Big 'Ammer
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Let's not fanny about, Carlton 8018.
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Thats a proper job!
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Your technique seemed overcomplicated and too unpredictable to me. You had to return to cut further. That's a sound stem with a high line on a skid steer, its not going anywhere till you get your guy to set off. A conventional gob, low down, by all means bore and set the hinge if you like, but just take the back cut up parallel with the grade of the ground to make the appropriate hinge if you want to leave a low stump ready for grinding.
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Well it would be, wouldn't it?
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Its full choke too!
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That's what stuff looks like when I hav'nt got my glasses on.
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I would say the shake is already there at the bottom, when you have knocked the top out the pressures change in the timber and it splits up further after a few minutes. Happens with Turkey oaks a lot, too.
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I have always paid my on-the-books staff for days off with bad weather.
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I'm sure it wasn't the bloke from the flat above the shop, cos he just loves xmas lights ..... :lol:
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2.5 petrol. 30mpg. 15month old when I got it. £240 road tax. Goes well though! To get the same spec in diesel at that age would be about 4-5K more, which is a lot of diesel to save to get level again. Plus they don't do a diesel auto.
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Yeah, its a Legacy, had it since April, nice car, I love it. Badoingy = the action and sound of a school ruler twanged against a desk top, when scaled up to tree work and a man is attached.
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Nice one on the cedar Brett! Theres some enormous weight of snow and ice on that. Gave you a flash as you were pulling out of Kelleythorpe farm shop this afty, but don't think you guessed it was me cos I was in the car. I did a cedar out the mewp yesterday, but I wasn't cutting chunks like that off, too many things underneath! I was cutting and chucking, and I reckon everthing was twice as heavy, so good job and big balls there. Did you sit in the landy and make Chris cut it and chip it all up by himself cos you'd done your half of the job?
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Go to a farm supply place and get some udder cream, its about 80% lanolin. That'll sort your cracked hands out. I wear gloves nowadays, so no cracked hands!
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I thought everyone kept their cables in tyres! Also stops you getting your clothes covered in grease.
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Looking for set michelin xzl for land rover
Big 'Ammer replied to mendiplogs's topic in General chat
I had a set of xzl's on my Landy and didnt rate them as an everyday tyre. Excellent off road if you let them down, but at load carrying and towing pressure, poor. Poor on the road and noisy. On the plus side, only two punctures in 40k of use. I'm on BFG a/t now and am impressed both on and off road. -
Lay the cable out and the feed the end into an old tyre. Wheel the tyre along and it picks up the cable. The springyness of the cable keeps it inside the tyre. Easy way to transport and store the cable.
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Your missing something. Anyone with an on the books employee that they have to provide PPE for is going to be Vat reg anyway.
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Beat me, Andy!
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Safety boots for your own use, no. Buy the same pair of safety boots for an employee, yes.
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Cheers Dermot.
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We usually chip into a chip truck and tow the chipper with that. We needed to tip off road on this job so thats why we were chipping into the trailer. Sometimes if we only want one vehicle on site, and we need to chip into something and remove chip elsewhere on the site, we just stick the chipper in the back of the trailer. We have a very flexible set up, so can take the right combination of vehicles, trailers and gear to the job.
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Yeah, the back of the landy with bottles of Newcastle Brown Ale....
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We can put Deano in it to suck on his bottle! :lol:
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Well, not really.. A bloke gave us a pick up top a while back, so we have made it fit the top of the trailer as a chip catcher. Quick mount / de-mount on four drawbar pins and fits inside the empty trailer for transport. Works really well. We have used it with a chipper with a tall spout and its great, no overspray!
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A.Hippo full of concrete - any advice?
Big 'Ammer replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
I can honestly say that the worst tree I have ever had to deal with was a concrete filled conker. Both in terms of dismantling and disposal. The worst of it was that there was no evidence of the concrete from the outside. I don't envy your task one bit, Jon.
