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John Shutler

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  1. careful he’ll get angry again
  2. i know 🤣
  3. Most of my machines have their own grease gun which goes out with the machine, just buy whatever cheap one the local ag place has in stock at the time. Got a Milwaukee battery one when doing machines in the yard, but as with all things they have a time and place
  4. Calm down eggs. The last thing you need is to have a funny turn, because a man on the internet made you more angry about something you were already really furious about.
  5. ohh dear eggs, your really bent out of shape about the whole carparking thing arnt you. why not go and park up in a lay-by instead of getting all annoyed that a charity wanted to charge you to use their car park.
  6. ahh love you to 😘
  7. I think that's the mentality of the "van lifers" though.
  8. don’t you remember? I asked you an awkward question at the APF but you just turned round and walked off
  9. I'm potentially going to melton mobrey Friday this week to pick up a robocut flail and il pretty much be going past rugby. obviously that won't work with your mate but I'm coming over to my place in the vendee on the 10th of June so could bring it over with me then
  10. yeah it’s a bit weird what does OF even mean?
  11. i think it’s hard to go back to not using comms when you’ve used them for a while. i think they are essential for some tasks, and i flatly refuse to do any of our roto stuff without them. on my AAAC audits i’ve had a number of comments about how calm the sites are which IMO is down to the comms as there’s no shouting we’ve used sena for years but i’m not convinced they are the best solution as can be temperamental
  12. so did you shag her or not?
  13. @aspenarb bob, can you provide any more info on your blade sharpener? i think you said it was a modified cylinder mower sharpener?
  14. the visor works very well for the grcs. i’ve had mine for 13 years and never had any issues with it moving with or without the visor
  15. pattern blades from HQ chipper parts are much cheaper, about half the price of heizo ones and just as good
  16. Although any excavation within an RPA needs to be justified the reality is that the % of incursion will be so low that there won’t be a negative impact. that coupled with a bit of arb supervision during the works and you should be ok
  17. i’ve just taken on a SSSI site and am in dialogue with Natural England about what they want to see in terms of management moving forward. We also had to get permission from NE for the tree safety works around the perimeter adjacent to the highway, this involved the he submission of a method statement for approval which detailed how the works would be carried without causing harm to the SSSI. we were also given a period for when the works must be completed, in our case it was an 8 week window.
  18. bit of a mixed bag of work recently. Bit of mulching to finish off a little clearance job. a 30m dead scotspine which we took down with a 35m hoist and roto for the timber under 25m. sugar maple removal with the roto and a fair reach into a garden and a fiddly little oak reduction that we’ve done every 3 years since 2011ish
  19. I generally tell people these days to do nothing till they can't stand the thing anymore then fell it.
  20. we changed the sprocket and nose sprocket on the bar of my 88 so that it runs 3/8s. the only reason we did it is that all my other saws run 3/8s and we buy chain by the reel. i’d never make enough .404 chains to warrant buying a reel of the stuff so it works quite well
  21. don’t stress about transport, having a can do attitude goes a long way. my first tree job i used to ride my bike to the station, get a train, then ride to the yard. don’t stress about having a car or moped, just work towards it. personally if you can manage without a moped then save up for a car and some lessons and you’ll be sorted. turning up on time and getting stuck in goes way further than having motorised transport at 16 imo
  22. i agree josh, there’s definitely some Oak in there. value is a funny old thing, to a bunch of tree men the value paid is over the top, to the homeowner who now has a driveway full of timber maybe it seems more reasonable irrespective of the time and cost to process it.

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