Mike Hill

You sound exactly the kind of tyre kicker who is quickly blocked by sellers over a myriad of sales platforms. How often does your strategy play out in your favour?

No But for lowering that setup looks pants,

I think the price is fair honestly. Guess the market will decide?

Plug the screw holes and put the rack on Ebay? I have a mate who gets warped planks from me,cuts holes for tea lights,sands and oils them and puts them in a designer furniture shop for £350! Unique,sustainable, locally sourced etc

Once I was on a job taking down some dead cottonwoods at a fishing camp in Alaska. They were huge and dead,no bark and hollow,proper "Ghost Tree's". Anyhow,one of them had what was left of its crown over some buildings, we couldn't lower them off and the gear we had was limited to what we could fit in the sea plane we flew out in. I tied my climbing line as high as I could,the lowering rope was attached to the end of that and tied to the davitts on a jet boat in the river. I put my gob in as the boat did its best to stay still holding the line taught cringing at the sight of a cavity where the gob was,I had just started the back cut when Billy bob gave that 454 Big block half a gallon of freedom fluid and the top 40 feet flew into the willows like a giant dart. On those trees you could feel bits hitting the ground inside the tree as they fell down the hollow trunk. Follow me for more safe work practices.

Looks like a disaster waiting to happen honestly. Either by falling off your harness and smashing something/someone or by going through the chipper.

Khris once pull started a Chinook

It's more akin to the Gestapo getting let off providing they learn Hebrew.

Looks rotten as fook. It's a tree gents,when people get teary at my Felling old sticks, I ask them if they would accept personal liability for any damages if we retained it? Ps,It was Bolam & his groundy Ezrah , a famous deep water Jew.

Different strokes for different folks. .22 Hornet is as quiet as anything if moderated ,very cheap to reload for and bloody accurate. You cant really compare it to a 223,that would be like comparing a mini cooper to a Ford Mustang. If you want somthing even more obscure,try a 218 Bee or 219 Donaldson wasp. I had a .218 in a Martini Cadet action,cool little gun.I had it chambered in .218 because it was originally .222 rimmed and it ran out of barrel threads after cutting the chamber off. If you reload ,then you may as well get something fun. Brass lasts for ever and everthing else is the same as .22 hornet.

Paint it with Hammerite ,this with make it last longer.

You may be able to press out the upper feed roller shaft but probably wont. Cut it off at the roller,bore out the shaft then wash the remainder out with a gas torch.Or buy a new roller and shaft. Tie the lower roller shaft up to support it ,remove the gearbox,remove the plate under the roller,unbolt the bearing from the side of the feed aperature,lower the roller and shaft down. When you reinstall make sure you index the roller teeth ,point to valley or you will trash your rollers.

Yes I know all of them. Your name is also on my little list. * sound of pencil breaking*

Imagine if all the Trumph haters had spent as much time investigating Tony Blair as they had slinging shite at Donald.

I try and get the tractor close to anything large or strenuous these days. I don't do many section fells anymore,if I can't crane it, I cane it with the price so someone else gets it.

Something I found very interesting is,there are more Animal rights activists in jail in the UK than XRW. Yet the media tells us the XRW is the most serious threat going?

Honestly it's both. Most companies break even-just or make a small loss. If like me ,you income is seasonal kiss goodbye to 28% of that buffer you had saved to get you through the quiet months com Jan 1st. The tax on dividents is 37.85% so there is little incentive to increase income that way. Plus you don't get NI contributions from dividends. This place is borderline communist these days.

The Norwegian wealth tax is more than just the Richest leaving the Country. It's been a systematic attack on small and middle sized business owners over the last 20 years. The tax on Profit has gone from 4 to 28% which encourages businesses to run in the pink,which is fine until the economy slows. Norway has the highest rates of bankruptcy in Europe. So it avoid a recession the government gave its employees ( 2 out of 3 workers) a pay rise. Instead of buying services like builders or landscapers they generally bought goods and mainly online. Massive own goal but what do you expect for "Blond Arabs?".

Sure. Let's investigate the only electric pickup that can tow 3.4 Tonn. The gigantic Ford F150 lightning,base price about £50K,so you would have to import it,convert it to right hand drive. Back of fag packet breakdown below. Base Vehicle £50k Domestic transport to port £3k Shipping to Scotland £2.5k Shipping inside the UK £1500 Vat,import and handling fees £11,000 Conversation to rh drive £10,000 easy £78,000 now it's on the road,so now it will have about 1/3 the range of a Diesel when towing. Sadly there is a lack of charging facilities pretty much anywhere off the main routes anywhere I know. So let's buy a nice big 10kva generator to sit on the deck. £3000 This can run all day as Dave is milling,providing of course he gets to the job on a single charge. But and it is a big but,the short charging frequency will rinse his battery. Sadly the batt packs in pretty much any electric vehicle are non replaceable ,so be prepared to scrap the truck in four years in order to buy another. His clients won't buy his services any longer,and since of course every Miller in Scotland bought and electric wagon thus charging a fortune. The timber now goes to firewood and the dimensional Oak gets imported from the Baltics where they don't give a toss about HSE or emissions. Perfect!

What else should he use to tow 3.4 Ton, carry his gear plus a helper or two that would create less emissions than a dc pickup?

Pretty close Mick. Except for the lack of cowboy hats

Here here Mick. I have had a couple of these,perfectly adequate for me to carry around a Sea Kayak and lots of guns. A double cab would have been crass.

I already have enough likes to be considered a good climber. #arbwanker

No idea. It's not crucial anyhow,since the crane will only be lifting a fraction of the total weight since the butt remains on the ground.