MattyF
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How do you find the trailer with those tyres and What’s powering the hydraulics ? Are you winching to the road side or will it cope with driving down racks ? Sorry for the questions !!
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Wow That’s saved the day matelot! You refused continually to acknowledge why I said it was a mess today and jump on the 200 year old slavery thing so who can’t handle the truth..maybe given who you are and your position it would not surprise me if who you worked for had invested interest in that current exploitation anyway.
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Can you read ?
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I’ve said nothing on oxfam ... Take off the VAT and call it charity ! It’s all a scam .., shit I said some thing... any way I’m done with this thread ...again.
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I’m not saying that but it was hardly a stable start when other countries where growing ...I’m saying it’s being exploited now by the arms trade and for its natural resources with no concern for the population, creating civil war is an ideal smoke screen for illegal business which a lot of is conducted by the British.
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And continuing to ignore our legacy’s of the past and present in Africa......your lying to your self if you think it has nothing to do with the mess it’s created and been caused by it.
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Really 99.99 % ?? I think that’s more the number of people on here who disagree with you . I guess drought , famine, exploitation from the arms industry recently and apartheid colonisation and more exploitation in the past had nothing to do with being able to have a stable environment for growing and providing food for the population continually exploited by richer nations.
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You have a quote for £1000 ??
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Folks have had there esse for 8 years and never had a chimney fire , they only burn soft wood with the occasional large very dead bit of oak to keep it in all night. It does behave very differently with hard Wöod though can get so hot it goes off the temp gauge from when I’ve used it.
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All too often I see terrible work positioning , absolutely shocking , some from apparent training vids from people being assessed ... with a decent landyard set up for work positioning the saw or bit being rigged should never put a climber in the danger zone, it’s just pure laziness or the fact that the climber is too scared to trust there spikes and lanyard putting them in danger. .. maybe both , good work positioning is what it’s all about.
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It’s a shame that Jonny but sounds you got a good deal.
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So a while back you went in to detail about some rigging job you had cocked up , you have no training on work positioning with a chainsaw I imagine on the ground let alone a tree or Ariel rigging apart from watching some you tube vids and you managed to put a hole in the roof, so imagine it had been worse and not only did it go through the roof it swung In to you intern giving you a saw injury and the guy holding the rope for you who had no Ariel rescue , first aid or idea of how to get you out could do??? Your a statistic waiting to happen imo ... and when it does it will be another excuse for HSE to add more bullshit to the ones of us who have to keep it legit and pay through our noses in constant training in a lame response to stop these accidents but the public will keep on paying the village fool to go and cut that there trees for beer tokens and accidents will keep on happening.
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The job I was talking about was a completely different job that required heavy machinary to lift and mill a huge oak Butt but emphasis the point customers don’t see the cost ... unfortunately are industry is riddled with jack of all clowns like you who think they are experts with no training or overheads creaming off easy jobs and having accidents making are insurance go up and have to apply more HSE regs to are crews to prove we are not as dumb which in turn requires more paper work and training and cost which I’m sure you won’t apply to your work and continue how you are as a liability , I quite agree with the OP that is not a £400 job but we have no idea or really care why he was quoted so high... he is not obliged to take the quote and won’t !
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I priced a job a few weeks back £450 for the day , it involved two men and over 40ks worth of kit on site , the man went in to a turn because of the cost , I tried to explain the gear needed but realised he could not see no difference between a plumber who turns up with a bag of £100 tools and some one who turns up with high maintenance Machinary with the insurance and all the other costs of trying to run a tree business.. I gave up explaining and have no need to justify any costs take it or go.
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Which model do you have ? The velox is tied at the top of the tube then runs down to a roller and back up to the clip ,so in theory has more spring and won’t need adjusting. I can not remember how the first version was set up but I remember having to shorten the elastic to get a better return on the ascender.
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Interesting ... Would rather have a fast saw and aggressive chain and smash a cut so you can get the saw out quick, saw grabbing will be down to using the wrong cuts or the limb breaking prematurely because you can’t cut fast enough chasing a cut... from my experience any how.
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If your gonna stay DDRT I would definitely get a rope guide or pulley saver .. with the hitch climber set up it’s mores ergonomic for your body as your climbing arm over arm but SRT is the way forward imo ,if you want to stay in the game long term doing large trees... using your legs and saving your arms for saw work.
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I like the CT over the petzl , it’s better than the old petzl I think as well, never tried the stein. left or right , I don’t really think it makes a difference but I skate boarded goofy so use a left foot as I’m thinking it’s stronger for pushing but possibly it’s the reverse if you lead with your right foot , either way it works for me... other foot has a haas but the CT does most the work.!
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One last reduction before I hang my harness up
MattyF replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
I give you a month mate before you want to get back in a harness! Nice job btw ! -
Have you tried going direct to husqvarna? Maybe explain again in an email and link to this thread.. I would say it’s more the dealer who sounds like they don’t give a toss.
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I was told the other day whilst dealing with wind blow that you needed an nptc to use a stop go board .. we did break the law for a 30 seconds whilst winching the Tree back up on to its root plate.
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So it’s an se not xp .... Cant get much off that SN , hopefully one of the husky experts will be along shortly,had a couple of late 266’s back in the 90’s the youngest was made in Slovenia by Thomas I seem to remember !
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Would say it was a later 266 by the starter cover decal. Have you got a close up of the serial number ??
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I would go one size up ... I ended up with an XL and I usually wear a medium as it was all gustharts had in stock and no more until June ... surprisingly it does not look too ridiculous , also the lads I spoke to wearing them said definitely go a size up as they feel like they where designed for midgets.
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Don’t really find them that bad, tbh they are the least clumpy and more on par with climbing in thick scarpas imo ... I got some fell hunters for forestry work and they feel like diving boots in comparison! I find the cervinos so comfy I can wear them for most out door stuff.
