Stephen Blair

Sad news Friar! Broonie that second picture is stunning of your new dog !! Daniel you are in its hammock I think. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

Get a hopscotch ticket and do Islay, Mull then Sky:) I look at Arran every day, cracking mountains . Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

I've been running Aspen now for over a month, the diference is night and day. I don't have a silly cough when indoors, I don't just all of a sudden stop breathing outdoors, no sore heads, no up and down moods. I used to blame my highs and lows on food, now I can just work hungry rather before I would get myself in a state as my thinking was wonky after a long time on the saw or hedge cutter. I can't prove any of this, but I feel a LOT better. Had a few issues with machines, I think the weather has been a factor, it's been very warm, 28 degrees a couple of days. I've had fuel coming back out of the caps on 2 machines. Both machines are about 4-5 years old, I got by with cling film and a plastic bag and then robbed an old machine when back at the yard, problem solved for now. 1 hedge cutter has stopped working, it's 4 years old and I'll just get the engine to Spud, might be coincidence, I do zero maintenance on these machines so not blaming Aspen yet! Price wise I haven't noticed, I do go to the petrol station less and not mixing is 1 less chore to do, grabbing a Can every few days is easy. The other machines defiantly run better, they run ' non farty ' and crisp to be technical. I'm converted!

Is it for financial gain, or just to burn for himself? All wood burns, eventually. Poplar isn't very good, lovely to cut, smells nice processing but holds a lot of water and takes a while to dry out and doesn't give off much heat. If your friend is kitted out for felling and extracting, the site is good and there a lot of easy felled and extracted timber, then go for it, stick in a pile and sell to the firewood masses or chip it. Find out the end worth and work your way back.

Were did you put the bit you pulled out? Strong round up will do it, keep hitting it when it's leaf is at it's largest.

If it's for hedge cutting, chipping it doesn't really break it down much and there a fair chance of getting stones in. Your budget is low for a chipper. Are you planning on removing the chip? Do you have a tipping pick up? Are you wanting a small chipper to take into gardens and leave a mulch?

Use the heaviest strongest chains, wire ropes, huge ropes you have, the stronger the line, the lower the line has to go. Look up the trunk for old lost limbs, fair chance she could be rotten. Don't bother with any boring in, get a huge bar and cut from the 1 side, or just do whatever you feel you should, and the next time you will do it a bit better from what you have learnt!

Ha ha, it's because there's a Mrs Bear he's grumpy!

I want an Appeal, 'Blue Steal' is an awesome name!!!!!! Well done Sean:thumbup1:

Freaky brilliant Tommy!

That was 1 big tall ugly big butt tree!! Proper job as ever:thumbup1:

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A step cut will do, just depends how far your steps are apart, and how fast you can cut through it. Best thing is leave the top handle saw on the ground and get something with some more oomph!! I match the top and bottom cut, and have no distance apart if it's a big long heavy limb like beech trees. If they are dead and I'm standing on the limb, then I don't bother with an undercut, more more of a side cut and then another side cut, it will just break off if it's dead . If it's silly big then I'll do my undercut, bore through and up, then the top cut. As ever I do some practice cuts on easy stuff to see what the trees doing.

Wow, now that's an engine! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

If it's not on the road then just sorn it and away you go.

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Now that's a loom band! I bought Xander a loom, just a long narrow thing, there were no instructions, he was hoping to do stuff like that, he did mention making a gerbil!

Just it's summer coat, winter coat you wouldn't see the band:blushing:

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You'll be after the Skyhuck 2 version though:001_cool:

Great for those big tall hedges! I wonder what size of engine is in that?

There was a cool toy when I was a kid that had about 16 wheels, it was on the adverts on Satarday mornings, it looked awesome! I begged and begged for that toy, when Christmas came, I knew by the flat floppy wrapped present it wasn't that, :thumbdown:I still soldiered on, with my eyes filling up with tears of disappointment and trying to still look excited, and when I opened the prezzies infront of my mum, who was on the edge of her seat with excitement. It was a matching denim jacket, jean combo in the darkest blue possible from Janet Fraser!! Every 11 year olds dream! That day while writing all my thank you letters before 10am quietly while the queen did her speech, struggling to actually put pen to paper due to the elbow restriction caused by the sheer thickness of said denim, it was worse than trying to play golf in a wet a donkey Jacket! I vowed I would buy my own trucks with big wheels and never wear denim again. I sit here now in my comfy Bergaus expensive action pants, posting pictures of my Mog while looking at my Range Rover Sport in the driveway!

Not as nice as mine Great work On the trees! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

I'd rather a jingle in my pocket than a pat on my back:biggrin: Getting not shouted at was the when I knew I was doing ok:laugh1:

You know it makes sense. Mines been working all week, domestic jobs that I couldn't of done without. Big hedges where the 8" chipper ate easily, connie stumps which I ripped out with the Hiab, tip sites in fields, then today it was a mobile platform and then I did that ivy infested elm in 2 cuts. This set up is certainly the best I've had. Cabs rough, that's the only thing. Apart from that she's almost Arb perfect imo