the 'todays job' thread

[Mark Bolam]

That is John’s video.

It’s the tidiest site you’ve ever seen.

 

He is Hampshire’s Elon Musk.

[slack ma girdle]

22 hours ago, NJA said:

Good job we didn't get it dirty before it's maiden voyage!

You weren't too bad didn't even need L plates😂

Looking good.

[peds]

Fourteen and a half spruce, a handful straight felled but most tugged down with the tracked chipper. I managed three without touching the ground, and could have swung over for three more, but thought I should probably go down and be social for some of the day.

 

 

 

 

 

Heading back at some point for a sycamore, a dead pine, and the lowest limbs of a macrocarpa overhanging the laneway.

 

 

 

 

[slack ma girdle]

3 hours ago, peds said:

Fourteen and a half spruce, a handful straight felled but most tugged down with the tracked chipper. I managed three without touching the ground, and could have swung over for three more, but thought I should probably go down and be social for some of the day.

 

 

 

 

 

Heading back at some point for a sycamore, a dead pine, and the lowest limbs of a macrocarpa overhanging the laneway.

 

 

 

 

That was the most half arsed woop i have ever heard.  Ten out of ten for the least amount of effort.

[peds]

8 hours ago, slack ma girdle said:

That was the most half arsed woop i have ever heard.  Ten out of ten for the least amount of effort.

 

Sorry boss, I forgot to pack my weekday enthusiasm into my weekend work bag. I'll address this.

[peds]

Took a few low limbs and broken branches from a beautiful big macrocarpa, and a load of deadwood from a corsican pine, overhanging someone's lane; then spent about 7 minutes rounding off a tiny little birch in the middle of town; the we had an hour or so to kill before the rain started, so we blocked up a trailerful of an Eowyn sycamore (stem off to the left there)... glad it wasn't my saw that found and powered through this buried nail, from a piece a good 15 feet up in the tree!

 

 

 

 

The homeowner later confirmed that there was indeed a treehouse up there in the past, a few decades ago...

 

[maybelateron]

The most bizarre thing I had to do some years ago was use a 9 inch angle grinder up in a large beech tree to remove the over engineered tree house - heavy gauge 2 inch angle iron that the main substems had grown round. Then cable tied red fabric to all the protruding metal stubs before a chainsaw went up the tree.

[Mark Bolam]

Blackthorn clearance from last week.

Ripeur 2 gloves essential.

[peds]

13 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Ripeur 2 gloves essential.

Djaknow how when you get a thorn in the knuckle you basically turn into a cloven-hooved beast of the field?

 

I was chatting to a homeowner on teabreak just a couple of weeks ago (two day leylandii hedge removal pictured below, 36m³ chip; we were given tea, scones, fruit cake, apple pie with cream... bloody lovely customers), who shoots a bit of venison. Now, he was told, by some fella at some point in history, that if you take a beef roasting joint and stud it with blackthorns, in the same way that you'd stud a Christmas ham with cloves, then it pretty much turns it into venison. Ultra-traditional recipe, apparently. 

It's an intriguing idea which, let's be honest, sounds like total bollocks. But I wonder if whatever substance that causes the reaction to a blackthorn prick might tenderise your meat in some way...

 

We don't eat much beef, but I'm tempted to give it a go at some point. 

 

[Mark Bolam]

But wouldn’t it be a bit prickly to swallow?