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  1. Mike Hill
    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOOs-MqDOI0&feature=related]YouTube - Gordon Lightfoot 1974 - Sundown[/ame]
  2. Mike Hill
    When you admire the clean up your groundies have done,then gasp in horror when that last tiny pile of leaves and gravel gets shuffled onto a rake with a Boot and flicked into the chipper.
  3. Mike Hill
    Thanks for posting those photo's,would loved to have made it over. Be there next year.
  4. Mike Hill
    Looks good that! How many horse power?
  5. Mike Hill
    Put two or more three ton "ratchet straps" around the stems spaced evenly apart.Then Fell it in one.
  6. Mike Hill
    A Goat can untie a Knot as well......
  7. Mike Hill
    YOU CAN BE MY WINGMAN ANYTIME! They do look smart though John.Be keen to read your reveiw of them.
  8. Mike Hill
    It probably depends on how big the things are you have to "Feel". The bigger the diameter at breast hight (DBH) the more I would charge. "Feeling" can be good at the time,but regretfull in the morning.
  9. Mike Hill
    One of those without the expense of the crane would be nice.I could pull it with the Tracked chipper or with a tow ball on the digger blade. *Grabs welding Helmet,slams door*
  10. Mike Hill
    Maybe... Get your own climbing kit and saw. Then the company you work for is paying you to "practice".You will also have the gear to do your own jobs in the weekends. The last two firms I worked for in the UK I brought my own kit.It lasts for ages if you look after it.There saticfaction of having your own kit outweigh's the cost of buying it imho.
  11. Mike Hill
    I think the bad cuts are on the back of the Tree anyhow.Since its been hacked,probably on the owners instruction its all irrelevent.
  12. Mike Hill
    Done worse for more,most likely.
  13. Mike Hill
    Perhaps consider getting an Estate car and tipping Trailer?You will get alot more in the Trailer than any pickup.Also your gear is alot more secure. Big plus is when your mates move Flats,you can just lend them the Trailer instead of getting roped in with your Pickup.
  14. Mike Hill
    Depends on where in the Country it is.I would be keen for September.
  15. Mike Hill
    Leaving the limbs on top of the Hedge is wrong. But maybe the client wanted it "lower" and the climber took their time explaining why it would be a back idea........but thats what the client wanted and is happy with. Did you ask the Tree owner if they were happy with it?
  16. Mike Hill
    We often do that on bigger jobs,especially if the wood is to be removed as well.Here the price for a 30 yard skip is close to a Ten yard one.Huge bonus is that sometimes if the Skip is passing the yard,the digger and tracked wheelbarrow goes with it to the job.
  17. Mike Hill
    I found some old fire extinguishers in a layby the other day.I will try and turn one into a flame thrower that uses jellied Petrol and compressed air. I hate Wasps,Bumble Bee nests
  18. Mike Hill
    Fun to use untill your mates find out?
  19. Mike Hill
    Looks like a great job to me! Call outs at "double bubble" mean sunday roast at the Pub!
  20. Mike Hill
    Yes,but in my head the timber frame would be demountable so I could replace it with the bucket for landscaping. Its all irrelevent really.Most of the people are keeping the Logs today.When we do remove them we cut them into rings and load them into the tracked barrow or carry them out with the digger.
  21. Mike Hill
    I think the idea that I posted above would work for someone with the time and Steel to make it up. I have thought about making up a frame with a grab that uses the tipping assembly on the tracked wheelbarrow.Then you could grab the log,pull it back over the track frame and then back out with it. Long on ideas,short on time.
  22. Mike Hill
    Imagine if you took the bucket off a tracked wheelbarrow.Then made a tow behind chipper with a removable chassis and axel. You could drop the legs down on the towed chipper,unbolt the cutting unit and engine from the chassis,drive forward and then drive the tracked wheelbarrow underneath it and bold it on. The you could have a tracked chipper when you need it and a two behind when you don't.As the tracked wheelbarrow would still have the tipping ram and frame,you could use it to carry the wood out when you had remounted it to the tow behind chassis?
  23. Mike Hill
    I have a feeling that there are other factors at play. I am amazed that some of the Tutors and assistant tutors at the arb schools in the UK lack a solid industry background.Some or even many are not and have never been profficiant production climbers. When I went to "Woodsmans School" in New Zealand the Tutor was a guy in his fifties that had seen and done it all.He had started in the Forest as a lad,owned and run logging crews etc.We learned the course and more.He skimmed over the impractical and ephasised the applicable. In an industry that recognises experiance and aptitude over tickets and qualifications.Have we gone to far in our quest for "education"?
  24. Mike Hill
    I like the Petzel Vertx Vent.I bought a new one from Jonesie with some grade five Ear Defenders.Total Brilliance! I wish I had used Grade five Defenders from day one,they are abit more bulky when the Defenders are off your ears and riding the top of your helmet.But the noise reduction when they are over your ears is supurb.
  25. Mike Hill
    I don't think tracked chippers really have any of the problems you stated above Steve. They only rip up Lawns or paving slabs if you turn them in to tight a circle. Turning the variable track machines on hard standing is easy if you narrow the tracks in. I have been impressed with how little damage the machine does to peoples gardens,even when the grass is soaking wet.The weight of the machine spread out over two tracks is so much less than a four wheel machine.

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