Mark Bolam

Why would you want one?

Aye, the plot thickens right enough Dan. I’d still move on though, but maybe have another chat about any actions in future.

It’s a fair cop Guvnor! As we all know, there are three sides to every story....

Berghaus Deluge are pretty good, just a shell so not too warm, and well priced. Zip up nice and high to get on over chainsaw boots, which is vital. I was given a pair of Paramo ones as well which are excellent but a bit warmer.

No, having piss-wet through chainsaw trousers is horrible.

As the other guys have said, I think you have had a bit of result and would be happy to leave it. Bens idea of a bottle isn’t a bad one either. There will always be some idiot down the pub telling you an oak butt is worth £5k though.

Do you mean waterproof trousers to wear over chainsaw trousers?

Haha, knocking a few trees down at the outlaws in exchange for use of the pool and wine. 2511 maybe not the ideal forestry saw.... 78C33EC8-20D4-422C-B2B0-8EBF00839F07.MP4

Here you go Dan. I make it between 24 and 25” circumference maxed out.

I’m on holiday in France at the moment Dan, but luckily for you I’ve bought my Strato Vent with me. I’ll measure the internal diameter at max adjustment tomorrow and get back to you. Obviously it will be in metric because I’m in Europe.

Bury, Lancs?

Can you get to try on the Petzl Strato Vent Dan? I’ve just swapped over from the Vertex and it’s more comfy. Don’t know how it would size up for you, I’ve got a smallish head but there seems to be plenty of adjustment.

Struck by lightning 30 years ago, this oak wasn’t in good nick. No before pics, sorry. Canopy rig out this morning then Transit aided fell. Back for beers in pool by 5.

Calling it back.

I had a call today from a local customer who says she has quite an infestation on a number of semi and mature oaks. I haven’t looked at the trees yet but she sent me this pic. What is the best course of action?

It was filmed in Australia.

The app and Tapatalk are bolloxed, just login through Google.

@Joe Newton who has used both extensively. Love my original 2511, and the newer model is supposedly even better.

Another view of yesterday’s fell that the customer sent over. E82F8BDD-1E52-4F1A-89EA-620789463E75.mov

The Big Lad Alan Lawrence is with us no more. RIP Felix.

First pic for scale, Danny Mac dropping a big lateral. And it was big. 540 bar length big. First time Dan’s had disco leg in a while. Not a particularly big butt, the 660 with 25” extended the cut, but remember we had dismantled the other co-dom stem earlier before we could fell.

Genuine question. Have you had one of your mates on a ventilator for three months? Who’d taken more precautions than most because his wife had MS? I’m not in charge of HSE on Arbtalk, I just think we can help a little bit by wearing a mask. 1% difference is better than f-all, surely?

That was just after I said ‘brave effort mate, where’s the bar, I’ll buy you a pint’.

The job today was working for a very handy bloke who can deal with any timber we get on the deck. He has a felling licence for what we were doing today. I quoted a lot of money for rigging a big ash over the chalet his daughter lives in, and a lot less for an assisted fell across his pond after specific limb (and stem) removal. He went for the assisted fell. Our remit was to get this ash down without hitting the chalet. We did that, then stayed around for what I thought would be the hard part. Getting the tree out of the pond. His son in law then rocks up with an Allis-Chalmers crawler built in 1938, so we stayed around. Pinged a 5t rigging rope (which I’d agreed in the price) pulling the main butt up the banking, but all went well. First pull on tree was on a redirect with a LR Defender. Order of pics vids may be cocked up, I’ve had a few. 059BBF57-225F-4BFE-8065-E97D6A2F8A65.MP4 2F251FD5-98A6-46B4-8BEF-53D7A81789C9.MP4 27D6F9B6-471A-4621-AA88-E6AF35B777F6.MOV