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  1. skyhuck
    When the wind blows against a tree the weight of the limbs on the windward side of the tree are added too the force pushing the tree, so if it stood up to the last wind I'd have been happy too crack on.
  2. skyhuck
    If you remove the limb in small sections you will not shock the tree. Edit; Like Peter posted while I was typing.
  3. skyhuck
    Hell of a statement!! In 14 years climbing I've not come across an "unclimbable" tree. Why had it not blown down in the last gale??
  4. skyhuck
    Yeah I had it done 4 years ago cost £2800. I'm guessing the price, with the pound so weak it could be more.
  5. skyhuck
    Cost of double clutch assembly and fly wheel, I believe.
  6. skyhuck
    For sure!!!!!!!!!!
  7. skyhuck
    My day has been down then up. Started with a call from the mechanic at AC Price to say the clutch on the mog was well worn and they thought it was daft to not change it as the engine is out, so there goes another £1000/£1200 to add to my ever growing bill. On the positive side had calls from two good clients, one asking me to price a large take down and one asking if the price I gave 6 months ago to remove two large Beech was still good.
  8. skyhuck
    The crane just makes things faster With the crane we can do two or three times more work!!, so I probable climb more, not less!!!
  9. skyhuck
    Cheers mate!! Thats very kind!! I'll be in touch!!
  10. skyhuck
    How so ??
  11. skyhuck
    Thats a wee bit smaller than mine Some parts would fit, but as with most machines the same parts tend to ware on all of them, so the bits you want tend to already be knacked. NEVER buy a knackered mog!!, they cost too much to sort. I know of a bloke who wanted a U1200, Alex found him a good one for £20K, he didn't want to spend so much, so he bought one for £9K of a landscaper. It currently stands him at £34K with the cost of all the repairs:scared1: The sad thing is it will still not be worth as much as the £20K one.
  12. skyhuck
    "Two little boys had two little toys, each had a wooden horse......":confused1: Sorry I think I'm on the wrong track again..........
  13. skyhuck
    Thats like saying "your better with a fat lass, as she's more likely too be faithful"!
  14. skyhuck
    Totally agree!!!!!!!!!!!!! .
  15. skyhuck
    I think he means that the "hinge" held for to long. I find its better to have a"shallower" gob that forces the hinge to snap and a SWB says chase the hinge with the saw as it reaches the point you want.
  16. skyhuck
    Happy birthday CerneARB!!!!
  17. skyhuck
    Spot on!! The young need all that excess energy to make up for their lack of experience!!
  18. skyhuck
    Very true my friend!! Also, people today seem to get more pleasure for the process of acquisition than the item its self, retail therapy I suppose. So they do not want anything that lasts too long, as that would postpone their next "fix"
  19. skyhuck
    We still do mate!! Its just that as we, the "working class", have demanded a "living wage" no one can afford to pay for that Kind of craftsman ship on new buildings, and most of the guys with those skill do repair work on our ancient buildings. We all now live in the kind of luxury that the kings and queens of yesteryear could only dream of. The price of not having a valueless, disposable, working class is that labour is expensive and so we have to live with cheap mass produced buildings and architecture, its a price worth paying, in my book!
  20. skyhuck
    I find this argument really strange So if you do something less you can do it for longer? So its better do part of a walk by car, then you can still walk when your old? My experience has always been the opposite, I know of climbers who once they got to 35 they started to get a younger climber in for some of their bigger take downs and so they are climbing less, they soon find that even the smaller climbs are getting a bit hard, so they stop altogether. And before you know it they have put on 3 stone I am 39 and do all my own climbing and still love it as much as ever . I really do subscribe to the "use it or lose it" argument. I never use ladders or MEWPs.
  21. skyhuck
    By "too big", do you mean "too thick" ?
  22. skyhuck
    I would not want one. They are lower powered than the 020, and are of a lower build quality. I would imagine that the difference would be similar to the difference between a 026 and a 023 I know which I would want to use and which would last longer.
  23. skyhuck
    In what ways? I love these saws and think there have been some real improvements. There were some really carb problems for a while, but a decent dealer should have dealt with these, mine did. I change my 020 each year and the last two have had no problem with the carb. Over the years I there have been many improvements, IMO, New caps, no need for a tool to open Increased power, will now push a 14" bar and chain no problem. Improved breather on the tank, no more petrol ruining up your sleeve.
  24. skyhuck
    :congrats:
  25. skyhuck
    My wife got me a sky dive as a birthday present a few years back, it was ace! I would recommend it to any one!. You get 3 thrills in one, the plane ride in a rattly old single prop taking off from a bumpy field, the free fall which is awesome and then hanging from the canopy and slowly drifting down enjoying the view and the peace. My boys used to watch the video and cry, they were sure I wasn't gonna make it, I think they may cry now, because I did. Why do Kidd's HAVE to grow up???

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