Peter

They don't move much do they?

No better, just more expensive.

75% of my clients pay me by BACS, and 99% of my suppliers get paid by BACS. It is significantly cheaper than any credit card setup.

Modify or make their own from scratch.....

There are a few 4wd kangoos out there if you look hard enough.

Got it, it's Homo sapiens. With some sort of greenery.

Parrotia persica?

Black, although the one on my 660 is the green one.

Hmmm, tempting.

Well, if I'm the only one can I have exclusive nationwide coverage?!

Cool, if you are going ahead put me down for one then.

Clicked yes, but I would pre-order when you have an idea of timescale.

If you selected the species and the planting site, then no. If they advised you to plant it there, then maybe. Just out of interest, were they container grown trees or bareroot?

Maybe I'v always been lucky with operators. I have also flown the platform for a colleague to cut, that is the fastest way although somewhat labour intensive. I just hate having to constantly put the saw down, move the basket, pick the saw up, put it down........ With a good operator the basket never stops moving, and the saw never stops cutting. I can see I'm not going to convert you so I'll leave it there! As to moving the basket and cutting simultaneously, that used to be standard practice with the versalift machines I used to use, if your hands were big enough you could span the controls with your left and and cut with your right. On the many of the modern machines however, you need to depress a foot pedal to make it go, so unless you cut a wedge to keep it permanently down, and you can run both joysticks with one hand, then I think you'd struggle. If you can then maybe a career in the circus beckons?

Same here, no price drop without a concession on the amount of work, ie they keep the chip or I just stack the brash, or my favourite kind of work, drop it and leave.

No, but you would still have to pay for the operator to drive it to site and then stand around all day smoking skinny rollups.

That is slightly ambiguous in your case, could either mean as it left the factory or in special non-sinking rig with flotation tyres and pontoon outriggers!

What grey areas? If the cutter is less than 5 metres from the operator then he is too close, you shouldn't be cutting.

I have my IPAF ticket, and I would still rather have an operator in a big truck mount. Makes the job so much smoother, I can just cut non stop, while he/she twiddles the levers.

So what exactly does the process of getting CE for each rope entail? Presumably your splices come with their own cert of conformity or whatever separate to the ropes EN?

Thanks Cleetus, very pleased to hear that you have got the CE. I was only joking about the burying machine, I know you can produce perfectly consistent splices by hand. Are you intending to get it for double braid as well?

I cleaned my 660 up with a brake cylinder hone and lots of wd40.

Rootzone Parking Areas you mean?

Are you going to try cleaning the cylinder up or is it too far gone?

No, the bollard/winch is only subjected to half the load of the pulley.