MattyF
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Are they in rippon Tommy ? Just sent them an email for a quote I think if it's them.
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Cool will give them a bell in the morning , cheers
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I've found one for around £325 Tom online , how much did they last charge you mate ? Yeah it didn't have a good day ! Had to call out a valtra dealer as it stopped dead and just before that the pto stopped working ! Both problems fixed we just wanted to finish up and get off the site and the last log of the load had some issues ! Brushed the wing mirror which went through the windscreen !
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Any body know or recommend the cheapest or a place with good service for a new windscreen? Thanks, Mat.
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That looks familiar John ? Decent chipper too !
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That's a tough one with the GRCS you could buy 3 decent rigging kits for the price of one... But they are great bits of kit but as you said you would need one grounds man who knows what they were doing with it. Regs new device looks good for pre tensioning... I stumbled across this for £400 second hand ,does the job for pretensioning lines very easy and will handle stupid loads and can lift stuff if needed and is brutally simple just a like a Hobbs... A GRCS I could not justify for subby work unless the company already had one or I had won the lottery!
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Won't play for me Hats ??
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I'm pretty picky about what rigging kit I use and prefer to bring my own. I have a Hobbs style bollard that has paid it's self off many times over with the advantage of being able to pick and balance big limbs and pre tension big lumps of timber being snatched so you can get that bit more off before you have to dice a stem when over patios ect to pulling or pretension storm damaged tree trunks.That said there is not much you can't do with a portawrap.....pre tensioning you can live with out but you won't want too once using a system that can. A good 16mm double braid and decent pulley with strop and a bollard will see you through most jobs proficiently I would of thought.
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The Landy picker looks a handy bit of kit John.
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One of my old groundies did a corespondent Arb course relevant to Australian natives from the UK, I can ask him next time he's back in the uk ... He ended up joining the marines after a few years for grist woods though and never went back to Oz and is out the country and hard to get hold of, But the course is definitely out there.
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Hexhamshire mate ...above corbridge, nice estate and houses .... No idea where I seem to get lost nearly every time I go over that way.
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That's not a bad view reg ! Working with the girl friend clearing wind blow on this stand of larch today, we didn't think they were that old but on a ring count they were a few years younger than WW1 , so they must of been really stunted from never been thinned until the last few years.... I guess most of the lads who worked the estates never came back from the war, sent a shiver down my spine when we realised that.
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It's the one I put the footage of together the other day mate, Probably one of the only jobs last year that got properly documented, should really make more of an effort to do more but I kind of gave up on the go pro filming and taking photos for a bit , also kinda hard with some of the more interesting jobs when your only the subbie and it's not really your work, unless I know them well.
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It has a buckle . That is the only thing I don't like about it.. But I'm going to try clipping a footloop on it and hope it will still work as well !
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Interesting find Mike.
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Cheers Joe , used the hook in the trees to cross the gaps and trees that I didn't fancy coming down for a break on and the new haas velox which worked a treat ... So well In fact I think it's going to take me a while to find a new Rhythm now there is no dead spots . There was a nice Victorian wall with sand stone capping directly under so luck and some minor rigging was needed
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Great rigs guys , Tom how does that tow on the roads ?it does look an awesome set up. Reduced a load of beech overhang from a wood today , cracking weather for it. Afters
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YouTube, music and copyright - how do you do yours?
MattyF replied to kentjames's topic in Video forum
Good start to the day watching that , thanks for sharing August, and good music ! . -
Above it , so say it's not supporting at least two thirds of the weight it is now, ... Eventually the stem will become hollow but it will take a long time for that to happen but if it's supporting a healthy crown with no great wind sale it will be a great veteran tree! , if you remove the limb entirely a tree that mature is never going to compartmentalise a wound that that big and I would give it 8-10 years before the decay from it severely compromises the remaining stems.. If you keep as much of the limb and can get a new crown to form it's the trees best chance of survival..
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Are you going to be pimping it up in company livery and colours Ian? Looking forward to seeing it finished.
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There's some absolute monsters in crag side itself ! Still have yet to find the tallest Scott's pine I the uk there though.
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Did you see the stacks of Douglas when they clear felled the left hand side coming out of crag side from rothbury ? Some amazing trees were in there ! Problem was once they started removing the giant stacks of Douglas off site the corner of the wood with not very mature trees on the other side of the track started getting wind blow in to the road.. Last job we did for the FC before the frame work changed again! But an enjoyable one !
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Getting in to the habit of religiously checking important things (I would not include the constant checking of chain brakes one!) will keep you from serious injury or death, I can tell you that from experience ... Nearly on a few occasions I have nearly leaned back and quickly checked to discover that it would of been a nasty mess if I had !
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Owner was really happy Steve ..... Next door was not though, I think they had arranged the original pruning !!
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I think it looked better with them in David !! Every thing is broken and under repair from chippers to cranes at work so just had this heavy reduction / crown reconstruction on this small Crimson King this morning that had been badly hat racked in the past.. After
