Mike Hill
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I need sum new boots whats everyone eles wearing??
Mike Hill replied to Tree cutter Stu's topic in General chat
Tyrol fighters: These would be for me the best off the shelf boot I have worn.My last pair of Haix started falling apart after four months,I'm sure I used to get almost a year out of them? -
Here in Norway every second farmer has a wood processor as dried wood goes for between £4 and 9£ a sack! One outfit drives in into Norway dried and sacked from Lativia and Lithuainia as the labour cost is so much less there.The favoured wood is Birch,we just give away logs mostly as nobody will pay for anything that isn't cut,split dried and sacked.
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The language barrier is less of the problem the more experianced the ground staff are.The first time I worked in Germany my main groundie was so good he'd be holding the fuel can almost before I knew my saw was running out of gas! Work is a great way to learn another lanuage as you only learn what the locals use and hear the lanuage spoken all the time.
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Here she is 140ft up a Stika Spruce,these two are 160 odd feet tall according to local legend.
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I like the black hemet,do you have the rest of the "darth vadar" outfit?:wave:
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Whats that for? "points at harness" "Oh,should I have moved them?" Regarding her porcelin thimble collection lining shelves down the hallway on a through the house extraction.
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Good job! What a beautiful part of the country to work in too eh!Bet the Beers went down well at the end of that day!
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Cool I'll give that a try,thanks!
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Ha! Ok,well she is looking for a job right now as it happens.
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Why's that?
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Thanks! Yes the chipper is going well,the off-set feed tray is a blessing and a curse.Somtimes its perfect and other times you wish it was in the middle as is normal.Getting a CH260 is definatly on the cards,this was to get us going with the mog and was less than one third the price of a CH260 so I can put up with its limitations. We carry two chutes,short one for chipping against banks and the long for chipping into gardens/trailers/etc.
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might work
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Here are some pic's from a job last year,just straight felled a few live Elms on a bank.Chipped the brush and left the firewood.
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Looked good mate!
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I do like the look of that roof box!But I think that will have to wait untill I have made the chip box for the back of mine,I wish it were easier to source Alloy bits and peices here. The biggest detractors of Unimogs that I have encountered have never owned one and never seem to turn down the offer of a wee drive around the block. P.s.Can you tell I'm quietly excited by the new chipper?
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I'll be well up for Capel Manor,can you camp there?
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This one is used in land-clearance here in Bergen
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The truck is worth about £8K in Europe,high km plus there is not mention of how many hours on the engine clock (probably high). Not sure what the lift adds to the value.
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Very nice! Did you sell the wood?
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That does look smart!But dosn't really look like any other Unimogs before it,wonder what the price is?
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I hear that happened once in London years ago,some Pikey's arrived in numbers and took a sign written 7.5 tonner and chipper. We even have an anual migration of Chavs here to Norway about Spring time.
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Yes you are right,I don't usually do the quotes.The problem was lack of light but a desire to retain a screen from some waste ground.30% was the maximum I would do,she wanted it topped.I said I'd fell it for the same price as a reduction, as the Tree was shagged. So she said "just make it look nice" And it does,except to her. Not the first time,won't be the last.
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Tea?Coffee? made by homeowner in Norway? Ha,Ha thats a good one! Seriously,one thing you can pretty much be certain of is the lack of Tea.
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Yes thats true,the original request was "just make it look nice". I think we'll try adding a disclamer to the bottom of a few work orders and see how we go.Thing is,you can always choose not to work for problem clients again. Avoiding them in the first instance is the hard part.
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Sure!
