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  1. Mark Bolam
    Very well deserved title, pandemic should never detract from that. Great team, fantastic football, and a manager who seems openly decent and honest. Well done LFC.
  2. Mark Bolam
    With the recent hot weather we’ve been having I’m thinking of converting my double cab Transit to a cabriolet. Any advice appreciated. Thanks.
  3. Mark Bolam
    New nickname for David Luiz is ‘The Lumberjack’.
  4. Mark Bolam
    Mine are the Pfanny ones with the big vent at the front. Not cheap, but you can’t put a price on good airflow.
  5. Mark Bolam
    Ass luck would have it I was wearing them today.
  6. Mark Bolam
    I can feel the vibes from here....
  7. Mark Bolam
    I would avoid the electric ones, the cable is a nightmare. I’d go for a battery one instead. ?
  8. Mark Bolam
    Mick’s spot on. It’s turned an initially decent sentiment into something that actually sickens me. In fact, it’s in danger of turning me into a racist.
  9. Mark Bolam
    Every cloud mate.
  10. Mark Bolam
    Re. the thread title, it can’t have totally failed, can it? Everyone posting here is still alive.
  11. Mark Bolam
    They are, but all the powerhead does is rotate a shaft?
  12. Mark Bolam
    Now that would be a dream! Does anyone know if the attachments are compatible with both? @gustharts @Honey Bros ?
  13. Mark Bolam
    Have you looked at the Stihl Kombi battery unit? Polesaw or hedgecutter, and you can add 1m carbon fibre extension shafts for both. Don’t know how costs would stack up.
  14. Mark Bolam
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  15. Mark Bolam
    2nd stem of a knackered sycamore from Wednesday. First stem came down in the wind and luckily only clipped the house. Danny Mac up top.
  16. Mark Bolam
    Yes, it would be great if you could report back afterwards. Details of kit, manpower etc. would be much appreciated. So would pics!
  17. Mark Bolam
    I took my DC Tranny on a weighbridge empty a few years back. 2850 including groundie, me, dog and tools. Leaves 650, or as Josh said a couple of m3 of chip.
  18. Mark Bolam
    Good post.
  19. Mark Bolam
    They don’t really work though do they Rich! Just get the Gladiators in Type A, you can justify it on your RA by avoiding heatstroke. I wore C’s for years before realising that if I ever cut the back of my leg I should have a serious think about my career choice. They’re nicer in thorn and jaggy conny tops, but that’s about it.
  20. Mark Bolam
    That’s because those Wark lads are shite at adding up Matty!
  21. Mark Bolam
    I make you both right Don and Joe. A decent climber would be wasted in a tree like that without a switched on and efficient ground crew who are prepared to graft hard. Looks to be a decent area to drop the stem so I’d go 2 days (for 4) including the grind. Plan would be to drop the stem late on the first day or early on the second and get the grinder to work while the butt is diced up and stacked. Hopefully the second day would be a bit of a birthday, but still leave time for a really tidy finish. A pic of someone stood at the base of the tree would really help for scale, we might all be over egging this a bit!
  22. Mark Bolam
    It’s a very good point. You need to be very specific about exactly how the timber will be left.
  23. Mark Bolam
    Maybe someone on Facebook will buy it for the wood.
  24. Mark Bolam
    Let us know how it goes mate. Apparently they have ironed out the sometimes temperamental starting issues with the new model. Still loving my first generation model.
  25. Mark Bolam
    Big trees usually are! Remember none of us have seen it yet.

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