Tom D
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you gotta start someday, might as well be now! Just take it steady and remember practice makes perfect, on each one you will be a little quicker than the last.
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I drove that big mog for a couple of years, that was the best chipper I have ever used, a real genuine beast. It was too heavy for the mog though, an emergency stop with no chip in the back and the back wheels were 4' in the air! What a chipper though, I remember one job where we were taking a line of leylandii down, we rocked up at 8 and felled them one by one down the guys drive way, winched them straight in and chipped each one whole. The client came out with the tea at 9:00 and we were just tidying up with the blower. That left the boss having to justify the price for an hour's work LOL. A machine like that can make you some serious money.
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After getting 2 unused saws ported by Spud that haven't had the use they deserved due to a lack of a bar for one and a chain for the other, I finally got round to getting them both going in the last week of so and very pleased with both, the 254 I had fitted with a 15"bar and its a real ripper now, Andrew reckons its as good as his new 550. The 357 was ticking over fast and turning down the tick over just resulted in stalling while idling, so I backed off the L screw a fraction and she has been great since. I love these saws now, I reckon they will be seeing a lot more use.
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We are all quick to blame the police but how many of us make their job easier by marking our saws to make them easily identifiable? I haven't but its something I will be doing... Perhaps we should get political and get a campaign going to highlight the problem to the powers that be, Arbtalk has a lot of members now, maybe we could put that to good use?
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If all this kit went to Ireland there would be one saw for each resident! it's staying here and being bought by the likes of us.
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My favoured method is to use machinery wherever possible, cutting the root-plate off is the easy bit, getting them down is often the hard part.
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What size is that Ducker?
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I have seen that a lot, in fact there's one right near my house. My theory is that the tree grows a second canopy under the first as the first gets scorched by the wind and allows enough light through to stimulate growth lower down. Sometimes the upper canopy dies and the tree adopts a more squat appearance. Essentially the tree is "veteranising" itself. It wouldn't work in a woodland environment as the lower growth would be shaded out.
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Not sure how this will pan out but it has to hurt Stihl's sales to some extent, by how much who knows? They will have calculated the amount that they will gain from increased margins agains what they will loose in overall numbers. That said I bought a makita 7901 a couple of years or so ago and it has been a brilliant buy, I am always pleasantly surprised by its power each time I use it and it has been very reliable, only needing a chain brake band so far. I would definitely have another. All we need is for one of the big arb suppliers to start selling them.... Hint Hint.....
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A little but not much..
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What are the bosses motives for not wanting you on the books? Make sure you ask. You can easily be on the books PAYE and still only work when required, my concern is that the boss has no employers liability cover and is attempting to use you as a Bona fide subcontractor, something which you are definitely not. Make sure you check that he has EL cover because if he doesn't and you get injured whilst working for him it will be very ugly, your only option would be to sue, and he may not have much. Imagine spending the rest of your life in a wheelchair and all you get is a couple of grand and an old transit and timber wolf. He would probably be prosecuted for not having EL cover but that would be little consolation.
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Live footage lol. This is mainly processor size, about 50%pop 5% conifer, the rest is good stuff, See for yourselves...
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Never saw that! Edit, just checked, its not there. I will take pictures of the stack tomorrow and post them here, I have several interested parties now, you can make offers by PM or email.
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There'll be a wagon load I reckon, 25 ton..
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There are various systems that you can use, however the cheapest that I have heard of is a shipping container and a lorry radiator with a fan blowing through it.
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Last chance! This will go for free if necessary, You pay haulage... Mostly processor size too...
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I have tried my rayburn on all the bark and debris that collects at the bottom of the logstore, it goes really well if a little faster than logs. I think that if you could bag your chip into small bags and then put the whole bag on, it could be a convenient way to run on chip. You need to dry your chip though.
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good effort all the same, thats a proper stunt fell.
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I bet your arse twitched when it came off the hinge and rolled off that hedge.
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Yeah. Once...
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I picked up my new one in may, I just cracked 10,000 miles yesterday. Not sure what that is daily..
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Still looking!
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This one was riddled with it, among other things, very brittle..
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Funny how its turned around. We were quiet earlier in the year and now have enough to keep 2 squads going till crimbo.
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To be fair the current model has doors that stay on and a heater that works..
