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Charlieh

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  1. i know about 4 companies round here that advertise it, but its finding ones that actually have the trees to work on seems to be the problem, Brushcutter, if you manange to find some one running a course but need numbers i would be interested
  2. they tend to run bigger bars in the States on softwoods, also they could well be using it with a skip or semi skip chain,
  3. LGPeddie on here has a flail on his 360 may be worth dropping him a pm to find out who supplied it
  4. that costa in uttch is going to bankrupt me whens the article in the paper this thursday?
  5. but seriously it would have looked more professional if you all had husky's
  6. 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
  7. its not the bumper that bothers me its moving the solenoids and wiring the lodar unit in thats going to be tricky
  8. 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?
  9. is that a demountable tray for the winch so you can remove it when your not using it?
  10. 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,
  11. 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,
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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)
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. e-Catalogo STIHL jump to page 28 to have a look at stihls current 070's they produce
  18. 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,
  19. congratulations fella,
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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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