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Nice day for windy pops! Good work.
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I like to get some weight off the rigging point, not generally too bothered about anything else. That tree had stood in that exposed windy spot for at least 50 years, so I reckon it was probably used to it!
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That would have been a 2 cut jobbie in Queens Park Instead it was a 2 day rig a thon. Oh well, it all brings in the pennies.
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The wind was about 35 degrees, gusting up to 45 degrees. If you dont know what a 45 degree wind is, you've never worked in one!
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Believe it or not, I think you would have struggled getting the little green machine in round the corner. The alley was exactly 3 feet wide, with a right angled turn in it. Nowhere to put the chip in a tiny garden anyhow. The farmer wanted £200 for access over his land. Everything was lowered except for about 10 discs off the bottom, when riggin down flippin great lumps would have compromised the shed. I dont do lowering small bits.... The irony of the big V seems to be lost on the client........................ .............until I nip back tonight and carve two fingernails at the top!
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View from the top. You can just about see Ely cathedral.
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Big hybrid poplar, small garden, long drag. Very windy.
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Along the Marriot golf course? Yes, I'm interested.
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Which road is it? I have done some roadside work in Worsley.....
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With you. I have seen a similar technique using 2 ropes.
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You can run out of the second rope Will, I think thats what Steve is getting at. It would have to be less then half the length of the first rope, so its unlikely, but still possible.
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
Peter replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
I think so. I await confirmation from a more experienced fungi identifier... -
Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
Peter replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Think they were turkeys. Council owned street trees..... -
Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
Peter replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
On oak.
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Depth guage tool - does a faster way to get depth guages right exist?
Peter replied to Rob D's topic in Maintenance help
I'v done it with a flap disc on a small grinder. Gotta use a light touch though! -
self propelled chipper (Shreks wee chipper)
Peter replied to Stephen Blair's topic in Large equipment
You need to upload the vid to youtube first, then embed it here. -
Cool. You'll be glad to know that the truck is empty (of diesel) and full (of woodchip). Haha.
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How did it go then Steve?
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That big drag rig is very cool. I'm guessing most of your gum timber gets landfilled?
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I thought MEWP stood for My Extreme Work Positioning?
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
Peter replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Fuligo septica, dog's vomit fungus? Actually a slime mound rather than a fungus. -
Your probably right. Even better, dogs with guns. Kill two birds with one stone.
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I recently did a job at a vehicle recovery yard. They recover and store vehicles as evidence for the police and the CPS. Their yard was broken into, over a 6 foot fence with razor wire, and then into a locked warehouse, where they torched a car that was due to be used in evidence in a big trial. The two large hungry Rottweillers patrolling the yard were poisoned. The other cars in the warehouse all went up in the subsequent fire, including some of the owner's own classic cars, among them a Cortina previously owned by a member of the royal family. Just goes to show if they are determined enough there are no lengths to which they will not go.
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Sorry, misread your first post.
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To distinguish the work of a McShifty from field mice or squirells, the McShifty will typical open them by smashing against his own forehead, before washing down said nuts with a generous swig of Guinness. Look for abandoned nesting sites of the McShifty in the vicinity of the stolen nuts, a patch of flattened grass, and often small patches of chain oil on the ground from the creature's leaky chainsaws. One final note of caution, a wild McShifty should never be approached before 10am, or his second large coffee of the day, whichever comes first. He is likely to become enraged, and may even (over)charge.
