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  1. Stephen Blair
    Another train !
  2. Stephen Blair
    The cold may of played a part in all the poor desicions made in the tree but wouldn't affect the timber . Offset anchor, wrong place for 2nd tie in and not cutting through the wood fast enough. I can just see you stretching uncomfortably lopsided with your wee top handle! Bet your top cut was Infront of the bottom too! And since you were stretching your undercut was at a downward angle, so leaving that little strip of compression wood that lead to the tear! If there's a bit of weight either match it with super fast cutting(or behind the bottom cut. You know I love you Jimbo
  3. Stephen Blair
    You should say ' boom boom ' after 1 liners like that
  4. Stephen Blair
    Normal backpack !
  5. Stephen Blair
    Looks great!
  6. Stephen Blair
    Big J is your man
  7. Stephen Blair
    Nice colour !
  8. Stephen Blair
    Not every job is a small prune! If they get 3 large beeches down over a back road, they need to know the contractor is capable of getting things done quickly. If you are a small company feeling hard done to, get yourself some finance, buy the kit, take the risk! Jobs are there for the taking:)
  9. Stephen Blair
    If they don't already have a contractor in place and a tree management plan, you have a lot of selling to do. Road department will deal with most of their problems with a JCB in the middle of the night and then insurance pays for the wall to be rebuilt.
  10. Stephen Blair
    Ha ha, I was about to say £4!
  11. Stephen Blair
    Great work!
  12. Stephen Blair
    Nice 1, it would be excellent if you could start a thread of pics over the years and tips and tricks you have picked up over the years:)
  13. Stephen Blair
    Not sure if it's a pto, I think the chipper was hydraulic. Hopefully not though.
  14. Stephen Blair
    Never tried 1! I use 1 of those yellow things with the little bungee and the ring for shortening it to hang off your side. Used them for years.
  15. Stephen Blair
    Game changer!! https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1227787573904027
  16. Stephen Blair
    I don't work in some weathers due to it being not as profitable more than its not that nice to work in.
  17. Stephen Blair
    Heavy horrible amazing pieces of kit, used mine today in anger, my new Groundie is now sitting at home sore and knackered after popping his tirfor cherry! Get a 5 ton 1 and double up all your strops, don't mess about becausenthenweakest link will not be the tirfor!
  18. Stephen Blair
    Ground is good where I live. Tractors can work in the fields all year round. No issues and if there was I'd buy a machine that could handle the ground conditions so I could work. Adapt people
  19. Stephen Blair
    Storm has brought me a lot of work.
  20. Stephen Blair
    Email him back and say it's not company policy to chuck debris back over the fence, you will stack it neatly on his side and he can do what he wants with it. Don't do his dirty work for him! Ideally walk away from the job, neighbourly disputes are a nightmare!
  21. Stephen Blair
    That takes time undoing bolts, I tip it back, get in hands in head first, and pull the drum back by the blades.
  22. Stephen Blair
    I disconnected the big red button the first day I used mine, it's the only hassle I've ever had with mine, I just earth a wire every time I want to stop it
  23. Stephen Blair
    The trick is convincing your brains everything's going to be ok, or just going as fast as you can and bricking yourself!
  24. Stephen Blair
    I was impressed even before I saw the damage and what you were climbing and rigging above! Proper job fellas!!!
  25. Stephen Blair
    there are no suitable growth points doing a British version of a pollard, as in a 20ft stump! Cut it where it suits the nieghbour, ideally in reach of a double extension ladder and leave him a set of loppers!

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