Tom D

The bandit winches like Stevie has are pretty quick, an electric one will be painfully slow. As an example the Warn 9.5ti which is supposed to be quite good has a line speed of 4.7meters per minute under load. My igland 4201 will do 102 meters per minute with the same load. Probably ok for moving the chipper around but for draging bundles it would be quicker to carry it in several trips.

I like the howard so far but I haven't really put it through its paces yet, I'm using it with a knut type finish at the mo. It keeps its shape far better than the vt.

Thats the fella, the howard hitch I did have it right. Seems really nice though I haven't really tested it yet.

The guy was partially sighted, he was well surprised when I pointed it out to him.

My new boots arrived today 26 months after the last ones, the old ones feel like slippers compared to the new but they have to go. I know some have had bad expereiences with the haix trecker but they have been by far the best boots I have ever had.

A before and after, and something we found growing in a pensioners garden, self seeded from his bird feeder.

Dream on, I'd be surprised if we manage 10%

I saw a hitch posted on here the other day, it was turned like a vt at the top then twisted (independently of the climbing line) then finished like a knut i think. Anyway I cant find it now but we have been playing around with it and its really good, so... anyone know what its called and where I saw it? I dont even know if i've tied it right but I like it:thumbup:

I wish some of the hire companies round here had one, all the other gravity fed ones I have used have been utter crap. but that one looks good. I probably don't get enough work for one to justify it though.

So in that case how much was it?

I'm really impressed with that little machine Stevie, how wide is it, I get quite a few jobs in the Edinburgh tenaments, I looked at one yesterday where the guy wanted a guarentee that no paintwork would be damaged in the hallway:thumbdown:. I do my best but a guarentee is a step too far. That little thing would be great if you could get it through a doorway. How much cutting did you have to do to get that conifer through ?

They certainly look the same

Hope you get well soon, next time you want to chase 6 theives, stay in your car. That ought to even things up a bit.

You are right, it was in robin hood. Its a nice looking tree close up looks pretty healthy and well balanced despite its exposed location.

Thats awesome, like the olympic gymnasts. Don't forget the speedwork though lol [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCHe-0w9KX8]YouTube - Once Were Warriors - Jake the Mus - Fight Scene[/ame]

I have an 08 110 hardtop, as a tow vehicle you wont find beter in its class, the new engine is great aand the 6 speed box is also a revelation. They are still very basic when compared with the jap equivalents though. The legroom in the back of my brothers nissan navara crewcab is also crap and you sit bolt upright so i think that may be an issue with all crewcabs tbh. The standard tyres would'nt cut it off road, I have pirrelli scorpions mud terains which are less than half worn after 27000 miles and have a nice soft ride too.

Here's a few pics of my weekend in Northumberland, "Sycamore Gap" in Hadrians Wall and a few others of the wall. And a really cool view of a large spruce rootplate. And the pub story: We were staying in a great pub which was full of locals and was the sort of place that shuts when the landlady gets tired and then everyone drives home. Most of the guys I spoke to were either harvester drivers or forwarder drivers, one of them told my this story about a colleague who was a bit of a character and liked a drink. One monday after a heavy night he turned up in the works van at 12.00 and got into his harvester to start work, he was feeling pretty ropey and worked through till five when all the others went home. They were paid by the ton so he'd had a pretty crap day so far and since her was starting to feel better he thought he'd work on a bit. By midnight he thought he'd done enough and left the harvester in the wood and walked back to the van. When he went to set off he found the van was stuck, all it needed was a little push but everyone else was long gone so he walked back to fetch the harvester. On his return he couldn't find a rope but eventualy found a really short piece of dirty old stuff that one of the truck drivers had thrown away. He tied the van to the harvester and pulled it out, then, just as he was getting out of the cab the rope snapped. He ran after the van which was slowly accelerating backwards down the track and managed to get a finger on the bonnet before it dissapeared out of the harvesters floodlights and off down the track into the dark. He got back in the harvester and went looking for the van. A hundred yards down the track he found it, it was lying in a ditch at the side of the track with the front wheels in the air but luckily there was no damage, he thought he was going to get away with it. Tying the two broken ends together he attached the harvester on for the second time he draged the van out of the ditch. As he got down from the harvester he realised that things weren't going his way after all, this time the harvester was rolling back, all he could do was watch as the van was squashed into the ditch, it was about a foot thick apparently.

Very nice Mike, must have been loads of work. I did a chasis up rebuild of a landy once, never again.

It does look like that MD, good call, Rogers says on Red Data List, quite rare. Rogers Mushrooms - Lycoperdon pedicellatum Mushroom

Thought that as Autumn is now upon us a new thread was in order. Having just got back from a weekend in Northumberland and a few walks in the Keilder forest, here are a few to get things started. I am sure of the first one and fairly sure of the next three, the fifth could be a Pholiota Sp but I'm not sure. Yellow Stagshorn: Calocera viscosa The Deceiver: Laccaria laccata The Sickener: Russula emetica ????

You've done well not cracking that asbestos roof, pretty brittle those things. Looks a nightmare that job.

Habitat pile mate, we've taken about 20 ton of wood off site. everything else is staying.

Anyone else get soaked today? The site has been fairly clean for the last couple of weeks but rweally started to cut up today. And here's a little friend I made earlier in the week.

Sorry, it has todays date right next to it. But I see it was march.

Just found this, real shame... Tree worker killed by his chainsaw - Eastbourne Today