Tom D
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My local dealer has a beam in the shop which you can throw a rope over and then hang in the harness of your choice. This is a great idea and all other dealers should do the same. After all since you spend so much time in it you want something comfortable. Go to your dealer and see if they can rig something up for you, you dont want to spend £150+ on something you dont like.
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Got stopped in the street by a girl with a clipboard once, her first question was "what sort of beer do you drink?" A week later i had to report to the function room of the five star Caledonian hotel on princes street where i had to taste 4 pints of beer A on the first night and four pints of beer B on the second night and then fill in a form. They had laid on a buffet too. When I arrived it turned out that some of my mates were there too, we got paid £20 per night.... Man it was hard work.
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I have a friend who's doing this, its a lot of work to do as well as a day job, not impossible though. If your interests lie in consultancy then the degree would probably be the way to go.
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Still not totally happy with this thing, when it works its brilliant but i cant get past the problem of the hitch catching the top karibiner/eye of the rope. I have been placing with this for a couple of weeks now and the only solution I can come up with is a karabiner that is at least 150mm long. This would allow the hitch to extend fully under load without reaching the top of the top krab. Only problem is i dont have one. Has anyone seen a 6" long triple lock before preferably oval? been looking on the net but no sucess. Unless of course you have a totally different solution?
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Dont have any close up pics, you can see it in the background behind the tractor in the equipment pic thread.
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I made my chip bin out of box section and used 1mm galvanised steel sheet, much cheaper than ally yet does'nt rust and still looks ok after 5 years. Vinyl signwriting sticks to it too. the best way to attach it is with tech screws.
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I'm not condoning corporate theft just saying why do theives pick on those who can least afford it, even with insurance it still costs in time, inflated premiums and a surprisingly intense feeling of personal hurt.
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Its a sickener, someone stole the hydraulic winch of the front of my landy a few years ago, it had 16 bolts holding it on and with the cable must have weighed 70kg. they did this on a residential street with houses looking over on both sides. it was often parked there so they must have been eyeing it up for a while, the annoying thing was the police werent interested, they just say " well youre insured arent you" so i lost my no claims discount. These people have no morals, if youre going to steal take from mcdonnalds or tescos or someone who can afford it.
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Terible news this. And in reply to Nick Just use a petzl quickdraw, available at any climbing shop. I thought it was an H&S requirement to have a cuttable section anyway, I always have and every one that climbs for me has too.
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Move to scotland, I pay my junior climber £240 a week and he's at colledge every friday.
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On the of road front, I recon a landy will go up or down just as steep a slope as a mog if not steeper so long as you dont need the ground clearence. I have driven both quite a lot, the sheer bulk of the mog is its downfall although i once drove a mog through some really deep mud whilst on a building site and theres no way my landrover would have done it what ever the tyres. I recon my little tractor would outclimb either though. You're right about the ldv though, you just need to think about mud and it gets stuck.
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Hi cabstar i got a 220 8" its pretty good, my second greenmech.
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Some of mine, LDV and Landrover, Tractor as well. I am quite jealous now that I have seen what some of you have got.
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Did this on 41 as well, you can use these setups to raise limbs when lowering if you hav'nt got a Hobs / GPRS
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You're not , I cant do it either.
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I'm selling a 110 2.8 tdi, pulls like a train if anyones interested 140hp 280 lbft torque.
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I am looking for a tree surgeon to do a job for my father in law. They live in Bingley West Yorkshire, the job is easy; top out some small Leylandii and some laurels. I think 2-3 hours for a 2 man team and was thinking about £250. If anyone in the area is interested please let me know, It saves me a 9 hour round trip in the van. Many thanks.
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Had a new pump on mine last year, pretty pricey, I think i'm probably asking too much of it the chipper weighs 1.5 ton and I think thats what slows it down, its not bad without the chipper, even with a big load. Mine's an X reg with a transit engine I dont know if the new ones are different.
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Me too. Is yours gutless? When towing the chipper with a full load its pretty slow which makes you more likely to get pulled over. thinking of lr 130 but not sure.
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Its a problem. What sort of truck have you got?
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I meant the guy who ovned the chipper noy the Kid who got chipped, pretty stupid i know, but this was his first time using a chipper and he was left on his own to do it.
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If i'm not being to nosey, what happened when you got pulled, It's a constant worry of mine to the point where i'm thinking of a mog / 7.5 tonner.
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I used to work for a firm who had a 12" bandit on the front of a U1900, On one job we were chipping whole spruce trees using a winch mounted above the infeed chute, the side branches kept hitting the sarety bar and stopping the rollers. On small chippers you can pull the bar back and hold it out but with such big trees this was not possible so the safety bar was disabled. Sends a shiver down my spine thinking about it, with 190 Hp going through a 12" chipper you wouldn't even drop the revs. Fairly recently in Dundee I think, a guy left a 16yr old chipping with a 6" chipper. A piece got stuck and so the kid tried to kick it through... lost all his foot and some of his ankle. I hope the guy got screwed by health and safety.
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Now using a petzl oval, seems better but still have probs with catching the top of the hitch, cliping the end/top karibiner into the middle hole on the hitch climber tilts it slightly moving the hitch away from the top krab. I have not had enough time playing to be sure if this is the solution though.
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If you're used to a sit type then go for another I've allways used a butterfly type and find the sit harnesses arkward but If you've had one for years and liked it then go for the Komet dragonfly or similar. If you want to use a Butterfly type then you've got to remember to adjust your tackle before you tighten the straps or its Aled Jones time.
