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  1. Mike Hill
    He also married his first Cousin who was 20 years his junior.
  2. Mike Hill
    The tree in your last picture looks like a Macrocarpa.Interesting pictures!
  3. Mike Hill
    I was quietly stripping a series three landy he had up the bank to keep mine running. He was a tosser .
  4. Mike Hill
    Stumps are one of the few ways you can add value to a tree job. However I have ground out exactly one stump in the 17 years I have been in Norway. It used to be a good earner for my old boss in the states though.
  5. Mike Hill
    Well it is Ukraine that they are fighting for after all. Or would you prefer " equal opportunities casualties?" Ukraine is Europe's problem. Europe will be forced into handling it.
  6. Mike Hill
    No idea.
  7. Mike Hill
    These rights are conditional,just like the UK. Try marching onto a military base and attempting to exercise you right to assemble,protest and speak freely.Likewise you cannot walking into someones home and argue with them,or assemble in their Garden.Argue with a Judge,"but your honor is my right to argue with you". Trump is restoring an element of common sense to a landscape that was polluted by endless "woke-isum" ,BLM, and ANTIFA ,antics.Furthermore he is doing so with the support of the 77 million Americans who voted for him.Dont like it? Then immigrate to America and vote Democrat in the next election.
  8. Mike Hill
    If I lived in the PNW I would get a Hobbs too.Most of the rigging is negative blocking down of Conifer and your wasting the extra money on a GRCS using it as a bollard.
  9. Mike Hill
    You are once again pushing the boundaries of the term " talking bollocks". You speak " hyper-sonic bollocks". Untruths so vast and fast moving,they tear the very air they pass through.You miss the point by nautical miles as the bollocks you speak climbs towards the heavens at Mach5.
  10. Mike Hill
    So. Back to my original point.Ukraine is the second largest country in Europe after Russia.
  11. Mike Hill
    What " little country" are you talking about? Ukraine is the second largest country in Europe after Russia.
  12. Mike Hill
    Breathtaking Gary.
  13. Mike Hill
    Tell us about the Land Cruiser in the background? Does it run?
  14. Mike Hill
    Not Montell Pines? If they were,we could tell you how to do it
  15. Mike Hill
    Not as much as feeding it a big branch does,time and time again. Adding a little weld close to the shaft won't matter. None of the disc's are perfect anyhow,the have more cast than you think.
  16. Mike Hill
    If you do take the cutting disc out,it's vital that you scribe around the pillow bearings before unbolting them from the mounts. They have to go back mm perfect . You should get that disc out in a couple of hours easy,lift it out with engine hoist. I just welded them in situ but if your taking it to a welding shop they might appreciate better access.
  17. Mike Hill
    No. If it's not doing what you want,slow down the feed rollers or buy a better machine. Forst is a lightly built chipper with alot of corners cut in building them. Grind out the crack.weld it up and give it a couple of runs over your new weld. Put some stiffners in it too if you like. They go almost over where it cracked funnily enough.
  18. Mike Hill
    Well... I have welded two different machines in that same area as well.I know of another that has suffered from the same poor weld quality. Grind out and re-weld.You can preheat if you like but my 200amp kempi welded it up no worries.Dont worry too much about damaging the bearings if you do pre-heat,there is alot of steel between that area and the bearing seals. You could weld stiffeners between the fans like Jensen has,they crack but not at the welds in the axis shaft like the forst do.The whole cutting disc flexes when its being fed bigger stuff. The stiffeners are sections of a steel ring welded between the fans incase you are guessing
  19. Mike Hill
    You never know the route out though. Could have been down a spiral staircase along a hallway with two turns then up another spiral staircase and out through a Chemist shop. The owners of which " forgot" to clear two aisles before you arrived and are determined to remain open throughout the job. " Watch out for my bloody stock items thank you very please".
  20. Mike Hill
    I remember seeing a picture of your carpet. I remember thinking that was probably what the carpet in Jeffery Dahmers resembled.
  21. Mike Hill
    I can fix her ....
  22. Mike Hill
    Which side is that mate? I have a pretty good idea of your level of experience ,judging by the way you prioritize something that isnt really of much relevance in general. We are underpaid in some areas because most of the work we do is pretty easy and the bar to entry into the self employment is minor. Plus the fact that colleges churn out new "climbers" many of whom start out for themselves hoovering up the easy money. Been like this in the UK for ages and we are seeing more of it in Scandi now too.
  23. Mike Hill
    Straight up mate,you sound like half the problem in this industry. Over-thinking ,inexperienced, over equipment climbers trying to find reasons not to get the job done. The likelihood of injuring yourself aloft,to such an extent as you cannot self rescue is vanishingly low. So low in fact that refusing a job on the basis of there not being a rescue climber onsite is pretty pathetic.
  24. Mike Hill
    If you think you need a rescue climber,should you really be climbing in the first place?
  25. Mike Hill
    It depends on how you feel about it yourself. Probably the worst reputation you can get as a contract climber,is that of being a prima-Donna though. I would have done the job because honest to God, I have never expected to have a rescue climber on site.

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