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[roboted]

1 hour ago, peds said:

 

Were the guests rabbits?

Might as well have been for the nonsense they talked. American style team bonding. They pretty soon unbonded when a ferret popped up from behind the Pavlova.

Solicitors papers were received the following week.

Edited April 14 by roboted
Typo

[Doug Tait]

1 hour ago, roboted said:

Might as well have been for the nonsense they talked. American style team bonding. They pretty soon unbonded when a ferret popped up from behind the Pavlova.

Solicitors papers were received the following week.

 

Bet it was the best teamwork they ever accomplished, joint escape and evasion from the ferret!

[Doug Tait]

Couple of days ago we had a call out, "a bit of my tree is falling down onto the summerhouse, can you help?".

 

A large Copper Beech limb, contorted lump with historical wounds that were severely compromised and the whole thing was cracking away at the trunk with the tips resting on the summerhouse. It took a bit of working out but with a control line on the butt (wraps in the tree), the Hobbs attached towards the tips and a tag line to steady it, we got it lifted, separated from the tree and turned 90 degrees to lay it down on a path. No damage to the summerhouse.

 

 

 

 

So that was the challenge and it all went to plan, but once the chipping was done and we had the main limb on the ground, talk turned to the weight of it.

 

Four of us on site, four very different guesses! Once the lump was cut up and loaded on a trailer it went back to base via a weighbridge and we established the winner. I was unimpressed with my prize of a tin of mackerel.

 

 

If anyone wants to have a guess what the weight of it was, basically everything that didn't fit through an ST8 chipper went over the weighbridge, I'll reveal the load weight later...

[Mick Dempsey]

1200kg.

 

Ps, that’s the graft point isn’t it?

Edited August 3 by Mick Dempsey

[sandspider]

1350kg?

[Doug Tait]

31 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

 

 

Ps, that’s the graft point isn’t it?

 

You'll have a better idea than me about that but I'd think so.

 

Edit. Really not much left holding it up.

 

Edited August 3 by Doug Tait

[Bob_z_l]

1075kg

 

Good job.

 

[Mark Bolam]

980kg.

 

Can I have sardines please.

[Doug Tait]

1 minute ago, Mark Bolam said:

980kg.

 

Can I have sardines please.

 

Only if you win Mark!

[openspaceman]

1024kg