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  1. or me . . . both times. id much rather agonising intence pain for my next near death experience than the fear and panic of being trapped underwater . . . fractured skull, broken bones, being in a coma, , , all much much nicer than choking on water, not knowing which way the surface is, being dragged under. still love the water though!!! the rspca have gone ott though
  2. if the address you pick it up from is '3rd caravan on the right' then it may well be too good to be true
  3. damn, i knew the answer too! when felling for the rspb, we felled bankside willows, and with the brash had to make otter holts, although we also used terracotta drain pipes dug into the bank at an angle into the water, straight up into the holt, then used chicken wire staked into the ground, over the brash to keep it all down and tight, then covered the whole lot with turf to help keep it cool inside, and eliminate any light penetrating
  4. had a chain snap on a 660, whip round and wack the back of my bare hand, only the slightest of scratches
  5. if its an inconvience to you, and because of the sized bits, id be happy for someone to come and collect, do everything without me lifting a finger and chuck some beer money at me Suffolk Forestry, welcome to the forum, whats youre name??? i was dragged up in leiston
  6. seriously cool tommy!!!
  7. thinking about it, no, no specific pests or diseases, possibly because of the harsh winters??? dead or dying trees we have come across all have physical factors contributing to their decline, mainly landscaping work, raising of soil levels (which is very common), compaction, root damage ect elms are fine, no DED apparant chestnuts appear fine so far oaks all healthy, bar one we pruned but that i put down to landscaping havent even seen tar spot on mapels! the only fruiting bodies ive seen have been deadwood saphroytes (sp!!!) i wonder if a lack of regular pruning like in the uk leads to a healthier, stronger tree stock? its certainly eyeopening to see the trees here, roadside trees that in the uk would be considered for an emergancy fell, still standing, still going strong, trees on the whole seem healthier too
  8. so is it the tutti-fruity leaves that ar looking healthier? the chestnuts over here dont appear to be suffering from eithtr leaf minor or bleeding canker . .
  9. that is a smart little 90:thumbup1:
  10. i done my first climbing job at 17. i had been given an old willans t22 missing the mallion, used a BIG corroded ally caribina, think dad found it on the beach a few years previously but i adopted it and had been using it to skid trees out of woodlands, used a 5m tow strop to tie myself in and topped a row of ash off the ladders using an old 023
  11. for me i use the chainsaw as much as possible, my elm pics i posted 90% was chainsaw. unless its lots of small fiddly easy to silky stuff like the oak and birch i'll leave the chainsaw on the ground or tied onto the end of my rope, and have a bit of freedom with the silky. i try and avoid using a silky on anything bigger than 2"
  12. welcome andrew, heres a few of mine from the past 2 months do you want pollards and thins too??? oak with huge old basal wound, deadwood, thin and reduce to shape, minimal taken off to reduce stress then another oak, reduce and thin, thin as much as possible to increase sunlight to the garden late evening then a birch, reduce bu 2m height and thin then an elm, reduce as necessary
  13. haha, you got a hilux right? i had to open mine with a screw driver too:001_smile: jam it in near the left rear lights, lever the tail gate to the right and yank it down:001_tt2:
  14. a rope a prussik and a caribina
  15. good job mate! winch on the arm looks really handy, almost as handy as a grab:001_tongue: selling bags of chip too??
  16. transit crew cab tipper on eBay (end time 18-Jul-10 21:08:50 BST) Transit tipper on eBay (end time 21-Jul-10 12:00:18 BST) Ford Transit 190DI Crewcab Tipper S Reg on eBay (end time 15-Aug-10 11:45:00 BST)
  17. youd get a decent smiley faced tranny for that money, cheaper parts, easier to fix, newness isnt everything!
  18. theres no way im missing it!
  19. sounds like a great weekend with a live band!
  20. oh . . . my . . . god . . . . can i cut his leg off for him? atleast id do a good job
  21. dont piss into the wind . . .
  22. wow! nice work, the facial proportions are perfect
  23. cool, i'll try them out tommorrow, cheers for that! any other tips? i havent yet experienced it crushing my hips like others and my collegues have mentioned, that may be because i like the back support on harnesses very low compared to most, below the belt line typically. yeah i did find it slips down a little, especially if i diddnt put the lanyard ring back on the caritool, or rest the lanyard in the caritool, and just had it hanging off the red ring. thats the one fault ive found so far-i cant easily tighten the harness whilst sitting in it, the treemagic í could just pull tight when hanging bigger saws off it
  24. lower side D's?? guessing the darker green loops where the bridge ties in? i havent but will definatly, its definatly a comfy harness, after nearly 3 years of my old one its going to take a bit of time to adjust to something new! liking youre tip on the caritools either side for the saws by the way:thumbup1: although 90% of the time im still using just the left one, and the right is for whoopie sling and pully when chunking down, handy little things!
  25. Tobias, the tree was in Stocksund, kaptanvägen i think the road was, dont know the insurance company but derek might Peter, the tree motions ok, its a bit of getting used too something diffrent but only been felling with it, need to move the caritools and use that string stuff which came with it. havent done any prunes in it yet which is where i think it will shine. really liking the imori rope now its bedding in. type As comming next week thank god! beaty swallox more like monsoon, 33c again today cheerd david and tommy, and mark, i thought youd like thisone, even a blind man would be able to see a bits come off:001_tongue:

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