Tom D
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I have a mate who goes to Sweden once a year, I'll try and get some info off him.
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You might find that the bark is intact under the rope as in an included union. Its definately better without the rope, the only issue is has the limb been weakened as a result and is it a hazard?
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Gotta agree with Mr Ed and Husqvarna king, Leone is the master of the genre. I've got loads on video but the vcr packed in ages ago. Going to have to get them on dvd, watching those clips reminds you how good they really are.
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I sell the odd bit but not much. One thin I did notice recently when visiting an old job where we had left the chip was how it had broken down. The job was 5 years ago and there was a lot of leylandii chip, the guy kept it to put on paths etc. Now 5 years on some of it is still in the pile and it has rotted down into an amazing compost, its probably very nutrient poor but as a peat substitute it would be ideal as part of a compost mix. So if you have the space even leylandii could be useful:001_smile:
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None of the sawmills that I have dealt with will consider sycamore unless it has been winter felled. The Butt that I sold was extremely rippled and was a fair size, the guy who bought it was letting a yard to us so he got it cheap:sad:. He showed me a table made with the stuff, it was amazing it had an almost 3D effect. I reckon milling the odd nice log yourself is a the way to go, one guy who bought 8 ton of wood of me a few years back sells wany edged planks at craft fairs and shows ant the like. People are lapping them up, at top dollar too. Here's his site http://www.falkirkwood.co.uk/
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i have done a few jobs like that, on one the house was immaculate and we spent a lot of time protecting the interior with plastic and cardboard. Otherwise if the floors are hard I'd suggest building the brash up and then taking it through as quickly as possible then clearing up streight away. I usually wrap the brash in small bundles in a little tarp and use 2 men to carry each load. We've gone through a colledge, a hostel and offices this way as well as a few private houses. Its when there are internal stairs that it becomes tricky. My old boss used to use a little entec which discharged the chip to the side. It was a PITA to use but it would fit anywhere a hospital stretcher would go and you could bring the chip out in a barrow.
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I have an LDV and a trailer:001_smile: The only downside to the trailer is the fact that you cant tow a chipper as well, on the plus side with a 4x4 you can get into places that the ldv can't. I'm assuming you don't have a chipper Steve as I can't remember you mentioning one in which case why not. Mine is a bateson and was made in 1994, I dread to think how many miles its done but its still going strong. So long as the atlas ones have decent axles there's not much else to go wrong. The axles on mine are avonride and have been ok. The real question is what are you going to pull it with? A landy or a hilux:001_tongue:
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The elm looks fun mate.
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I cant beleive how cheap some of you guys are, I charge £180 for the first hour and £65 per hour after that. Up to a maximum of £550 in a day. thats for 2 men 2 vehicles an 8" towed chipper and haulage of the chip ( one vehicle is filled while the other tips off ). £140 a day is crazy talk.
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I have been thinking about this too, the year before last there was a bumper crop, I remeber one customer asking us to clear the fallen apples away from her tree, there was a dumpy bag full!. The only question I have is can you make cider from any apples or do they have to be special juice varieties?
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Wait till you see it on lime Monkey... squishy squishy.
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I like the look of it Reg, If it had been around last year i might have bought one. I cant quite figure out how the lifting mechanism works, any more pics? Just looking again, is it a sort of cam?
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Unless you can deliver it to them then its worthless, timber merchants think in 20ton loads. I have sold one log of rippled sycamore for £400 but I delivered it. I'd guess ( and it is a guess) that your oak log might be between £80 and £150.
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Those fractures can go on a while like that, I reckon still less than 1 in 100 but more than the first one.
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Sorry girls, I could'nt resist. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfPjWQQDu3c[/ame]
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Are there any trees left in Glasgow? Nice vid Tim, lots of action, lots of firewood too by the looks of things.
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Nice one Rupe:001_smile:
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If you have bagged a nice smooth branch just pass your rope through and put a stopper knot in the rope. For tight forks and rough branches I use marline hitching. http://www.realknots.com/knots/hitches.htm
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<1% I've climbed a few like that. Out of interest how sound was the wood under the exposed area? Was it just a couple of inches of soft sapwood or is it totally gone?
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It sounds like a prop to me too, I think the disco2 has a couble cardan joint unlike the defender, but I'm not sure. If it is a collapsed bearing on the one of the UJ's they can soldier on a bit so you've probably got little bit of time. I dont suppose you noticed any squealing / screeching before hand? they can do that before they collapse. On a defender it only takes about an hour to change a UJ, a disco should'nt be too much worse.
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£1600, Its hard to see the size of the dropzones from those pics but with those caravans and the phoneline I'd have three days on it I think. If it could be done in 2 days then £1100.
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How do you find the laser dean? I was chatting to a consultant friend the other day who was having trouble with spurious readings, I think if you accidentaly catch a twig or leaf from a lower limb it only measures that distance. His is a "true pulse" I think.
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Thanks Baz, Robbie is a good friend of mine, he is currently employing one of the guys that I normally use, hence the requirement. I've had a few response of here now and have shuffled the jobs around to give us some breathing space. I'll know later today wether I can bin this cast.
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I've got 2 of them, they're great. I also have a 357 which, now its had a new carb is als going well. I love the simple robust design of the 254 though.
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I was thinking about this thread today while working in Edinburgh which is a reasonable sized city, I have worked there for the last 8 years. During that time I have not seen let alone worked on a 100 foot tree. Outside the city yes but in town 80-90 foot is the biggest I've seen, and they're pretty rare. Any locals want to disagree? I think its interesting how people, even tree surgeons over estimate the height of trees, when you think that a building like centerpoint tower in london is around 11 feet per story, your 100 foot tree would be at the 9th floor. We all must regularly work allong side buildings, anyone been looking in on the 9th floor or even the eighth? I reckon the 5th or 6th is as high as I've seen in. remember an average 4 bed house is going to be about 30 foot tall anyone regularly go over 3 times higher than one ? Not being deliberately argumentative, just saying go buy a clinometer, you may be surprised.
