Mark Bolam
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Cracking shots Joe. John, what happens to the timber from the Montys?
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I wouldn’t have a problem using you as a self-employed freelancer. My mate used to ground for me a lot when I was starting out. It can be a problem depending how your sets fall. When he started a set on Monday it screwed the week up quite badly.
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What to plant IN a tree cavity....?
Mark Bolam replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Tree health care
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All about the big muscles mate. Notch jet step on for every ascent over about 6’ now. You of all people should have sussed smarter not harder by now.
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I accept the fact that some members own older saws that have more specific requirements. BUT Generally, modern machines run at 50:1. This ratio has been arrived at by German and Swedish technical experts with brains bigger than your house. There still seem to be loads of people out there banging on about 33:1 or 25:1 because that’s what Grandad used to use, and he knew best. Nothing will destroy a good saw quicker than putting the wrong mix in. You should be totally anal about getting your mix spot on, every time. The biggest whingers and slaggers off of certain models of saw on here should look at their mix first.
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Fair point, if you were mainly domestic It wouldn’t be too clever.
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Not necessarily. Say if a domestic job is £500. You can still quote £500 including VAT, so the domestic customer pays the same. Yes, you lose out to a degree, but then you’re winning in other ways.
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Needs must when the devil drives Mick!
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Another thing in your favour John is that serious contenders will see your kit and realise that their career will be enhanced by the fact that they won’t be spending too much time busting their arse handballing rings into the back of a Transit or similar tasks.
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100 hours a week, loads of stress and minimum wage it is then!
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I have sometimes been at odds with you during your excellent thread mate, but if Gates has said the global population needs a bit of chopping then I can only agree with him. He’s only saying what’s true. It does. Vaccination is another question entirely.
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I hadn’t thought of it like that mate. Cheered me up no end!
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I saw my first one a couple of weeks ago whilst down in France Mick, Cahors area. Impressive little grafter, we were well into the rouge and it was still cracking on, must have been gone 8pm.
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The 6lt is actually plenty big enough. Who cares if it’s refilling all the time? It’s only noise! My little cheapo Sip Airmate T1.5 has done me for 15 years and not missed a beat. Gets the saws clean as a whistle, and easily capable of whacking 60psi into the Transit tyres. 25 litre better, obviously.
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550 running a 15” is my go to saw for most things. I keep thinking ‘I’ll switch to a bigger saw in a minute’, but rarely do. XPG gold in the winter. I can’t comment on the 261, although I’m sure it’s a big improvement on the 260’s, which I found totally gutless.
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Tune.
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Sorry, missed the ‘surviving’ bit. Phew! I’ll get down the disco then.
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Bugger. I’ve got nearly a 100% chance of dying. I’ll get me mask....
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Well done Saul. Some nice looking pieces in there.
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You would like to think so Paul, but it’s more the giving a trial a swerve that would bother me.
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Aye, if he was any good he’d be up for a trial.
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Aye, not necessarily a bad thing. The more young stagers who get it and recover, the less people there are spreading the lurgy about I suppose.
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Quarantined mate, yes.
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John, it’s not uncommon now for people to only give that kind of reference (they are shit scared of being sued if they say someone is good and it turns out they aren’t). It sounds a bit ominous, I admit, but it’s not necessarily the lads fault.
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Whilst I would agree with a lot of that, I was just pointing out that saying infection rates aren’t rising in Europe is incorrect. I’ve just been to France and it doesn’t surprise me tbh, judging by the behaviour of people at the motorway aires. They can’t keep their bloody hands off each other! In the rural area we went to people were being much more careful.
