igottacabstar
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Everything posted by igottacabstar
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I love a nice arse twitcher, ummmmmmm lovely jubbly.
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Businesses are supposed to be about making money, not just taking the easy option every time. Maybe you should start thinking about your profits, posting messages on here at 11.19am on a Tuesday morning!! you not got enough to do?
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43 ay - so that's why you like your mewps so much! Just kidding mate:icon14:
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I've got one. One of the most useful bits of kit you can get for £12. It's not really powerful enough to pull roots out of the ground; we use it for putting a bit of tension on the tree when felling just to make sure it goes in the right direction and doesn't sit back on the saw. Also useful for popping off large sections when chogging down the trunk.
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Hell! I'm up at 7am to earn that much a day!
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I'm an emet, from Bristol originally - plenty of buggers there waiting to nick your chipper!
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Just going on my own experience and that of people I know in my area. Neither myself or any of the other tree surgeons that I know in my area have experienced any problems with people trying to nick their gear. And Roller, you obviously don't know Cornwall very well - you would be hard pushed to find anyone wandering around Looe in the winter! same goes for most towns and villages in Cornwall.
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I think I should point out that I spent 6 years being made to use mewps on a daily basis clearing powerlines. So my opinion that mewps are a waste of time and money in 95% of tree jobs is based on experience.
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ditto:icon14:
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Some of you guys on here must live in right dodgy areas!!
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Tell him to take a running jump, save up your money for a year and buy an acre or two!
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I know I'm going off on a tangent, but the Greenmech disc blade system is superb. Apart from the fact that they seem to be far less suseptible to damage, and therefore stay sharp longer, they are an absolute doddle to take in and out. One large 19mm nut on the back of each disc to slacken off, with a 10mm allen key in the front just to hold it still. Had a Timberwolf before, what a nightmare! An allen key alone is not good enough to be tightening a bolt to 110 ft/lbs, or whatever it is.
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Isn't it sad - this is wood we're talking about, not household rubbish or the like.
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Guess I must just be in a good location - thieving is pretty unheard of in these parts. I have never had any experience of anyone trying to break in to my property or land - same goes for all other tree firms I know.
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how did they cut through the padlocks? you obviously haven't got a quality lock box.
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There are times when you can easily predict which way a tree, or part of a tree is going to fall - even if it is rotten. If the top of this dead tree was leaning to one side, and the mewp was the other, it's pretty unlikely that the piece being cut is going to straighten itself up and then fall back on to you!
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No experience of this in 5 years storing woodchip/logs in my field. Guess it depends on your area.
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You can tell Tony knows his stuff - his company has got the word 'consultancy' in it! Yes, I would agree that in the situation you described a mewp would be the safest option.
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Yeah that's true. I've got a stainless lock box and a £85 padlock. Also, the doors have got keyed locks on them aswell. You should always remember to fit extra security to the items inside the container aswell, i.e. wheel clamps on chippers, link all of your smaller machines together with a chain and lock them to the floor. If used properly these containers are extremely secure, and unless you're going to start storing gold bullion in there, it's unlikely anyone would ever go to the extreme lengths of breaking in there.
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I bought a field out in the sticks. I rent most of it out to a horsey type, so it's paying for itself - it's literally costing me nothing. I've kept a quarter acre for myself for storage of woodchip and logs and as it's a couple of miles from any houses there's never been a problem having the occassional burn up. As for storage of my gear, I've got a double garage at home and a brand new 20' shipping container at the field (which cost me £1000). The shipping container has got built in locks plus a lock box on the door for a padlock. It really would take some seriously noisy equipment and a lot of time and effort to break in to it. Having said that my most expensive gear is at home in my garage with my truck parked in front of the door! So in answer to your question I pay nothing for storing my equipment or my logs and woodchip - and actually the land I bought is probably worth twice what I paid for it 5 years ago.
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you're either a man or one hairy faced lady!
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Okay. Now right something that makes sense.
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Exactly, at the end of the day it's not a pile of old washing machines dumped in a lay-by we're talking about - it's chipped up pieces of wood being stored on land that we own. I can't speak for the rest of the country, but down here people aren't all that offended by a pile of woodchip in an agricultural piece of land.
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I'm not being un-professional, it's just something thats never been an issue down here. I know a lot of the other guys around here that own tree firms and they would never think that there would be rules about storing woodchip on there own land - you've got to admit it is a bit ridiculous!
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If the knot failed then a case should be made against the seller!!
