josharb87
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From the album: randoms
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make sure the air and fuel filter is clean, adjust carb back to stihl settings as mesterh describes, (dont screw them in tight, as youll wreck the rubber ends) if still no luck, get an air-line to clean the crap off the outside of the carb to prevent debris getting in, take the top of the carb off, you'll find a real fine wire gauze filter-that might be full of sludge-treat the insides of the carb like a surgeon would with a heart transplant! what colours the spark plug?? (white, digestive buscuit brown, or black?)
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i had a hilux, lust made two frames out of angle lengths, sitting ontop of the bed sides, drilled three holes through the frame and bed, bolted a length to the rear window frame thingy, which bolted to the sides, a brace across the top, and a cros brace at the back to stop the sides moving like a parellagram, which had a wing nut on to remove for loading ect
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where abouts in cambridge you working?? would love to see a tree spade in use again
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be realistic-dumfries to MK-around 5hours via car-not exactly something youre going to want to be doing every weekend is it?? you spoken to youre current GF about it? may well be a cracking opportunity for her, but better than seeing youre son everyday/week? be selfish, stay within half hour of him
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nah, irish yews are the ones that grow upside down:001_tongue:
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never takes more than 45min to install one brace, once you get into a routine!
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yes, and no for instance, the oak in my pics, was reduced and braced (new bracing not pictured) so that it could last another 5 years-as requested by the client, in which time its replacement will be established in my view bracing can also help limit the chance of a potentially hazadours limb ripping out-increasing the life expectancy/asthetics of the tree for, potentialy decades
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why would you prune a tree for insurance reasons?
josharb87 replied to TJ_toast's topic in General chat
to reduce the risk of subsidence/tree falling onto house/roots damaging foundations/branches hitting roof, guttering ect -
. . . breakem, an start runnin
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plastic bits you slide into the bracing where it wraps round the stem/branch, youll have a sheath which protects the bark from the bracing to cover the bracing where the plastic bits are, the rubber dildo gets inserted into the middle-easer if you do this whilst its slack/before you wrap other end round branch tension is as tight as you can get it by hand thats how i do it!
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is there that much difference between the ms341 and 260?
josharb87 replied to jonnywinks's topic in Climbers talk
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sweeeeeeeeet garth!
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homersexuals???
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think its going to be a case of tortoise vs. hare for our ride out
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can be a good idea to poison pops first then go back for grinding-unless you like suckers!
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my current lineup
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not my fault im dyslexic, you cant . . . . there you go, dyslexia kicking in again
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groundies who dont look up!
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no bad weather for us southern softies just finished work, dry roads, blue sky, warm, slightest breeze, gonna go for a blast on the bike:D
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when doing bar work i always thought 'if its illegal to serve drunk people drink, surely it should be illegal to serve fat people food???' no food=no fat, doesnt cost anyone anything, problem solved . . . maybe i should be priminister with ideas like that
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ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha good luck to him!
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i use cambium savers (sometimes called friction savers) when in large trees, the amount of friction your rope will encounter on large or gnarly anchor points will soon knacker you out! so much easier to climb quickly with less effort when using one the simple ones are basically a short strop, with two metal eyes-one big one small, put the strop round the anchor point (same position youre rope would normally go) put the end of youre rope through the small eye first then through the large eye, you can then climb much more freely. when finished decend to the ground with it still in the tree, tie a knot in the end of the rope, and pull through, the knot will travel through the large eye, but not the small eye, bringing the cambium to the ground (hopefully)
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is there that much difference between the ms341 and 260?
josharb87 replied to jonnywinks's topic in Climbers talk
260-good small bar saw, used them with 15inch bars for coppice work years back, nothing special about them really 341-brilliant saw for ground work, this is the smallest saw we have at work-mines got an 18inch bar on, the other has 20inch-a bit to big for balance tbh if it was me, needing a saw for small felling, snedding for the chipper, chogging down ect id go for the 341 and 18inch bar without a doubt -
me and my two groundies each got a £60 tip on a 1day job was to dismantle two large elms, over fences, blockpaving, sheds, fragile wall ect, other firms had told them the fencing, paving sheds ect would all need to be replaced had them both down by 2pm, cord loaded over the wall by hiab by 4, and roots ground out too (oh, only damaged a daffodil!)
