Dean Lofthouse

Get four telegraph poles and rag it across the field roman style

Aye, we dont realise how lucky we are sometimes David. Yes Mike, the wheels were blocked, we blocked all four wheels is was so slippy, then when we reversed we just put a bit of steering lock on to miss the rear set of blocks

That vid was done with one of those sony ericson 8MP phone jobbies, I'm really pleased with the helmet cam but haven't had the chance to use it yet. For £160 they're a good buy, wouldn't have been as keen to buy at £200

Here you go mike, sorted it for you

The winch is a Husky 8532.. good winch that has earnt it's keep Wedging wasnt an option Bob, escape route was over a wall so I didn't hang around, just cut back from the hinge then left the saw in the cut

The landrover wheels were chocked infront with stones so once the weight was off it would still reverse without slipping. Risk assessed bob, risk assessed

I forgot to mention, the key to it working was to get the landrover ragging it back in reverse gear once the weight was off the backlean because the winch was no where near fast enough, it would just have gone sideways once upright otherwise. So just before upright and on the first "crack" of the hinge, the landy was reverse as fast as we could in low box, which made sure it came that little bit more as it was falling

Here's a fell which I dont mind admitting that had me wondering. I planned the fell down to the last detailed exactly how it would go, however there is always a small amount of the unknown. The tree (Sycamore) had a very heavy backlean and a heavy side lean. The was a building behind the tree under the backlean and one to the side under the side lean. The problem was if we felled in the direction we wanted the tree to go the hinge would snap before it was upright, it would go 90 degrees to the side and demolish the outbuildings. There were three trees to come out all with the wrong lean back over buildings and there were two trees to be retained. You can see in picture one we had already felled a large ash which then made room for the for how I wanted to fell the second. The plan: Attach the landrover winch high in the tree, put in a gob cut aiming the tree in the direction of arrow number one, which was directly at the retained tree, we winch the tree near to upright to get the weight off the winch wire and when it is near vertical reverse back quickly hoping the hinge would hold long enough for the side weight to take over when the hinge snaps taking the tree away from the retained tree to fall at 45 degrees to the hinge in the intended direction of fall, therefore misiing the retained tree and the buildings. The second arrow on pic one is where I want the tree to end up which would be 45 degrees to the gob cut direction I was very confident the tree would do what I wanted it to do, my colleagues were very apprehensive Listen for the comment at the end of the vid, I love it [ame= ] [/ame]

I dont know to be honest but look at a tractor with turf tyre, hardly leave a mark on grass. I "think" root compaction is more of a problem over time, ie lots of compacting over time ??

Its tommers aerleron controls off his shed

Your foot print will exert more ground pressure than the tracks, the tracks are only 4 psi or less ground pressure

Looks like a hitch of some sort to go on the trailer hitch frame

Here you go Tom, a tour from my back door to the bottom of the drive looking at sky then down again. Odd time inbetween where it is dark but bear in mind the down load on youtube is nowhere near as good a quality as it is veiwing on the computor [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24bOIc1aDtc]YouTube - Drift innovation helmelt cam for tree work[/ame]

I'll try and remember to do that today Tom

10th Jan to 17th of Jan Just booked flights to Chamberry airport, we haven't booked the resort yet, going to wait for a good deal

How do you fit those planks in the log stove , they must burn fairly quick

Very sensible as it saves your cam, a quicker way is to stick a leather glove in your pocket and decend by controlling the tail of your rope with gloved hand whilst holding the cam open with the other

I've been asked to top 45 trees after refusing to do it last year the guy has rung me up to ask me to reconsider, I just said I'll go out and discuss options and consequenses with him

Trouble is the container door bottom is below the level of the container door or should I say the sealing strip is and the locking bars, so building the outside floor level up isn't an option

Just make sure when you do mount it that you do a test vid to make sure you have orientated the lens. I had to watch my first vid sideways

1. The lights are on , we can deduce from that that it's a daylight camera and no good for dusk or nightwork 2. If I put mine in my hand the camera would look tiny

Could be many things then Tom but engine oil leak combined with Knocking is not good news mate, I'm sorry I know of quite a few TD5's round here that have had oil pump failures thats why I asked. One good thing is 200tdi engines are a lot cheaper and easier to come by

Which engine is it??

The accessory I got was the cigarette lighter adaptor so it can run off the vehicle power when in the car, if I go on any journeys where I'm likely to encounter another JCB i'll be packing

Thats my last drinking buddy Nah, our lass is a nurse