Gray git
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Thankfully I got a full nights sleep will. Cheers Treemoose, beauty of having coms fitted to ear defenders if communication on things like that are so easy
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Video released, sorry.
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Yeh even eating a Christmas tree it never slowed down, seen them working Road planers and that looks brutal. Would love to see how it powers a log splitter or a winch on the front for real awkward to get too jobs.
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No climbing because luckily I have a 14m landrover mewp which made things very easy although I did need to use the pole saw to nibble away a few smaller outer branches to release the pressure on them and let me knock down the stem to the point it was resting against the other tree then lift it slightly on the lowering line and then control it slowly to the ground. This is my landy but not on this job and a wee Vid of stem being lowered.
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Problem is its over 4 ton but incredibly stable!
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Did a big storm damaged sycamore and during lunch nipped off to set a lad on with doing the final tidy up on a little site clearance tidy up job, this is 1 heck of a handy machine and leaves a really tidy job. Even in the head high brambles further into the site it just minced them no problem, what would have taken 2 lads a full emotional day with strimers and saw was all done in 2 1/2 hrs and probably to a better standard!
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Think she's secretly quite happy so she can have the whole bed to herself.
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Definitely starting to feal that way, wife's starting to make comments about me regularly sneaking out in the night 😇 Got the leaner over the footpath down just fine today. Joy of owning your own mewp and lots of winches.
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Yeh, 1 down on the a19 south of Thirsk, called at 2.45 back at yard at 5.30, hr N half kip in landy and get sorted for today's scheduled work. See if the day brings owt ells.
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I had 1 for a few years and it was OK, had a bad habit of eating belts and the splitter activation mechanism had a bit to be desired but did a lot of wood with it and it definitely payed for itself, bigger stuff could be done by ringing with a saw and dropping into the chamber but I did about 50tons of billets 1 year and it was very good at these and fast. If it's a bit newer model it'll have the auto speed splitter which saves time and the sliding rather than rocking table is very comfortable to use. Only got rid as stopped doing as much logs and when I changes yards the right to left feed of the jappa just didn't work with the limited space I had.
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Friction hitch that can be tied with a bight?
Gray git replied to skinnerm1's topic in Climbers talk
I'd think if you tied a Blakes with a bight it'd work OK but might bind up under a lot of load, how it's dresses and set will have a big affect on it. -
Landy winch has had a good work out this week but not had a spare min to work on any videos and the way the work list is looking that ain't going to change in the next month! Landys just better on fuel, quicker and better lights, and not as bigger lump to get blower around by the wild gusts we have been having.
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Most definitely not but a few have said I should for extra publicity type stuff. One day possibly.
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Friction hitch that can be tied with a bight?
Gray git replied to skinnerm1's topic in Climbers talk
Couldn't you use the basic 3 knot system?
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Thursday bud, was quite wild up there!
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Near Semer water just down Wensley dale from hawes. Lovely place when it's nice but bleak when it's not! The picture of the landy up to its nuts in water is actually where the p is on the map and on that road, we could just say see the pay and display machine sticking out the water between waves.
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At the moment it has two ratchet straps holding it to the other tree and we have the joy of dealing with that tomorrow, tensioned rigging line back into a tree up hill to help hold it, landy mewp and gypsy stick at full stretch will probably be the solution then set the winch to pull/lift the stem back up hill once the crown is off and untangled. Well that's the plan so probably end up totally different. Will get picks.
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Landy is often better for the call outs than the rb as a bit quicker and better on fuel and a lot better lights which is something I really need to sort out.
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This was the worst access toclear a road if you can call it that iv ever had, ended up backing out and doing a 8 mile round trip to access the opposite end due to the flooding.
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Nothing today but quite a few last week to deal with on roads and a few not so immediately to do next week.
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You sure that's not the yamazaki rotting your brain out a bit 😜 Think it's starting to hit round here as well so hopefully I can avoid the lurgy 😷
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I really really hope that's not urine!
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Today's ivy covered joy and tonight's call out, nearly 3am and just got home.
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Pop round the local church on Sunday and at the end of service when everyone is leaving ask the person involved loud enough for everyone to hear if they are in financial difficulties and that's why they havnt payed you then continue to offer to take monthly payment if it's a struggle to pay all at once, now like a bit of public shaming and embarrassment to get a result. Worked on our local vicar after he owed me 150quid for over 4 months. Cash the same afternoon! 😁
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Few more pictures of trailer. Perfect for this ball of ivy today! The planking uses the lip of the trailer as a surport all along the lower side to do away with the need for a central pole and the barn doors clip into the new top rail and behind the original tailgate.
