John Shutler
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Nothing of much interest over the last couple of weeks, i’ve been doing lots of development site surveys and the guys have been working on a couple of tree safety contracts for local councils. I cut an access through a hedge with ecologist supervision then made some log/habitat stacks on another development site down in dorset to satisfy an ecology condition. took a couple of knackered beech out with the roto on another site as well. i suppose variety is the spice of life IMG_2165.MOV
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fair enough. Ive got an idea of what id charge and reckon I could fell it for the same sort of money as it would cost to prune it
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he made a nice job on that hedge mick. any ideas what sort of money he had on it? I've turned up to price a few jobs like that and ended up convincing them to fell instead
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Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
John Shutler replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
remarkable field maple from a development site survey today IMG_2257.MOV -
I had a a cone splitter on my 7 tonne machine and it was hopeless, sold it and bought a westtech cracker instead. Woodcracker L | WESTTECH .:. Woodcracker WWW.WESTTECH.AT you could run it off a spool on your tractor and feed it with the crane on the trailer all from the comfort of the cab. mines actually now bolted to the side of my heizohack
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cleared cache and still having issues steve
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sorry 🤣 iphone and safari
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@Steve Bullman how do you do that? remember your talking to a technology luddite
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@Steve Bullman dont seem to be able to upload videos from iphone now steve
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Been taking a conifer hedge out this week. 180 cube of chip and about 20 tonne of timber. ran over the site with the mulcher today to sort out the rake up. fitted in a couple of council jobs and a separate little chipping job with the heizohack as well IMG_1980.MOV IMG_1980.MOV
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potbellied would suggest the rest of me is skinny, whereas the reality is that i’ve got a fairly even covering of lard
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i’ve got the Femac rev forestal heavy duty swinging hammer version with the hollow rotor. it’s always gone well on my jcb and the volvo before it but always thought about a fixed tooth one. do a video if you ever get a chance mate
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@Stephen Blair
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how does it run that fixed tooth mulcher @stephenblair
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you sound bitter
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the top of that timber was 020 cut size such is the efficiency of the GRCS
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Ive had a GRCS for about 15 years and am actually on my second one, prior to that I had a German reproduction of a Hobbs style device that I bought off sparsholt college for about £900. Id credit getting the GRCS as the starting point of heading in a mechanised direction, simply because we removed trees in larger pieces so needed an ability to move large sections of timber more efficiently so in 2011 bought a boxer skid steer and the rest is history. when I first bought it we were doing lots of back garden/confined space removals, It allowed us to remove trees in a style not dissimilar to using a crane by lifting and then lowering. I wish I could be bothered to trawl through nearly 18 years worth of pictures on arbtalk to find more GRCS ones but have to much else to do. Over the years its been essential to my way of working and its really only since I've owned a roto that we don't use it so much anymore.
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i have got 7 batteries at the yard 🤣
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i’ve got the 1/2 inch and 3/8ths milwaukee ones, very good bits of kit
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another mixed bag of jobs. A 2m Oak reduction for a housing association with an overkill of a chipper. Flailing some scrub around some test pits with eco supervision for a development site. Winching a windblown conifer over a footpath back into a field for a LA. Valtra with the 30cube trailer coming back for a second load. IMG_1584.MOV IMG_1494.MOV
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myself and one other the other guys were talking about the glory days when every tree wagon had a massive set of triple extensions on the roof. straight to the top of the ladders then pretty much free climb upto top anchor.
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We require an additional climber in the New Forest on a sub contract basis. We undertake a nice variety of works in the commercial and domestic sectors. 730am - 430pm Rates to be discussed Plenty of plant used to reduce effort required Call 07731929194 for a chat thanks John Shutler IMG_1233.MOV
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bought a pickup with a loan of 3k in 2006 and started doing some bits alongside my climbing job. bought a 5k chipper in 2008 with a bank loan, my folks were pretty concerned at the time and wanted to make sure “ knew what i was doing” 16 years later i’ve got about 400k worth of kit: bought a house 11 years ago in the new forest and some land over the next couple of years which had appreciated nicely. bought a place in france a coupe of years again and just sold that for a profit and bought another. i’ve worked pretty hard and enjoyed myself along the way
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Turn out your pockets, sonny Jim. This is an EDC thread.
John Shutler replied to AHPP's topic in The Lounge
different day, different opinel. out and about with a no8. white powder isnt cocaine, rather residue from plasterboarding
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Turn out your pockets, sonny Jim. This is an EDC thread.
John Shutler replied to AHPP's topic in The Lounge
opinel no9 this is a slightly posher one with a walnut handle but still phenomenally good value
