arbogrunt
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give 'em a buzz mate - Wayne 07778 509709, its Cedarwood tree specialists.
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I've been doing just this for 12 years too!. I do take some out, but the whole 'deadwood habit' thing takes priority. Enviromentally geared arb has different objectives of course. I have started felling quite a bit of SOD/AOD oak this year, Essex is riddled with it
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hello John...just got your message mate!. I'm on 01702 324111 or 07770 533653 my email is [email protected]. Cheers!
Spike
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He's climbing most days now, getting some good experience under his belt. Recreational climbing?......thats a bit like being a brass at a gangbang isnt it?
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'can I kill a tree if I drive copper into it' - 'only if its the size and shape of a large axe'
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if you mean Sam Wahl, yes mate!...I've worked with 3 Sams in the past couple of years
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I've known plenty of people who cut themselves with top handle saws over the years (in fact I'd say 90% of the cuts I've known of and seen/seen the results of have been with top handles). This has been the result of cutting one handed (with a bad on-line work position) or more commonly, cutting and holding. About 17 years ago, I was logging up poles into my trailer with an 020AV, holding the wood and cutting one handed. The saw suddenly (its always SUDDENLY!), shot up the limb and cut my index finger on my left hand. Lesson learned, I have never cut myself with a saw since. (touchwood!). I know people who've cut themselves twice in the SAME place using top handles, one handed on the ground...it just goes to show..Darwin was right
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PM sent mate.
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Had it from the age of 24. I always were Sordins and they are on ALL the time. Our ear-protection helps, but the attenuation over the years will cause hearing loss regardless. I'm always amazed when I see blokes working without ear-defence today, once its gone, its gone forever. When I'm using a big saw (660, 880 etc), I wear ear-plugs under my Sordins. If I don't when I get home I can't hear conversations, TV etc. It bothers my wife and kids more that me.....EH?
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...that the ice cream van only played music when it ran out of ice-cream (My Dad's a Scot!)
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lets face it fella's...we don't do it for the money...(could earn this subby painting/decorating!)...we do it because we love the smell of 2 stroke in the morning...and we all have a fetish for getting sawdust in our pants!
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we had a bit of fun doing aerial rescue training with a speedline years ago. Right over a lake, what a giggle that was!
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Which Silky saw for arctic survival course in Norway?
arbogrunt replied to BobG's topic in The Lounge
you should have no probs flying with it, I took swords and daggers over to the USA this year, no problem. Only aggro I've had was with a throwbag in France, it must have looked like a grenade in the scanner and they got quite 'animated' about it, My French not being very fluent..I had to play 'arbo-charades' to get on the plane! -
'I thought the grillon was CE marked as a unit (device and rope)'...it depends on the LOLER inspector. I've used a length of antipodes with fishermans knots in each end and krabs on them with a Grillon for years. I have just bought a Petzl one as I couldn't find that rope...thirty quid!
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Beal Antipodes is the stuff with a Grillon...if you can get hold of it!
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alright mukha, there are quite a few ex-Army lads in the industry. I can recommend Eastwood Trees at Coddenham near Ipswich. Good firm and a good bunch of lads (but all civvies!). Good luck mate
spike hunter
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the best solution I've found so far, is a folding bait bucket from the Factory shop, £4.50 and perfect!
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you can never be too sure in this gaff:sneaky2:...they are more inclined to eat my dinner if I'm late in!
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Our dog kips in a cage in the dining room. He's had it since he was a pup and its his little space. He's not allowed upstairs at all, tries it on and sneaks up there. I told him off a few weeks ago when I found him upstairs and the little bugger got on my side of the bed when I was out and pee'd on it!!!
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There were failings by the Met...they did however arrest these scumbags years ago...it was our dodgy legal system that got them off the hook....Human rights law can sometimes help the perpetrator more than the victim and the CPS?...if they can't guarantee convictions they drop them. A few mates of mine are/were coppers and their sense of frustration is considerable Lets hope the other guilty parties are soon inside paying for their crimes
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far too long to wait to have justice served...but we got there eventually. A terrible crime committed by evil people. What is also important here is to remember the colour/race/creed of the victim and the attacker are totally interchangeable...knife crime is rife in London, as is racism. Evidence that multiculturism is a world away from the reality of living in such areas
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I must've bought a freak 201T!..my one has a slight edge cutting wise (especially in bigger wood) on a 200T, fuel consumption is 20% better and the AV is excellent. What a lucky boy I am
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McProst!!!
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size?...that'll be a 'mark F' for you then mate (one up from a mark E')
