Tom D
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When I was that age I was a bit mental, never climbed any cranes, lacked imagination I suppose, if i was with a group of mates and we had decided to climb a crane, I might have done something like hang from one hand…. Might…. Don't you remember the feeling of invincibility you had at that age?
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Apparently it was started by a home made log splitter lawnmower combo that went out of control.
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I had £1200 taken off an invoice today:001_rolleyes: Never mind, I'll get it back soon enough.
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Could be a half gear, could be the hand throttle LOL. Try it and see...
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I think this the first and only speed line we have ever done, and its nearly 5 years ago! It was a belt and braces job where we slackened the speed line each time and dropped the load onto the lowering line before re-tensioning the speed line again. Its rare that this level of rigging is required on any job, the hobbs does not see much action, for us any way. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaCx-g-L1ek]speedline - YouTube[/ame] By a weird coincidence we are working on that very tree tomorrow, It will be nice to see how its doing…..
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THis sounds dodgy to me without having you UTR and CIS details how can they deduct the money, it could be going straight in their pocket for all you know. You will need proper paperwork from them n order to claim it back. FYI deductions can only be made from the labour element of your invoice, materials or machine hire don't qualify, so breakdown your invoice and keep the labour element small.
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TBH we have not been entirely claim free over the last few years, and I like to have good cover, there are some really cheap insurers out there but if the worst happens and you make a claim they are crap. The difference between commercial and domestic insurance prices is also huge.
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Until recently I insured our vehicles with various insurers, including the NFU among others. I would say they the average price per vehicle was about £600 some cheaper some more expensive, this was for full commercial insurance any driver policies. I have now got a fleet deal and have managed to insure 1x transit 2009, 1x canter 2000, 2x defenders 2008, 2013, and 1x discovery 2008 for £2014! Well pleased with that. Its Clear insurance's Arbor truck policy BTW.
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They have permanent flood lights on that section, it was pretty bright, didn't really need head torches. However the cree torches that the network rail boys had were awesome, gonna get one.
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Thought I'd resurrect this thread with some pics of last nights dismantle, it was a council job in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, done at night due to branches overhanging the railway. Took 2 hours to get it all down..
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I hear what you're saying, but we both know that a heavy reduction could have allowed retention for a long time, the pics show a lot of healthy looking leaf area, ok its a big sail, but that tree was not on its last legs. IME it is very rare for cedars to blow over anyway, they almost always snap out, especially under snow weight. I pruned this one years ago, it will continue to shed limbs and become uglier as time goes on but I doubt it will ever be blown over. http://davidho.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/w10282(pp_w898_h628).jpg
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I'm having a go at the NT for allowing this to happen, not the guys who felled it, I have done loads of totally unnecessary arb work that has been specified by others, I need the money at the end of the day. My point here is that the NT should have bent over backwards to save that tree, and they didn't.
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I'm no tree hugger, I have felled loads of big trees, some much older than that one. However, felling that is a disgrace, the tree appears to be surrounded by grass, with a road near by, surely either moving the target or some veteran tree pruning would have sufficed. What is impressive about trees like these is their girth not their height, heavy pruning, halfing that tree if necessary would have reduced the wind sail to such an extent that it could probably have kept going indefinitely. Very poor tree management IMO, whats worse it comes from a heritage organisation, if the NT can't get it right who can?
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That has to be the new record for most pointless arb invention.
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I reckon chopping grass is as hard as chopping logs, its wet and very heavy, they are certainly horsepower hungry, the self propelled ones are in the 400Hp+ range so they must be built strong, not sure the blade design will be the same though… Why not just buy a chipper though, thats designed for the job?
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Sadly "faithful" tools are cheap crap these days, nasty chinese/indian steel.. Hence the low price.
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Charity auction for Tipmaster light guards
Tom D replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Arbtalk Christmas Charity Raffle 2013
£55 I forgot tickets too. -
Tackling large windblown stumps in tight gardens..
Tom D replied to Suffolk-Matt's topic in General chat
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I think thats a big part of it, also it suits the manufacturers to keep parts prices high, modern paint is so good that cars rarely "die" due to rust, its just repairs that out weigh the cost of the vehicle, the dearer the parts the quicker the cars die. The law of supply and demand mean that if cars lasted much longer fewer cars would be sold, and thats bad for the manufacturers. Its an environmental crime but governments can't face the job losses in the car industry which is huge in europe, so things are left as they are. The average truck will do a million miles but the average car only manages 100,000, ask yourself why?
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Make of car, tyres, driver, all make a difference but tyres by far are the most important when towing, the alpine tractor hat I have weighs similar to the landy, it has 1/3 of the power, but it will out pull the landy or any 4x4 off road simply because its on ag tyres.
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I had forgotten how crap Keanu's acting was… Big wednesday was better.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkygd1Fw0M8
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Homo erectus. Stevies take on the caveman thing… snigger snigger.
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I think you either buy a dedicated crane fed jobby which will be easy to feed buy a real danger to feed by hand, have a groundy go through that and you are going to jail. On the other hand feeding a manual feed by crane is possible if you're careful and much safer to feed by hand. My practical answer is buy the manual feed and feed the big clean bits with the crane using groundy as a spotter, then the grounds can be feeding the wee crappy bits by hand, if you try and do it all with the crane you will put an awful lot of sh1te through and be forever changing blades. We manage fine feeding with the crane and then doing a final manual cleanup.
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Prune the stubs and leave it at that.
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I don't know' They may have changed models slightly, I think its the frk. It handles brambles and scrub really well i know that.
