MattyF
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Did you get the one with the winch and bits on bill?? I got an advisory last mot over front wheels and that was without spacers and already moving the rear arches.. neither prop shafts or wheel bearings seem to like chunky tyres though.
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Twin axle versus tri axle trailers - pros and cons?
MattyF replied to Big J's topic in Large equipment
We recently got a tri to replace a twin wheeled trailer but ended up keeping the twin as well as the tri is so wide we can’t get it over a local bridge ! -
Sharpen a saw when it’s blunt... unless it’s the last cut off the stump and it’s been a long day and it can wait until tomorrow.
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High explosive ? I would like to have filled mine full of phosphorus, would of been nice to have known when they brought the gas torch to it and they I doubt they would of got away with anything ... never mind
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Go and have a chat with a local firms and see if they have work for a self employed climber .. some thing I regret not doing far earlier in my own career.. and best thing I did when I finally got around to it though was being self employed but was more focusing on getting my own local work than subbing.... subbing just got me dirty great trees that no one else wanted to do in city’s going over 10 gardens and being stuck on the m25 for 3 hours every night... mind you being employed at times was not better once the bosses realised what you could bring them in so there was no rest there either.
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Aye looks like it would be at the brittle white rot stage ...you can see it clearly is in most of the pics
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I would give him what it’s worth to you ...I would offer £50-100 ,mostly looks shot to me but you could get some interesting planks but I’ve milled elm similar and it was a pithy powdery nightmare with about two decent planks off.
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Didn’t Mick Stockbridge have a chipper the same stolen ?
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Proper pike fishing weather with the rings freezing up , gave it half hour and had to chicken out for the warmth of the truck!
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Where abouts in north east ?
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I have been told height above sea level is another factor , they won’t thin commercial stands over a certain height as they blow.. could be talking bollocks though??
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What’s that on the front of the valtra John?
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What’s that on the front of the valtra John?
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Would not go in to sparse , there’s bands of what they call continuous cover for red squirrel etc in keilder that they never clear fell just thin , it’s pretty much a guarantee that it will blow when thinned.. Have climbed and dismantled them well over 40m ,recon where planted around 90 year ago... I think they would just keep on going height wise there are some monsters about !
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One last reduction before I hang my harness up
MattyF replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Wise words Steve , you can be a damn good arborist but if you can’t run a business it’s pretty hopeless from experience! It was never about money for me which is stupid and I made a lot of mistakes, was good at getting work booked in but I’m crap at dealing with people , not ruthless enough when it comes to money! -
http://silvatreesurgeons.co.uk/ Looks good[emoji1303]
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ECHO 2511 Is a STIHL OR SUGIHARA Bar and Chain best ?
MattyF replied to arboriculturist's topic in General chat
It fitted straight on ,no mods I watched the echo dealer fit it as he wanted to see if it would. -
ECHO 2511 Is a STIHL OR SUGIHARA Bar and Chain best ?
MattyF replied to arboriculturist's topic in General chat
Stihl Set up is working well, could not get on with the echo bar after using 150’s ... target pruning is spot on again now we made a swap. -
Better than swarfega ?? I’ve had my arms raw to get the sap off with gritty swarfega stuff, mind you that’s cutting in spring /summer when they are not dormant and the saps flowing like a giant tube of glue off the stems.
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Tuxedo ... I will try and separate my work clothes, newer ones for Arb work and being in customers gardens and wrecked up stained black with Sitka ones for forestry. You certainly never want your best rope for dismantling them!
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He seems to have built a huge tent acquired a few more tractors and diggers and given up learning English ... that’s about all I could gather of his u tube Chanel... I gathered all that info by watching a few minutes of videos you can’t understand in which it was only out of sheer morbid curiosity to try to find understand wtf is going on ! ..... just for you stubby
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Pete washes off?? You will never remove Sitka sap!! I don’t mind Sitka as long as the hairy outside trees are weighted in the right direction.. just don’t wear your favourite saw trousers and best jacket.
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Lucky you don’t have the sneaky forestry ditches bill!
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Find that clipping back in to the tether/ harness coming back in arm over arm and pulling nothing just using your arms for kind of pull and balance the slack falls through and you can come back in faster , partly why I prefer a neck tether as it allows more movement for this but it’s still not great with it on going out but takes seconds to clip on although it works crap with the zig zag.... as Mark says I think the Chester is the way forward with the RW/zig zag combo same as the BDB and hitch hiker from my experience.
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Not expecting to find the felling bar I left on site yesterday for a while.
