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Mike Hill

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  1. Mike Hill
    I'd go for the three way,depending on what its going to cost.If you already have the X frame,then it might be the easiest option?
  2. Mike Hill
    Peice of cake to use really.How you set up the first blow might have a drastic effect on the rest of the timber.If you just what to make slabs then an Alaskan mill is great.But breaking the slabs down into beams and boards will require a bit more gear.
  3. Mike Hill
    Nice and sharp:Pruning Spike essential's:001_smile:
  4. Mike Hill
    Excellent post Andy.I agree with what you said,especially the part about favoritisim.You just get on better with some than others,be them your co-workers or employee's. Being as impartial and fair as possible is just another part of being self employed I guess eh.
  5. Mike Hill
    What a masterpeice! Fred Dibnar would have been so proud.
  6. Mike Hill
    Oh? But I'd have to wire the ladder to those Screws Ed.With Teng Screws I just drill straight through the Ladder and into the Tree. As we are all now thinking about techniques to improve out climbing.Has anyone who has had to deal will a really fat tree cut a spiral staircase acending upwards? I'd like to try that once I learn how to sharpen my Poulan.
  7. Mike Hill
    Obviously thats not mine Bob.If I had to go that high I would have hired scaffolding.Here is an example of my fearless quest to further climbing as we know it.
  8. Mike Hill
    I like the sound of the hard work bonus! How much is it and do you somtimes have problems when one of the guys gets his extra pay and the other dosn't?
  9. Mike Hill
    Actually no.Usually I attach a ladder to the tree with self taping "Teng Screws".This advanced method ensures I ascend the tree in absolute safety,screwing one stage of the ladder to the tree at a time. Only when I am out of ladder reach,or sick of cutting branches off that are in my way,do I then don my "Pruning Spikes" and set about doing some Propper Pruning.
  10. Mike Hill
    Its actually true Dean, ISA journal volume 34No1 Page 20. Be a nice change to get my "Pruning Spikes" out again.I know they are my pruning spikes as they have short gaffs. Practically usless for crown lifts as the bark is thicker and hard to get a purchase on lower down the Trunk.So I use my felling Spikes for crown lifts,as I am a practical man and can't justify having three sets of Spikes.
  11. Mike Hill
    Not as much as a nice hard reduction does! Fact:001_tongue:
  12. Mike Hill
    I'm a climber,clients tell me what they want done.I suggest an alternative,usually they say no,so I climb and reduce/thin/fell. Mostly any of the above is done from a rope,so I'm a climber.
  13. Mike Hill
    Thats very interesting,thanks! What was the texture of the effected timber like?
  14. Mike Hill
    I really don't think there are any uniquely stressfull areas in this business,everyone is nervous when they are new to the job and attempting somthing at the edge of their competence. The stress I experiance from the business and financial side of operations is shared by anyone running their own company.
  15. Mike Hill
    "Drei hundert fuss auf Teufel Stahl" Three hundred feet of Satans Steel!
  16. Mike Hill
    Once in South London.....Managed to get a Tree off a house and by luck it hadn't broken a window in the conservatory.Dragging brush past the family sitting in their lounge watching TV,then in the evening they ask "Oh,so you don't clean the windows you nearly smashed". Mmmmm......
  17. Mike Hill
    Sounds strange that he can tell that the top of it is 120ft away from him,but can't tell the width from arms lenght? Be keen to see the pictures if he takes some.
  18. Mike Hill
    Unless your handy with spanners,have alot of spare time and spare parts...."don't buy old and don't buy cheap" when it comes to machinery you get what you pay for.
  19. Mike Hill
    My final entry for the evening.... Behold! "The Bear Defence!!!"
  20. Mike Hill
    Congratulations to you Dave! I can't compete with you on the size of the Tree and sheer composition of your pose! However for sheer stupidity, I offer the "Alaskan"
  21. Mike Hill
    I'd climb it.All things being equal,I'd rather be up a dead Elm than pretty any other dead Tree.
  22. Mike Hill
    Here I am throwing down one of my favorite pose's. Ladies and Gentlemen,I give you the "Travolta"
  23. Mike Hill
    I tell the Driver how much tension I want,make a horizontal cut on the side I think the weight is.Then if the saw starts to jamb,or the cut opens more than I am comfortable with.I get the driver to reduce the tension or apply more.When I am happy I make my second cut,downwards at an angle to meet the first horizontal cut.If the peice twists,then the back of downwards cut will jamb and prevent the pick from twisting.Similarly if the pick tipped abit and struck other branches then the back of the "Chair" stops the butt from sliding off the bottom. I doen think I have ever done a single straight cut on a crane job.If it works for you then great.
  24. Mike Hill
    Fanny magnets are generally magnetic,so could attach to a chipper just about anywhere. Except on the tyres.
  25. Mike Hill
    I can say the same for getting things stuck. But none of my "bogging " tickets are official.

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