Bob Rolfe

try reversing the chipper in there other way same speed same height on the door lol

its good that you know where that actually going to fall isn't it

my 260 is my favorite saw. its good on the ground loads of power on the 18in bar and its good in the tree no need to take up one of the bigger saws or fumble round the log with the ms 200 never lets me down either good all round saw. husky s are another good option but i personally cant get use to the chain brake or the choke.

i know the problem straight away and your probably going to here this a lot on here.... you've bought a rubbish saw. contrary to wot it say on the box ryobi are only good for gardeners cutting small wood and basi,basic tree work. if your goin to do this for a living your goin to need a better saw ie stihl or an husky sorry mate there dear but its the truth you gotta invest. bye cheap bye twice thats the law in tools..

doh .... i broke the screen to my n95 Friday night in the pub but as an added bonus just to completely balls the night up i lost 60 quid as well oh well! £40 quid new screen for me

£550 per tree looks like a good price to me if you get the job good and well. i think the person that puts a price in and gets it will be around that marker because of the property and the wires but thats only my opinion

i was called out to one similar by a friend of the wife a gay guy "Its not me you need its a gardener on a step ladder you need" i told him ... he looked at me in disappointment and a little down trodden he said it was a Lombardy cherry lol i had to laugh sorry! ....Quick reminder to self be more sympathetic to the customer!

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Get well soon mate and he possible could someone post an update on chris condition and get a card out to him or the family to say we are all thinking of him. Hope hes up for christmas

he doesn't climb that well unfortunately but we still earned very good money and we didn't shift it and he owes us a favour so not a bad couple of hours work still wish id of seen them on the ladders scratching his head thinking how do i get myself out of this one

You hire an arborist because if you get a couple of fencers to do it they will get themselves into trouble on the dirty great big conifers you've got growing outside your terraced house that you really didn't think would grow so big

picked this job up two fencers came to do what they do but got themselves into trouble when there 3set of ladders wont reach to the top of these 45ft conifers. Even I struggled a bit in the wind with the telephone wires and the house being so close but a little time and a little silky work prevailed. My mate should of charged more though even though it was a friend of his...never mind

moneys money wish i would of seen them on them ladders though that would of been funny and how many times have you seen this picture when people don't hire arborists and think they can save some money

gonna have to give my mate some picture taking tips though

if i want to really im press the wife i put the washing out she loves it especially if she doesn't ask and it don't cost nowt.... but that said the flowers look great dean and i think if she likes em there worth every penny mate

i want one but Im not allowed...doh!

i won!.. i won!... i won!... right ive calmed down now didn't think i had a chance never won nowt before i feel really good now and the competition was tough they all look great !

i did one that looked exactly the same a few year back pops look great reduced then two years ago some idiot ordered it to be pollarded it looks stupid now. im sure tree officers around here think its the only thing you can do to pops

the way i see it is what if you have an accident.... god forbid! or on holiday. who is your first aider or fills in when your off. if your in an office or a mud man you have an accident its usually not that bad But in our chosen trade if we have a accident theres a fair chance its going to be ugly its sensible to take sensible precautions at least two members on a gang with first aid at ALL times that means if you are off another member needs to fill in for you

ive used a throw bag btu to tell you the truth im really really bad at it and its bti of luck if a get it any where near its suppose to go. but it still gets a laugh and i aways draw a crowd from the lads and get a cheer when i finally get the bloody thing up but my climbing rope over a branch is a different matter all together i find if you coil your rope up and throw over you head backwards so that the rope uncoils as it goes i can get it upwards of 25ft with some sort of direction

dean i think you may find its norton it slows everything down try disableing it then see how fast every thing runs without it mate

we use to use masks if a plane needed pruning or emergencies but if possible we would leave then till winter even then the whole gang all sounded like they had a bad case of tb some worse than others, one of the lads use to refuse to touch them i didnt blame him though he'd though up for half hour after one

Well I don't know about anyone else but Im a leatherman man ive had a few pen knives in my life time right from being a kid my mum use to take them off me all the time and stash them in her locker at work in a hospital one day after she hadn't been to the locker for a few months the locker went missing, she said that the person that opened it probably thought it was an IRA arms dump there was that many pen knives in there. Anyway for a few years, at work to cut rope it always was either the cadge a rusty penknife off someone or use the bread knife you found last year and thought it would come in handy tills i discovered LEATHERMAN they are shiny and heavy full of inner delights and draw me to them wherever i see them. Well i am now on my 3rd knife 4th if you count one i found. Alas if you put a leatherman down and you not in sight of it there like chainsaws they get nicked by thieving gits who wont buy there own. Well this one is something special and probably some of you lads have already got one but this ones mine i had to beg the wife and promise whole heartedly that this one will not go missing and there was forefits if it does plus she had to have the same money on clothes blah de blah ! yes dear ok

leatherman charge with pocket knife

i know there are other knives out there that are suppose to be as good but i dont think ay match up to the leatherman this ones in Costco for 70 quid a good buy i think

Bob, if you sit on it with a fishing rod i will give you a place next to my pond HAAAA

What you two trying to say! are you implying Im on the petite side ? lol

only took around 25 mins or something like that but i must admit it was quite rewarding i feel the need to do some more

its started now heres my first few attempts but i think im on the right track...... i dont know if i can stop !

i know its a bit rough :thumbdown

but this one a lady took for her garden so thats a good sign right

got to look for some more wood now...

the no fear is not good. But a good way to offset the out come is every cut you do take an extra 5 to 10 seconds just to think. It slows you down and calms giving you a little time to think and plan thus helping with complacency

just thought i would share a website ive been flicking through the last few months lads. We all like a little open air and if your like me im always looking for different places to go hill walking or if you now somewhere you fancy going this sites like the doomsday project where they are trying to reference pictures of everywhere in britain give it a bash i use it in conjunction with google earth and memory maps. beware ive lost hours on it

http://www.geograph.org.uk

plus theres a good mp game for the kids

and my entries Steve

Ink caps

no idea caps

and earth balls

sum really really good pics on here now i can feel the tension lol