MattyF
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id try one but my newest toy this second hand 36" 395 i brought a couple of weeks ago has left me skint! [/img]
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http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=1591&ArticleID=1921450 link to the book
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theres a book about his life story and the firm he worked for in timber falling called the wood cutters tale and theres been a few bits about him in various arb mags. The books got some awsome pictures of old day felling huge trees with axes ect.. i was told he was quite unwell and the doctors had put it down to years of two stroke fumes as he had never smoked.
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How do you find the honda 4 stroke andy? used one a bit but found it quite heavy but liked the idea so i brought a stihl 4 mix long reach....find that worse though as your reaching up all the time with the engine in your face and i think its no cleaner than a normal 2 stroke but then its not proper 4 stroke like the honda....will be needing a new hedge cutter soon as my old hs 80 is getting more temperamental every time its used
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Well I think the point i was trying to make was that he nor i had ever heard of a letter box cut.....the cut and technique of why we used it of course ,but we just called it boring out the hinge.........evan when i worked with other fallers with quality oak i never heard it called a letterbox cut
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thanks for the informative replys ...im thinking of doing it for purely health reasons..... after running two stroke engines every day for 13 years and at times getting carbon monoxide poisoning bad....... im convinced thats half the reason i feel run down and crap half the time and its not the beer, honest! I once heard of a guy who switched to bio chain oil and evan that made the differance to his health after a few months. lee your right mate its damn expensive and i know i could not afford to go out and stock up on it on monday morning but i dont think you can put a price on good health..look at guys like mervyn walker who after a life time of breathing in two stroke fumes are now seriusly ill and he never smoked and probably for the first 10 years of his working lifes was on axes.i think some of us are gonna be suffering later on.
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any one tried this stuff??? Do you have to mod your saws? Im seriously considering changing to it health benifits alone,but running bio chain oil as well would be a good company gimmick
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left school and wanted to travel but seeing as i was only 16 ended up dragging brush and humping timber a year or so later was at merrrist wood doing nc arb been in industry since .only regret is not doing an nd would of been nice to chill as a tree officer later in life!
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so this would be classed as a letter box cut.forgot the big saw fellin this dead beach and had to make do with a 16" 357 [/img]
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nice job guys ....bet it was fun on the phone when the customer rang up asking for some bell end shaped topiary....sorry could not resist been looking at the spam on the buzz to much
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been using it for years just never known it to be called that! just spoke to my mum who said my old man had past his felling nptc's but was a bit confused when they asked him to do a letter box cut. evan though hes been using using saws for 30 years profesionaly he finally got around to doing them! But glad he passed i know he had quite a few bad habits thumbs on top of handles ect
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does any one know what a letter box felling cut is ????????? im guessing its just a bored out hinge?
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baked chicken in an experimental cream garlic cheese and french mustard and honey sauce. red cabbage ,tender brocoli and d new potatoes......... dunno what its gonna taste like but im lookin forward to it!
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so i have found out!
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They where at capel, got a price list somewhere....there pole saws looked good value ,the man said they where made at the same place as silky just had a different label ????? looked pretty good qaulity might have to dig out that catalog for a closer look
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A pleasure lee,good to finaly put a name to the face!
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My gravely has a turntable and to be honest i forgot it was on there untill last week when it came in handy in a tight situation. cant stop using now!
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if you can choose not to work in badf weather it usually means in my scenario any way ,you dont have much on in the first place... i would love to be able to choose not to but bills and wages gotta be paid!
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just spent 3 days in the F+?@ers but think the constant rain and gail force winds have depressed me more,and if my chipper and truck gets stuck tommorow on the last day of them..i might find it a bit more depressing!
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ive had invasive bracing fail a quite a bit on oak and chesnut,in my experience they just dont respond well to having holes drilled in them.saying that i looked at a large chesnut that we put three metal rods through to hold it together when its two main trunks started coming apart at it has completly callused over and is fine,nice supprise for any one felling it in the future! have found beach seems to respond really well to invasive as well usually completly callusing over in a short time. never had cobra fail on trees ive done but then the limbs have not failed either! how did the cobra fail high scale? did it snap or just slip out?
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Win A Pair Of Stretch Air Chainsaw Trousers
MattyF replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Past Competitions
ice on willow [/img] -
only good thing is if we get some gales i can see some 87 style type stuff happening as all the root plates have had a good soaking and i wont be doing any dripping wet poxy leylandii hedges for a while unless the f$ckers are on the ground or blown over in some uncompromising situation i can charge a small fortune for!
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Official "Yank'" Picture Thread
MattyF replied to GASoline71's topic in International Arborist Forum
cool pics........ that looked like some fun work bodean -
just braught this dilapidated heap for the pricley sum of £300........ its not as bad as it looks i hope!!! used to belong to a friend who died and has been sitting for 7 years but ran nice before...hopfully a new battery and it will go ,but i cant move it out of it current location as the only way out is through a barley field and the bloody weather means it aint gonna be harvested untill we get a dry spell... next door is gona lend me his log splitter for as long as i need it if i fix the hydrolic hoses........log splittingf hear we come! [/img]
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nice vid MB
