Dean Lofthouse
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I've reduced a 80ft leylandii hedge this morning and after all the "two tie in points" and "hand held" arguments I was going to video doing it with the helmet cam, for some real life work vid. No harness, no point wearing one with no-where to tie in, every cut hand held and chucked, balancing on dead centre stems and no chain brake because you can't let go to put it on.
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There's only an hours work there plus clean up
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Good wage for a groundie/Inexperienced climber?
Dean Lofthouse replied to Mozza's topic in General chat
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What have you used to put down pressure on the top roller Ed, springs ?
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Yep, could have done with a straight edge here, here and....here. kidding really SBTC
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You two should stick to your day jobs
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So that's what one looks like, you never know, when you get good at carving you can carve some leaves for it.
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Wow, that's excellent Steve........ What is it ??
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That's eutopia Ed
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You could have got a bit more in the top if you had had a chute extension
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Don't be cheeky to your elders
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In ten years I'll be 54 and will have one more year in tree surgery to do, will retire from tree surgery then, if not a bit before, will be looking into another business untill then. Might buy a shop next door to yours and pee off from this crap hole, had my fill of disrepectful selfish pratts over here Just watched a car full of ethnic persuasions come through my wood, opened and left open both gates and threw two coke cans out of the window on their way through. I was red with rage and had to count to 6 thousand to calm down, otherwise I'd of done something stupid. After a couple of hours of going and repeatedly shutting gates behind so called rural friendly people I finally flipped and went and give a group of people a right blasting, totally lost it, red mist, everything, one of them enraged me even more when he told me I'd no need to swear. The air was blue for at least a minute had a belly full of people over here
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With you now. You can't just use a chainsaw sharpener, it has to be modified quite extensively, if they had modded one as I did then it's ok. Sorry, skipping through stuff again
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Eh ??? Using an angle grinder is a bodge, using a jig is the proper way to do it. Sorry, not with you
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It was a policemans house, he can clean his own gutters
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Should be quite informative. The box on the back of mine is made from about 5 sheets of 3/4 marine ply, I weighed one sheet and multiplied it by five and was shocked at how much it weighed, all to knock off my payload.
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No James, just round the back of my house going toward the main road.
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If you own the vehicle you will also be allowed depreciation against your tax, it may be a fair old lump with the new system ??
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Didn't need to blank out my reg no, I only had half a reg plate on at the time anyway, broke it off about a month before. Wanting to change it to a manufactured ali box when I can afford, getting scruffy now and looks a bit Pikey as Ed keeps pointing out
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I like how he remembered to do up his chin strap on his helmet, but forgot the harness. Mind you Peter, if you fall there'd be enough BIG pegs to grab hold of
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Up until 3 or 4 years ago I used to sell repair and sharpen all manner of tools. We used to get hedgetrimmers, cylinder mowers, rotary mowers, chainsaws, shears, you name it. We first used to sharpen Hedge trimmers with an angle grinder, but when your doing three or four sets a week accidents happen. I shattered one disc and cut my hand quite bad, I put it down to bad luck, it then happened again cutting my wrist so this time I made a jig out of an oregon chainsaw sharpener. The sharpener had all the angles and movement I needed, I just manufactured another stop to get all the teeth even. After using it a while and seeing the finish of the sharpened blades makes you realise what a bodge sharpening with an angle grinder is. If you haven't got a jig then touch up regular with a die grinder or Dremmel. You'll know whenit needs doing if you look on back side of the cutting edge where the blades edge pass each other and it will have a rounded edge
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They do need fine tuning after they have been run in but its probably not as noticable on the husqy, I don't know why. All dealer / repairers should tell you to bring it back in for tuning after a few tanks of juice.
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He's really only 2ft off the ground, he put the camera on the floor to take the pic
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Do you know how Mycorrhiza be applied to an established tree, ie deep application or spread on the surface. Never used the stuff but want to try it on a couple of trees
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The owner of the tree agreed to go halves, therefore agreed for the planning app to go ahead. I think if it went to court he would have to pay for the application. I would send the tree owner a bill if all else fails and once you know you haven't got the job. He backed out and therefore is responsible for not keeping his end. If he doen't pay then start county court proceedings, you can do this online very easily from your armchair. It will cost a relatively small amount, but well worth the money just to cause him some worry and to send a message you can't just pee people around like that. There will be a good chance you will also get paid without going to court because if you word it right, he will ask advice and will be told he is standing on thin ice.
