Gray git

Lovely, your wife should be very proud of you,

Keep swapping between BT and imoria when 1 gets wet and to be honest the imoria is quite nice to use, different to the BT how it handles through the zz and a little more stretch but feels nicer in the hand. Got a side lanyard of teckion which is good rope so fancy a full length of this to try.

Almost sertenly for us boys with knackered knees in our 30s Old boy near me go's about like this with a bow saw collecting any fallen branches he can get hold of, sure I put a picture of him in the overloaded thred somewhere ;-)

Yesterday's little reduction, not brilliant but a compromise between what I thought and what the client asked for which was another 8ft lower. And today storm damaged! Back to the cedar next week to chip up and possibly mill some of the timber. Just got back from another little highways call out with a rather charming wpcso, sorry no pictures.

Well done everyone, not quite the 10k but will sertenly help someone somewhere who needs it more than we do :thumbup:

Cousins, the 1 with gorilla hands :-o

Thanks steve, looking forward to irritating a few squirrels with my new catapult ;-) Do we have a grand total for amount raised yet? Well done every 1 for seaporting.

That's exactly what I did! I now get undressed in the utility room and sweep the floor when finished, I did get a 2nd heavy duty machine to do work stuff but it turned out to be better than hers so now does all the washing and hers has gon so not my fault if stuff gets 'contaminated' if it's really bad like from spannering and covered in oil and derv I give em to a friend to do as she washes horse rugs for a living.

Not a vast amount for the tree orientated, new timberwolf being demoed which was impressed with, a tracked 190 inside and a turntable 1. A few splitters and saw bench from fuelwood Warwick and a stumpgrinder from spectrum, mostly farming stuff that you'd expect from Rippon farm services. But good stake sarny and chips for lunch

Might not be so good near greenhouses :what:

Arbfortraining is running CS30/31 Jan 12th - 30th and Feb 9th - 13th. Just had a timetable email of them as got lads needing training soon aswell.

Possible, it is about 15years since I had to remember this stuff. ;-)

Ow and cool reason for needing to know, had ringworm on horses so know about it, grew up on livery yard.

Known as asexual gymnosperm species if I can remember back to my uni days.

I know, looked into it! Also looked into bringing 1 in but not practical even if iv added us upgrades in larger double felling dogs and 8 pin sprocket.

Try garath at arbfortraining based just outside layburn, easy to get on with bloke.

Hell yes 390xp is the best bigger saw iv ever owned in the last 17years but an xpg would top that!

The males have pricklS the female don't ;-) Flowers like said is about the only way to be sure, any particular reason you need to know or just an interest of yours?

It's how some of the big yank company's role, tree team go out and stack brash at roadside and the grab wagon go's round and clears up after several teams at the end of the day then tips in the yard then something like a bandit beast comes in when full and deals with the lot in 1 go but all the handling in hydraulic and big. Nothing worse than trying to pull a pile of mashed up brash apart then try feeding lots of little stuff into a chipper with out a feed conveyer is dangerous which then produces poor quality chip even through something with either twig brokers in or a screen so only producing power station grade stuff so low value and not worth it. Chip the brash your little chipper will handle then keep all strate stuff over say 4" in 2m lengths that could be crane fed into say a hired in hiziohack once dry so producing good g30 chip and a possible return of £15 m 2 + if a local use for it.

No, the mewp, winch, arbortrolly and rigging bag I think ;-)

Going to get that printed and onto workshop door to confuse the lads ;-)

Earn more, sweat less - new company motto right there!

Sorry, won't happen again ;-) Often use a combination of mewp and climb on the same tree, climb rig and swing the top off then use the landy mewp for the main stem when bigger saws get involved. If we went by by the money argument why get a 660 when a 441 could cut the same just slower, why use bull rope when poly prop is cheaper, why rig a tree at all when it could be cut smaller and hand thrown to save having to cut it up on the ground. Petty argument I know but still how I look at it. I agree a climber will beat a mew any day on a crown thin or deadwood where access into the crown is restricted but with the right machine and access I'd like to see any climber beat me on a crown 15% reduction or retrenchment work. We could extend the argument to why use cranes when we could just rig stuff down and handball stuff into a trailer instead of having bits just drift away and land right next to the chipper or onto the truck. Any1 who runs bigger gear like mogs, hiabs 10"chippers forwarders etc should understand investment or initial hire cost of the right bit of equipment can improve efficiency more than anough to cover the cost and actually make more money but it has to be used correctly and by people who know how to get the best out of it.

Not saying there is a right or wrong answer to this as personal preference is a big part of it unless the tree is unsafe to climb but in my opinion what puts a lot of people of mewps is bad experience with them where whoever they are/were working for have specked the wrong machine for the job so it was a bigger struggle than it should have been. Another problem is people are taught how to climb a tree, how to dismantle a tree from ropes, how to rig a tree while tied to it as part of formal training or on the job progression of skills where's formal training in a mewp is setup and drive it round a carpark congratulations your a qualifibopetater or on site is hears the keys crack on! If people received more training or there was actually the training available to help people get the most out of the machine within treework then you may find them more popular. There will always be a time for climbing be it cost or access but I can do 5 days solid dismantling from a mewp and still have energy to take my children swimming om saterday where I'd be lucky to be able to walk properly if I'd tried to climb that much work, all the newer lads who say climb for me it's more macho just wate till you've had a few injuries then see how you feel.

You got yourself a new app or something Paul?