Mike Hill
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Bad habit to fall into mate.
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Had a bloke call yesterday. " Hi I would like a quote to remove some branches from a couple of trees that are hanging over some power-lines,I want to fell the trees myself and I am afraid the branches will drag the lines over" Sorry I am not interested in the job,I don't work around powerlines. " What!? I have tomorro off and need to get it done asap" Real shame that mate,best of luck.
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I have found people less willing to wait for a quote, before most accepted it would be later in the week or next week if further out of town. People seem to want the quote NOW! Perhaps because they are working from home and have more time to meet someone during the day? I have also noticed more " could you just?" Requests when on a job,but I think that is directly attributed to the client being home when before they were at work.
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Late in the year most companies are laying off guys for the winter,head over in the spring. How long do you plan on coming over for and how old are your kids? Here is the immigration website for Norway,flow charts and all. www.udi.no
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Reverse the tractor up to the branches then position the trailer at right angles to it for filling. Everything was parked out of the way In that picture because we were going to rig out the tops. Then chip up the resulting idiot pile.
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Conny bashing in a back garden.
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When your walking it around the back in the cut next time,try lifting the powerhead just slightly,really almost like lifting a shopping bag with a liter of milk in it.Makes a huge difference as the chain isnt getting squeezed by the weight of the saw bending the bar slightly at the edge of the cut.
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Those trees in the picture have most of their weight at the back due to the long limbs and lean. The more you cut out of the front (ie deep facecut) the more weight you are transfering to the back and the harder they will be to jack over. If the Tree is near vertical,the more you cut out of the front,the more you transfer the weight forward making it easier to fall over.
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You need big bucking spikes if you are working large timber,all mid to large saws in other countries have them. Back chaining you need them Cutting over the back of a big log Cutting the scarf into anything with buttress roots Working anything thats as long or longer than your bar Running the saw around the backcut you need them There are some real whopper tales on this thread.
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They have a higher chance of going sideways like you say,bigger gobs are for snags to shift the weight forward when there isnt much of a top to help tip it over.
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Plenty fast enough thanks farm boy.
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" Firing the parts cannon"
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Considering moving to Canada
Mike Hill replied to pablolinares's topic in International Arborist Forum
West Coast is nice,work almost all year. Always vacancies In Vancouver but it's expensive to live there and not very social. Save up some money,get a work visa and head over in the spring. Trip around and find out for yourself. Definatly get your HGV and trailer licence before you go. -
This is the one I was meaning. Wee.no WWW.WEE.NO Wee Gruppen only comes with 4.5 meters of wire but easy to connect it to some more. Be alright on the right jobs.
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I saw an advert over here for hand held battery driven wiches. Looked pretty small and pulled 450kg. Be quite the tool for outsiders if you had a few of them to do.
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That's not what you want to do. You load up the back even more doing that ,higher chance it drifts off the stump during the fall too.
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Have a trial of not leaving a step between the bottom of the gob and your back cut. It seems to make them tip easier. No that it would have helped much on that last one.
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You don't always have to put the jack right at the back. If you know it's going to be tough. Cut your jack seat halfway between the hinge and the back on the side the lean is favoring. When you have cut that corner our put some weight on the jack. Then keep cutting out the remaining quarter putting wedges in as you go.
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Would you consider yourself to be in the later camp?
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Someone who likes cuck porn? It wasn't a term I was familiar with myself until Alpha Andy came up with it. Googling " cuck" was disturbing.
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Christ the irony. If you consider me to be a cuck,would you consider yourself to be an Alpha male Andy?
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Me too, Kiwi and Norwegian
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Oh I get it now. Mr Muscle Car and Johnson Big Guns are afraid of black Willie's. Sad really,just learn to use what you have.
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How do you mean?
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Relocating the migrants to big cities would I think have minimal positive effect. Seeing that there are likely to be existing ethnic communities. Equally it would be unwise to relocate the migrants to sparsely populated regions,better to settle them in market towns and larger villages where they would be more likely to integrate.
