Thanks Felix the chopper

[geoff]

Thanks for today mate,you turned up so promptly you nearly had the oportunity to get an early morning getting into me skids type of lunge pic,

By way of excuse,I was on the end of my 3120 with a six foot bar on it for half of monday,so a bit sore.

Thanks again,and see you Thursday:thumbup1:

[felixthelogchopper]

Thanks for today mate,you turned up so promptly you nearly had the oportunity to get an early morning getting into me skids type of lunge pic,

By way of excuse,I was on the end of my 3120 with a six foot bar on it for half of monday,so a bit sore.

Thanks again,and see you Thursday:thumbup1:

 

No worries mate, enjoyed working with you

[Stephen Blair]

6 foot bar, pics please

[geoff]

Oh Steve,I only got one,and that was a one ton lump of oak that I cut a 'patented geoff strop hold' on, the trunk was in a ditch with all the bramble & blackthorn you could want,big old oak that fell a bit awkward.

But felix did see the bar,he was stroking it this morning & crooning gently.:001_smile:will get up any pics I can drag off the old work camera...

[felixthelogchopper]

Oh Steve,I only got one,and that was a one ton lump of oak that I cut a 'patented geoff strop hold' on, the trunk was in a ditch with all the bramble & blackthorn you could want,big old oak that fell a bit awkward.

But felix did see the bar,he was stroking it this morning & crooning gently.:001_smile:will get up any pics I can drag off the old work camera...

 

I nearly put my bloody back out lifting it off the Landy with the 3ft bar on it

[geoff]

Well you got luckier than me then..anyway just for Steve,the 'get lumps out of a ditch pics', you

 

need a landy,a small saw,and four bore cuts to the bark, and the same to the cut face,angle them so the cuts taper in as you bore,& the squares just flop out;

 

 

017 by geoff321, on Flickr

 

016 by geoff321, on Flickr

 

015 by geoff321, on Flickr

[Stephen Blair]

i have never thought of that and i have wrestled many a horrible piece of timber out a ditch, i usually dig under with the felling lever lol, thanks for the taper tip.

[geoff]

Keep it to yourself Steve,we dont want the likes of Mr Bolam and that Lofthouse bloke getting all competitive with us..

It actualy works quite well,this section had rolled back into the ditch,making it awkward to get a strop on,it was about 4 foot diameter,and 5 foot long:001_smile:

[Stephen Blair]

i sometimes cut a big V out the top to try and get a grip but its a hit and a miss, i like the notch a lot.

[Mark Bolam]

Damn cheek.

 

I would have given you £300 for that lump of Oak Geoff.

 

Without a hole in it.