Tom D

a few pics from today, we had to winch the root plate about 200 yds downstream before we could get it out.

just home for lunch, I love working near home:thumbup: It wasn't edited on, its the mic on the pov which is inside my clothes, meaning I sound muffled. The reason for the job was a previous flood did £300 000 worth of damage, it was caused by water backing up from a fallen tree.

This was worse than I thought, once we cut through the ivy we found the stem was much bigger than i remember, a lot of soil from the rootplate had landed on the stem, burying the first 6' or so. The rootplate must have weighed 5 ton and was too much for my wee tractor even with the winch tripled. we're going to attempt that today. The vid doesn't really show how steep the bank is, its hands and knees for most of it. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1c5oMhZsK0]YouTube - the brunt 2_0001.wmv[/ame]

nice work, i took down 14 on a big site last year, its handy for free falling being so chewy, but a pita for lowering.

We know you like the shiny shiny,LOL still I dont do credit cards, and I dont spend a fortune on clothes or go on the piss all the time, anyway i spend more than that on diesel every week so what the ****

How about a grappling hook?

I decided not to go for it but they rang back as they were parcelling up the other stuff and offered to lower the price..... guess what I done.....

She slept 12 til 6 last night, pretty good I reckon. however 2 nights ago was hellish. Still on a day like this I'd rather be home changing nappies than be out at work. Might curl up and watch a film this arvo, got to go and look at a building site later, should take all of five mins. Then back home for tea...much more of this fatherhood lark and I'll be a propper layabout like Mr Blair.

but look at the shiny shiny...

they're probably right, when i did my tachyon they weren't much good, they are good for hollow braid like ice tail though. I found a heavy wire bent back on itself and nicely de-burred was the best thing for the double braid. But I'm no expert, ask jamie.

I just ordered a new tubular bumper and steering guard, I have been meaning to for a while and have bitten the bullet. While the bumper and guard are practical useful things I also really like the look of the mantec snorkle PM040 Mantec Raised Air Intake - FLEXLITE PLASTIC JOBBY - 300TDI TD5 and PUMA but I have no real intention to drive a 2 year old vehicle through 4' of water. So should I get it just because it looks good? or is that a bit gay?

A man of your talents could make a decent fid, just a bent piece of wire is good, I bought these selma ones Ropeloft rope splicing demos but a wire is just as good for some splices.

Appart from NPTC's which don't make you skilled all the quals and learning that I have done were for my own benefit, not anyone elses. I know what I can and can't do and so long as i'm making money I dont really care how that relates to others in the same game. I think this is a pretty pointless debate. Its just semantics, you can put me in any pidgeon hole you like...I couldn't care less:001_tt2:

This bad attitude thing seems quite common, A friend recently rang a dealer about a new firewood processor, they never got back to him despite ringing several times, i just had a similar situation with timber cranes, I have been ringing round to get specs and prices for one that I am going to buy this summer, two of the dealers that I rang never called back despite me leaving several messages. If thats what they're like when you want to buy something new imagine what its like geting spares! I cant understand how you can run a buisiness like that, its a sure way to alienate customers.

Out of interest, How long was the course and how much did it cost.?

Top notch, some great work.

I've had one for about 2 years, not had any problems. intel core 2 duo processor on this one.

I got mine thinking I'd only use it on big trees, I use it on virtually everything. It saves so much wear on your rope too, the extra life you get out of your rope should help with the coming to terms with the price. Being able to choker it onto a stem and still get ot down again is also a bonus. I'd rather have a rope guide and a crap prusic/rope combo than a hitchclimber with great cord and perfect hitch but no rope guide.

I don't know what you did, but firefox is working fine now, I didn't change anything at this end.

To be fair I think whatever you drive its pretty steep for a youngster. So why not use a bike or a scooter or something?

As I mentioned earlier in the thread I worked for £12 a day all summer and bought my first car with the money I made. Thats how it should be, not expecting everything to be done for you, we seriously need to re-educate some of our youngsters. £30-40 is a shite wage, of course it is, but its working for a shite wage that gives you the drive and determination to get better and earn more. Expecting good money when you have no skills is completely the wrong attitude.

You have a point there Rupe, which supports my theory that the reason the Scots have an insular and chippy outlook and always vote labour is that all the go getter adventurous types left in the 17 and 1800's and made sucesses of themselves in places like Canada and New Zealand, leaving all the stay at home, I'm allright jack, wingy types here to breed the population we have today. I could be shot for saying that of course but it is one explanation for the difference in attitudes between the Scots and the English. What do you reckon Stevie? BTW I know that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys, however I still reckon my ideal employee would be me 20 years ago when I cycled a 20 mile round trip to work and worked my nuts off for £12 a day.

Not bad, although you do have to sell and deliver them. Thats why I don't feel too bad sitting here pottering on the pc whilst on my paternity leave if I can call it that, My employee can split about £250-500 worth of logs in a day. While I fanny about on here:thumbup:

I know that there are guys wanting work on here, who have tickets and experience, I have used a couple of them recently and will be doing again, but what I'd really like is an unskilled youngster who would cost me half as much and could come to the yard each morning. Do a days graft and learn the job, on the tools as it were, No offence to the guys who I do employ but with minimum wage for a 16-18yo at £3.53 I could have two of them for what a guy with tickets costs. Why pay a climber to drag brash?

Its a sad fact but I have to agree with whats being said, a good local lad who will graft is a rare thing indeed. Its the fault of our education system which was ruined by liberal hippy types in the 70's, they couldn't bare the idea that a middle class child might accidently fail the 11+ and end up with a working class education. So they decided that all children should have a middle class academic education, 30 years ago boys were taught useful skills that prepared them for work, carpentry, metal work, bricklaying and horticulture, they left school knowing what a days work was. Now they are taught purely academic classroom based stuff which is fine for those who are adapted to that sort of thing but for those who aren't they become dis-illusioned and basically drop out of school, learning little because they aren't interested. By the time they leave at 16 technical colledge is just seen as more school to them and so they can't be bothered with it, anyway we will also pay them a decent wage to sit at home all day, so thats what they do. The problem is as we use more and more foreigners to do our manual jobs the local kids are still here spending our taxes and having more useless kids which means the country needs to generate more wealth to raise sufficient taxes to pay increased welfare, which means more migrant workers... Plus we have to find nearly a trillion dollars to pay back our debt. Isn't britain great.