Tom D
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No. 98% of the public don't like them. And the two percent that do will more than pay for the cost of the rest.
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Why not? I am proud to say that I have had over 80,000 leaflets professionally delivered over that last few years. They do work but you need to think big and do plenty. I have not done any this year as the domestic market has gone quiet and have concentrated on LA and commercial work instead. I have done some cold calling to get commercial work, and that has paid off too. If you run your own business then like it or not you are a businessman, and a good businessman knows how to bring in work. There will be plenty of great tree surgeons who have gone bust because they weren't good businessmen, and plenty of bad tree surgeons who have made a fortune........
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Leaflets aren't begging for work, and do you really think that all these massive companies who regularly drop millions of these through doors up and down the country don't know what they are doing? If they didn't work no one would do them!
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A wee kubota like this would pull more than a quad and can do so much more, stick a simple 3pl bucket/rake on the back and you can move rings etc, haul timber, tow a chipper, scrape snow, etc etc..... all for cheap££ edit, forgot link: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/kubota-tractor-/250953307247?pt=UK_BOI_FarmingEquipment_RL&hash=item3a6dfb946f#ht_500wt_1378
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Alpine tractor.... Cheap pto implements compared with expensive hydraulic stuff on the loaders. Plus it will go places a loader won't.
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At this rate there'll be a prize for every ticket! Well done everyone.
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It did seem geared up towards selling gear for its sponsors. It would be nice to see a mag with some real journalism, looking at some of the more contentious issues in the industry. "Are we over trained and under-experienced" might be a good headline.
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Pay off some of the mortgage, go on a really top notch safari, maybe build and extension on the house. I have invested a lot in the business this year, so I wouldn't spend any more..... Maybe I'd change the chipper...
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The big guy was right, but he should have asked the kid first and told him that if he refused he would be forcibly removed. The real question is... will the kid do it again?
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Nice work, we are doing quite a lot of graveyard stuff over the next couple of months, but none of them are as bad as that.
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Ha ha. Thats what this place is for, There's a lot of penny's worth on here. Were you the groundie or the climber?
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Just to update, I have had this for 5 months now, its still waterproof. I wore it during last weeks storm in some torrential horizontal driven rain and was totally dry all day. Probably the best waterproof I have owned....
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The following was taken on thursday night from a lock up in edinburgh... Keep a lookout... Stihl chainsaws MS 200T – 167822436 MS 200T – 160936201 MS 200T – 151772592 MS 341 – 186999363 MS 441 – 171534405 MS 660 – 164230560 Stihl hedge-trimmers HL 75 – 155369361 HL 85 – 148622931 Leaf blower BR 380 – 6612400 Strimmer FS 400 – will get serial number soon. Helmets 2x Petzl full balance (ear & eye protection with chinstrap) Chainsaw strops 3x strops that were attached to the saws Karabiners ISC Mongoose x6
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Worn clutch springs, allowing it to bite a little early, turn the idle down and see if it stops, if it does that could be the problem.
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Just watched it again with the laptop on its side, you're right, I hadn't looked closely enough, the groundie does let it go before the butt is clear, enough that when the butt drops off it causes the piece to swing. The top appears to move towards the camera thus meaning that when the butt comes free it is whipped right round the back of the stem, hitting the climber. In that situation where the rigging point is low in relation to the top of the lump, I would have either put a shallow gob aimed towards the pulley and used the hobbs to pull the tip in till it was up against the other stem. Then sever the hinge and it swings away from yours the groundie lets it run. Or done the same with a step cut, with a shallow cut on the side of the pulley and the main cut coming all the way through the back.
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I think the problem is, without adequate pretensioning if the groundie allows it to run before the butt is cleared of the stump the top will drop till the piece is horizontal. Then the butt falls off the stub and swings down causing a big shock load. Shock loading with big lumps is not good. With that in mind the groundie was right not to let it run until the butt was clear. On conclusion I'd say the fault lies in using the wrong method for the equipment being used.
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Nothing wrong with taking off a lump that size, you just need to get the rigging right. A peice half the size could still have come back at him if it was not allowed to run, and a piece half the size would still have been big enough to hurt him.
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I have seen it done, though not with a tree leaning like that, totally stupid.
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Another mistake is being tied in twice, (tree police alert) I do a lot of tip roping of timber on multi stemmed trees, and I will undo my lanyard as I make the final cut. This allows you to get out of the way if necessary. Having the limb correctly pretensioned is the most important thing though. Nothing wrong with tip roping if its done properly, far less shock load on your gear and the rigging point.
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So will it be windy this week or not?
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I just got a positioned, I love it, very smooth, and releases under load really nicely, I'd go for the one with the swivel as it holds its position really well and allows you to feel the rope going into the device with 3 fingers while your trigger finger pulls the release lever. Great bit of kit.
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Updating NPTC certs from 90's, refresh or retrain
Tom D replied to tagnut69's topic in Training & education
I think the refresher courses are aimed at occasional users who do chainsaw work as part of a broader remit, say a parks department at a council. -
They do, they feather the props, according to wind speed, to get a constant speed on the dyno. If the wind speed is too high they feather them completely and they stop turning. This mechanism must have failed on this one. There was a private one on a farm up the road from me, on the day before the storm it also had the same problem and was turning at a crazy speed, they shut the road as a precaution, in the storm the whole thing blew over.
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Getting trapped between a big lump and the stem could easily be fatal. That was a lucky escape. Having a well pretensioned line would have helped, stopping the top from dropping while the butt was still resting on the stub. Things like the hobbs and grcs are well worth the money IMO.
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I was expecting to see some rosy red men powdering their cheeks.... Did you mean "rogue" traders??? Sorry to be pedantic:001_smile:
