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  1. monkeybusiness
    Think so, yeah. Not sure how many trees are left on the demo circuit though, it was looking a bit threadbare last time around! I’ll be there with my lads - a mate usually organises a bus so we can all have a drink. Not the height of professionalism but it’s a works day out on me so calls for a few scoops!
  2. monkeybusiness
    What is crowning?
  3. monkeybusiness
    560 and 562 are essentially the same saws, just a different sprocket and air filter.
  4. monkeybusiness
    We’ve had issues with some saws - a dealer plug in/software update has helped in the past.
  5. monkeybusiness
    No - never heard of it tbh!
  6. monkeybusiness
    And there we have it - 2 and a half pages of iTwat wankers!!!! X
  7. monkeybusiness
    Ok, thanks. Do you know if the grants can be used with other training providers to get all the way upto artic licence? If so, are there any trainers that you could recommend?
  8. monkeybusiness
    Do you do HGV training? If so, how much for the full-hit class 1 and 2? I’ve got a pre 96 licence (don’t know if that makes any difference or not)? I can use a Gwynedd address if it helps...
  9. monkeybusiness
    Is there any reason why these are less than half the price of the Lenovo mentioned by Dan Maynard? Budget wise I thought I’d have to spend somewhere between £500 and £1000, but this has opened my eyes a bit (unless the HP here is cheap for a reason)?
  10. monkeybusiness
    I’m going to buy a new laptop this week as mine is ancient and very very slow. It is something I know nothing about and have zero interest in researching (I find this sort of tech quite dull I’m afraid). Does anyone with more knowledge than me have any recommendations? It’s basically a work computer that needs to run office, be able to browse the internet etc etc. I’ll undoubtedly end up in Curry’s being oversold a load of tosh otherwise!... I know there will be people suggesting ‘Get an Apple you luddite’ and that isn’t something I’m totally averse to, but aren’t they £4 million (and far far more capable than I need)? I’ve got an old iPhone which is ok, but most of the people I know who have embraced the Apple way of life are forever remortgaging their houses as they have to have the latest version of whatever new flannel the Californian geeks are peddling. If anyone could enlighten me I’d be grateful!
  11. monkeybusiness
    Is that taken as worst case scenario (ie crane collapse) or working envelope Eddie? The railway is not an industry sector I’m massively familiar with tbh. Decent modern crane (unlikely to not be at the size needed for this sort of reach) on a contract lift shouldn’t throw up any problems from what I can see. Nothing is slewing towards/over the railway - get the crane set up for the maximum radius necessary for the job (inboard of the property boundary should be more than adequate for this job from the pics) and no part of the crane can ‘accidentally’ end up railway-side. Line block for those few branches that appear to hang over the boundary, and get the whole team in the pub for early doors! £4k plus the cost of the line block, no more tree, happy days boys and girls! (Or the same price for a reduction!!!)
  12. monkeybusiness
    Chop the timber out, leave brash where it falls and then run a mulcher over it.
  13. monkeybusiness
    Reduction seems an insane waste of time/money to me. Leave it alone or remove. If removing, do as much as possible from the garden side without any track involvement, and then get the rest smashed out in 45 minute windows on a Sunday. I’d be measuring up for a crane from the road though - 100 tonner would give you a decent pick at 40m and then removes the garden bottleneck.
  14. monkeybusiness
    That’s a wonderful machine! Gets rid of brash fast and keeps everyone on their toes, and quickly removes the less switched-on from the gene-pool. CE stickers can’t be too hard to get off eBay either!!!
  15. monkeybusiness
    Genuine question (as I don’t know anything about these, but am interested in this thread) - can they discharge batteries at night etc? Can they be fitted to a battery that is in use, or just one disconnected and solely on charge?
  16. monkeybusiness
    V8 or Cummins?!...
  17. monkeybusiness
    Are the Isuzu engines no longer available, even for export? Sad times!
  18. monkeybusiness
    I was getting excited hoping for a bigger 1928 (something like a 2542 sounds a good idea to me!)....
  19. monkeybusiness
    Fill the oil up - sounds just like a low oil issue if it gets everything moving in the first place. The flowfit pumps are excellent value for money but make sure you get one with a big enough oil reservoir... Also, unless you pay quite a bit extra you will lose the manual pump facility with the flowfit version.
  20. monkeybusiness
    @doobin is the man to ask, he swears by them and loves his Makita gear (I reckon if you cut him he would bleed blue!)...
  21. monkeybusiness
    What’s the green beasty in the crate Pete?
  22. monkeybusiness
    Yeah, normally fed from the hammer circuit with return-to-tank line open (where available). A lot also have a case-drain - ideally this feeds back to the hydraulic tank through its own free-flowing line but it can be tee’d into the return line in many cases.
  23. monkeybusiness
    They are pretty resilient to hard pruning though, as long as you leave decent growth points. They can look really good once ‘cleaned’ out in fairness. It can be a bitch of a job though as getting what you cut off down to the ground tends to be a massive hanger-fest...
  24. monkeybusiness
    We avoid cash for the same reasons as swinny - it’s a pain in the backside/costly to bank it. We invoice after leaving the job and are mostly paid by BACS (with the odd cheques here and there). The odd payments we receive in cash throughout the year I declare as dividends at the year end and spend as my own money as if comes in - this wouldn’t work if the amount of cash we took was high though!
  25. monkeybusiness
    My understanding is that 30mph above the speed-limit is a mandatory ban in the uk (unless there is good reason such as needing your licence for work, whereby you can end up with lots and lots of points)...

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