner means more work maintaining in future.

Personally, I would set up a Paypal account. I use Paypal regularly to buy and sell things. I would be reticient to use it as a soul source of payment, but it has its moments. Just add on any merchant fees to your fee.

Brother broke his shooting stick Made a new stick from elm but it was too bendy so made this one out of ash. Tested my sowing skills on the leather