MattyF
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You can only hope wankers like this explode at some point on there journey home lighting a tab or something...
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Having owned a number of 560's and I do like them ,I'd say the ms400 is a better more reliable and powerful saw.
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400cm on a 16" and 500i on a 25" would be my two saws of choice.
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Climbing trees in the rain: Dangerous, or just unpleasant?
MattyF replied to Dee MacThomas's topic in Climbers talk
No ... not unless dismantling ,any large trees are climbed SRT and use a hook to get to places that are difficult , I'm not buying you need spikes to prune trees in the wet ! -
Climbing trees in the rain: Dangerous, or just unpleasant?
MattyF replied to Dee MacThomas's topic in Climbers talk
I'll only call off jobs if it's gonna damage lawns or if the vehicles are going to sink in Feild's... I quite enjoy climbing in the rain.... probably for the same demented sadomasochistic reasons I still enjoy this job though. -
They do loosen off but there are ways around that ..I don't like the new buckle release either still after 6 or more months but I do not see any other harness that would come close.. I did send two emails to treeimagineers asking why it had these features but never got any reply.
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Not telling you how to do it but I would be very careful felling with a tele-handler I've seen the results of one that got a stem caught on a tine whilst pushing it over on a badly cut hinge and tipped the thing over writing off a brand new manitou! Insurance was invalid as it wasn't to be used for forestry either.
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After spending 20 years towing a sub 750kg chipper and reversing off all manor off roads and in to tight drives and driving tractors with forwarding trailers loaded through thinned woods and narrow country lanes I'm pretty sure I don't need to take a test to tow a trailer like most of us ... any one who disagrees Is feeling butt hurt about spending the money or already had it on there licence and that the advantage had helped them make money over competitors ... now it's a level playing Feild.
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I would not even attempt to grow carrots unless under fly netting now.
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Nice pair of sea trout !
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Well one good things happened this week then... I almost cracked a smile.
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Your wheelie bin poses more risk to your children statistically... get a professional tree report... Arb association approved contractors list is a good place to start.
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80cc saw that's the same weight of a 70cc saw , what's not to like? Any one I know who has had a 572 or 462 prefers the 500i , 462 is a great saw but I haven't really picked it up since the 500i
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£500 for every 200 tubes and stakes , probs cheaper to fence ?
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I would also add that rod bracing young and vigorous oak and chestnut will still work, it seems though that older specimens from my experiences don't seem to have the ability to callus over quick enough and they react with the metal.
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Nothing wrong with rod bracing , I've never seen an infected tree?? I've seen screw bolts from cables pull on woods that the Tannin in woods like oak and chestnut after they reacted badly and not callus though..... I would use cobra for those species but elm seems to swallow any thing it comes in to contact with.. bracing ideally wants to be 2/3rds up the limbs being braced. But back to rod bracing I've seen and the ones I have done have been very successful over the years.
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How to estimate a log's weight
MattyF replied to Andrew L's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
No offence but f that ! Tirfor or cheap copy works very well with an Ifor trailer and metal ramps for parbucking , feels relatively safe and works well. -
Aye **************** cutting hedges .. I used to be like a human flail and could cover serious ground hedge cutting... these days I try it and rip the ligaments in my shoulders after two hours so I've given it up this year as I could not climb for two months at the beginning of the year after a hedge cutting injury, boring thankless and low paid and hedge cutters seem to be the most temperamental machines so I see no point in doing them now... I'll only climb 3 days a week now but will do a lot of trees in those days and to be fair I'd probably not be doing that if it was not for SRT.
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Most of the young lads I have in for a few days as labourers are self employed and can work for it ? What's the difference , I get sick of hearing kids these days don't know how to work.. work in the last Century was mostly done with a hang over as the pub culture ruled ... I think folk look at with rose tinted glasses.... like 200ts .... just saying....
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I suppose England really was great in the 70's -80's a load of pissed up paddy's badly building houses , all UK major industries on the verge of collapse because the work force felt like work owed them a job, hang on doesn't sound any different today really does it??
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Step cutting unrigged large white willow branches
MattyF replied to hesslemount's topic in Rigging and roping
Sharp saws and V cut -
I thought all pto winches ran at 540?
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I'd be wary of getting any hydraulic pto as they seem to come in higher speeds ...There's a hydraulic pto moter on my alpine mounted on the front.. I've disconnected it at the seals on the front spline went and also it was 1200rpm so only suitable for mowers and would of been dangerous for a winch !
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I guess it depends on the site but with either if it's wet you need boards to not destroy the clients garden but if it's just for shifting vast quantities of materials the loader every time.. I could get by and do with out a digger but I would not give up the loader !
