Big 'Ammer
-
Posts
2,566 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Classifieds
Tip Site Directory
Blogs
Articles
News
Arborist Reviews
Arbtalk Knot Guide
Gallery
Store
Freelancers directory
Everything posted by Big 'Ammer
-
Just read this thread Pete and was about to suggest that BMC have a 125ps orange ally bodied tipper in, but it sounds like the one you have looked at! They have a brown 3 way tipper in as well at similar money, don't know what engine though. I got mine there and am pleased with it, Ingram's engineers down the road did the chip box and tool box. My truck is light, but we don't use it for logs, as you would soon wreck the ally floor chucking them in.
-
Interesting job! All down safely and tidily. Seemed a bit of a rigmarole for something straightforward? However, just to play Devil's advocate, how did you justify climbing it as part of the R/A ? Surely it would have felled along the bank, maybe stick a retaining line in off a tree at the rear if it looked like it needed it?
-
Vicar?
-
Put one in your container and then you can watch them on cctv at home getting eloctrocuted!
-
By offering up the saw to the underside of the branch you are going to undercut and pushing it against the branch, take off the brake and make the cut.
-
£400 all in or plus vat Mark? All 'proper' tree work, or the sort that could be attempted by gardeners with saws? With today's fuel prices etc, I'd have said you were too cheap.
-
I'm interested. Were you just trying it out or was there a particular reason to use it? Did it do the job better or not make any difference?
-
Is that one of Dadio's combined gob and step cuts on the stem?
-
A headache, I would imagine.
-
It will depend if you park on a hill or not.
-
Builders bags? How much do they hold?
-
Good idea that Dean, I'll log it away. I don't use slings much, as i tend to chuck small bits by hand or rig larger pieces off with block etc. A rope is handy in the basket if you like using slings. Just fix onto the branch and zip the piece straight to the ground as and when required.
-
Geoff and Dean on the mewp. Lots of small pieces, easily and quickly cut and held, no need to overload, use which ever hand is most convenient depending on basket position, no need to hold over the bar at all. Same when I climb as well, when something needs to be held. Otherwise, rig it. Tom D summed it up very well, way back in the thread, that there's a time and a place for all techniques, its knowing them, and when to use the right one for any given situation. There's no one method for use 100% of the time. Just think about what you're doing, before you do it.
-
I got a 'must-have' workshop accessory after having seen 18 Stoner's. A wall mounted beer bottle opener!
-
A happy, healthy, safe and prosperous year to all!
-
There a nightmare, Pete! Last one we had, we stuck it in the wood on one of the drives on the shoot, for 'habitat' !
-
Dogwood doesn't get too big and is attractive to woodcock. A good mixture of species is best, but lean towards what grows well in your part of the country.
-
'Diagnosis of ill health in trees' by Strouts and Winter is the one most guys use.
-
I'd be too ashamed to put a thread on a tree surgeons forum about not being able to start a fire out of dead elm.
-
The only time I get to bed is when I'm not bladdered.
-
I don't usually bother, but the camera was handy so we pulled up and snapped tonights sunset.
-
Great quote! Great set of pictures John!
-
If you're getting him docked, you could call him Stumpy. Thats tree related.
-
Good post.
-
Transit tipper full of unsplit timber????
Big 'Ammer replied to Stuart A-C's topic in Firewood forum
What's the timber worth to you? What would you earn otherwise in the time and fuel you spent delivering it? There's your price.
