tree_beard

Google 'Suzuki m120x air filter' they're readily available . Handy thing for slopes and the Suzuki 2 stroke is superior to the Tecumseh or honda powered iterations.

I can believe the top died back 10+yrs ago and it's been getting steadily sadder looking since. Pretty sure it's turkey oak so even if it was sound it would be poor for almost everything you would use oak for. Stunning figure (if you can get it to dry without twisting and splitting) but has very poor strength and durability for oak. It's crap firewood, being mostly sapwood and water. Mobile milling we charge £100 per hour ( actual milling time, half day minimum). With 30" Norwood

You'd have to really be trying hard to destabilise a tree by pruning it. Plenty of trees lose half their crown to failure, storm damage, or boundary pruning, they don't tend to keel over as a result of not looking symmetrical.

I think we're really discussing both the explanation and interpretation of 'a couple of 3and a half tonners of wood'. And it looks like turkey oak, all sapwood and water.

Have had a digits thumb on a 2.5t machine for the last few years. Always intended to upgrade to a fixed mount rotating grab, but so far I've always had more pressing things to spend 3k on and never not managed to grab and manipulate something I've pointed a 12" toothed bucket and thumb at... Gathering and moving/loading brash not a problem, very good for big lumps and trunk manipulation, more cumbersome at handling and stacking short roundwood neatly, loading a chipper do-able with practice.

A few years ago there was a fatality local to me when a robo mowers blade came apart and hit the operator in the chest. Mower which killed groundsman when blade flew off was 'deemed safe' - Cornwall Live WWW.CORNWALLLIVE.COM Nic Osborne died after a blade from a remote-controlled mower flew off and hit his chest while he worked as a groundsman at St Nectan’s Glen near Tintagel

Use the cheapest chain oil you can find and thin it with diesel until it works for your machine

I'll admit, I was several years into tree cutting before I noticed/discovered pears were thorny. I was 20' up one cutting and chucking branches at the time

Pear trees are thorn bearing... Some more than others

Beyond me... I've only ever hamfistedly digger fed road tow chippers. But I believe it's a 'requirement' and modern up to spec machine fed chippers either have feed controls by the crane controls or as a remote control unit for in the cab of what you're loading it with.

Make payments only in blood diamonds or cocaine, it saves a lot of hassle.

Should really have the ability to stop and reverse the chipper from the controls of whatever you're loading it with

It's ridiculous. A professional tree surgery company has damaged property during the undertaking of their work. If they are unable to repair or replace the damaged property themselves then it goes to their insurance company to sort out. No bodge repairs, no getting the property owner to commit fraud.

Replace the sheet. You break it you bought it.

Handsaw on a bungee once seemed like a good idea to me... In reality it just means when you drop your saw there's a 50/50 chance it will snag on something and then fire back at your face/arse at high speed.