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  1. Biker Jailed After 166mph Speeding Ticket - Yahoo! News UK this road goes from edinburgh down thru moffat, mainly twisty old road, except for a strait just outside west linton heading to dolphinton, the strait must be over a mile long, i guessed he caught there, did 120 in my brother opel berlinetta down it 1 day, nvr again.
  2. only system that i saw that worked, was low leading long pole over the top of a digger into piles for the harvester to process. no need to back tie, and only needed bottom tree or large stump to attach strop and pulley to.
  3. Skylining that brings back the nightmares.......broke the back of many forestry contactors
  4. alstor would do the trick but u too far away
  5. fun to drive, nver drove a diesel, petrol engines were very thirsty, they are quite heavy vehicles, dont suppose diesel much better, with the right tyres they go anywhere
  6. were u pulling chipper. a lotta damage......
  7. maybe the tipper does recharge the battery some dont, u have to recharge and put back on g
  8. having not seen the watchdog progamme busy watching eastenders LOL... Anyway in the middle of the job 2day, pollarding 3 sycs, take down of 3 cedars, a member of the public was standing on the opposite pavement watching us 10 mins or so, i ventured across expecting the usually verbal., to my surprise he proceeded to comment on lastnites watchdog programme and how glad he was to see our job being professionally done. Half a dozen business cards in his hand for his friends and family and a pat on his back i sent him on his merry way:thumbup1:
  9. cheers mate
  10. luckily mate some1 from green machine ran over it when i was subbie climbing for them and upm bought me a new ms200t to replace it, its been in the corner of my shed for 3 years , parts were priced at 146.....i got them all for a tenner worth a rebuild....it wasnt 3 months old when run over so stil bags of power.
  11. it must have been the holy spirit........surely
  12. rebuilding a runover husky climbing saw, managed to buy a whole body for a tenner on fleabay, got everything onto the new shell, only probelm i have is the 2 screws that go thru the carburettor onto the body are not getting enough of a catch, causing the saw to draw air. the screws are the tap in type, i cant put a nut on the inside. Ideas pls
  13. brasher..... 120 up here.........but your running cost are a lot higher.. and its a boring job by urself
  14. 4 laps to go and be World Champ
  15. re did my 150 bearings last year, well the mechanic did, i remember him saying it was crucial to put the correct bearings in, high speed 1s, leave him to fix it and me to break it
  16. got a call to quote to"trim a garden tree"......turns out a small maple no more tham 10 years old about 10/15feet tall , could have cut it down and carried it away in my back pocket, any way 1 of these small jobs that ur embrassed to charge 50 quid......anyway turns out she had been quoted 170 to do 30 mins work....how anyone could ask that money for that task is beyond me.
  17. i use them, cheap and prompt
  18. 044 a bit heavy for thinnings a lot brashing etc.....15/16inch bar usually perfect
  19. jpbeaver has 1
  20. Ifor Williams twin axle Tipper Trailer on eBay (end time 10-Oct-09 12:05:51 BST)
  21. has it done any railway work??????????
  22. ram seal on my logsplitter is leaking, worth fixing my self or just take to engineers?
  23. nothing recluse about this guy
  24. i think what we are finding with any regen elms, is they last for about 20years and then ded strikes
  25. try peter bowsher upm tilhill dumfries office very good carver

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