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Jonesie, on your website you have the MS880 with 48 inch bar at 910.70 inc vat. £30% off that is £637.49. Is this price correct? If it is, its the best deal I've ever seen on a saw. .
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£80 will get a pic soon. Here's the HiCap Defender - looking for £850 for this if anyone's interested pm me for more details.
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Landrover 110 Defender Hi-Cap Pickup (just needs a new chassis) 80K, L Reg, 200Tdi Lockjack sport(light use) New Tribe Harness(very light use) Weaver Harness (used for 4 months) Buckingham Mini Portawrap Jonsered 2055 Stihl 023 Silky Accel folding blade Silky Sintung Pruner head for Hayauchi pole saw
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Got a few large removals coming up, then loads of milling(Alaskan) - quoted £874.00 inc VAT for 3120XP with 42 inch bar - George Carr + Sons That'd be good, thanks. Will do, got some good deals on climbing gear from him in the past. Whats the name of the dealer? thanks for the response tc
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Anyone know of any dealers doing good deals on either the Husqvarna 3120xp 42 bar or Stihl MS880 48 bar? Been quoted £874.00 inc VAT for 3120XP with 42 inch bar, anyone beat that? Used saws - I'd also be interested in a used 3120xp or MS880 that were in good condition/low hours useage etc. Thanks tc
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Huge tree highscale, was it just Ganoderma? Did you have a pull rope or was it weighted in direction of fell? difficult to tell from pics.
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Right...like Saptech in Scotland then? without a website its been difficult to know whose who in the Jensen family. Suppose Jensens sell themselves, but the competition is getting pretty fierce out there, your new website is definatley a step in the right direction. Will you be listing used chippers as well?
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Bald Ed, are you Redwood then?
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Dunno bout that Ed, I've tried the VT for months at a time but always gone back to the Blakes. Just would like to find a way of slack tending like the VT, but the problem is the 13mm split tail wont advance easy. I'll give the Helical a try once I know for sure how its tied. Thanks for the info Peter, found this pic - looks nothing like Rupes, there's also a pic on Laz's friction hitch pdf he did for the HSE but it looks unfinished, the pulley is twisted. http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/FCRR-JD-0402.pdf/$FILE/FCRR-JD-0402.pdf
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i'll give it a go. Is there any place on the net where it explains how to tie it? Rupe, is this the best way to tie it?
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Thanks Dean.
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FUELFILTER!!...sorry Changed the Kubota inline fuel filter for a new transparent kind, should the chamber be completely full of diesel with no air? can't get rid of the air pocket.......the chipper seems to be running ok but it doesnt look right, any ideas? Got a big job starting tommorrow, should I expect problems. cheers tc
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I like the easily adjustable length of the Blakes, but it's never worked well with a slack tender pulley even when tied very short - too chunky. I'm using Marlow gecko for climbing line with gecko split tail(Blakes) without a slack tender these days. Usually use Yale xtc, but credit crunch forces Marlow. Does anyone know of a good system of using a Blakes with a slack tender that will work effectively? Do I need to try a Michoan or Helical with smaller cord for the friction hitch? or is there anyway to get a Blakes to work better using 13mm rope? cheers tc .
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robo, there's a guy on here martyn1.....he's always on the lookout for decent workers in Glasgow. You'll find his name in the members list. Click on his name and use the private messaging option, he doesn't check in that much, thats the best way to get hold of him. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/memberlist.php?&pp=30&order=asc&sort=username<r=M&page=2
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Went out to Washington DC in winter 2001 for a year and a half's climbing with The Care of Trees. First day at work - 3 Tulip trees to dismantle, 2 of them dead and needing rigged, very cold weather, trees were covered in poison ivy vines - happy days. For those of you who've never been, Wash DC is bitterly cold and dry in the winter and insanely hot and humid in the summer. It was hard graft but easily the best treeclimbing experience you could want.
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The HSE will have highly qualified engineers who can understand the maths. Hope someone publishes it as a book. .
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To be an excellent arb consultant you have to have climbed and worked in the crowns and canopies of trees as a climber/tree surgeon for a good length of time. Coming from this background enables you to have a more thorough and complete understanding of how to identify structural weaknesses within the tree, the most critical part of tree inspection. Many people who haven't come from a climbing background call themselves arb consultants, to put it simply, they're deluded. .
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McCulloch - was there ever a good one ?!
scotspine1 replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Chainsaws
My first saw was a Mac 120, used it for felling dead spruce spars for logs in the 80s. Still got it, havent run it since about 1998. Its a half decent saw. -
Yale XTC rope is the only rope to be given the A grade standard under the new RTC banding system, everything else is either B or C. 3 Strand Nylon is F, Multiplait is Z. Beal Baobab didn't even register as it was so bad.
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Just priced for half a day's work + materials.
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Wired the Yews up, 3 rows of plastic coated wire on each tree, some light pruning afterwards, thought they turned out alright - homeowner very pleased with the result. Used a 4x4 to choke the running bowline which pulled the branches together, the rope was re-directed through a pulley(on large Oak behind Yews) at the same height as the trees, wire was wrapped round and tied and then the rope was slackened. Whole job took about 4 hours, the rigging and lining up the rope was the most time consuming part. Next time will try large ratchet straps. Before and after -
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Was Oscar de la Hoya ever one of the best anyway? Mayweather and Hopkins beat him and some other guy I cant remember. Hoya is a old part-timer these days and this fight proves what happens if you dont train hard enough, pacman was just too strong and fast. Suppose this means Hatten Vs de la Hoya at Wembley is off next year?
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Thanks for comments, decided to wire them up probably followed by some light pruning will post pics. I dont think these Yews would benefit from heavy pruning as they would have to be left bald on one side to give clearance to delivery vans etc.
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What would you do with these Yews? about 100 years old. They are growing over the driveway, and delivery vans and bin lorries are hitting the branches. The homeowner was talking about felling them or drastic pruning, I'm thinking of binding them up with wire to create narrower crowns, anyone ever done that? There are large oaks behind which would be good for setting a pulley, tie a running bow round the Yews(seperately) choke the branches all together using a pull line redirected through the pulley on an oak use a 4x4 for the pull, then tie the wire and release the rope. thinking maybe three rows of wire on each tree. They're about 25 ft tall Any thoughts? thats the top of a spruce in the background on the top left side of the right Yew.
