Pete Mctree
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A good climber is not lazy. They will climb out that extra couple of yards to set the rigging or get the best tie in point, spend time to put the pull rope in the right place, not badly directed through a maze of branches etc. They will make the exra 2 cuts to make it managable on the ground. Makes all the difference sometimes
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Love the attention to detail, especially those lovely bolts in the hopper? & is there a guarentee it won't rattle to bits when being towed or used?
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Wow, loads of new members. Cool! Welcome all
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£320ish here a day. There are still firms going out for £235 here but the don't get much work done. I've lost jobs because i've been too cheap on the quotes before now. Pricing work was the hardest thing thing to learn for me setting up on my own. Even today, doing the work is often the easy bit
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It's safe for sure. A bit unnerving when you start out hearing the stem split and crack as you work the stem down
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Todays work was cancelled. Means I have enough time to sharpen and fix saws, look at work and rewire the lights on the chipper. Ain't spare time fun!
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Tockmal, i had a similar chainbreak problem with the 460. So stiff it was hard to use. I stripped the mechanism down, cleaned it and put plenty of WD40 on the whole thing. Has worked ok since. Not a cure for the heat problem but may make the action smoother & easier
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I have dumped my microcender and gone back to the VT on the wire core. I hated the extra link in the system, too much play
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I guess you scots don't read yourkshire too well? "throw the piece of crap in the bin and buy a husky" There ya go, wasn't that hard was it?
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thats why small chippers just don't need them, plus i prefer a low feed height. I guess it's a lazy thing
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In small chippers weight is king IMO, petrol engines are the only way i can see of building a substantial chipper below 750kg (with or without a turntable). The compramise i guess is the fuel bill and servicing issues, but power if the unit is selected carefully should not be an issue.
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Let me get this clear in my mind, you started cutting, you could not finnish your backcut so you STOPPED cutting to take your strop off? Was the top leaning towards the lay or fractured/contained cavities hence not suitable to climb? Sorry bout all the questions but trying to get a clear pic of what happened
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Oh well it does happen to even the best of us! Lesson learnt about remembering to run the rope through the porty both ways to avoid it twisting Exscuse me whilst I skulk away to the corner to hide my shame and embarrasment
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Always put the strop to your centre D, you might get stuck but you aint gonna fall if the stem does split
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There seemed to be a great deal of line between you block and where you tied it to the top. That will always give you a nice shock load and ride
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I'd look at the rating of the krab not what it's made of. If the ratings are equal, in theory they will fail at the same load, just one will bend and the other fracture. Either way youv've screwed up!
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my mother was nice to me too
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Well we might be able to kill a few trees but us fellas aint gonna be winning any beauty prizes for sure
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chillin in the sun in OZ
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sad news indeed
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Nice pics Pete, I love this thread, more pics please
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Are there palm trees in the UK?
Pete Mctree replied to MasterBlaster's topic in International Arborist Forum
S*** that was a close call. I hope someone bought that fireman at least his own bodyweight in beer. -
My family biz is the restoration and refurbishment of houses, so I watch the house prices carefully. I imagine a small drop if things stay as they are, but if the interest rates go up, the repo's will start and a crash will come. If so i will just buy another couple of houses!
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on a stem I love my ropeguide when doing ivy covered removals I can move down to my next point and clear it without having to spike through the crappy stuff
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It's ok being critical looking at pics on the net, i did not see the tree. I usually make a point of clearing the ivy around me. But part of that is my paranoia of cutting my ropes when they are unseen
