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Brushcutter

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  1. Swining Dutchmens? Prehaps with some hing tapering and a wedge in the fence side? However you did it, it is very impressive wish i had the stones to fell that tree against so much lean.
  2. I've had a TomTom One XL for a few years now. Fantastic bit of kit it's been droped and it's still not broken. Well it did once and i went to a shop to buy another but they were out of stock. Went back to the car and tried the tom tom again and it worked.
  3. In my local park i asked if i can climb there and they said do you have your own PL insurance, to which i said no. No climbing for me in the park until i get some.
  4. I remember going to the first Celebration of trees all those years ago. It seems to be quite busy one year and quiter the next. I thought there was a lot less for all the non industry bods this year.
  5. Was it just me or it a bit quiter than last year on the saturday? It was good all the same though. Was good to see the students doing their climbing they were impressive.
  6. Personally i prefered a spliced split tale rather than a sewn one. Another personal thing is i like my karabiners different colours, blue for my lanyard black for climbing line and split tale. I also like my split tale a different colour to my main line. All things that i like but i've stuck with it over the years and when other new climbers have seen it they like the colour co-ordination. As for a lanyard you can't go wrong with a 5m length of XTC+. Works well as a short climbing line and for work posistioning. I've had a prussic on it but now i use a VT. Make your own prussics up I like 10mm regate prussic rope
  7. Yea some friends of mine lost a knife from their chipper. Came out the housing and dissapeared never to be found again.
  8. when i did my CS38 pole climbing was the bit i felt most confident about. Sometimes i like to put the flip line on opposite sides so it forms a triangle with the tree in the middle. Sometimes a double rap of flip line round the trunk.
  9. Having a read of it all large tree felling no longer exists. CS32 now covers large trees. The CS49 will be specialist tree felling i know there is one guy on here who has done it, well it was cs33 then.
  10. Saturday for me. Looking forward to it this year i'm going to buy shiney things.
  11. I think there was another guy who was using an older Valmet harvester doing copicing. That was in Forestry Journal a little while ago. Think the FC was pleased with the results.
  12. Saw a review in Farmer Weekly a few week ago. It looks cool very pricey though.
  13. Don't get me started on Toyota dealers. From two experences with them and my old works Hilux i have vowed to never own a Toyota or suggest anyone else ever has one either. I got a Nissan and the service and parts department have never been short of amazing.
  14. Grows quite slowly. When it's all milled up it looks brilliant a bit like Walut.
  15. Just had a look and mine was 470 quid plus the vat for the training and the test. I had an hour or so before my second test that was 35 quid plus the vat.
  16. Maybe it was longer then. I too was shatered after it the concentration was emence especially during the reverse.
  17. I did my B+E test about this time last year. Did it with a local guy had a few lessons. I failed my first test on the driving rather than the trailer bit. If you look around the net you'll find the diagram of the reverse it's quite strict. Lots of lines and cones your not aloud to cross or hit. You can get out to have a look once and your only aloud 2 shunts. The trailer hook up is quite easy just remember break on the trailer first thing on and last thing off. The test is an hour long so 15 mins of off road manuvers then 45 mins of driving. So i spent 45 mins driving round Oxford with a trailer on.
  18. I thought it would be some kind of moth.
  19. Hi Seen a few Silver Birches with almost a shrink rap on them. You couldn't tell unless you get up close but there is a film all over the bark. What causes it? Thanks Andy
  20. I have the Strech Air extreams type C. On their 3rd zip but they don't get ripped up like my Hiflexs or melt like my Husky type As. Their lighter than most trousers and cooler, yes more expensive but worth the money.
  21. How close together are they? If they are in an avenue or something simmilar a MEWP would speed things up and be a lot kinder on the body.
  22. 56 plate for the one with the timber trailer. 58 plate for the loader one.
  23. Those were tiny pics lets see if i can make them bigger no it appears not they are ment to be 640x420 pixels don't look like it. Reverse stearing has it's place when mowing and forwarding. Never had a tractor that does it though. I'd have a slightly bigger tractor that the N101 for a cab crane and harvester head one of the small T series T130 maybe. As for ground clearance it's great in the woods, however its a pain to use our chipper on as the angle of the pto is so steep. Also the lift on the arms doesn't pick the big topper up very high either. Still i love 'em especially the HiShift gear box.

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