Mike Hill
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What kind of Grapple is on the Log Truck? Looks like a Prentice.
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Are you running an Arb recruitment agency? Because your looking for staff at both sides of the Continent.
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"Paint your Wagon" is one I like.
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14000 Houses without power.Hope they get it back on for Xmas.
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Old knotty Oak.
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Looks a very tidy unit. I'm not keen on any machine I can't fix myself,not knocking it at all.I just like things that are more agricultural in design.
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Loverly Pictures mate! Nice new gear as well.
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You can calculate how fast the rope would be pulled in.If you measure the diameter of the Drum and find out the RPM it rotates at. I think the rope would be wound around the shaft that goes through the drum,rather than the Drum itself.
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Having the Chipper close to the Tree certainly speeds things up.But it also increases the likely hood of a Rope being fed into the Machine. The new Trend with Green/Brown,Camo coloured Ropes is folly in my opinion.Ropes should be hi-viz.
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I had my rope fed into a Chipper. I was reducing a London Plane that was too high for me to decend in one go.I came down to nearly the end of my Rope,re anchored and down I went. The groundie picked up the rope in some branches and fed it into a Vermeer 625.My Rope went suddenly taught and began to jump towards the end of the Branch I was tied into.My Prusic Jambed and I was pulled away from the Trunk about 20foot before the Chipper Stalled.I was climbing on Three Strand and it had reduced in diameter by about half. All this happened in a Flash. Another mate got his Rope fed into a 12" Bandit,it nearly dislocated his knee as the Rope whipped around his leg.He was Rope Burned to hell. The groundies stopped the infeed before he could be injured further.
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An recently moved to Canada.
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Not really. The invasion of Russia diverted masses of men and equipment away from the North African and West European theaters. The threat of England being invaded was a rallying cry to the Colonies,imagine if they were American Colonies and had never committed untill three years into the War.
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How about the Hundreds of thousands of Collonial Soldiers that fought and died on lands far away.The Sons and Daughters that never knew the Father that left for a war he knew little about,except he knew right from wrong and was prepared to do something about it. Thats the attitude we need more of today.
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTw3_PmKtc]Winston S Churchill: We Shall Fight on the Beaches - YouTube[/ame]
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A very respectable and admirable Truck. Quite an accomplishment building it yourself!
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Nice! Were you not worried you'd scratch it,or knock the valve caps off?
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Sayes a Man from Turangi?
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That was cool! I used to shoot Goats in the Pines at the base of that.
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530 is a cracking chipper.I had one and it was stolen. Parts are easy,repair is easy,its a reliable over built example of German Engineering.
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Dump a load of Ketamine in the Horses Trough and then play some Obital on a Stereo.You lay the Hedge and the Horsies have a pleasent sleepy.
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Spot on that Man!
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There are a few back home.My Dad had one.
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What have you asked Father christmas for this year ?
Mike Hill replied to Pat Ferrett's topic in General chat
I want some AG Tyres for my Mog and Mud Flaps with "Mike" on one and "Hill" on the other. Tastefully done in Gold Glitter. -
Still totally the groundies fault.And it normally is when lowering operations go awry. The Climber has a physical interest in not overloading the Stem or Rigging gear.The groundie has somewhere to run...
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"Spurs of Wrath" are forged in Hell from Nazi's Hip Replacements and flow from the depths of Satans lair by winged Monkey's.
