Dean Lofthouse

The first thing anyone showing you round a church job is how little money they have. Perhaps they told the Tree man after he started the job:sneaky2:

Well....I.... never !!! We shouldn't be subjected to displays of such bad practice, disgusting !!

160 degrees and thats my final offer.

"keyboard Experts" with no expertise will stand out like a sore thumb on forums such as this. I think the idea is to express our opinions not force them. There are some very knowledgable people on here, without a doubt. Things said on forums shouldn't be taken to heart.

I'm sure, looking back through your posts Butch, you've never offended anyone on this forum or maybe just upset anyone a little with sharp comments

Trying to work out how long the job took you by the suns shadow cast, moved round exactly 180 degrees. Get a life Dean !!!

It's called having a sense of humour Butch. Some have it, some don't. I think the Englishman, the Irishman and the Scotsman have had enough mickey taking and we need to pick on some other nationality Feel free to take the mick out of us anytime you want. You're more than welcome.

I drink on new years eve, at the AA show and at the odd party and that's it. So I really do feel fresh on one pint when I drink. But then after 4 or 5 I seem to sober up and end up being the last one at the party The new years eve before last, someone passed me a bottle of Port to try as I had never had it before, he threw a wobbler when he came round again to find I had polished off the bottle thinking it was wine Boy was I ill the next day though. Took me three days to recover.

Ah but the only reason you get Americans with big muscles is because they have a gym in all the prisons and they spend all their time working out. I've seen it on telly. Everyone else who hasn't been locked up spend their time in Burger King

Silly me!!

Guiness or stout makes me fart big style, I produce enough wind to power an air turbine I don't know what is good beer or bad beer, sometimes it all tastes the same to me. Tried some of that wine stuff the other day, although the wife soon picked me up for filling a pint glass with the stuff. Wine tastes crap for the first few gob fulls and then it starts tasting ok after that, that gave me a headache too.

Meeehooow !!!!

So that's BS3998 out the window then

But I don't think it is enforcable if it is the company owner himself doing the climbing.

I think most have their good and bad points so I have five: "The collins Guide" "Trees" Dorling Kindersley "Trees in great Britain" Roger Phillips "A Field Guide to Trees" Alan Mitchell "Garden Trees" DK garden Guides ..and I'm still crap at tree ident with so many "garden Varieties"

Had six pints of Carlsberg last night and was very poorly this morning. I get drunk on one pint normally so six was doing very well. But had the mother of all headaches this morning and through the night. Apart from not drinking at all, what is the best beer, spirit to drink to avoid feeling rubbish in the morning. My mate is in Bulgaria and he says you don't get hangovers with the beer over there because it is more pure ?? I try to drink loads of water before I go to bed but it didn't work and all two paracetamols did this morning was make me puke. Tips will be gratefully recieved. With the forth coming APF, I anticipate drinking a few pints

That's my idea of topping, when you are taking the ends of the grass making the cut.

Put it through the chipper ?

To be honest, neither have I. Taking your zimmer to the APF?

Your going to have to sort your footlocking out then Dave and move along with modern times, otherwise your going to be left behind old man Rather like your Nan with one of those fang dangle video machines

What I did quickthorn was to turn the wheel whilst watching the prop flange. I didn't allow the prop flange to move at all. I took the play up to one side with the prop and measure the play then going the other way. Like you say though there could be a lot of play in the diff. But say that one of the outer hub flanges IS badly worn to the point as you say where it is partially stripped. There has been a click as I take up drive forward and that is what I suspect it is.

I've never topped a tree, although I have taken trees back to previous topping cuts for safety reasons. I have always refused point blank to top a perfectly healthy tree (cept conifers). One of the big breweries in Tadcaster asked me to price for topping three mature sycamores because neighbouring residents had complained they weren't getting any sun in the evening and their satalite signal was non existent. Three trees at the sight of these sycamores had previously been topped and the new growth was firing up. I explained to them that it would only be a short term fix and that when the new growth reached the height the tree had been previously (and it would do more quickly) the problem would be multiplied because where one branch had been cut ten would grow. I pointed to the trees at the side and said thats what I mean. I politely told him I would not take on the work knowing that the future works from this brewery would be mine and it would be quite a big contract and that if he wanted the trees topping he should ring someone else. He went back to the board and explained my case, as a result I won all future tree works for this brewery, they also asked if I would do their grass contract as well later after they saw how tidy we were and what consciencous worker we were. Apparently he said I was a H&S nightmare, but he could work on me for that. He came to see me when I had just got into a MEWP, the mewp was only 10ft up so it was quicker to slide down the boom , his face was a picture. I am very busy, but that is I think in part because I am good at persuading customers about what is right and what is wrong without coming across as patronising and suggesting alternatives such as crownlifting or thinning a particular area to open a block of light up. Touch wood it works for me and my name gets passed around, most of my work is through recommendation and as time goes on and you get more customers under your belt, the recommendations get more and more. I also spend a lot of time tidying up and trying not to damage flower beds etc, whereas most just want to get home early and throw rubbish over boundary walls . I can honestly say I have never topped a previously untopped tree but that isn't to say I condem others for doing it, each has their own morals and reasons for doing it such as safety. I just wouldn't want to top a tree for saftey reasons for someone to see me doing it and not know the spec. As far as they are concerned they will judge you on the finished product and not the reasoning behind it.

Bloody hek, good idea Log-ologist, your not just a pretty avtar after all. Never thought of that

It is the drive member that is worn but the shaft splines, I suspect are worn too. I replaced the rear shafts and drive members last year because I found this was the case there. If I jack up one wheel at the front I can turn the wheel six inches on the circumference before the slack is taken up, whereas it is only 1 1/2 inches on the rear. I am one of these that everything has to be right, I couldn't replace the outer flange and spline to find a bit of play in the innner splines and put up with it. I'd be thinking about it all the time. I have seen defender axles come up on tbay quite often new in the crate, I may wait and try find one of them. My defender regularly drags whole tree trunks up and down bankings and does a lot of off road work so she works very hard for a living and deserves only the best