Mark Bolam
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Simple physics. If you squeeze the pips from small engines they will die quicker. You’ve had good luck, and I know you look after your saws really well, which obviously helps. Same with trucks really. None of these modern 1.9’s tweaked to 240hp will see 300k miles like the 3.0l donks.
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Fair point.
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They were great saws. You’ve got lucky there. I prefer obsessive sharpening over porting, and more longevity from the saw.
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Alex, as I told you, that’s what I did with my crappy Stein floating bollard about 12 years ago.
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Just use the slightly bigger blades. It will make the machine more powerful.
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You’d have to be a real cretin, obviously, but what if the rigging point was WAY below the load? Could it exceed 11?
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That’s how I read it Mick. Joe’s brain is too complicated.
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I bet you didn’t forget your sandwiches though.
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Or how to spell ‘bollard’? You’re drunk. Go to bed.
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Forget the roses Joe?
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No. On both counts.
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Just leave it be if you’re not worried by the look of it. Rodents won’t eat the wiring in your van if they’ve got loads of little bugs and beasties to chew on. -
I ‘guested’ for a mate for Oxford City Council years ago. BIG horse chestnut 1-day crane dismantle. Roadside. Blackbird Leys for anyone familiar with the area. Track-suited goblins appear. ’Can we have some wood mate?’ TL said they could have as much as they could carry off as long as they didn’t get in the way of the job. And it needed gone by the time we left. We had a 10” Gandini chipper on that job, and were busting the light heavy into liftable bits. The goblins muttered and left. Within 20 minutes they reappeared with a fleet of supermarket trolleys and about 20 mates. I reckon they took over 3t from that job, I’ve never seen anything like it.
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No. It’s Chiswick, it would take about 15 years to get a road closure.
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There isn’t room in the garden to fit the tree in if you took it down in a day. You’d be 4’ deep in timber on the ground.
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Hand tools are fine, maybe even beneficial in this case. Picking it apart slowly and feeding a small fire will give all the critters a chance to escape. With enough time and patience you can piss a hole in a stone.
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As a total bender, I’m well within my rights not to want to bust my arse (for want of a better phrase) for some millionaire who has put themselves in a situation where they have a huge compromised tree in a garden the size of my bathroom.
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Last 2 posts are spot on.
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If you don’t ask you don’t get! Worth mentioning when discussing a quote.
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Depends on access and drop zone, but RC is right, it’s not a big job. My minimum is £150 these days.
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You’ve got a good eye mate, that’s pretty much exactly what I’d go for.
