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    I guess they don't teach spear cuts at college! Works great on lombardies! Just spike up taking the low stuff as you pass. Keeps the brash in a very small target area and your groundies have to stay awake. If your felling.. obviously.
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    Our local dealer kept writing off our saws. We were having a right mission finding someone we could trust. I asked the good people of Arbtalk and got a number for some competent mechanics. I sent them two dead MS200's which my dealer had written off hoping they'd make one but they got them both running! Cheers: DM Chainsaws Loughborough!
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    Mattheck has apparently got or had two conifers (pines of some sort I think) which have been "topped" in his garden. IMO If the customer understands what is the "best practice" and what are the issues of "bad practice" it's their tree and should be able to do as they wish. You do the best you can when your in the tree. If the customer wants standing dead wood, Great! If he wants his lombardy poplars reducing by 50%, tell him what's going to happen in 10 years but it's his problem if he ignors your advice.
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    To be honest I'd love an old truck or Landy to muck about with, but I'd have to stop work and get someone to look after the kids first!
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    Apart from a new one you don't have too...
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    Laetiporus sulphureus. Would have been worth collecting to eat but in a park at dog pee level!
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    Growing on wood chip?
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    Laetiporus sulphureus. The Chicken of the Woods IMO.
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    I saw a presenatation by an Italian prof a few years back on it. It looked really flakey.. Only his daughter could read the results and the sun affected it. It's also bloody expensive!
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    You don't have to let trees grow to their full size, they can be cut down before then. I wouldn't worry about whats going to happen in ten years..
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    Partnerships can work. There are downsides but many benifits.. You need just the right partner.
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    The flat rate scheme you pay 9% but charge 17.5..
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    We dumped our subbie last month. We'd had been using him 3 or 4 days a week to keep on top of things at the start of the year (he's OK got farming stuff to do). The phone is very quiet and I'm also finding that council contracts are getting worth even less as everyone is dropping the price to get the work! 6 weeks work booked in would be great we've 2 at most..
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    There is a female tree in Christchurch New Zealand in the arts centre, they used to pick the stinking fruit from the MEWP.
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    Sorry first picture shows underside and dessicated bracket
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    Several brackets up to about 3m on an ash. aprox 30cm across. My thoughts are Inonotus hispidusbut most stock photo's have a a white underside. Second photo shows blck dessicated bracket.
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    Skyhuck - Sharpenning a chain on site is never as good as in a work shop.. and it holds the job up. I don't know what type of work you generally do but if you hit something with a big saw it takes way more than minutes to sharpen it. Chogging down urban trees and having to cut them in to small bits means you often incounter all sorts of crud at all sorts of levels. Just because I have eight chains on the go for a saw doesn't mean i'm going to use more chains in the long run. I rekon they last longer, as I don't knacker them by using them when blunt. I've blunted 8 chains on one trunk before, sharpenning big saws on site IMO is a last resort. And I hate the round files which sometimes only last one chain!
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    We carry at least two spare chains for each saw in each truck and have 7 or 8 chains of each size in use at one time. I won't use a blunt chain. When it's blunt we can quickly change it. All the blunt chains go on a big hook and on an early finish or in the morning if we're farting around our groundie can sharpen them with the grinder. It's way quicker than by hand and although it does require some skill and attention it's much easier to get it right on a machine. As to groundies that don't use a saw, we have a subbie, an ex farmer who is the best groundie you are ever likely to find. He will use a saw and we put him through the NPCT but most days he won't bother. He doesn't have to use chainsaw trousers so can drag and lump logs longer, better and faster.. Our other full time groundie is just frightening and I hold my breath everytime he picks a saw up and sticks it in the dirt!
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    I came back from a week off last week and the guys had fed one through the chipper.. Blew the bearing, flywheel etc.. £2500 later might get the chipper back..
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    This guy is often phoning me to buy our chip, unfortunately access to our pile and the fact its now mixed with horse poo means we've never bothered. I think you have to load it aswell. I'm not sure how much they pay. 01797 252 728
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    Fristads do a goretex hi viz. Not cheap but I love mine.. There is something about being in the pissing rain but still dry.. http://www.workweartrading.co.uk/prodselect.asp?pg=404
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    The other side has apparently fallen out now! I'll go and check it in the morning..
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    Who's using it online? I've done 3 so far but don't think it's set up properly for TPO applications.. I've had one letter back from the LPA asking for a plan even though I included one electronically.. What do you do when it asks for supporting documentation, which you don't require for TPO applications? It's a pain as it won't let you submit without all the "required info." I've been calling the file name "not required" and ticking the send by post box..? I've yet to have one accepted...
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    cannon d-slr

    benedmonds replied to vduben's topic in The Lounge

    I've got the cannon D60, only 6MP, it was one of their pro digital SLRs a few years back. I love it. More sturdy then the 350's and the 400's. It's the lens that makes the difference and I had several from my cannon 35mm which work fine.
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    My labrador cross

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