Stephen Blair
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I think what you have gained in storage capacity you will loose in time getting it out efficiently. You could always knock out the cubicles and high step and raise the entry height at the door. I did that for a farmer a few months back, not that big a job if you have the usual farm machinery around and your own hole to fill onsite.
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So you are using an old cubicle house! That's what loads are doing now since the bio boiler incentive, the low entry to the shed was fine when it was a Massey 35 with scraper but became obsolete when cows and machinery got bigger. How are you stacking? Loose, crates, vented bag on pallets? The size of bucket will be mind numbing if stacked tight by hand. What about a boxer mini loader with forks?
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Any lifter is great, my first machine was a 2 ton bomford skidsteer. I used it around the yard and on jobs, OK on concrete but stopped using it on jobs because it would sink on most ground then damaged bearing trying to turn when in mud. Tracks are the way forward. Your question about sitting idle, well tbh it won't as you will find so many uses for 1 and change all your work around to suit. They hold good money so a worthwhile investment.
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If you get a 20 tonner just relocate the trees
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Walking the dogs , mountain biking and stuff with the family
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The rolls Royce do diggers!
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Well done Eddie, what am amazing piece of kit! You are going to be a few steps ahead of the game with that. Have you got work lined up for it?
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I'm doing the same Charlieh. Timber crane is fast and light and expensive, Hiab crane is cheap, 3 -4 times as powerfull and if you are putting it on a low loader it will have other chores, where you want grunt! Basically you can't have your cake and eat it imo. If you are mainly needing a timber trailer, buy a timber trailer
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A 3050 John, always wanted 1!@
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Bought this today[ATTACH]194704[/ATTACH]
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Terrible news!! It's just so wrong !!!
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Arborist explain how it's not about the money, but the love of the tree as they wait for a bus and save up for a silky saw pod 1 day! Tree surgeons drive new Hiluxs, live in houses with names, not numbers and know what a Moca Choca Late with syrup is and hate anything less than a twenty when buying cakes in posh coffee shops!
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Send a new invoice, go and see a lawyer, tell them your story and show them proof of your invoice and leave it to them. They have 7 days to pay, if they don't then The lawyer will send a letter, if they just keep ignoring them, then you take legal action. Or if it's a few hundred quid, just forget it and move on because it's all very stressfull and life's to short!
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good effort, sycamores are snappy things to work on. My advice is flush your cuts, don't leave things that can stab you on the tree. Attach your lowering rope closer to your cut, it's ok further out for steering the limb if that's your intention, other than that there's more chance of it coming back on you and guys on the ground don't have to hold it as long for it to tip over. On sycamore I rarely put a gob in a small limb, I'll angle the bottom and top cuts in the direction I want them to go, and the undercut is minimal on them, on the small stems just a quick top cut is better, takes the branch by suprise so to speak and saves a lot of cutting and picking up of tiny wedges around the site. Good job:001_cool:
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Pleas use other thread, thanks!
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Today [ATTACH]194517[/ATTACH]
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Let's not divert this thread any further please gents, I've started a relevant thread for you to discuss traffic management. Your welcome.
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Knock yourself out guys!
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Excellent Dave, keep the pics coming!
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Nfu are more pricey but great when it comes to a claim.
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Great program My boys sat in silence watching it! A good end to a family Sunday, cuddled up on the couch with my boys either side:)
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Well done Sean, your courage is humbling!
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arbwork 's woodmizer LT40 mobile sawmilling
Stephen Blair replied to arbwork's topic in Milling Forum
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It's no diferent to what a bus driver, shop worker, delivery driver or anyone working around a lot of people had to endure on a daily basis. Of course it's not ideal or how people should act but they do. I used to get worked up about it, I've had cars appear on road closures, an 80 year old get stuck on heras fencing, threatened, driven at, had stuff thrown at me, called a murderer I can't remember half the stuff, the answer I have found is to remove yourself from that environment. I now live in a community . I broke down 3 times this week in very awkward places causing people to break suddenly and hold up their day, each time people stopped and helped me and offered me assistance and got me going. It was amazing, really puts my faith back into people. I used to just put my head down and ignore people at the latter stages of tree work in bust urban areas, then I had enough and moved!
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Connecting a choker chain to a tirfor cable hook?
Stephen Blair replied to SteveA's topic in Large equipment
Slider on the cable, so obvious and simple and cheap!!! I think I'll order a couple now and a new chain from Clarks!! You had the answer all along:thumbup:
