Dean Lofthouse

Keep it up mate, well done

There's a very well known log supplier locally that have been in business for a looong time that still sell logs by the ton It really does amaze me

That wasn't one of the options Dave

I own a MEWP so I'm a "Chump" ? Bit of a sweeping statement there chap.. You may have to use a mewp one day

Which shape though, Would you go round, eliptical, random or just "pear" shaped

Good confidence builder there joe

Could be right, Jo-beau and greenmech are drum deffo

Lol.... I tried just laying it ontop of the bedside lamp, but it kept falling off with all the rocking and shaking, double sided tape was best on the chair back at the bottom of the bed, had a bit of bother mounting it on my helmet There's a good monting bracket that comes with it that is curved to fit the helmet, but I haven't tried it yet as all my jobs for next week are trimming or silly little pruning jobs. I look good whatever I wear mate

One reason is the tbay ones are disc chipper, the three mentioned above are drum chippers

If you cant install from the ground why not take a little pouch with you with 30ft of throwline and a throwbag and throwline over the next high branch

Nice Frown lift

Are you going into business with Frank then Hairdressing

No I personally wouldn't, I'd give up tree work before Id do that I came into tree work to look after trees not mutilate them because someone told me to

People worry far too much.. I sell my logs at £70 a cu/m however the customer gets them, whether it be in a .5 or a .7 or a .8 builders bag or in a transit, landrover or sooty van load. Simplest way is to tell the customer it so much a cubic metre, let them work it out, if they cant then stuff em

I reckon if they'd have cut a bit more here. here and here, they would have balanced the crown

Not so much do we own, but should we be allowed to...... Say someone moves into a house that has a perfectly healthy 300 year old Oak and decided before they move in that they like the house but not the tree and have bought the house with the intention of felling the tree. I have come across this quite a lot, sometimes they dont realise the point of a TPO and think they can get round it if is does have a tpo on. My point is, bearing in mind WE dont own our land the Queen does and that we only hold TITLE to our land, should we be able to fell a mature 300 year old oak because we dont like it. The Oak has gone all those years with responsible owner looking after it then, for example, you get some city twerp coming along and getting rid in the blink of an eye The reason I am writing this is because I know of just such a tree which does have a tpo on it, there has been a house built near it some 50 years ago, the house has been up for sale many times and each new owner has tried to have the tree cut down. I have worked on the tree and looked after it, I know the last owner of the house, (who inherited it because his father died and couldn't get a decent price for it because of the tree) appealed vigorously and it was Mr Ed's dad that came and assessed the tree and passed it as very healthy. This is one example of..IMO the totally wrong reason or selfish reasoning for felling ancient native trees... for money in other words. But there are many examples out there of trees with no tpos or no protection against such as this case. I know it was argued a while ago about wether or not WE as tree orientated people should put TPOs on trees where we feel justified, I have never done it yet but felt compelled to do so the other day when I mentioned to a chap it was not in his best interest or that of his 16 neighbours to mutilate 45 trees for no other reason than, and get this, he thought they were dangerous and we are talking 40ft silver birch and cherry. Not because he and the neighbour wanted light or the leaves blew in his garden. The trees were not protected but these trees as a short lived species I explained to hi I didn't have a problem felling the trees and replacing with smaller trees but if he felt the trees were danger now, then topping them would make them a degree more dangerous in future. Could there be an independant advisory body that people had to go to when making decisions of this kind or should the decision be taken by everyone because it's in all our interests to "save the world" or just leave things as they are

What a waste !! Could that lot not go as bio fuel or something instead of wasting it

Is it LWB, SWB, crew cab, chassis cab............? The one ton bag isn't a scam ?? I sell by the bag and my bags are 85x85x85 All my customer are aware of this, selling by the bag is the most accurate way for the customer to get the volume of logs they want

Whatever the crane situation, I personally thought it was an incredible waste of good timber 150ft ?? Must have been worth a good amount

The blades sit in a pocket in the flywheel dont they, if there are no spare pockets ............

Just had a look and it looks exactly like dyneema

What size container are we talking here, I'm thinking 20ft ?? What I have done David is cut the poles to 10ft and shove in sideways, two people can easy handle them when they come out the back taking them to the front again, leaves very little damage to the ground

Has anyone used one of those synthetic winch ropes, supposed to be stronger than steel wire ??

I used to do HGV recovery and have seen a winch cable go so should know better. I normally hang a bit of carpet over the middle of the wire as a damper but my mind was running over every senario and it got missed

My lockjack came out of all my customers pockets not mine