Mr Ed

I find that a combination of Trinitrotoluene, Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine, ethylenedinitramine and Mercury(II) fulminate works wonders. Never had any regrowth yet.

''Mumph mumph scrunch scrunch chomp. nothing like a fresh dog butty'' said the carnivorous car seat.

I do have a pic somewhere on 35mm film. It was in a suburb outside Brisbane, the property sat at the top of a small ravine, the tree started 120' below the house and tipped out over 100' above. I had to remove 1 large limb, and only had a 45m rope. I climbed to the top for the sheer hell of it, but found I nearly ran out of rope walking out on the limb... Had to rerope 4 times to get down...

Blethers! great word

You'd be better of trying David Owen at Glasfryn Fencing.

200ft Eucalyptus.

I'm not a Clarkson fan by any means, but his take on the future recession has a ring of truth to it... ''We’re all still plunging hither and thither, guzzling wine and wondering what preposterously expensive electronic toys the children will want to smash on Christmas morning this year. We can’t see the meteorite coming either. I think mainly this is because the government is not telling us the truth. It’s painting Gordon Brown as a global economic messiah and fiddling about with Vat, pretending that the coming recession will be bad. But that it can deal with it. I don’t think it can. I have spoken to a couple of pretty senior bankers in the past couple of weeks and their story is rather different. They don’t refer to the looming problems as being like 1992 or even 1929. They talk about a total financial meltdown. They talk about the End of Days. Already we are seeing household names disappearing from the high street and with them will go the suppliers whose names have only ever been visible behind the grime on motorway vans. The job losses will mount. And mount. And mount. And as they climb, the bad debt will put even more pressure on the banks until every single one of them stutters and fails. The European banks took one hell of a battering when things went wrong in America. Imagine, then, how life will be when the crisis arrives on this side of the Atlantic. Small wonder one City figure of my acquaintance ordered three safes for his London house just last week. Of course, you may imagine the government will simply step in and nationalise everything, but to do that, it will have to borrow. And when every government is doing the same thing, there simply won’t be enough cash in the global pot. You can forget Iceland. From what I gather, Spain has had it. Along with Italy, Ireland and very possibly the UK. It is impossible for someone who scored a U in his economics A-level to grapple with the consequences of all this but I’m told that in simple terms money will cease to function as a meaningful commodity. The binary dots and dashes that fuel the entire system will flicker and die. And without money there will be no business. No means of selling goods. No means of transporting them. No means of making them in the first place even. That’s why another friend of mine has recently sold his London house and bought somewhere in the country . . . with a kitchen garden. These, as I see them, are the facts. Planet Earth thought it had £10. But it turns out we had only £2. Which means everyone must lose 80% of their wealth. And that’s going to be a problem if you were living on the breadline beforehand. Eventually, of course, the system will reboot itself, but for a while there will be absolute chaos: riots, lynchings, starvation. It’ll be a world without power or fuel, and with no fuel there’s no way the modern agricultural system can be maintained. Which means there will be no food either. You might like to stop and think about that for a while. I have, and as a result I can see the day when I will have to shoot some of my neighbours - maybe even David Cameron - as we fight for the last bar of Fry’s Turkish Delight in the smoking ruin that was Chipping Norton’s post office. I believe the government knows this is a distinct possibility and that it might happen next year, and there is absolutely nothing it can do to stop Cameron getting both barrels from my Beretta. But instead of telling us straight, it calls the crisis the “credit crunch” to make it sound like a breakfast cereal and asks Alistair Darling to smile and big up Gordon when he’s being interviewed. I can’t say I blame it, really. If an enormous meteorite was heading our way and the authorities knew it couldn’t be stopped or diverted, why bother telling anyone? Best to let us soldier on in the dark until it all goes dark for real. '' Jeremy Clarkson, Dec 7th 2008

err... if you need to know basic stuff like that, you need to get in someone experienced and learn from how they do it. crane work is like some other treework operations - someone who knows what their doing will make it look easy, but if you DONT know or understand the extra forces involved, the risk of damage or injury is exponentionaly greater.

Made me laugh again, you quoting it.

Very true, and just like the surfeit of firms after '87, the past 10 years of borrowed jam has created thousands of tree surgery business' that will not survive the coming difficulties. Small with very low overheads will survive the best methinks.

Jeez. Corsa owners forum. I reckon they must take turns with the braincell over there. fwiw, it did make me laugh though

err.... You are kidding right? You obviously were not in treework during the last recession - That wiped out a lot of tree surgery companies.

I salute your Grandfather and his unconventional methods. Looks a very good setup you have there.

Like this - http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170293840864&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:MOTORS:1123

Dean. I cant take you seriously since your avatar sex change op.

All saws can give trouble. Husky have let their design quality slip slightly on their smaller saws in the past few years, but they are certainly not 'unreliable tat'

Nene Overland wanted £3400 for the exact same body that I paid £1150 for.

Can you PM me details Richard?

The Makita is not a 'reworked' Dolmar, its a Dolmar with Makita Badge. as such, I think the 9010 is a good competitor to the 395 or 660.

the riff at 3.05 is probably the most awsome 3 notes ever played in the history of music. Oh yes, cheers for FSOL Atree. anybody remember before FSOL they were called Stakker?

Nene Overland are ridiculously expensive - real Joke prices. I made my own cross body toolbox in the end, But I'm working on a rather clever toolbox at the moment.

I miss the Husky 242 and 254. When they were available, there was'nt a stihl that could touch them on power, reliability and toughness. Millions of tonnes of forestry timber was cut with them. So why do they then build junk like the 346 and 357? as a husky man, I miss the old daze.

about the 4th time thats been posted. looks a lot of fun...

What flail are you using Richard? I need to flail some light gorse and heavy bramble...

I'm running 3/8's Steve, not got round to putting .325 on it yet.