Dean Lofthouse
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whey hey.. my favouritist of all dogs. Bred for the tracking and bringing to bay of lions. Makes pitbulls balls look small.
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Sometimes when they have been stood for a long time then started, the carbon that was on top of the piston peels away and gets onto the spark plug or in the gap of the spark plug. It then gets hot and causes premature firing or misfiring. Try cleaning the plug, you may have to do it a few times till the carbon has gone. If when it starts the symtoms and you inspect the spark plug to find no carbon deposits in the gap, it may be someting else. It could also be loose carbon ontop of the piston causing a hotspot and a misfiire or popping Just something to try
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Gaylanders can have problems with viscous coupling if not used off road enough. Apparently, the silicone inside them goes hard and they start knocking and banging
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I'm the same, old school. It's only recently I have been trying out a few new stuff, hitch climber inc. PeteMctree introduced me to it and he will be there on the day. I have some 8 or 9mm cord I've had for ages and have made some different lengths up. Started with a 1m length before any knots, then 1.1m, 1.2m. When the knots are put in that 1.1m length you end up with a VT cord about 700mm, so allow 400mm for the knots.
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Thirty foot circumference at the base would make it 10ft across !!
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jim, a few of us are hopefully getting together to talk knots and hitches on the 19th April. There will be some experienced climbers there to guide you. We will have a few ropes set up with different friction hitches and setups. You can study how they are setup and go and try it out on a nearby tree with guidance. It will be at Brighouse in Bradley Wood. Do a google and you will see where it is. I will post more details nearer the time. If you are near Leeds, it's only a 30 minute run for you and the wood is at the side of the M62 but you obviously have to go thru brighouse to get to it. Your more than welcome, bring your silky, there's plently of deadwooding to do :wave:
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Silky Fox service I broke my extending pruner, so emailed silky to see if they sold spares direct. I had a phone call the day after, asking me which part and they gave me the price. They asked me if I wanted them to send the part. I said, I was at work and din't have a payment method. No problem, they said, we will send it to you and send a cheque by return post. Credit where it's due, outstanding customer service there Silky Fox, a rare comodity. Shame Bandit (BeRecyling) didn't have the same customer service, they have been coming out to see to my chipper now for eerrrm, 14 months.
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Made me chuckle, mine did that when they were nippers
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I know what you mean John, LA can be too fussy. I'm a bit more fussy when it comes to employers using things inappropriately. It would be a case of, if I injure myself, theres only me to blame. If one of the groundies injure themselves, I'm still to blame.
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I use mine one handed most of the time. I'd say 50% If you were to position yourself to do a two handed step cut on evry cut our times would double along with the price. I have just taken down a large silver birch in 20 minutes, without rushing and without lowering. Getting a drop zone and cutting branches so they land in that zone, some with a helping hand. All done in a safe manner, no risk taking.
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Wifes a nurse, her hands are raw with washing them every two minutes. She works on the kidney dialasis unit. What pees her off is they have a system in which they use sterile area and pads and don't touch anything non sterile whilst linking the patients built in pipes to the machine. But the patients come in in mucky work t shirts rubbing against the connector pipes which are in the chest at the side of the shoulder. Also, the nurses scrub up and go thru all this shite and then at visiting time, every man and his grotty dog go tramping thru the hospital and sit coughing and spluttering at the site of their relatives bed. Any infections, the hospital is the first to be blamed. All visitors should be barred from hospital IMO, that way they'd have a chance of controlling MRSA
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I looked at one last month, a new estate built about 12 years ago. As part of the planning conditions each house had to have a tree. This one house rung me to ask about removal of this certain tree because it was getting a little big. It was 12 ft from the bay window and looking up the road I could see Hornbeam, silver birch, maple, some little acer Brilliantisimum. This particular tree was a Black Poplar, which is probably the same as the one you felled John if I'm not mistaken. Can you imagine that in front of your bay window in a 12ft x 14ft front lawn.
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Theirs about 350m of well established conifer, about 25ft high and 18ft deep. They need the conifer there as a visual barrier and a sound barrier. They can't win, some residents want the screen because they don't want to see the factory, others complain the conifers block their veiw, others complained about the noise, others complain about the birds.
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i have a contract for tree and grass works with a large brewery. The Contracts manager phoned me today to see if there was anything I could do. Apparrently, 2 or 3 local residents had complained that in the last feww days, starlings had been coming in to roost in their boundary conifers. Some 2000 or so of them, doing the swirl routine before finally coming in to roost. These birds where shitting all over local residents cars. So these residents phoned asking what the brewery were going to do about it!! I couldn't stop laughing for a few minutes. I have said I'll look into putting some plastic owls in the conifers but the last time I did that and checked on the plastic owls, there had been pigeons roosting on them. Anyone heard of a sonic device for bird deterring?
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I think it was only a matter of time
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There aren't many Poplars that don't lean. ..or maybe it's the poplars that are straight and evrything else is leaning
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Don't want to be a kill joy but someone did the same to me in may 06, ran up my backend when I braked hard. Say sorry when they are with you, when it comes to the claim they deniy it was their fault and contest it. Said I pulled out on him. Still going battling the insurance 2 years on. They've paid for the chipper but I now have to fight for who was to blame and compo for days lost
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Just bought a White Rock jacket from my local camping / Hiking store £60. Its made of a stretchy material which is fleeced on the inside, still quite thin though. Supposed to be waterproof, breathable and wind proof. Going to wear it tommorrow on a big ash take down, with T shirt underneath. It looks the part and feels the part, same colour as my grey stretch airs. Will let you know how it is tomoz. http://www.whiterockoutdoor.co.uk/gear.php?sec=0
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Rhododendron Grants for removal
Dean Lofthouse replied to Dean Lofthouse's topic in Tree health care
Had a quick go wi mi little tractor, see how they come out, before I meet with forestry officer next week. It's only a little 30hp which was prone to picking up the back end when lifting anything heavy, so I filled the back tyres with water/antifreeze and stuck the log splitter on which I have just got off Chris Shep. Dunt pick back end up now:icon14: -
I love the look of really old well managed pollard heads. There's some I pass every now and again, I'll try and photo them next time. Oh yes, Nice job John and welcome to the forum
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Your just tight Bundle
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Simple terms for simple people Dave At the end of the day, it's only terminology. Do you want me to explain terminology Dave?
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Yep, tis all b0110cs :wave:
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We are familiar with 3998 thank you John
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I had some rope, that I thought was bouncy, can't remember what it was now. But in the end I found it was more my jurky climbing action causing the bounce. A more fluid and smooth climbing action cured it. Although I found footlocking is a pain on bouncy rope (not that I'm any good at it)
