Mike Hill

Mick You are like the Chuck Norris of Arboriculture. "Mick dosnt quote jobs,he tells clients the price and they pay him for the privilege of doing it themselves " " Why do you never see Mick sharpening a saw? Because if he did,the sharpness would split Atoms" " Why dosn't Micks wagon have a tipper?" Because the deck would never dare let him down"

I went out last night to a new stop. Had some great strikes at 209m. I forgot my usual rig and had to use baited trebble hooks which are shite. You use a giant chunk of bait tied on with electric string and the fish were grabbing it like a dog with a chew toy but not swallowing it.

I had never seen one of these before. It's a troll crab. It was -20c out on the water that day,I had to cone in because my boat was icing up.

Have you tried taking the barbs off your hooks and using a bigger size? I used to catch a lot of Maks and throw them back.Now I keep them for bait or smoke a few. The Maks come up the Fjords in huge Schools that your lure can literally ricochet off since its solid fish.We target the bigger fish chasing the Maks.I have broken a couple of Rods on (probably) Halibut.One guy I was with fought one for and hour and forty minute befor breaking him off.The record for Halibut round here is 240 kg dead weight. I had something massive on a long line during January.I couldnt pull it up from my Kayak.The sides of the Fjord were all iced up so I couldnt get to land.I tied a rope to the float,threw that on land took a detour and started yarding on the long line.The rope was cutting through my gloves before the trace snapped.I would have loved to know what fish it was.Its better to know its still out there than catch it in many ways. https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/kAxWX/tok-kveite-paa-194-kg-paa-stang

I do a fair bit of sea fishing. I live 100m from a fjord and 1200m from a undersea cliff. We catch all sorts ,from Makrell to Salmon,Halibut and everything in-between. I used to longline a fair bit from my Kayak but recently bough a 22 foot inshore fishing boat. On the way up from fetching the boat I was fishing at 330m depth.Thats boring as all fluck pulling from that depth.

I do enjoy going deep with my Rod on occasion.

Sell up and move on. If you made enough to hire a manager,I suppose you would have one already? Unless you gave said manager absolute control over the entire business in effect expecting him to run it as if it was his own.Had enough profit quarterly to cover twice the managers salary I would forget it. I have seen what can happen to a business after just a couple of weeks absence by the boss. Let alone months or years. Ships have one captain for a very good reason,he is also expected to go down with his ship. The chief petty officer is not.

It really depends John. I shipped a woodchipper UK to NZ for less than what my mate paid to ship a mountain bike.

Could you hit a flying golf ball with a Pistol whilst riding a bicycle?

That much is true

Find out who the grass is an farking pay them a visit.Innit.

No. You run down a turbo because when you shut off an engine the turbo fan is still spinning. Idling the engine for a while allows the fan to slowdown without running out of oil.This is especially important with turbos mounted higher up as the oil will actually drain away from the bushes. There is precious little oil fed to most turbo compared to how fast they spin.

The holes were slogged out.re drilling and going up a size want an option as I had already taken them from 10 to 12mm in the past and I would have run out of steel on the bearing if I had taken them to 14mm.

Bolt holes on the lower feed roller bearing had slogged out.I made a triangular spacer from 10mm plate,welded 12 mm three studs to it ,then hot glued it onto the machine. Welder was acting up so that's why there are so many passes.

Nissan Micra You pick them up for next to nothing,cost nothing to run and let's face it,employees trash everything so let them trash something cheap. You can get all the saws and rigging gear you will ever need into one and still fit it up the driveway infront of the truck and chipper.

Let me guess,SII Land rover across the field at the Isle of White festival?

If you had any experience driving off road,especially in anything big or heavy you would not have posted the above. Ben,tell the client the terms you really want to have. If he turns you down find another client. The job I posted recently using the dozer,well the client thought he could get another strip felled "because after all,the machines are already there". I told him no,its going to cost the same again because the machines will make the same money elsewhere. He took my terms.It dosnt always go well as we all know,but as long as it goes well often enough to make a profit that's as much as you can ask for.

I dont know J You are the one telling the story. If I had to guess,I would put it down to much better soil quality in the UK.The Soil in Scandi is shite in the forestry areas and worse on the coast.Just like the PNW.

Mate The Pacific "North Wet" is rainy as all fcuk mate.That rain dosnt fall from blue skies... Bergen has sometimes 300 days of rain too,but there is little difference in the trees between here and Oslo for example.

No The highest quality timber can come 30m from the sea. What do you mean about the quality of their summer being better?

That's weird. The softwood in the Pacific North West is world renowned. Despite the mild winters,hot summers and windy coastal climate?

"Hobby logging" With my dozer.Taking out a strip of Sitka for veiw enhancement. Havnt had this much fun on a job in ages.

To be honest I think a 500i is an overhyped saw with average capacity. We have gone so far from high reving torqey saws that most have forgotten what they feel like to use. A modded 046 would piss all over a 500i.Propper modded,not tweaked a little bit by some bloke in his garden shed.

I would like to see some pictures of that,my crawler lacks a PTO .I wonder if he has a box on the back to gear up the output shaft?

No. I live in Norway.