At work today

[Doug Tait]

Have a couple days work in a local village (overstood Beech hedge reduction). There's quite a strange little building currently being done up adjacent to the house. Apparently in WW2 the house was owned by the British Ambassador to a far Eastern country who constructed a bomb shelter in his garden for the village. The shelter remained and at some point had a fireplace fitted and was connected to the house.

 

It's currently being done up with bigger windows and a log burner fitted. The builder said the walls and roof are all 3' thick reinforced concrete.

 

The reason for a shelter in such a rural position was an incendiary munitions factory a few miles away as the crow flies at Charlesfield, there was a fake factory in the fields close to where the shelter was built to confuse the Luftwaffe.

 

Found it very interesting, took the mind off of scrabbling along on top of a hedge!

 

 

 

[Doug Tait]

Very enjoyable Ash dismantle today.

Branches cut and chucked, when it came to the timber used the the grcs combined with the chipper winch. The guys snap cut them then backed the basket off and I broke them off with the winch, held them on the grcs and floated them out to the drop zone. Great feeling having lumps of timber hovering, one finger on the remote, other hand on the lowering rope, laying them gently in a pile.

 

Just not much time for photography.

 

 

 

 

[AHPP]

Aye. That looks lovely. Now I have a GRCS, I don't want to climb. I want to hang around on the ground and listen to it click as I wind the handle.

 

The picker. Getting to grips with the nomenclature of them. Is that what's called a stick boom with a fly jib?

Edited April 4 by AHPP

[Doug Tait]

It's a stick boom but I don't know about the fly jib part.

[Joe Newton]

Yes that's what it is. 

[Doug Tait]

Re-topping Leylandii for a mate today. By 11am my t540 started playing up, after lunch it'd start (eventually) with choke but died as soon as it got revs so gave up with it.

 

As I was grumbling about using a bigger saw my mate produced his battery saw, has it in his pickup for making small branches he finds when shooting pickup size to take home. I gave it a go to please him and bugger me, it finished the job on a battery and a half! I am prepared to be ridiculed.

 

 

 

And a couple of interested spectators...

 

 

 

[Mark Bolam]

The mad bastard has removed the guard!

[AHPP]

They're not stupid at all. 

[Doug Tait]

Bang on, when you're dragging one around on a harness you want to keep the weight to a minimum.

[Dan Maynard]

Well if touching a Makita saw makes you homosensual then I don't know what using one of those must do...

 

But I would have done that with my 8" bar Makita saw from the start, bugger using a great big petrol topper for that type of job.