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Thanks for posting that Mark, always good to be reminded of these things.

if you felt that strongly about it why didnt you do something about it instead of moaning on a tree surgeon's forum thats the trouble with people these days - always moaning and whining instead of getting on with it and finding a solution.

cheers for the comments guys stick a h'cam on.... press on, do the job, switch off h'cam, download it at some point later, take about 20 mins to cobble it together on windows movie maker and its there forever, a reminder of the work you did and a tool for learning how to improve, you should give it a try mate, must be doing some interesting jobs in New York.

Hi folks, some good old fashioned tree surgery from this week - [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa27Q0LXPMw]YouTube - Jackton Beech Oct 2010[/ame]

nice work Tom

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Everyone recieved a letter from Nissan showing the extended warranty. The problem was with the big end bolts - metal elasticity issue. The failure always seem to happen in the 3rd chamber. Combined, dont harass them, they'll drop you and your Navara like a ton of bricks - I didn't even call them for a a couple of weeks after I put my d22 into them. If they ask you if you've ever owned a Nissan before say yes, just tell them you own a Nissan Micra for 5 years and have forgotten the Reg plate. Also send away for brochures for the new Navara or the Cabstar today , this shows up on your file and makes them think your keen on Nissans. I repeat, do not harass them. Nobody likes a problem customer and remember they legally dont have to give you a new engine.

Great pics and story, thanks for posting.

My d22 did 90K before the conrod failure, used daily for towing trailer loads of chips and timber averaging 2 tons, average mileage per day - 50. Others put a conrod through the block under 50K miles. There's still a bit of mystery surrounding NissanUK's approach to replacing engines. Mine was 6 months outside the extended 5 year warranty yet they decided I was gonna get a new engine, no reason given. Wasn't gonna get too involved with them, just thankful they said yes. I was looking into replacement engines and fitting totalling over £5000.00 They definitley look at service record, wether you've ever owned a Nissan before and how you approached them with the problem. Many people with D22 conrod failures under warrantly failed to get new engines. No-one really understands NissanUK's decision making process behind the whole thing and probably never will either. There are UK companies selling low mileage Japanese import engines for the D22, loads of info at NissanNavara.Net Beware though, have heard a few horror stories of people spending fortunes trying to repair the D22 engines using mechanics that dont fully understand what the problem was in the first place.

What the year of manufacture?

is it a D22? with the extended warranty? does the vehicle look tidy and well looked after? 60K is low even for the famous D22 conrod issue. Mine went at 90K

Did you buy it from new? Is it still under warranty? Whats the service record like? Was the knocking noise really loud? or more like a tapping noise? Mine went in April, Nissan put a new engine in it for free, it was 6 months out of warranty. You have to be very careful how you approach Nissan though.

There's climbing to be done during logging operations. If phil tells his prospective employers he can climb and on the first day they ask him to top out a 200ft Douglas Fir he could end up dead without the right kind of valuable experience to be gained here in the UK first.

Frankly mate, 18 months just isn't enough experience, you'd be way out of your depth unless you can find a company or individual who would take you on as a trainee? worth a try maybe? I'd get more experience here first Even if your planning on felling/loggin they'll expect you to have some serious time on the saw. They'll more than likely ask to see pics and vids of trees you've worked on. Its takes a bit of time to get organised with Visas and find out where you'll be staying etc. I'd been climbing and working with trees for 3 years before I went out to work in the US as a climber and was glad I never went earlier...... this was day one on the job - had to dismantle these 3 dying Tulip trees, obstacles and hazards everywhere, the two on the left had to be rigged down, my ground crew were all from El Salvador, only one of them had basic english, but we got the job done, but was a real baptism of fire got loads more pics if your interested

how much experience do you have felling and working with trees? any more pics other than your avatar? any video of you carrying out a fell?

The occurance at 4.49 in Part 1 highlights why I'd never attempt a Lombardy crane removal. Thanks for posting Reg and thanks for including that clip.

great vid, thanks for posting

Exactly my point - Afrikaners representing Namibia at womens bowls is hardly gonna encourage the indigenous population to take part in the Commonwealth Games. fact - nobody watched the Commonwealth Games apart from Colin Jackson, Michael Johnson (who was doing it for the money anyway) and Sue Barker Michael Johnson must've thought he was witnessing a school sports day in Delhi.

No....he didn't. The Commonwealth games is dying, its a throwback to Britain's lost empire, Usian Bolt double Olympic champion didn't even bother with it. They should just re-name the Commonwealth Games the World Bowls Championships.

yeah - Cathelean du Plessis and Lynne Lindsay-Payne, fairly typical African names, dont you think? oh yeah...and here's the current Namibian woman's bowls team....speaks for itself really -

Jonesie, well done on the leaf blowers mate, but that little extravaganza in Delhi cost Scottish tax payers £1.5 million and trust me on this....blowing up that Armadillo will be the first work those 3 Glasgow City Council workers have done in years, in fact it's probably the first work they've done in their entire careers. Around £3500 per head to ship 400 dancers and god knows who else on some junket to India while we're seen the worst cutbacks in decades. The Commonwealth Games is widely view by the rest of the world as a total joke, they even have bowls for christ's sake! seriously.... how many people in Kenya or Namibia play bowls! rant over

they've made it!

Yeah, if it's the 5 ton version both levers pointing back then push the front handle back and downwards by hand it should lock into a position and stay there - that will allow you to pull the cable out freely. Don't use your feet on the front handle though as I tried this and the handle snapped, had to wait 6 months for the new part. The handle should just push forward when you've finished. The handle has to be in the backwards position though inorder to feed the cable back innext time you use it. . The Jet Rope Hoist is a great winch so long as you look after it

7.58 in the first vid, branch gets hung up in a small tree, looks like there are 4 guys on the ground needed to pull that limb out.

honestly? ok then in that case dadio's arguments are about as clever as an episode of Jeremy Kyle