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Mike Hill

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  1. Mike Hill
    No The sheer volume of brush a 12" can process is the key to it's productivity.Not it's ability to consume 12" logs Less snedding Less run time Fewer breakdowns because it's not build to weight restrictions.
  2. Mike Hill
    I wonder how much of that 24 ton load is water? Beautiful looking logs!
  3. Mike Hill
    A pair of pretty scrubby examples tbh. Have them out and go plant four saplings in the local woodland.
  4. Mike Hill
    HGV licence would be a good start. But 7.5 tonner with trailer would also be attractive to an employer. CS30-31 means you can operate a chainsaw . Even with all the courses and tickets in the world your not worth much more than minimum wage when on the tools because the courses don't teach you what to do on the job.
  5. Mike Hill
    Made a forrrrrrrtuuuuuunnnee felling Beetle kill Spruce in Alaska 20 years ago. Silver lining and all that boys!
  6. Mike Hill
    Next to no one from NZ will be on here mate. Join the NZ Arborist FB page. Call every company in every town over say 50,000 people before you get to it and just ask. It's a small industry in a small country down there. Good luck.
  7. Mike Hill
    Look into visa requirements for Canada,they are always looking for Arborists in Vancouver. America is a bit harder to get into work wise,not impossible if your potential employer is motivated.
  8. Mike Hill
    Honestly the Nogs would happily give away any profits to the latest refugee cause after paying their spouses generous consultancy fees. Politicians are the same the world over.
  9. Mike Hill
    It's Norway They are just better at everything naturally.
  10. Mike Hill
    All the glaciers I have seen here are pretty far from the coast. My bet is that they will tap in down stream from a hydro electric dam since the infrastructure is there from the dam building ? True some of the water would originate from a glacier/ snow melt but probably 99% would be rainwater. I spoke to a client a few years back who mentioned this,it's not a new idea.
  11. Mike Hill
    Take it on the chin mate.
  12. Mike Hill
    I had a passer-by claim his car was struck by something when he passed us while chipping While he was showing me all the " damage" he produced a stone from his pocket claiming that and many just like it had struck his shite-box. Jog on Pal
  13. Mike Hill
    It really dosnt matter since you took out insurance on the hire right? Anyhow its so far in the past ,that without evidence/ eyewitness testimony you hired a mewp that came back with £12500 worth of damage. It really is that simple.
  14. Mike Hill
    Sounds like a good idea. They already pipe oil & gas. Electricity comes over via cable. The Fjords arn't freshwater though....
  15. Mike Hill
    The damage is on you if you can't prove it's the truck that did it.I expect the hire fee for the mewp included insurance? Farmer has nothing to do with this.
  16. Mike Hill
    I know a guy who passed his ETW without any prior industry experience. Sounds like they set a much higher bar in Germany.
  17. Mike Hill
    Crampons and Ice spikes are two different things I think. Caulks are another different thing,like golf spikes but longer and sometimes hardmetal tipped.
  18. Mike Hill
    ok Who is talking about crampons?
  19. Mike Hill
    They have to be long enough in the spikes to go through loose bark and into the wood.
  20. Mike Hill
    There have always been floods. We just tamed the rivers into courses and sometimes they escape . Remember the floods in Norway last year? Same thing,towns build on silt deposits from earlier river beds,get much ran,river jumps like it always did. Two days later it's back to normal. I remember the BBC coverage from a town called Flåm ,literally flood in Norwegian. Clearly not the first time it's happened then,how many times does the place need to be submerged before you name the town after it?
  21. Mike Hill
    Did you have to show them the Keys? How did they find the " Devils Lettuce?" Good you got off,sad they didn't have anything better to do.
  22. Mike Hill
    Shall I ask Khriss?
  23. Mike Hill
    I see what you did there.
  24. Mike Hill
    85 Deaths a day in the UK from obesity related complications. Imagine if that were shootings? Politicians would have banned staple guns by now. Just goes to show how stupid we are and how little they really give about their constituents.
  25. Mike Hill
    I was reducing a Horse Chestnut with "Deaf Lad" in Norwood junction. Big Phil tells us a plane had hit the WTC,then a while later another one. We went to the pub to watch the Telly,when they were showing footage of the planes impacting the building, Sam who was stone deaf belows out "Not Good"

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