the 'todays job' thread

[Mark Bolam]

1 hour ago, kram said:

Had a small job, couple of skinny ash trees. After quoting I realised the larger, that I'd be anchoring on, had a lot of vertical splits in the bark and sign of white hyphae. No limbs low down but the top has buds all over. Possible dieback? None of them looked great but this was the only one with the splits.

 

Please give your opinions, how safe is this to climb?

 

I would have been happy climbing it to the V but not happy going much higher. I considered the tops a bit too large to control or rope on this stem, and with the phone lines, and a low roof, too much risk. Called in an experienced friend and he had it done in a couple hours.

 

From there I felled it and cleaned up the road. Its empty land at the moment so there was no need to log up or take it away.

 

Fair play Kram, good honest post.

[htb]

On 26/11/2025 at 21:02, Stephen Blair said:

Sure is, did you used to live locally?

Yep was near Huntly, but bailed out with all the shit from SSEN pylons and substations which is not needed. They wanted to put pylons on our fields, no asking, just slam dunk there you are. British and Scottish government along with SSEN are screwing up Scotland nicely, England and Wales are doing the same just a few years behind,

Sorry to be bitter but we are damaged after the last few years.

[nepia]

@htb -  I know a farmer who would agree with you.

 

A couple of his best fields in the pics thank you SSEN.

The building is 75m long, 25m tall.  Explosives were used to bury it 4m into the ground to reduce the environmental impact 🤣

Edited 9 hours ago by nepia

[htb]

1 hour ago, nepia said:

@htb -  I know a farmer who would agree with you.

 

A couple of his best fields in the pics thank you SSEN.

The building is 75m long, 25m tall.  Explosives were used to bury it 4m into the ground to reduce the environmental impact 🤣

Where abouts is that?

We lost 10% in value and consider ourselves lucky to loose as little, We know of someone else that lost 18%.

The 70m pylons are 140m from the house.

[nepia]

Wick.  It's a switching station built to receive wind generated power undersea from Shetland.

 

To be fair the financial side of things hasn't been ungenerous to the farmer although the farming became a nightmare for a couple of years.  Loss of the fields meant that the same stock was grazing less land which caused land management issues and two temporary access roads divvied the place up horribly affecting all 600+ acres of the farm

Edited 8 hours ago by nepia

[htb]

Plenty more to come for the wick area. To get any compensation from ssen we would have had to sold the house for what we could get, hold onto the land for the next 5-10 yrs and go after ssen for what we could get, too old old and damaged for all that malarkey for another 10-30k. And sell the land separately. 

[nepia]

Bloody hell.  Wick farmer hasn't had that aggro;  he found a land agent to act in his interests who has been brilliant.

 

Care to elaborate at all on 'plenty more to come for the Wick area' or is that not suitable info for here?

[kram]

23 hours ago, kram said:

Today I'm at home using the printer. I had an idea for a climbers scrench for adjusting chains. Works well but going to redesign it a bit. Its strong enough but the handle wants to be bigger.

 

Also printing some durable chain storage boxes. Having them loose is becoming a pain.

 

This is the current version, done by combining a few existing models into one and strengthening a lot. Possibly on the small side but very usable.

 

Gave one to a climber but all his Stuhls appear to be 19mm nuts, so I'll do some of those aswell.

 

 

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by kram

[green heart]

 

@kram I'm always impressed to see practical harnessing of 3D printers

-and have a question/job for you: 

Is it possible you might be able to flex your entreprenurial skills, to make up an 'adaptor piece', to allow the handy  'flip-out' harness hook, from a dcs2500 to be fitted/screwed onto a top-handled 2511 saw ??

 

If it works OK, I would be happy to pay/buy one -possibly along with quite a few others on here, I suspect ?

 

At, say, £20- each x a few hundred sales(?), it might be a little incentive to consider ?

 

No apology for the Thread-derail -I would plead there is a strong shared common interest here, your Honour..