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  1. Mike Hill
    Yes Because their wages are a joke , if they do nothing then nothing will improve.
  2. Mike Hill
    Bit brisk this morning on the job. -15 on the drive to the site.
  3. Mike Hill
    Thus drawing a parallel line between a Lawyer and a Scavanger? Quite.
  4. Mike Hill
    I have learned a great deal from this forum, made some great mates, improved my business no end from being able to follow advice given by trusted peers. Its a terrific resource.
  5. Mike Hill
    But they would still require a power source and have the sender exposed enough to transmit. There are only so many voids you could use to hide it and the unit itself would have to be servicable/ replaceable. I added a fusable link to the ignition circuit if my tracked machine, plus a battery isolation switch. If it stayes on a site I park it hidden on top of the ramps, winch cable attached to something, battery isolated and fuse removed. Leaving a tracked machine on a trailer enables it to be stolen by any vehicle with a tow hitch.
  6. Mike Hill
    I can see another fall in value in conjunction with the next interest rate hike. People will just cut their losses I guess. When/if it falls past its 2017 peak, will many people risk their money?
  7. Mike Hill
    If you unscrew the head of a flexable grease line on a regular grease gun the thread will fit the Stihl grease ports. I just use the regular grease that I use on the big kit. No problem so far. Both of them should do but I just use the Nowegian version of Halfords grease.
  8. Mike Hill
    Yes its loverly up there. Just before the snow comes its gorgeous. Here is a picture from Røldal during hunting season, late august but pretty chilly.
  9. Mike Hill
    Thats nice Dear. You got caught out making yourself sound important by claiming Øyo products were junk. Thats all anyone needs to know about your experiance of them. Toodle pip hobby miller.
  10. Mike Hill
    Geilo is where they are made, its a Ski town in the mountains roughly half way between Bergen and Oslo. Its a nice place and the only industry is the Øyo metal works.
  11. Mike Hill
    Did you buy another tourist quality Axe to go with the first one? Good for you, Geilo needs the revenue. Veldig Bra! As they say.
  12. Mike Hill
    Picture sayes a thousand words. Øyo have been making tools for a century or more, Does your experiance of Øyo products span the width of the single example you bought at a high street Sports shop Andy? Kjøp Kløyvslegge fra Øyo - Vi har et stort utvalg innen Økser OEYO.NO Kjøp Kløyvslegge | 1 229 NOK | Dette er en kløyvslegge som egner seg til de store vedkubbene. Med et øksehode... These are good value. I have used one of these and rate it. Decent long handle and a good weight to the head. I know one of the family who makes these. If I can help your dad get one just ask.
  13. Mike Hill
    That seems excessive. Is your house insulated?
  14. Mike Hill
    Trade it in on a rebuilt MS200T
  15. Mike Hill
    Attention. A feeling of importance. The ability to be contraversial without fear of physical consequenses. The belief that he posesses some kind of " power" that he flexes over the forum. Trying on different persona in a safe space. One or more of the above.
  16. Mike Hill
    Trigger and Gareth Pull your heads in, you are making twats of yourselves.
  17. Mike Hill
    Great idea Tom! Nice to see someone showing a bit of initiative and not expecting a result to come to them for zero input. If someone offered to split logs for a share of the production I would be all over it . I burn alot of wood per winter but I have to dump alot too. I would rather see it going to be used, even better used by someone who appreciates it. Keep asking, someone will take you up on it.
  18. Mike Hill

    Gone mad

    Mike Hill replied to eggsarascal's topic in The Lounge

    Congratulations! Will you be largely moored up or plan to be transient?
  19. Mike Hill
    I am not so sure. People have been climbing SRT for the 26 years I have been in the industry. First time I tried it was in Canada 18 years ago where they used a single line and a pair of Jumar's to get into big connifers.
  20. Mike Hill
    You might need two. Dozer PTOs run anti clockwise in my experiance
  21. Mike Hill
    Behold the Chipdozer! An unholy union of British, Latvian and Finnish engineering on a Satanic quest for Arboral destruction. I carried the chipper up an off a wet off camber track with the dozer instead of risking the Valtra. Shame the dozer dosnt have enough shaft speed to run the chipper. Be a propper weapon .
  22. Mike Hill
    Not many of them Joe. UK treework is mostly a doss. If you want to do big stuff on a daily basis you have to go to the PNW or the South Pacific. Thats my opinion after working in the UK for five years, BC for two and Alaska for three, as well as NZ for 5 before leaving for Canada.
  23. Mike Hill
    Eh? Do you truely beleive a person would be prosecuted post injury for not using two ropes?
  24. Mike Hill
    Setting the bar higher as to who can enter the industry as a climber would do alot more to reduce accidents than increasing the number of ropes used. I bet if you had enough money you could lobby for the mandatory use of SCUBA gear up a tree , weeks late Jo Hedger and Ben Rose would be flapping around aloft with two ropes and air tanks displaying to the world how easy it is. Its not a job for stupids, sadly anyone can get fully trained and still be totally incompetent on the job.The countries with large and difficult trees dont have all these pointless rules, and do the job much sharper and more productively than their UK counterparts.
  25. Mike Hill
    I reduced and shaped a 60 meter Beech hedge with a pair of them. The client stated he wanted it perfect and knew it would cost. The end result was staggering come spring.Worth every penny if your day involves thoudsands of cuts.

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