kimtree
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you need a 20 ton squat jack for best results,several years ago we got a 30 plus metre completly dead african mahogany to go over opposite lean with one ,didnt fancy whacking wedges in,when it hit i reckon wood flew 50 metres or so
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After having to wait nearly five months for payment from a real estate job where they tried to wash their hands of the whole deal,their attitude is ''there's no money in the account so we cant pay you'' i now get no more work from them,could have been the letter of demand i sent them:thumbdown:
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i find when a have a subbie on site their attitude is ''all care but no responsibility''
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ive got one.frankly its a better paper weight than a working tool,tried it up in the tree and found it hard work to turn the handle and it worked out a lot better to push them off,when i bought it i was under the impression that it was a geared ratchet.its not.the tree we tried it on was a raintree,the peice 12 inch by 6 ft long approx,not worth the money.
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i know its not tracked but i've not had side tipping over problems with my nifty 17 metre lift,but if you going down a hill it can bottom out on the basket,so putting the back legs nearly down does stop that,its got a drive system[a snail would go faster]which isnt much good past 10 degrees.
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Get a german made Schaffer loader,its amazing the difference between it and skidsteers or dingo/kanga regarding damage to lawns etc
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Just to derail a little bit,the Mit Helicopter on the same page is pretty cool,looks like a training exercise,one oops where the guys saw gets stuck in the cut and takes a tumble
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working at a school during the christmas holidays,schools had no tree work done for some time,this lady comes up to us and first says 'i dont like people cutting trees' then points to a very dead raintree over the bike shed and says 'Cant you fix it'
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Whats the reputation of vermeer chippers in the uk?
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ive got 2 ladders one extendible to 8 metre which i will use for access after ive installed my climbing line,once it gets hot here any height for free is a great help,and a smaller step/and open out for getting on to roofs,nearly all single storey here
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Nifty lift 17 metre works well here but i can see its limitations of use when i go down to perth
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i havent tried zenith so i cant comment on them,but i have used Blakeley knives for a number of years in my 1250 disc with no ill results, get better life from them than vermeer ones.how many hours do you get with your bandit?
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Alopa what sort of chipper do you run?
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novel idea!wouldnt work here you'd get electrocuted:thumbdown:
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holy crap:thumbdown:sounds like they go out of ther way to make it hard for you
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thats going to leave a bruise:001_smile:
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tomorrow im going to get fit.feeding 80+ 6 metre mangos thru the chipper,feeding the chipper constantly seems to sort the wheat from the chaff alright!
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i sell every load i get except for the really crap loads which i give to the farm two doors up tip fees here are $8.00 a cube.
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i have a dingo's breakfast
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there was 3 of us in the front no seatbelts,and unsecured chainsaws and fuel and oil containers in the back,basiclly i was driving and f**ked up,lets just say i was going too fast and the landy which had really wide tyres slipped on some wet grass going around a corner on a green lane? hit a 6 ft high bank the whole thing took off and landed on its roof about 25 ft away,swashed the roof down to the level of the seats,both doors popped off and every one got thrown out,all had pretty bad whiplash,but luckely i was the only one more seriuosly injured.the landy chassis was bent like a banana and the bodywork was buggered,oh and the unsecured chainsaws had cut open the oil and fuel containers whilst they were in orbit definate lesson there.should of had a cargo barrier.i can handle cuts and all no problems but that whiplash is a real killer hope it never happens again
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i'd show you mine but its long since deceased,a 1952 lightweight with a rover v8 under the hood,went like a shower of s**t but was terrible on fuel ended up rolling it at 60mph,this was in 88.
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is there a story for that?
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i seem to have stopped this thread dead
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not me frankly i think its all a load of bollocks
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spikes hate them 20 odd year ago i seriously come a cropper with a stupid mistake when i cut a branch above shoulder hieght and then it fell between me and the tree ,twisted me out of the tree and i fell maybe 20 feet losing a lot of bark[mine] in the proccess.Nowdays im one of satans childs evidently:)
