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Mark Bolam

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    Definitely doable in the right situation, but it won’t be often.
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    That would be funny if it probably wasn’t true Stihlmad. It will be twice as expensive as well, because SRT is twice as dangerous.
  4. Mark Bolam
    Nicely done. I see this spec quite a lot, and always wonder what drugs some people must take.
  5. Mark Bolam
    Sorry Mick, Blair Glenn has already agreed an endorsement fee with me.
  6. Mark Bolam
    Aye, it’s a shame that Reg can’t afford one of the RC bollards. Lucky you can fit a RW in the johnny pocket of your Pfanners I suppose, else he’d be fucked.
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    Credit where it’s due Forestboy, you’ve done a bloody good job on a bastard of a tree. In at the deep end! If you can get out to the tips like you obviously can, the rest of arb is just about the numbers. You will never forget that tree. I can almost forgive you insulting most of my mates on here! I hope you’ve learned a lot from it. IMO reductions like that test a climber more than pretty much anything else. I hope you’re sitting with a glass of something with your feet up tonight. You’ve earned it.
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    I think I’ll invent a toilet that I can push round the house with me so I don’t have to walk to the toilet if I need a shite.
  9. Mark Bolam
    I hear that Darrin. My 540 has got cobwebs since I got my 2511.
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    Sorry Ratman, missed that! Having only had partial success without it I built the Bailey chair on Monday, and this week Dutchie has shown vast improvement! She doesn’t like it, but I think she’s beginning to understand the good it is doing her. Yes, it’s a PITA, but it is working. Need to build a travel version next!
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    Forestboy I’m not going to enter the slanging match. I’d rather concentrate on the tree work. A few points, from the unfinished pic you put up - Is it all Silky/tiny topper work? It seems to be coming on really well. Slightly hard to tell, you need to reference pics from the same points so we can see what the difference is, but it is looking tidy. i wouldn’t quote from pics, but it looks like a day for a gun climber and a groundy to me, so your quote seems canny high, but I’m never going to knock that. You certainly aren’t devaluing the industry! Was the spec ‘reduce to previous’? Not an easy feat sometimes. My tuppence worth is if you get a chance like this again hire in a good climber like Matty, Joe or Rich and go up the tree with them. You’ll learn more in a morning than you believed possible. You certainly seem to put the effort in, I’m looking forward to the finished pics. Increase the peace!
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    Just out of interest John, does it ever fruit at all?
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    But a fat one....
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    There's a lot of people would pay £80 for an extra 0.4 of an inch mate, clearly.
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    Bugger. Chipped about £30k yesterday. If only I’d known.
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    But were you wearing chainsaw trousers?
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    The simple truth is that in most cases we don’t manage trees, we manage people. Trees are pretty happy to do their own thing. Arb as we know it didn’t happen much before the ‘70’s. I try and educate as I go, but I’m a realist as well, and my wife needs new shoes now and then.
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    I am outraged at this comment, Sir.
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    You could tow a chipper with the combo van and a tipping trailer with a 4x4. This would give you seriously good weight carrying capacity, but it’s a bit ungainly for a typical domestic driveway. You need to think what your target market is going to be. The truth is nothing is perfect.
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    This can be a tidy solution sometimes, but you’re paying for the tracks. Hodge runs this set up.
  21. Mark Bolam
    Hardly any can legally.
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    Thread over then mate. You can’t tow a chipper and a trailer.
  23. Mark Bolam
    Are you getting a chipper?
  24. Mark Bolam
    Pulitzer-Prize winning stuff for sure Dan.
  25. Mark Bolam
    Has anyone got Theresa's email so I can forward this? Brexit, done.

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