digga
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strauss stuff is good get a lot of workwear off them
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knackered a pair of welding gloves in 3 day on the thorn hedge im laying at the moment while waiting for my Ripeur 2 gloves to turn up after rover speaking so highly about them . been using them for nearly a week now very nice gloves they seem well worth the money and allot more thorn proof than welding gloves or any others ive used be even better if they had a slightly longer cuff but got two pairs so going to try extend the cuffs a little with cuffs off old welding gloves to give more wrist protection . so thanks rover for recomending then
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in one of the woods i use to coppice in there was an old tar tank complete with brick chimney they use to treat the chestnut hop poles in it and fence posts . got talking to an old guy who use to walk the woods with his dog turns out he use to work the woods and use the tank remember him saying they use to hot treat it then let it cool down the heat use to open the grain up allowing the tar to penetrate and then let to cool down same as most things people have different ways of doing things . but the fence he put up down the side of the wood was over 35 years old and post where still solid but allot has changed now with regulations on what you can and cant do like the use of 2nd hand sleeper and telegraph poles only ment to be use for certain things
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have milled chestnut gate posts with an allaskan mill put cleated plates ontop to limit the chance of them poping open sweet chestnut has to be cut during the autum if you want it to last as long as possible summer cut chestnut doesnt last as long . replaced allot of fences in the past that prove this point but it will still outlast the softwood posts you get today. been coppicing over 20 years nowand fencing about 18years was lucky enough to be taught the right way by some old guys that had been in it all there life and there fathers before them they definatly knew what they was on about . charring the bottoms of the posts does work but dont get carried away and take them to far . as for concreting in posts big mistake allot of people tend to make is putting concrete at the bottom of the hole to may as well put the post in a bucket as the water cant escape
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yer know what you mean borrowed the farmers quad and trailer the other day to get some hedge laying stakes out to where i was working was so wet had to push it out while holding the throttle open to get it out the field. tracks look heavy but may spread the load enough to make them work but like most things comes down to cost
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdZKMiaeej8]Amazing Traction Mattracks LiteFoot ATV/UTV Track System - YouTube[/ame] look good but bet there expensive with it fun to :-)
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great work would love to have a work shop to get in and make more stuff
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never easy giving injuries enough time to heal properly when your self employed but like rover said got to be carefull not to make it worse by pushing it been guilty of it myself in the past
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allways hard to work out a rate for coppicing and hedge laying to cut ever so many blocks of wood some you win on and some you work your arse off but still cant make it pay same as hedges what you can get done can vary from 10metres a day to 30 on a real good run had some hedges you wouldnt even do 10 metres a day if you was burning up by hand as well
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hope it heals well will be sore for a while
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yes some of it was very awkward on the bank not small stuff to lay but all done by myself even the stuff that had to be cut out and pulled over away from the road with a rope just used truck in field as anchor point fiddle block set up on tow hitch conect it to the rope up in the tree with prussik loop and i can pull it over from the stump after making the cut
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im still learning but hey you never stop would still class myself as a novice that job took longer to do than 200metres on another job and it was only 60 metres some of it had gone up 3 metres above 2 phone cables and had to section bits down with a polesaw and some of the stuff i had to cut out had to be roped over away from the road not forgetting some of the bank you could hardly stand up on no 2 hedges are the same
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this i was a bit of a nightmare due to the road and phone cable but was happy with the finish
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very nice work nice to be able to get stuff done out of the weather
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was allways taught by the old guy i learnt most of my coppicing from a sharp tool earns you money a blunt one costs you money very true wether its a hand tool or a chainsaw his tools where allways razor sharp and had to learn to get mine the same if i was to use them working with him
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no worries hope you got the pm to
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hi sony camcorders ( not sure of other makes ) have a thing called nightshot on then so with an infra red light source you film in the dark you can attach it to the back of the scope and use it for shooting [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXoNX0aekA4]How to fit your video camera to your scope for shooting.mp4 - YouTube[/ame] cheap set up for rat shooting ranges and a little further and you can film the fun
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hw 100 is a very nice gun hope to get and do some ratting with mine soon:001_smile:
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had lots of good fun ratting my jack Russell is a good ratter they can get very fast at killing them and moving on to the next have a piece of alkathene pipe with you very handy for thrashing rats with. nuttella mixed with cooking oil works well and so does peanut butter as a bait to lure them to shoot them don’t use anything they can pick up and run off with you wont get time for a shot . great fun with a air rifle head shots are all ways best for clean kills don’t have any trouble using a scope but wont get long to take your shots as said red filters work well when lamping or if you have an old sony camcorder laying round you could make yourself up a night vision sight
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remember when i went to new zealand the posts looked strange at 90degrees to the slope but when you look at some of the steep slopes in some areas makes sense just wants some getting use to after putting in posts here
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give up using mild steel stock netting years ago as the quality was getting so bad the yield point was so low that its very easy to overstretch it and go from the elastic stage to the plastic stage of the wire with wire you get what you pay for i use a good quality ht netting and normally 3.15 ht plain ontop unless ht barbed but yer there is a lot of cheaper crap wire out there if you havent got good materials doesnt matter how much time and effort you put into it wont get a desent job but agree on it being hard to do a proper job when the customer wants the cheapest job and doesnt consider the quality so i let them know the spec when quoting and allways quote to a standard im happy with
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thanks will have look
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hi guys does anyone know where i can get some hedge laying binders from as the hazel i have isnt ready yet needs another couple of years im in the east sussex area dont really want to travel to far to get some if i can help it
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here are a couple of pics of the pvc pipe holder i made been using pvc pipe for a while for keeping some of my coppicing and hedgelaying tools cutting edges safe and undamaged so desided to make a holder to fit on my belt while hedgelaying (last pics just a simple cover for storing billhook while in the truck )
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just made one at the weekend out of a bit of pvc pipe for putting my billhook in when hedge laying will try get some pics if you want ?
