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John Shutler

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  1. i quite like the idea of one of the orange ones ed mentioned on another thread. bet many people will cry out when i say i bought it over the 441
  2. hehe hoping it might catch on. running a 28in bar with no problems though
  3. the but sections went to robert dyer who has the alaskan mills at the arb shows, the main section had quite extensive decay though, all the rest is fire wood. i started climbing at 8 and was finished by 3 with a tea break and lunchbreak and went back the next day to fell the stem and sort it out for collection by farwells with the timber lorry all done by lunch. so a day and a half total. the guys on the ground were brilliant,having the digger and grain trailers sped things up as stuff could be dropped big and handled with the machinery.there was a fair bit of rigging, didnt want to damage the hedging below and the main gas pipeline that ran down one side
  4. yep, it was a shame. but as mentioned on an earlier thread there were many reasons why it came down, unfortunately i can only point out the defects in the tree and the associated risks. the decision to remove was not mine. but better i have the work than someone else
  5. doh. no i didnt.
  6. cheers for putting the link up
  7. yes these are the pics from the job about a month ago, it was felled, i did try to persuade the farmer to retain it as a monolith, it was by far the biggest oak on the farm and it was really sad to see it go. id previously deadwooded as it grew over the track to his neighbours house, and it had shed one large limb over the track
  8. last one
  9. some pics from a job a couple of weeks ago
  10. never thought of that
  11. and power cables
  12. its probably a work placement, ive subbyed to firms with work placement lads, and they are actually not obliged to pay them anything
  13. to be honest id probably stick with the tm stuff
  14. the armour prus is brilliant on arbormaster i nearly cried when my armour prus was ruined by a giant fir takedown
  15. yep tickets bought, lets make it a good one this year guys
  16. link doestnt seem to work
  17. ditto if you cant get the armor-prus then liros herkules is pretty good on the arbormaster
  18. you dont need to drag brash to be a tree officer, but it will give you an insight into what the world of tree work is like at the practical end...bloody hard, and as a tree officer it might just make you spec realistic work
  19. i run 28 on mine
  20. makita, brilliant saw, mine runs a 28in bar effortlessly, cant sing its praises enough. ed id quite fancy an orange one to

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