arbogrunt
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I've used both machines...both awesome, both easy to maintain...and very, very heavy!
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a few gopping things I've found inside trees of late...glad I didn't put my hand in!
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weird...mine last for a couple of years...is your real name 'Buster Gonad'?
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I was working on a wind-damaged Oak near Thaxted, in Essex yesterday...horrible conditions, heavy rain and very cold. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, the wind picked up alarmingly and gave some pretty fierce gusts. The tree was moving in a way that encouraged a rapid descent followed by a retreat to the wagon. 20 minutes later the wind had dropped and the sun peeped through the clouds...horrible, cold, wet, muddy day.
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I think its excellent!...I had a neighbour who did this during the war. Her hubby was ex-RAF and said 'she had muscles in places she shouldn't have had!'...
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Dragging parked cars out of the DZ
arbogrunt replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
years ago, we used to put a shovel under each wheel and push em...frowned upon now of course...but not as much as putting a log through a sunroof... -
make sure you always do the zip up and button them when you wash them. I havent had this problem since I started doing this...
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A sorry episode indeed. He is in jail, not so much for what he did, but for allowing head-cam footage of it happening. Once the ball starts rolling in these incidents, it all gets out of hand. It shouldn't have been filmed, it should have been deleted, whoever 'found' it should have deleted it...and the Police should have dropped it. All in all, a bad day for Royal and a good day for the enemy.
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I always get my groundy to hold the rope until I get up far enough for the weight of the line to keep it in.
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I always put 'fell and flush cut' on the quote Tel. I've also got conditions of contract on the back of every quote form which states this and that the depth of any stumpgrind will be 6-8" bgl. I think polite but firm is the way....but don't let 'em get away with it!
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big ash we went to today, the Wildlife trust are cutting it up...we just had to do a bit of first aid on the Oaks it trashed on the way down...nice big Innonotus bracket next to it...no surprises there!
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just get her something that pulls a trailer full of logs like a train...and put a pink steering wheel cover on it for her
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South East Essex 1900hrs heavy rain and blusterey wind...more branches snapping out of trees...out pricing for second day tommorow..no rest for the wicked!
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I'm liking the look of them the chore of playing charades with the groundies is wearing a bit thin...I'm quite deaf now and comms is a constant problem...
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Hitch climber set up in wet conditions.
arbogrunt replied to mark_goldfinch's topic in Climbers talk
I climb on an LJ and ropeguide..I find it quite juddery when the rope gets saturated. If things get that slippery (especially on take downs) I just resort to a bit of 'steam climbing' and use a prussik, 6 wrap if its really bad..its a bit like an 'arboricultural comfort blanket!' -
I take Buy Ultra Omega-3 fish oils liquid - vitabiotics.com its got orange and lemon in it and tastes surprisingly good! I also take Glucosomine, Chondroitin and Ginko...but my poor old body has been thru it the last 5 decades!
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bwa ha ha ha!...I'll ask her if she needs a bit of 'back therapy' tommorow when we pick up the wood!
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she's the climber...never wears PPE...always drunk actually, she was the Manager of the Nursery...'I wouldn't stand there if I were you love!...' we also had a lemming with a camera phone who stood under the tree and did a bit of 'danger-filming', we had a Copper with us all day and he was giving people 'interviews without coffee' when they tried to walk down the road...and he grabbed a broom during the clean up...top bloke
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todays 'Orrible job!...18 phone wires thru it and no MEWP hire available. Cleared the wires with AUS polesaw and a stand-off ladder before winching the beast down with the 130.
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mentally busy day, got all the tools, chipper etc and took them home and waited for the wind to blow out. We then set up on our job for the day. Lo and behold, a big Horse Chestnut snaps out and sits in a Monterrey cypress 300m down the road..split the team in two and ran both jobs concurrently
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0630...off to get the chipper and all the tools...then back home for more tea and bacon sarnies!. Let it blow itself out then crack on
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Hmmm, storm work. I have mixed feeling's about it. I don't like messing booked in customers about for emergency work. It always seems to be a drama getting paid for it and there's always the 'I'm not paying you, the insurance company is' line. I'll be doing the job I've got booked in tommorow, that I know I'm going to be squared up for - weather permitting. Storm work can wait.
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Er, sorry, a bit busy at the moment...can we please defer this storm until the second week of January...thank you...
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thinking about mounting a small crane on the front of it at the mo...
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12 x 6...I thought it was a very old Ifor, but it was made by a firm in Kent many moons ago. Bombproof and weighs a fair bit!...I love it! Paid £625 for it 5 years ago, nearly bit the blokes arm off
