Mark Bolam
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Cheers my man. I'll look that one up. The old girl is fairly shot, but in the woodland setting will probably be allowed to bow out gracefully. Situated next to footpath, but it is a wood after all!
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Oakley half jackets are the nuts, but will set you back about £70 of the web. Don't know if you feel it's worth the extra, but with my dodgy eye history I consider any money spent on decent eye-wear well spent.
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Stayed there at school camp when I was twelve. Smacked a myxy rabbit over the head with a cricket stump, my reward was doing the washing up for the whole camp for the rest of the week! Remember it being pretty hilly? Take your DEET. Enjoy!
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Bloody dodgy kebab shops near you lot! Spongy/rubbery texture. The green tinge is dappled light coming through canopy. Nowhere near a pub!
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Did he want any 'topping' doing John? Boboom!
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Hope you were knocking them off 2 at a time Dean.....
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That's the one Stevie. From some of your previous posts I reckon your new toy could find it's way winging across a field somewhere if you ever tried!
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Just arb. And porno.
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Once left a small tear on a pruning cut. Well what do you expect? As John said, this is a public forum. No one is going to fess up to trashing the Blue Peter garden. Or are they?....
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Very fast! Reckon you could have some action in the yard splitting gnarly stuff with loads of compressive force left in it! Liked the one-handed operation as well.
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Is that 11mm Blaze Danny? Does look freakishly 'oh My God it's going to snap and I'm going to die' with 8mm cord doesn't it? It's the nuts though. One thing I found with the smaller rope was that my arms ached a bit 'cos there's not much to grip, especially in the wet using a VT (used to take a loop with the Blakes, harder when gripping above the hitch.) Have a play and let us know how you get on.
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Local woods today. Found this little fella cuddling up to a big cherry (~55', 26"DBH). Tree lost a biggish limb a couple of years ago. Can anyone ID? Thanks.
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Good one Dean. I've felled a butt onto tyres before, but never thrown chogs onto them. Do they not bounce off badly? Oops - there goes the stained glass window!
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I didn't fully understand that, Drew, but it looked pretty good. If that makes sense? Very smooth movement, and there must have been a ferocious amount of friction for that re-ascent, which he made look easy. Got to be worth a play.
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Where do you get the Stihl chain Tommer?
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Belting tree. Good pics.
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Booboom!
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The way things are this end mate I may need a different kind of revolver! Did you get the locking ones?
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Dave are you saying that me wearing SWB's favourite 'Hogmany' jumper was a bad disguise? I love posts like this. They make you think. How that bar didn't pinch? Amazing.
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Before the smart comments start. 38 games. Any team that goes down deserves it. End of. Toon Army!
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You know you've been in the arb game too long...
Mark Bolam replied to Mark Bolam's topic in General chat
When you are watching an al fresco porno and you look at the trees in the background... -
You know you've been in the arb game too long when.... You catch yourself doing pruning cuts whilst snedding timber prior to stacking in yard. Sad, sad, sad...
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VAT registered - why do they ask?
Mark Bolam replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Business Management
Why do so many domestic customers ask for an invoice for a piddly little job? Are they short of bog paper? -
It is reassuring to read about someone who understands that if a tree has to be reduced it will need regular management afterwards. Kind of funky looking in leaf isn't it? Looks like a lass down my local. Small and pretty. With a BIG butt!
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I can honestly say if I didn't wear chainsaw boots I would have less toes now. Always when logging. Always while being lazy. That looks like it stings a bit....
