Graham

Not bad...a bit thin and could be hotter:001_tongue:

Buxtons doing them less 25% inc spare chain and pair of gloves...for what they're worth!

Don't know the list price of this saw but there should be some really good discounts about now.

Yep looks like it.

hope you get well soon.

Cheers mate.

I don't give a fig about work, I spent the day with my son in paradise [OK OK Orford ness] watched cormorants catch fish, saw gulls and other bird life dive for sprats, the seal wasn't around today unfortunately

 

And I came home with a freezer full of cod, caught by myself and the boy, stuff worrying about work!

I like that attitude. Hopefully over Xmas I'll manage a bit of grayling fishing with my son.

Workwise it's %$!t at the moment. We do mostly LA work and they are really tightening their purse strings. Domestic is non-existent. Luckily I'm laid up with severe sickness bug:001_smile:

Think I've been thru most during the last 20 odd years. Most give up the ghost at 12-18 months for me. Currently wearing Haix and they're the best yet.

Years and years ago an experimental plot of hemp was sown nr Merrist Wood College some not to be named countryside students dried drying and smoking it.....zero effect except for a very dry raspy throat lol

I like that...'experimental plot'. Wonder if it'd stand up in court

I'm ordering a bag for Xmas. Just think what I'll save on drink

OK, not wanting to labour the point, but if only a few quirky bits on Jonsered are different and the engine is the same as Husky why would reliability/longevity be any different?

Used both but prefer Stihl.....just seem torquier. As for reliability I don't think there's anything in it. They're out of the same factory and power units are the same. Probably better deals available on the Jonsered.

Just recently moved down to Homersfield nr Harleston and came across this:

 

http://www.hemcore.co.uk/logs.htm

 

has anyone tried this stuff?

The smoke could be interesting

WRs are top bikes. Sold mine 'cos the 450, for me, was a handful on technical stuff. Bought a '08 WR 250 and am faster on that.

Hope you're enjoying those green lanes.

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Velcom to zee club, meine bekloppt freund

 

 

 

 

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At last.....official confirmation of my mental state:icon14:

About 20 odd years ago I did some work for an old forester who called these burry old oaks 'rundle oak'.

He had no idea where the name came from but he had a theory that most of them were, or had been, hedgerow trees. Whether past management had influenced this type of growth I have no idea. Just a thought.

Outrageous, brilliant. You gone and got me blushing now guys.

 

 

Seriously though children, don't try this at home.

 

 

Only for the insane and disturbed

 

 

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I like it. Does this mean I'm insane and disturbed?

felling is not an option, te owner is very emotional about his tree, wouldn't even dare to mention that

Time to resurrect the old rod bracing! I'd walk away if he's not open to good advice ie fell. Does that road pass right by the tree?

Works like the hairspray I think.

Graham, what's the story of your avatar?

Just blocks up the stoma or should it be stomata? Hairspray does the same.

The avatar shows how not to climb rock steps:001_smile:. Have a passion for bikes and the pic was taken on the Wyegate long distance trial. Bike's a Yam 450 which played up terribly on that day.

Graham! are you pulling my leg:confused1:

No. I remember my old college lecturer telling us about it. Evidently before proprietary anti-transpirants they used to use it when transplanting evergreen spp..... the early days of Southern Tree Surgeons. It does work.

The original anti-transpirant....a weak mix of wallpaper paste sprayed on.

Pretty sure you're ok upto 2700kg.

New here so hi to all. Started at 15 in '75 thinning with chainsaw...not sure it was legal....then working in horticulture and doing day-release Hort and Arb City and Guilds.

Offered a full-time tree surgery job in '79. Most of the work then was felling dead elm and building huge fires. Took off to college again for two years and went self-employed in '87. Too many years to think about now but still love the job...most of the time!

Oh.....what made me do it? I thought it'd make me irresistable to the girls:001_cool:

As a first post on this site I hope I've not chosen a topic to get me off to a bad start!

After two L Rovers and six Jap trucks I know what I'm sticking to. Currently 4 years into an L200 and the only problem has been a re-write of fuel pump ecu. Effects them all so I'm told.