Big 'Ammer
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Why not incorporate it into tomorrow's jolly? Bob climbs it and remedially prunes the stub, Dean goes up in the mewp and attaches a chain, skyhuck pulls the branch out the roof with the unimog. All who attend get a certificate of refresher training. Insurance company get the bill, which includes a subsistance payment for those who have travelled far!
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If wet in scout hut. See you tomoz.
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Congrats Fella!
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Like It Mike!
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Good for you for sticking to your guns on the safety front and also for getting stuck in and getting some work out of the mewp whilst your man had paid for it. You've let no one down and come home in one piece.
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Had a day off today, so had my lunch at an "all you can eat for £7" chinese buffet. I bet they were glad to see the back of me! I havn't fancied any tea yet cos I'm still full!
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Yeah, we had a good day Pete, all went smoothly. I always enjoy playing with another bit of machinery. Dave got some felling lessons too. And a nice change for me to be able to watch someone else work without feeling the need to be supervising them!
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Wedges in. Going. Going. Gone. Nice controlled bit of felling with a tidy hinge by Pete. Also, we took another main limb off another large ash that was growing low over an asbestos roof and pollution chamber with a netted roof. No pics unfortunately, as time was getting on and we wanted all the platform stuff done by 4pm.
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Pete went on to fell the trunk back into the wood with a winch pull, while I went to top out the next tree. This tree had a 2.5m crack running down the trunk from the bend and was overhanging where they park the excavators! They crack was only recent and there were no inhabitants! Pete gobbing out the second tree.
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Old Skool Rools! Pete's 16mm 3 Strand rope! Me felling the top out with a pull. Running the winch cable through a block to keep the landy down on the deck.
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Following on from Pete (18 Stoner) and Pete McSheffrey's "Beech Tree Blitz", here's some ash trees on the same site that Pete and I did last Friday with the help of a 27m truck mount platform. They were edge trees in the same woodland that were overhanging the local EA yard. The first is a big ash with a heavy lean over the gas oil tanks and spillage area. I cut and chucked most of it down in handy sized bits, and felled the back stuff into the wood.
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Take it to bits and reassemble as Dean said. If everythings on the right way round and in the right order, it may just be the clutch assembly slackening itself off. You may have to tighten the clutch on a bit and put a spot of thread lock on it. In theory they self tighten, in practice they may not. I had this happen once with a 357, and that cured it.
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Is it the drum itself catching or the nut for the clutch assembly?
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Cherry picker job. If your going to go up it on spikes, rope on and top it below the main fork in a oner. Don't fit the rope too high. It will be sound there, as its holding up the rest of the crown. Providing of course that you can absolutely trust your winchman.
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It was the 'two more trunks in the field' that gave it away Dean!
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Is that extracted from that article about LA tree waste and arisings?
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I'd take the left hand and right hand ones out altogether. Its clear from the picture that they have outgrown their pots!
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Wetwang! Ho ho! My part of the world, I was born up there on the tops. Sorry for the derail Mods!. I will endeavour to take a picture of these trees at Cherry Burton.
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Isn't it a small Wold!
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I used to work at Holme on the Wolds.
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Yeah! Lost an odd one a couple of years back when they put in a new roundabout at dog kennel lane. Used to go past them most days at work, but I've moved now so don't often go that way these days. Where did you used to live Tom?
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Second hand potato store making equipment would be fine. Try a farm machinery dealer.
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Were they the roadside ones from the crossroads back towards Beverley, Tom?
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Unfortunately no pics, we pruned a run of whitebeams last year that had flowering hawthorn sprouts growing from the rootstock.
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Good stuff.
