Mark Bolam
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ZX Spectrum I can let you have for £3000 mate. Love to do you an offer but can't due to pap shot you posted on this site. Hello have offered me £4500 for you kipping on Saturday morning. Dilemmas!!!
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10% and it's your's mate! Tell Barry things have moved on from the Star at Harbottle! Met him at the CLS Game Fair, and will buy a chipper from him soon. Is he still on Arbtalk?
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How do you fellas go about paying subby's / contract climbers if the weather turns bad? Forecast s***e tomorrow, lombardy takedown with 40mph gusts didn't seem great so me and contract climber agreed to cancel tonight (thanks buddy- p***ing down now!). We have postponed it no problemo, and I have already told the main man what I would have paid him to sit and talk about John Shutler's hair all (1/2) day if he had driven down and we could do nowt. Just wondered how views differ regionally.
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Looks neat and simple. Well done. If this week is anything to go by, my macho little groundie will buy one after he almost joined me up the tree a couple of times. Want to take a wrap? NO! Want to rig up the figure 8? NO! Want a Woody?....... IMO the digging in to the cambium thing isn't really an issue. If the bits you are rigging out need an LD, then the tree is probably FUBAR anyway.
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Flexibility is the key. There is no set up that is perfect for every job, but subbing in the right men and machines at the right time can sure make things run smoother. I have been guilty of 2 men/1 truck/1 chipper for every job for too long. It's time to start using my brain as well as my 30" biceps. Stevie/Ed is there a good web site for looking at these little fellas in action?
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Aye. Joking aside it was a top effort lads.
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You're lucky it was a hand-cranked drill Mick. That could have been nasty with a cordless or electric...
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You will love the Sequoia Stevie. Mine let me obtain an unbeatable time in the comp climb in the 'over 40's who have drank too much the night before' class.
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Finally bought a pair (type C) at Jonesie's show and I am well impressed. Also picked up a Fletcher Stewart catalogue which features Stretch Air non-protective climbing trousers, which appear to be IDENTICAL to the type C's. Can you see where I am heading with this? So when your £200 trousers start to look like something a tramp would wear but the ballistic inserts are still virginal, would it be possible to spend half the money and tack-stitch the inserts into the shell trousers? (for half the price). If not, why not? Let's face it, it's hardly ever the ballistic material that forces you to buy new keks, is it? Are you listening Pfanner? Don't worry about losing money. If you introduced this concept more people would buy your excellent trousers. I'll have a 10% share of increased profits. Ta.
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Panic over! Found it under the seat in my truck. It's almost as if I slept in there after drinking a gallon of cider!
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If it's anywhere Justin it would be beside where the cordon was for the comp. tree. It will probably have a faint whiff of Stowford press cider.....
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Awesome. Too much to buy initially for a small company I reckon. Does anyone hire similar in the South East? I would look to ramp up a few jobs for one on a week's hire. I think if you had one of these you would be constantly finding new things to do with it. I'd go for a heated cab version with Bruce Springsteen's greatest hits on continuous loop. That should take me nicely through to next spring....
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I think, during my fumbling preparations for the climbing comp I took my cashcard out of my pocket and put it in a pile with my phone, keys etc. Now I can't find the bloody thing anywhere. Pretty sure someone would have turned it in if found. I think there is about £1.17 available on it. HSBC card, M Bolam. Luckily I have both Mick Stockbridge and Dean's fancy new plastic business cards, so I have been buying all my stuff with these this week.....
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Another wrinkly convert here. Tana Mahuta dragged me kicking and screaming away from my Blake's. It makes climbing smoother and more natural- no more tennis elbow! Well done for avoiding the stuck in the mud attitude, Mick. You won't regret it!
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That's when the problems started.....
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Due to the wife confiscating the broadband router, I have been Arbtalkless for a couple of weeks. Normal service is now resumed. Great to catch up with a few of you at the show, which I enjoyed immensely, especially hurling up my breakfast in the middle of the show field! I will be spending slightly less time on here in the future, so will only be offering sensible, on-topic contributions....
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Are they those new red Klima Air boots there Old Snake? Any feedback?
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Paul is that the one where the brigade lads turned up with some massive self-standing ladder? Looked good for hedgecutting....but heavy!
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Sorry Ed, I've got it completely wrong (I was boozy when I talked to him!). £16/tonne roadside was offered to a hand-cutter on a nigh on impossible stand. He did it, but made sod all. Rocky was getting £1.40/tonne purely for everything he cut, measured by the on board computer. He jacked in the end because he reckoned the machine was too tempermental, but did earn well when going ok.
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I'm heading up on the Friday night and camping up there. Thanks for the offer though!
Who's your mate with the farm?
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Here's mine. My chipper operates on a slightly unusual system. It contains Dean, SWB, Frank, Mr.Ed, Buzz, CTS, MonkeyD and Mick Stockbridge all cutting away at timber inserted through the back window with a selection of my blunt old Silkys. I then start a Husky vs. Stihl argument, and the blast of hot air from within blows the chips into my Tranny. Only fuel consumption is Tescos blue stripe burgers and Scrumpy Jack. And yes, I do own the patent....
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I'll let you know when I talk to him. That Timberjack had more computing power than a NASA mission. And it was was the computer that was paying him...
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self propelled chipper (Shreks wee chipper)
Mark Bolam replied to Stephen Blair's topic in Large equipment
Rob D on here had one on a TW 150 Stevie. He'd be the man to ask. -
Good stuff Dave. But it looks like a beaver put that gob in!
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I can't seem to send videos! It says my files are too big. Like my muscles I suppose. Your ivy vid had us in stitches. Yee Hah!
