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  1. MattyF
    First lot looks more like whitebeam and goat willow but not sycamore to me …second lot is white willow
  2. MattyF
    Was that the guy who Jonny quick rang up in that video and propper wound him up?
  3. MattyF
    Take off the tool crab gate so you can be quick draw McGraw..
  4. MattyF
    Thanks Alex I wonders where I’ve been going wrong all these years , now it’s obvious I’ll bow down to the GRCS and your skills 👍
  5. MattyF
    Years back I was on a site and the guy who was responsible for health and safety of the company had been demoted to grinder operator to actually do something useful for the day on a all hands on deck job, we had been winching trees ahead and chipping them on a site clearance , we stopped briefly to discuss the next tree and turning around and seeing clouds of smoke from engine oil draining in to the exhaust and him with his hands on his head doing a mad dance around in circles to a rolled machine on virtually flat ground , I looked at the boss and he looks at me and muttered something about the babe can’t even do that without messing it up before running over and turning it off.
  6. MattyF
    Nearly as much as the GCRS hey! It it’s half the weight though.. I’d like to see if you could put an impact wrench on that front nut and use it for lifting.
  7. MattyF
    I’ve sorted it mate, I used to be able to just paste in links without using the toolbar but I can’t now but I’ve figured it out.
  8. MattyF
    https://www.felthorpelawnmowers.co.uk/product/treehog-rigging-winch/ GRCS from wish ???
  9. MattyF
    https://youtu.be/2oi4LgI3sMg shite if you can’t speak German really 😂
  10. MattyF
    Tried it on that post and it would not let me paste the link
  11. MattyF
    it’s not let me insert any links for ages, maybe a year …
  12. MattyF
    Maybe this is as close as we can get in Europe … arb talk won’t let me post videos from YouTube for some reason but google this device.
  13. MattyF
    Alex I get you ! I really do but … setting up a cradle and pulling it around with the Hobbs, it just won’t be as fluid plucks and take a lot longer..but it will do it. For me usually the upper crown you can use weight and leverage to your advantage and rig out big bits up and over stuff with the Hobbs , you just have to watch the drum coils under wrapping… when pre tensioning for me comes in to its own for me is taking out as much slack as possible for negative stem rigging big chunks.. those last few that if you didn’t they would go through the patio through drop and stretch when you have rigged all day to save it… as said in the video there are plus and minus for both and I’ve been very close in the past to buying one on numerous occasions, but since putting a more reliable winch on the chipper it hasn’t really crossed my mind much for that occasional big pluck.
  14. MattyF
    I haven’t! Because again the price… but I’ve spent a lot of time on the Hobbs style device. there’s a hundred different posts about them on here from the last decade or so and every one who has bought one said they would not go back.. but after watching reg coats on why he chose the Hobbs I would happily take his opinion as to the one I’d listen too and why I choose and have been happy with what I’ve had… I can count on one hand the amount of times I thought one would of made the job easy.
  15. MattyF
    For lifting stuff fast I’ve not found anything faster than a groundie pulling small bits off with a pulley tip roped. Pretensioning works for me with the Hobbs style devices when I’ve needed it , especially on big stem negative rigging, just never been able to justify the price of a GRCS to pull large bits around when you can work most limbs pretensioned.
  16. MattyF
    Put me off any need for a GRCS when the Hobbs pretensioned to that!
  17. MattyF
    I did have to re profile one of the stubbi picks after snapping the end off 2-3” … still not sure how that happened ! But it actually was still more usable than most picks I used, gave it to a farmer friend who had injured his left hand for pulling up rounds on to his splitter and he’s not complained.
  18. MattyF
    Crown appears healthy , I would say that was about 5 years worth of regrowth, you could spend a fortune on root mapping and decay detection… but in my opinion if it was mine I would retrench the crown again and leave alone , shame any regrowth had been removed from the stem as it could of been retrenched significantly lower.
  19. MattyF
    It was a oxenkopf or however it’s spelt , it was just crap out the box so I tried to make it more pointy … which I did but it actually made it worse , I usually use a Stubi or Oregon and can’t fault them.
  20. MattyF
    I’ve completely ruined one after putting a grinder to it 😂😂
  21. MattyF
    Just looking and it’s already jumped and killed four seals off Norfolk.. wonder when we start getting our bird flu jabs 😂
  22. MattyF
    I see bird flu is in the news again , so any one else predict and it’s an obvious one that by the end of 2025 keeping your own hens and any out door livestock to be restricted or outlawed due to contamination..
  23. MattyF
    To be fair 4 mix engines are from my experience absolute rubbish and I can’t get my head head around why stihl make them.
  24. MattyF
    I was reading reports that the Ukrainians can’t be trained in NATO tactics and insist on reverting back too soviet ones.. we have given them all our N laws which cost 20k a time and they where using them RPGS or worse abandoning them , there is now a thought the Russians now have more than we do… there was that whole brigade who where trained by the French who deserted , they had been given a lot of advanced weapon systems and AFV’s and they just walked away.. I think the soviet donkeys will be matching in to Kiev soon!
  25. MattyF
    Crack pipe ? Weed pipe ?? Opium ?? I’m intrigued! I know a lad in the village who bought a wood for camping in, didn’t go to it over lock down and when he finally got there it has been dug up and turned in to a mountain bike run.. unless it was on my door step I would not be interested tbh.

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