Mike Hill

The chipper spout was like that when I bought it Doug. The crane can pick 1200kg at 120 foot and 90 ton beside a outrigger.

Working through some work at kindergartens. Love having the biggest toys in the sandpit.

He did mention Hamstead, Bolam. Mick wants to be " The Beast of the Heath."

I could cut and chuck that tree down in a couple of hours, if you covered those windows on the extension. Horses for courses though, you gave them a price that you felt comfortable with.

It looks to me as though you are using the middle hole in your hitch climberA s because thats the only place attaching it will work at that length tether? You also have 3 articulation points on that RW tether instead of 2 . Thats going to mean its a bit floppy. You could try getting a regular soft sling and folding it over repeatedly untill you achieved a length you desired. Then wrap it a few times in duct tape to hold it together. See how well it works and then when you have settled on your preffered length just heat shrink the whole lot. A stiff tether tuned into your style of climbing really gets the most from a RW. Running one above a Zigzag elevates you into the Arborist Master Race, a prestigious circle of secretive Climbers who dwell in the canopy sustained only by Red Bull and nicotine. On a still night in the deep forest it is said you can hear their cries of ectascy as the glide almost weighless around the bows of their abode.

You really are kin bonkers Khris. Do you think DU is lighter than sand and can drift from the gulf to the UK? What a twat you truely are.

Nothing means Spring time like a dusting of snow and black ice.

Yes its pathetic how the green movement changes its ideology on a whim. Over here now that we have a grumpy Russia over the border the government suggests every household has at least one fossil fuel vehicle incase Russia takes down the power grid. Six months ago they were looking forward to banning fossil fueled cars by 2030. They even mandated lead free bullets for the Army. Shame they didnt work but hey at least they wernt polluting.

Norway mate

It looks decent underneath. I think I will take it.

I will have a look under it tomorrow. It just got a new MOT but the chassis condition will make or break the sale.

I have the option of buying a fairly tidy Defender station wagon. 2003 TD5 150,000 miles on the clock A few rust bubbles on the bulkhead. The guy is asking £15k Am I mad for considering it?

Threaded the needle with this one. Had to stand on wedges driven into a high stump to get around the back of it. I am looking pleased because I had to ditch the saw and flee when it started to go.The saw made it out ok. I couldnt climb these oldies because the clients wanted the understory as a screen and the neighbours wanted more sun. Felling big trees through understory on a rocky face above the sea is a mugs game. But it does make you feel alive.

While you wrote that I was paid a small fortune just to think about Trees. My brother was paid £600 a day just to suggest that I think about sawmilling. People even pay me for my bad ideas,they are worth more than your good ideas.I dont really need this job or to enrich your forum with my writings. You owe me thousands Bullman.

Is this the thread where we boast about how much we are worth? Because if it is,I have probably cut down the biggest trees for the most money, as well as felling the smallest trees for the most money. I have a Unimog and a Valtra with a crane and chipper.The Valtra cab gets a bit small at times due to my swollen head,but thats ok because no one is as good as me. Log off everybody,I have won.

Had alot to do with over the counter " diet pills" and cheap cigarettes too.

Volvo is like a cult over here in Scandi. I thought they were rubbish untill I had one. I have had four landies, still have one back home in NZ for hunting. I grew up in them, on them and under them but when Jap 4x4s became affordable my Dad bought one and never looked back.

Your getting scratchy. Its a SUV with a landy badge on it. Great! You like it, I dont and I expect more from an off road vehicle than you do.Its really nothing personal, it just wont do what I would expect from and have done with a landy.

How far could you drive yours with water over the top of the bonnet? Would you leave it stuck in a river overnight with the current flowing through it. Winch it out the next day and drive it home? Tip it on its side, pitch the tent, sort it out in the morning kind of thing. Sorry its a poser truck imho.If it makes you happy thats excellent,if it suits your boots even better. Your getting less load space than a 4x4 volvo estate and probably less reliability.

I think it looks aweful. Might fit the bill for the "Green Wellies & Tweed Brigade", but Land Rover has had its day as a viable off road vehicle.

One thing I added on my first two yank wagon's were temperature gauges for the trans.My new wagon has one fitted as standard.The biggest killer of autoboxes is heat,either directly by the tourque convertor buning up from people towing to heavy or just residual heat from a long pull and then they get to the job and turn the wagon straight off. On most Auto's the transfluid gets pumped though a matrix in the rad,and then through its own rad at the front.On my 6.5 I added another cooler as well.When you get to where your are going and your trans temp has gone over 80 deg plus,let it idle down for ten minutes.Another thing to think about is keeping your trans fluid clean,debris hold heat. Apart from that,I can't imagine towing daily with a manual these days.

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Climb up it with a big saw and box cut the stem out from the fracture. The stem will fall straight down and might dislodge from where its hung up.

A Russian Warship side swiped a Norwegian freighter and sank it. Not much about it in the news. Norway responded by frowning. I can see Russia hasseling Norway, its not like NATO is worth anything and if Trumph gets back in the white house he couldnt care less about Europe and nor should he.