Chris Sheppard
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We've just been driving back from Scotland but saw them feintly even as far down as Thirsk, sat and watched them from the top of Sutton Bank for a while and then took a bit of a detour past Dalby and they were fairly vivid for a couple of minutes. Supposed to be getting strong again in the next 30 min or so but it's gotten really cloudy here now.
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No snow here today (though we did have a covering Wednesday) but proper wet here today. Should be burning up the last of a scrub clearance job but it'll make too much mess - even wednesday the tractor only just clawed it's way onto site and that was before the snow.
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Maybe, but then he'd also need to realise that doing his own work and working for someone else are two different things entirely.
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We use a HP eagle and an 18t Thor vertical splitter and find it works well on pretty much anything, from parkland butts to first thinnings. For the budget that you have, I'd be looking for a decent PTO powered vertical splitter with something like 15-20T of force. It'll be a big improvement to using and axe and then look at saving for a sawbench later. Going for a sawbench first might be good on some stuff but you'll still have to do anything oversize by hand. I really like the HP Eagle, its not perfect (mainly because of how it drops the logs) but the screw splitter is really handy for either chunkier billets or branchwood.
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Sounds like you already know what to do - I reckon you've already been more than fair with him considering.
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Everyone wants a bit more but I think anyone asking for a 25% payrise is taking the piddle.
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I did have to go and google Railway Poplar - I thought Mr Bolam was making it up
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Just had mine resoled at about three and a half years old - the soles do wear really quite well (vibram) but they were quite bald. New set of laces and a coat of wax and they look a fraction of their age. They're not as slipperlike as the Haix but they seem idestructible so far. I had a couple of weeks in my old Haix Tibet's whilst the Tirrols were getting resoled and even though they're properly worn out (and should have been binned) they are still sooooo comfy.
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Same here - and still young enough for the bark to be not scaly
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Fine dining at it's best
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Me too. If it's only for use at home then that's where I'd spend my money.
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I like it. Only thing I felt was it's quite hard to hear what you're saying over the music at times - but that could be my ears as they aren't right great.
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I do like the Stihl chain, especially in 3/8 and full chisel.
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Pop the rubber covers off the middle of each front hub and get someone to sit in it with it running and in gear (to switch it off if owt goes wrong) and check to see if the end of either shaft is spinning. The splines on the drive flanges can go and give those symptoms. Good thing if it is that though is it's not a big job to fix. EDIT: too slow again
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My guess would be a mudguard bracket and it's broken off. Looks like the mudguards are the only bit of black plastic on it from here.
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I'd like to see some sort of system that can control the excitedness of some new members (usually coinciding with colleges finishing) so that rather than a sea of similar threads appearing along the lines of "giz' a job", "wot do i need to buy to be a self employed tree surgeon" etc, they maybe need to contribute a few replies first or use the search function X number of times before they can start their own threads. Maybe even a section for those new into tree work where they can ask all those sort of questions? If there is one already I've missed it -
What do you do in wet and dangerous conditions ?
Chris Sheppard replied to Bird's topic in General chat
Depends. If there's time sensitive work then press on as best we can; if there's indoor work to do then do that or if there's nowt really pressing then drink tea with the fire on and do whatever needs doing at home. -
Visiting Sweden at the mo and pretty much the whole town looks to close down for Sunday. No chance of a pint of milk here. Upside of that is pretty much the whole town look to spend Sunday out doing fun stuff.
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Start small and spend some time getting a good base going before loading it up too much. It's easy to get carried away and load the fire up too much too early and then have to pretty much start again when it doesn't work. If it's really stubborn, a weed burning gun can help.
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Sounds like they aren't worth the time messing with anyway, especially if they are mainly Horse Chestnut.
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Low impact woodland management
Chris Sheppard replied to QuantockTreesMatt's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Know what you mean, but the bigger ones tended to feel more planted on the road. Drove one of the 95hp carraros and it was fine doing that. -
Low impact woodland management
Chris Sheppard replied to QuantockTreesMatt's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Used to have the same problem when we ran the Kubota and trailer. We'd take the tractor first and were fortunate enough to have another tractor to load the trailer with but it definitely became a chore and at times made it prohibitively expensive on small jobs. The only way I could see round it without resorting to a lorry of some sort was to run one of the alpines with a 40k box and road it about. -
I do wonder sometimes if some drivers actually do need that
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Same here. Just dropped my Tirrols off for re-soling and they are somewhere about 3 and a half years old now and worn nearly every day. Waxed with the proper pfanner wax that you melt into them, they do keep the water out pretty well - at least as well as the lastpair of Haix Tibet Forest I had which are goretex lined. The Tirrol's take a while to break in but it's worth it in the end. If it's really wet or deep snow then out come the wellies - The old shape stihl ones are about the best of a bad bunch. I'd always said I'd never own another pair of chainsaw wellies fter the first go with them but got pointed towards the Stihl ones and they are actually bearable when the weather is cack.
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Is Danish Oil OK to use on a bookshelf?
Chris Sheppard replied to Chris Sheppard's topic in Woodcraft Forum
Cool, sounds like I'm worrying unecessarily then It's nothing too fancy, some of it will be PSE and the actual boards are some of that furniture board made up of approx 50x18mm strips - it'll be dry, just not pretty
