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skyhuck

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  1. If you can't comprehend that top handled saws are any more dangerous than rear handled saws, I'm not sure you should be using any saws
  2. You can use it with one hand, freeing the other hand up for amputation.
  3. For sure!!!!, I've had far more complements over the years for our clean ups, than I have for the work.
  4. I bred my own, but it takes time, (19+years)
  5. I get your point Nick, but often the client has little idea what a well pruned tree looks like. By asking "Are you happy with that" SOME seem to think your asking because its does not look great, but you hope it will do. I've found myself back up the tree hacking it to what they think looks good or at least value for money:001_rolleyes: However, when I say "Thats come out well" or "That looks great now", it seems to give them the confidence they need to feel happy
  6. Very true!!!!!! I normally say "That looks better now" or "That looks great now", as you say asking if they are happy can sow a seed of doubt that you some how think they may not be happy.
  7. Or what? You'll beat me up????
  8. Years ago, as a boy at the "Kingdom Hall" I was unfortunately a JW:001_rolleyes: the young lad sat in front of us was sniffing away, as he often did, after a while my dad had had enough, he lent forward and politely asked the lad to go get a tissue. He promptly got up and left the hall, he returned from the toilets and handed my father the tissue
  9. Too true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Soooooooooo annoying!!!!!!!!!!
  10. Its not good when you spend hours with people who irritate you, I'm sure I've irritated plenty in my time. My last groundie Todd was great, we got on really well, he was always clean, never smelled (which is important when you can spend hours in a cab together) and was good company, way better than some I had in the past. I now work with my eldest son, which is great!!! As for dishwashers, whats wrong with you girls, I think I've loaded ours maybe a half dozen times in 25 years, its women's work
  11. A lot of tree work is a single hit, thats one of the problems.
  12. Err No, the word kiln is defined as "a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying, esp. one for calcining lime or firing pottery." So "Kiln" dried logs need to have been dried in a "kiln" to be advertised as such.
  13. OK, fill a shoe box with sawdust and then get a log of the same size, I guarantee the log will be heaver, so must contain more wood. Cutting up solids increases volume. Because we use chippers to reduce the volume of brash (which cannot be stacked without HUGE air gaps) we imagine that cutting reduces, but thats wrong.
  14. A pile of sawdust is full of air, thats why its soft, rather than hard like a block of solid wood.
  15. Banks are scum, they are like a friend who lends you an umbrella when the sun is shining and asks for it back at the first sign of rain:thumbdown: Good luck and keep on, keeping on!!!
  16. My dad has had an Esse cooker for years, it was one of the first, he loves it, it does require very dry wood.

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