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Stephen Blair

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  1. Stephen Blair
    It used to be £45k, and 15% when I first registered. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  2. Stephen Blair
    I'm sure Jas Wilson would do 1 for you. He sells lots of roofmounts Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  3. Stephen Blair
    I didn't say you had to, I said you could. Some view going vat reg not as a saving to their business but a risk to loosing customers. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  4. Stephen Blair
    I was being ironic On phone so no wee roll eye faces. Tbh the way your chute angle is from the chipper isn't helping, this is going to create a splatter pattern of chip, a nice swan neck is what your after Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  5. Stephen Blair
    You can reduce your normal fee by the % diference on what you spend and charge on vat . So if going vat reg saves you £5k a year, divide that into your turnover, get the %, take it off your day rate then add 20% for the vat. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  6. Stephen Blair
    Much much simpler Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  7. Stephen Blair
    Ha ha, that's the fellows! Or maybe Ren and Stimpy!! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  8. Stephen Blair
    Because it's too long! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  9. Stephen Blair
    Only rig big if you have a good competent groundsman. You are not there to perform miracles, take charge of the job. If those little plants are in the only drop zone, they need to come out. Don't put yourself in a position where you are going to do damage and be held liable. Pics would help. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  10. Stephen Blair
    Listen to Joe! If your own a big fat stem, say 3-4 feet or more . Don't try and push off a big ring horizontally, slice away at about 10-15 degrees from vertical , when the cut starts to close power through or have a little wedge in a string to put in it( never needed to personally) then the slice falls away in the direction you have chosen, it also falls and lands on its edge, not tumbling down picking up momentum. Forget your spider jack, get a friction hitch on there. I've never rigged a slice in 16 years doing this job. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
  11. Stephen Blair
    You 2 remind me of the cartoon Sharky and George!! Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
  12. Stephen Blair
    I love the part with the guys cutting away what are surely 200-300' trees and you can see the other guys about 40' away doing the same thing! There must of been emmense power in the old steam winches to pull those big logs so easily. Great film, thanks for sharing Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
  13. Stephen Blair
    New guy I couldn't read your post earlier about levers, and it seems to have disappeared . If it's not coming back under power then maybe it's in the wrong circuit. If it won't come back down, then simply drive up over the pile of chip you have tipped and steer out it, that way it should come down, or just don't tip it over as much in the first place:) Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
  14. Stephen Blair
    I was told when I started climbing by the boss who had been in the industry at the time for over 50 years. You can't buy bottle! Bottle Meaning courage! I was the first climber to be given a top handle ( husky) and a fancy orange rope! It didn't take me long to work out what he meant! What an Amazing climber!! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  15. Stephen Blair
    Tell your mrs to stop spoiling your pics mate!!!ha ha:) Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  16. Stephen Blair
    Take that 1 off, put it in a shed and make up a new 1! Or cut it and put it in a big hinge so you can still blast to the side or into trailers. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  17. Stephen Blair
    Hard to see the higher sprouts, light and phone camera bad combo! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  18. Stephen Blair
    She's only gone and survived!
  19. Stephen Blair
    The ram is 2 way acting, simply pull pull or push the lever in the other direction and it will pull it down, when it goes itself pop the lever back to the middle then back the way, then it will go down on its own weight. Things can happen, going under an unpropped body is as big a no no as putting a pto on and off with the engine running imo. Friendly advice, again nice clean looking Mog! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  20. Stephen Blair
    Cut 2 feet off that spout!! Nice Mog:) Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  21. Stephen Blair
    Get a tape, measure the height and put a big sticker in the cab! That valve block is bad for catching stuff! Mine had a big roof rack so I wasn't getting out the hatch or open the sun roof. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
  22. Stephen Blair
    Or get a huge top link, and angle the winch! Yours being the short bonnet won't really work with a pole out the side, the wheels are too far forward! I've headed down the road with the grab over the trailer before wondering why all of a sudden the visibility was so much better!! Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
  23. Stephen Blair
    Put a grab pole on the side mounted by a pin in the front towing eye, makes visibility better. Reverse drive is great, weird reversing a trailer though, I could never get the hang of it lol! Mine was a wheel at the top left, yours is cracking right in the middle! Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
  24. Stephen Blair
    I Distance from spout to bed is too far, the velocity of the chip is slow, no stress makes it dribble. Often the spout height is lower than the height of the front of the box so is always aimed up the way, so causes ricochete. Get a Mog and pto chipper, a non spill unit. Loads of power and draft behind the chip, spout is high and very close to the chip box, mine is actually just inside the box and the opening to the whole box is about 12"x8", so not much room for it too bounce back even when getting full. Edit, apologies I have just read again and you haven't mentioned your set up, I have presumed it's a tipper and tow behind! Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
  25. Stephen Blair
    I was feeling sick with the head calm! I have to laugh though first 10 mins your lowering small stuff with ropes everywhere, then at the end, you knock half the tree out in a owner!! Were you needing the toilet by any chance! Big tree, nice loader. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk

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