Mark Bolam
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I've heard that Simon Cowell and co. are coming to Jonesies show next year.
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Looks much better, but the chainbrake is a poor design. Everyone I know carries the 200 onto site with the crab clipped into the top handle, which isn't possible with this. How are you meant to use this like a guitar at a show? As Steve says, a decent field test would be good. I really want this saw to be good, if for no other reason than to give Stihl a kick up the backside to improve the MS200.
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Mint Lorry. In the first pic, Layton is saying to Dylan - "If you grow up to support Sunderland, I will chin you". Enjoy it all mate.
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NaCl mate. Vertex vent here, comfy, but side impact? Leaflets-schmeaflets! Like the saw vs. chainsaw boot vid shows, the best PPE is between your ears.
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I knew he would crack eventually.....
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Man with high stump has sharp chain! Unless I'm felling for timber, I prefer a higher gob as well. Above the buttresses, unless you need the additional hold. Good call with the single bar sweep with only one decent exit route Rob.
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Enjoyed that one Daniel. Thanks for putting it up.
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Now THAT is a stunt fell!
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Monkey, a bloke built like you could probably do the work of two groundies, but only half the work of a nippy, agile climber. That's not a dig. The money is on the ground mate.
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Certainly my next major purchase mate. Winching is good for the soul though!
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Give me a chance Dave. I thought using a winch was quite futuristic!
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I'll be ringing them back up then, mate. Thanks.
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Ian has got it. I'm faster by hand in the morning, but that doesn't last all day!
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Weird. I was with CIS a couple of years ago, but at renewal they said this type of policy was no longer available? (Any driver with permission). Let us know how you get on mate.
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So do I normally. The trick is to not to assume the last two stumps (dying trees) would have had weakened rootballs, rather than be concreted in. I was dying to flush them below ground, but a mate is doing the fencing. Tractorboy, we started at 1500 mate, when we got thrown out of the boozer for being drunk and stealing crisps.
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Happy Birthday Jen, have a good one! And post more!
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I wish. Didn't you spot the winch cable? Darren - damn, I knew I'd forgotten something!
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Not. On schedule until the last two stumps were embedded in concrete. The top notch customer (old boy who was a dead ringer for Fletcher in Porridge) supplied ice cold Stella as a finishing prize! Picked up a nice job opposite, and tip, so good, if gutty and tiring day. Unhitched chipper at 19.50. Vin rouge and chilli a go go now.
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Littletree summed it up for me. Theocus, I am totally in agreement with your barter work system. Everyone is a winner. Apart from the chancellor.....
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I've got a big chain and hardened padlock, which I can use when the chipper is on the truck, but I can't lock the chipper onto the security post with it. Darren, that is exactly what my hitch is, but had a barrel inside it that automatically locked every time. The cheapo little key snapped off in the barrel so I had to drill it out.
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Don't get one that locks all the time mate, it's a pest. Bradley doubleblock is top notch.
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No, Frankie has got it. Are they any good though? Don't need a new hitch, just a lock.
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My barrel hitch lock broke on my chipper hitch at the weekend, which may be a blessing in disguise as it was a PITA because it was locked whenever you were hitched, and had to be unlocked everytime you took the chipper off/on. Can anyone recommend a decent hitch lock that can be fitted whilst towing, and also lock the chipper to a security post? Been trawling tinternet, and some of them look like I could pull them off with my teeth!
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Todays job ended with having to handball about 1.5 tonnes of cord about 40m across a garden where the customer wanted it stacked. This would have been ideal. Well, unless I stabbed myself to death with it......
