MattyF

After watching that new take that documentary on Netflix my opinion of Robbie and the rest of take that has not changed and I’m usually nostalgic about 90’s stuff but I can say I’ve awlays hated them with a passion… I’ve maybe grown to appreciate dire straits but I don’t think Robbie and his mates will ever hold anything but loathing… maybe followed closely by E17 and blue

As much or as little is needed , whole tree if I have too… but I’ll look at it like if I am using it it’s usually because what ever is compromised , obviously you would not be dumping half tonne lumps on it without a bollard too… but you can rig a crappy ash on it safe that your not doubling the loads on your rigging points and when you get half way in to decent timber put the lumps with a wrap on a device on bottom too… if you had too.

That in a nutshell , I would not want to imagine the ball ache of having a portawrap in a tree , safe bloc is more than capable and easy to reposition and no hassle. sorry for posting this again , but to me it proves the simple beauty of the device that has all the benefits you want or need in this scenario. Matthew Fathers (@matty_arb) • Instagram photos and videos WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM 110 likes, 8 comments - matty_arb on September 27, 2018: "Why I love the #safebloc old lime pollard that had dropped a primary stem on a house and log shed the rest on the...

We were told that they won’t replace copper lines at all , any new lines will be fibre and that won’t happen to where we live , too much to damage it if they did anyway.

We all use our mobiles off star link as no phone signal , most business seems to be over emails and mobiles , the only issue we had and we have three star link meshes over two houses is about 6 months ago we could not take calls off the mesh in our house off our mobiles .. I can’t remember why .. maybe was an apple update that didn’t like star link but after a week it sorted itself out and has been fine since… speed wise it’s unreal you could have two tellies streaming and three phones at the same time and it doesn’t buffer.

We have star link but not as a landline … to be honest I didn’t know you could do that ! But will look in to it … Our internet and landline is shocking as being copper cable and it having maybe one or two timber wagons/ harvesters / forwarders drive through it at least once a year and BT wont replace the copper cable, star link was the only option… can’t fault it for internet though.

As mick says …. There is and always has been a lot of dogs out there , unless you where spending 40k and not from Vos I would not even consider one… if anything goes wrong like brakes it will be a 1 k minimum repair bill. we had few 900’s and a 1000 over the years and for the best part they sat in the yard as no one wanted to drive a slow ,left hand drive monstrosity to site… the fact you don’t want to use a chipper on one would remove about the only plus point they do have as being able to use a large chipper off road has its benefits although they are no where near as good as a standard tractor in off road ability… I’ve seen them stuck on ploughed Feilds… that’s just my two pence worth… personally I would go the land rover or 4x4 pick up route

They should have them Mike , they replaced mine within the time line of this thread

Still on hitch based , I’ve tried most mechanicals going and they where just not for me … I did change recently to an apex wrench though which I really liked to start off with as it tended so well but found more recently it binds the hitch up solid so I guess I still need to add some friction and have a play but I just don’t get the time like I used to to fine tune things.

Like I said I’ve not looked past x static last 5 years Joe , it’s good to have some new recommendations though so thanks, I miss that about the forum !

I have never looked passed xstatic the last few years going through 3 of them , before that I liked the non ce cougar blue but was a bit heavy and briefly I think sterling scion which felt like cheese wire.. yeah x static seems to offer what I want out of a rope for srs with minimum stretch whilst still feeling good in hand whilst probably not the lightest I’m not a fan of ultra thin ropes and it’s cheap.

That was its original bar from one of the first 500i , it’s had two nose sprockets on ..one a few weeks before 3 t of ash pinched and rolled on it popping the saw apart anyway.. I know years back I had 200ts which had the spark plugs helicoiled back in … they never lasted though , I’d just buy a new head or saw.

I never found the spark plug on this one… would not like to guess where it went 🫣

I’m guessing stoat mate

Still a lot of work and money goes in to get 10 birds a gun. im no expert Alex but most I ever picked up was chatting to keepers in the pub afterwards, one of them ray was an absolute legend , quiet composed man who had been a marine In the Korean War then came to the estate I lived on at the time, he had personally planted and looked over the woods since then .. taught me more than any book Ive picked up since.