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  1. Ty Korrigan

    Hey Bolam, join Tradegie des arbres on FB.

      Add your wit today!

         Stuart

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      Let me have a look first Stu!

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    Any-one on here use a 4 series? Stuart
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    Any-one? Stuart
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    This has happened before to me and no doubt my info also shared unwittingly with others. I was going to relate one particularly painfull one to you all but as I began to recall the details, I felt my piss begin to boil. As I am relaxing in Morocco, the last thing I need right now on top of an excellent lamb tagine is a bladder of boiled piss followed by an online diatribe of bile topped with a hollow promise of cold revenge. Stuart
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    Here is a €5k+ Macrocarpa, criminal act really to build your house under it's canopy then complain about the possibility of it toppling on your property. Another €5k+ was a long dead Lebanon cedar, too fragile to climb, too big too fell. One of the rare occasions we hired in a MEWP. I snapped the apprentice just as he dropped the 441 with it caught in a chog bending the bar. I was on fire duty below as the exhaust kept igniting the dust and dozens of logs set to smouldering, curiously difficult to extinguish too burning deep inside where water wouldn't penetrate. Stuart
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    A curious mindset I have come across. The odd climbers who either work alone or with family. Their diary is largely empty, they don't care about working for low money, no chipper or truck and the job takes 'as long as it takes' They might bid €500 cash on that tree even if it takes a week but they are happy to know it is a guarranteed €500. They live this way, plodding from one job to the next, always cash and avoiding clients who can't deal with the brash themselves. Works for the impoverished expat living on the state pension, trapped in a cycle of pre-brexit anxiety and rich clients in big houses, his and her Mercs, trophy swimming pool with a gardener to deal with the brash in exchange for the wood. Fortunately, this lone dog climber can't be omnipresent nor are these the only clients in the world. Stuart
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    Well, I never would have thought Steve Bullman would 'like' a post of mine. Stuart
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    I occasionally work Saturdays with a younger French climber. Flo' cut and chucked everything because that 'was' all he knew. Our first job together, he looked at the trees and said I'd underestimated the time plus he didn't think he had the energy to do it, it would wipe him out being a Saturday. However, once we'd explained to him the plan to turn one branch into a crane and swing whole branches off the roof, it was if he had seen 'the light'. His regular weekday boss didn't rig and the groundcrew knew nothing of it either. Afterwards, Flo' confessed his surprise and pleasure at the revelation that was our simple but effective rigging techniques and that he would enforce some changes at work or he would be physically wrecked by 30. S'true that. Stuart
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    On their FB page there are other pics, this was just one I pulled off as an example. Plenty of other images with fresher logs on the catalogue download and FB pages. The machine has a 200kg lift at 2m height and 450kg with arms lowered. It is also only 75cm wide. Can some-one tell me just why do tracked lift less than wheeled? Stuart
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    Not that I am aware. They are a small outfit with an 8 week waiting list. Only possibility of a trial is with an existing client. Stuart
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    One of my friends near Bordeaux recently had a short trial with the 18hp version. He reports that it seems well made and easy to use. I took this image off a recent Micro-bull FB post. Stuart
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    Because a news report of an accident was posted and seeing as this is this is a discussion forum it seems natural to speculate. I didn't mean to offend your sensibilities, had you just eaten? Stuart
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    We rig alot. Teams of 3 work really well rigging, one on capstan, other on tag line. I appreciate the extra hands and if anyone is going to have it easy it is me and I bloody deserve it. Plus, if working localIy, I can nip off early to quote or fetch a kid home from school. Stuart
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    When I first started here in France I hired a Laski 18hp machine. No clutch. People habitually strapped the dead mans handle to keep it running. Horribly dangerous and tiring to use. From the image, I can guess how this accident might have occured. Squeezing around the machine to pull rakings away. Never turn your back on Velociraptors or running stumpgrinders. Stuart
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    My fathers gunnery section shelled a herd of cows during the San Carlos debacle May 21st 1982. The SAS spotter misidentified the cows as enemy troops. Dad's section where crack gunners too. Stuart
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    Although Wikipedia does go into some length about apologies from the US to Iran.
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    With ale, the truth drug of choice. Stuart
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    That will be the last 20 year old saw I send you you you... Stuart
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    I held off buying an 880 after using a friends 661. I've an 084 but it is prone to being a swine to start if it runs out of fuel or a Monday. Mind, it doesn't care for Tuesdays either... So far I've coped using my Spudded 441 but I've a monster oak to get down and a trunk to mill so an 881 efi twin turbo will be very welcome. Stuart
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    He worked for Freeworker? Brilliant company to deal with. Stuart
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    Living here, I've become indifferent to the smell of garlic but note that visiting Brit expat climbers rarely wash their saw pants so on damp days stink like labradors which have rolled in... Stuart
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    Get a mate in Europe to buy you some of these: https://www.kox24.fr/Pantalon-de-protection-anti-coupures/Pantalon-anti-coupures-X-treme-Light Sadly, do not send to U.K. I can vouch they are super light and über cool compared to any others on the market. Stuart
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    Sorry to hear this. Stuart
  25. Ty Korrigan
    Brittany, mild and damp yet drier than UK in the East and equally as wet in the West. Summers can be scorchers. 33c-35c predicted here from Monday. I've 2 more days work ahead of me (without saw pants) before I'm off for a month or so. Stuart

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