Mark Bolam
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Everything posted by Mark Bolam
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Yep, that’s why I stopped doing them.
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Truth. When I used to do conny ‘hedge’ reductions (with a 200), I’d always wear work clothes to price them, so I could have a clamber up and see what I was up against. I refuse to do them now. Hedges that are just beyond hedgecutter capability are a bloody nightmare. As Steve says, height isn’t the issue, width is. Price high and hope someone else gets it is the way forward.
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OCS are cracking live. I reckon Tubeway Army’s ‘Are Friends Electric?’ would make a good protest song these days.
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Exactly that Alex.
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I have the Klou grab on mine and can’t fault it. Went for the hitch and capstan as well, as demo’d in this vid. The free rotation is great for dragging brash. They are pricey, and I do need to get a bucket as well at some point. IMG_6293.MOV
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Maybe free was the wrong word, but a pittance on to the cost of a £500k investment. With the benefit of then not having a £3k leccy bill every year.
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The cost/profit thing is a non argument if it was compulsory though, it would be a level playing field. Also it wouldn’t cost much in the grand scheme of things, not anywhere near the cost of retro fitting. You’re spot on about the regs J, it’s a disgrace.
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The choice not to have free, renewable energy?
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There is no genuine reason for it not to be law.
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Why aren’t panels compulsory on new builds?
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You should consider yourself lucky Mick. I wake up for a piss at 3am every morning, but I have a piss at 2.55am.
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He can’t be arsed mowing it.
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Problems and issues this industry faces and how to deal with them.
Mark Bolam replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in General chat
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Never heard of 4. Will you be able to keep checking on them? That will be a busy nest with 4 squabs in it!
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Exactly that Dan, it’s not my original idea, saw it in Noosa in Queensland years ago. That one said ‘THESE TREES WERE POISONED TO GET A SEA VIEW. IT DIDN’T WORK’.
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For what it’s worth Nell, I totally sympathise with your situation, especially so with the age of the trees. Poisoning them was a bastards trick of the highest order.
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I agree with that to some extent RC, but there’s still no proof. Heavy circumstantial evidence, yes.
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Just spend the money on a huge banner spanning the full height and width of the trees saying ‘THESE TREES WERE POISONED’ and string it up between the dead stems.
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Worky Quad SSQ11+ with Klou grab including bollard and tow ball.
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We were good to him Dan. I bust the 3t stem into 5 bits before we left.
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Taking out some pops yesterday with a crane. I was slinging some chains for Danny Mac and nearly got a dunking trying to recover his ear defender when it pinged off after he had reached his anchor point. 2 1/2 loads of chip, all timber ‘stacked’ on site. Last pick was just over 3t. IMG_6866.MOV
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My simple fix was that it liked starting with the chain brake off, but not when it was engaged. Not very HSE friendly, but it worked. I have no idea why, clutch springs were fine. It became untunable in the end, although as Steve pointed out I’m not an expert carbist! Mark Skyland swapped the carb out for the second generation one (the saws have a red X on the recoil cover) and it’s been fine ever since. The air filters get shitty really quickly, they get a lot of compressor time. One thing we all noticed was that they don’t like E10 fuel.
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Oh we noticed, but when I saw the extent of the diagonal we decided to let you off with a caution!
