Mark Bolam
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Everything posted by Mark Bolam
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Agreed. Chip boxes on double cabs aren’t worth it.
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I would have coped Joe.
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MEWPs are certainly preferable for certain trees. Anyone who thinks they are preferable, or safer, for every tree simply doesn’t understand the tree game.
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More back-weight for counterbalance.
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Aye, go for it. If nothing else it will be a great learning platform for moving on to a bigger machine. And you could stick a heater in the cab!
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That will be the minimum I would think mate, yes. I imagine skinny tyres will be useless, but I need to see the machine in action first. Luckily we have a dealer very locally.
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Aye, I think big reductions are the first thing that you start dreading as time takes it’s toll.
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That’s what attracts me to the Worky Quad, it’s 740mm width. It would pretty much get on any job. Got a hernia op to finance first though. I really have done this arse about face haven’t I….
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Looks a really handy little machine mate.
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Similar spec to the Cast Worky Quad I think. 350kg and 1.4m lift is a lot of hand balling! Any loader has to be better than no loader! If you hate it you can probably claw most of your cash back as they don’t seem to come up for sale that often.
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In the UK?
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Started when they were 58.
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You could have recreated Agincourt with that lot Mick!
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Removal of logs and green waste
Mark Bolam replied to AnnaTrees's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
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Aren’t we all?
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That’s because they’re useless Mick. I used to do a 25 hour shift down the pit before I walked to school every day (85 miles).
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There was loads of malice in it Eggs. Late 80’s I had a really nice side part long flick (Dr. Robert from the Blow Monkeys) which I was forever flicking when I was meant to be pushing a barrow. One day, ‘Bolam, get up here!’ Poked my head through a hatch, my head was gripped, and my flick was taken off with one blow of a hatchet. How I hated those bullying old bastards! For one second! Happy times, seriously can’t remember when I’ve been happier. You know the score Eggs, we’d be had up for assault now.
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Lend me ten pounds and I’ll buy you a drink….
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I was on for Alfred McAlpines in the early ‘90’s Spudd, and you’re spot on. I loved every minute. Still good mates with some of those lads. Your sites sound the same as ours, the piss-taking and banter is the only thing that gets us through some of the rougher jobs. High-fiving each other while dragging dead hawthorns out of a stagnant pond shouting ‘Number one job in the world!’ As the old Paddys used to say ‘The craic is worth £20k a year!’ We’re serious when it matters, but having fun is vitally important to the way we like to operate.
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Of course they would mate, but the Chinese don’t give a toss about emissions. Alec’s post is correct, but Johnsond is also spot on about our lack of appetite for change. We seem happy just to move the emissions problem sideways. We all live on the same planet. While I’m on a rant I would like to add that my 2006 diesel Transit is far more environmentally friendly than any electric veganmobile. Lithium doesn’t grow on trees. Most of the green energy thing is a short sighted crock of shit anyway, but we should at least use it to benefit our own country if we have the chance.
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I don’t allow any talking on my sites. If people want to chat they can do it at home on their own time.
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I haven’t seen it on paper yet mate, but yes, sounds like what they call bilateral inguinal hernia.
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Thanks mate. Got to be glad it’s nowt sinister I suppose.
