Charlieh
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that costa in uttch is going to bankrupt me whens the article in the paper this thursday?
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but seriously it would have looked more professional if you all had husky's
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the bumper only accomodates the winch unit not the solenoid pack as well else it won't fit, so I have to move the solenoid up into the engin bay which will be handy for wiring in the lodar receiver anyway
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its not the bumper that bothers me its moving the solenoids and wiring the lodar unit in thats going to be tricky
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It looks tidy, im panicing about doing my defender and that shouldnt involve any cutting, just out of interest how have the insurance company responded to this? have they increased your premium for having external modifications to the vehicle?
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is that a demountable tray for the winch so you can remove it when your not using it?
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dragon naturally speaking is the best voice to text converter i'm lead to believe by friends and colleagues my ideal set up would be a gps enabled toughbook (£600 used), running digiterra (c. £800) with a mobile gprs card for accessing aerial imagery whilst on the ground as this is invaluable in many cases (c £25 a month), and is good for peice of mind when your dealing with just a layer showing a few points that you cant orientate yourself with easily. This set up would be fantastic for work on construction sites and for follow up meetings on site, as its easy to display the maps so they can be show to contractors, its not the smallest lighest or most compact but to be able to have the kind of processor power and display size along with a touch screen tablet would be fantastic field work,
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Dave S at ormtec will help you as much as he possibly can, he has done loads for me in the past, and i have evaluted most mobile GIS software out there for handhelds, and if its being used by more than one person digiterra is the most versitile and easiest to teach people to use, (its also the easiest to configure for different tables for recording) to the point that i have done an a4 quick sheet that gets most people out and recording data,
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the only one that you could possibly use for surveys and realistically have a usable table at that kind of money would probably be a refurb'd pda with a gps onboard and running some software like DBanywhere, although this would still be fiddley and far from ideal, possitionally accuracy would also be pretty sketchy in anything other than perfect conditions
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i bought a generic £99 mma inverter off ebay, upto 200amps, nice and easy to learn with, having no prior welding experince, and for the amount of time i use it, its ace. done bits on the chipper, trailers etc and its fine
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Available soon from FC Via tsoshop.co.uk the above quote is shamlessly cut and pasted from TSO's website looks like a very very useful book to have especially if doing work on broadleaved regen or restoration work using FC grants, its 508 pages, £30 to buy and is published date is 23rd September 2010 (i have mine on advanced order i will provide feedback when it arrives) -
yep sorry ignore me, still on the first coffee of the day, its 20% for stump treatment I have only done stump treatment on fresh cuts, never used it for foliar application, Has anyone used dyes in tank mixtures, to make treated stumps easier to spot, its not a route i have gone down but would be interested in identifying suitable dyes to use
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FC current best practise for foliar sprayging is 20% glyphosate mix and 2% mixture b here is an interesting pdf, it doesnt answer your specific questions but i found it of interest for this area of work http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/Argyll_Bute_rhododendron_2008_best_practice.pdf/$FILE/Argyll_Bute_rhododendron_2008_best_practice.pdf
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e-Catalogo STIHL jump to page 28 to have a look at stihls current 070's they produce
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its still a current model in that guise with that anti vibe configurations, if you dont believe me check stihls mexico website, 051 070 076 all still available i dont see a big problem with it, would be handy for someone that wants a big saw for sticking on an alaskan, there are far less safe bits of kit on ebay in the form of many of the junk saws from china, FTR i have an 070 (1970's) and i think its a great saw, granted wouldnt want to use it all day but the sheer torque of the thing is amazing, and he does state that is designed for export because of the lack of chainbrake,
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congratulations fella,
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PA1 is not that taxing really, especially if your doing the muliple choice computer based one. PA6 take your time on the mixing and point out and hazards your looking for such as drains, etc, for example you shouldnt fill your sprayer out of a tap with a drain under it which most have! the biggest thing is making sure that your calculations are correct so double check everything such as your measurements of liquids etc, as you can only have something like 10% either left over or run out something like 10% before the end of the measured run. so practise you constant speed walking and pumping at a constant rate, your assessor shouldnt be to hard on you, and if you do get it wrong its not nessisarily a fail as long as you can explain where you went wrong, Good luck
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its the bar nuts on my 372 that i keep loosing the others i have seem ok, but its a pain having to make sure you have some spare ny-lock nuts in your trouser pocket when you set off in the morning, that said i still prefer huskies
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trouble is it wouldnt have bothered them if it was a tpo'd veteran oak on the river bank, i deal with this on SAC and SSSI sites all the time with angling clubs, i will try and get some examples next week of ash trees in a ravine woodland that have been hacked about by the angling with a pole saw
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our trade stands wins best stand at our local show
Charlieh replied to Joy Yeomans's topic in General chat
Great work , was a good show even dispite the rain showers, seemed pretty busy as there were still people queing to get in about 3ish when we left -
cool thats fine mate, i just think in some cases people are to soft on people breaking the rules, and that sometimes they can get away with to much, but yes it does have to be a balance,
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Fair do's, but i do a fair bit of work with EA and BW and the view would be to come down harder on them if it wasnt reported or sorted, maybe contact the club and inform them of this, and give them chance to clear it or as Mick says try and get some work out of it, and point out that BW wont take a good view of this being carried out, In many areas BW actually still have their own tree gangs and they would probably come out and do this work at the clubs request.
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doesnt make a whole world of difference get hold of one of each and see whats comfortable to use for you, if you were doing 24" dia timber most the time then i would say the 460 if <20" probably the 372, if its between these two then there will in the real world be very little to choose from, so your comfort as an operator is more important, i prefer then way the 372 handles feel to a 440/460 but i dont like the 576xp as much, so would probably pick up a 460 now, it really is dependant on supplies of parts locally, although many larger mail order firms can get me parts for the following day and the local dealer can be several days! as they have to order parts in. but above all pick up both saws carry them round the dealership no matter how much of a fool you feel and look, and pretend to make the felling cuts and lifting the saw over a trunk, see how fluid it feels to you, and then make your choice
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i would have dumped the brash in the river, as course woody debris, an important habitat for juvenile fish and many invertebrates are associated with water-logged decaying timber, I would have made tidy cuts however on the otherhand i suspect british waterways wont be none to happy, so i would drop the local office an email with the location,
