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Dean Lofthouse

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  1. I've only ever broke one chain brake handle, when I accidently threw my 200 40ft out of a tree, forgot to clip it to my harness:wave:
  2. From what I can make out from the photos, I'd have put in £250 to clear and remove horizontal one and £350-400 to dismantle and remove the other, provided I could do both in two days, plus of course your callout time to make it safe and clear the lane, work already done.
  3. Yes your right, hopefully Husqvarna will launch something this year, should prompt stihl to buck up.
  4. Some truth in that. As the username suggests, I used to sell and repair power tools, generators etc. When B&Q brought out their range of cheap shite power tools, performance power I think it was. It killed the power tool market. Builders etc were buying these things and throwing them away at the end of the job. Bosch etc had to respond by lowering their prices. They couldn't do this without consequence. Basic rule of thumb is you get what you pay for. In their 9" angle grinders, the top armature bearing used to be made of alloy, which diserpated heat from the bearing. We noticed in the cheapened versions that they had started making them out of plastic. The only reason we noticed is that we ended up getting a lot more in for repair because the bearings were over heating and spinning in the plastic housing melting it. The consumer demand for cheap tackle is the driving force.
  5. Is anyone working tomorrow, I've left it clear, going to sit at home infront of the log fire. Mind You, I've had to work today.
  6. I think your just abusing your equipment Matty. Four chain brake handles!! :wave:
  7. It's rare we need to work roadside, but it's always worth knowing the score. I hear what your saying Quickthorn, you put a load of effort and time into pricing the job correctly to lose it to someone who doesn't give a toss. If the customer only knew whats involved
  8. Never accept a sarnie from your Groundie. Groundie goes for pee behind a bush, then at lunch grabs his sarnies, holds one out to you and says, "want one"? No thanks, I reply
  9. I've had a go with Petes and theres definately a difference
  10. Ditto ...and if they do ask and it's a big stump, just hire a big grinder.
  11. I can't say I have had a fault with any of my stihl saws. Only thing I can remember is MS200 fuel line developing cracks in rubber with age. MS200 earth wire on kill switch snapped' No problems with anything else. How often do people look after, service their equipment??
  12. Got to work this morning, dropping the top out of the Tree I anchored into this week when I took down that storm damaged Poplar. Looked at it yesterday in a moderate breeze and it's waving about. Going to drop the sail out of it in the calm before the storm. There's no way it will stand up to the up coming storm. No rest for the wicked, this will be seven days this week, remember what we were saying about VAT registration? I'll have to have a week off.
  13. TreeBogan. Assuming your groundie is around 5ft 8" I calculate the tree to be 116.8 ft high. :wave: Did you measure it?
  14. Nice crown lift Log-ologist :wave: Till you cut the tip off
  15. Spot on Marc, a good point. me being a fully qualified mechanic already new to check. But for those who don't know a nut from a bolt, it's a good point. Most modern engines have a deeper section to their sump which is normally in the mid section of the sump to allow for a certain amount of incline without letting all the oil sit to one end so starving the oil pickup of a pool of oil. Well spotted
  16. Was the needle sticking High Scale?? Might be my computer not playing it back right, sounds to be skipping all the way thru. :wave:
  17. Is Martin taller than three foot Steve :wave:
  18. Sounds like you need to be smoking weed to listen to that one
  19. I try to sell the crown lift side as well and just take the most "sticky out bits" off to get the shape back in. At the end of the day it was done at the best time of the year for the tree. On a large % reduction the worst thing would have been to let the tree use all its stored energy putting out foliage and before they get chance to pay back, chop em all off. Nice shape though, better than removing the tree.
  20. aahh, thats what happened :wave: Joking aside that sounds scarey. My mate had a similar experience on a tractor. There was two of them on it, one sat on the mudguard. It turned over wrapping the one on the mudguard round between the axle between the rear wheel and the mudguard. My mate was trapped underneath the tractor looking at his mate, not nice.
  21. One thing people tend to forget is trailers have auto reverse brakes, so when parked on a hill backwards handbrake wont work

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