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  1. Stephen Blair
    Your hiab man needs the revs up mate!! She's a big old lump! Not a job for braces over the t shirt either I hope you budgeted for 2 jerry cans of fuel . Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    Not in the woods round my way! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    Because they are stingy! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    Some nice vest action there Simon! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    Old ones that have no names that I don't even know where I got them from are bullet proof. The fancy 1 handed 1 that cost £30 is a pain, always pumps fresh air and end gets stuck making me take tantrums! Hope that helps Ps I hate grease! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    The avant steering is great, it means you don't get wedged against walls and fences like skidsteers. Obviously this has never happened to me:) Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    That's the best thing I've ever seen!!!!! Not far from me either:) Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    Hodge they come in what's like vacuum packs of 3, on a pallet. I've built them like bricks and they take up approx 100cm x 100cm x 25cm wide .and there's less chance of spillage with the 5l plastic containers imo.
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    I didn't know that Geoff, I'm just a pick it up and use kinda guy! I'll ransack the stihl cemetery and see if I've got some matches:) Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    Eddie that hedge cutter is 4 years old, original plug and lies on its filter side all it's life. I'll get it serviced and see what happens. The 5 litre cans are great, I bought a pallet. I just lift a couple at a time and decant 1 into the combi. I have had 2 caps leak fuel . It's been 26degrees here the last 2 days , so maybe a co incidence . I feel so much better, the last 3 nights I've walked the dogs to the top of the hills behind my house and not at all lothargic . Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    Kumba had a teet removed about 6 weeks ago that had a tumour in it, she's back to full terrier mode, the rabbits enjoyed their break and are now back up for chases in the gorse bushes! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    You need to discuss payment terms at the pricing stage. Some folk run on a very strict budget, if you never said, they don't know, people can't be expected to read minds. All they may of said was, make it next week when we get paid . Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    My long hedge cutter packed in today, that's it 2 nd fill of aspen, reset the screws but no joy. It's going to get sent away for analysis. Pulled out an old pole and engine, hardly used and still with screw fuel cap, holy Molly I forgot how good stihl used to be. The hand held cutter needed the screws reset as it wasn't idling, ran great after that. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    That was a full week last week using Aspen, the only problem is I can't put a hedge cutter down, I'm like a kid with an itchy trigger finger! If it wasn't noisy I wouldn't know it was on! No head aches, no feeling done in, dry cough is gone, my sudden stopping breathing thing I'd do sometimes hasn't happened since! I'm now going to fit pipe insulation to the extension pole trimmer to keep the vibes down since I'm using it so much. Brilliant stuff, now just to get the 4 stroke stuff as the Scagg and Gloria are bad for fumes. If you haven't made the change I'd strongly recommend it:) Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    This thread has been a great reminder to me to practice what I preach! In the last 2 years I've been working 7 days a week maybe not full days but prioritising it! So today I took the day off, walked the kids to school and walked the dogs and took my wife out for breakfast! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    Thanks guys, we are selling our house, the fire is a pretty 1 my wife chose, personally I'd be burning BT poles in the living room with a quad parked in the corner but yet ho!! The installers used wd40 when they put it in to clean it up, I was a bit doubtful if I had seen them properly and it was new with no damage. Got loads of that:) Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    It's for the front grate, it's shiny cast and metal. Nothing wire like! It would need to be gentle gentle! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  19. Stephen Blair
    Leaf mould and motocrossers, that's the best kind of playing, ripping through bogy areas and spinning over roots, bliss!! Let the big old trees fall over and take up fly fishing or buy a canal boat grandpa Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    No chance, complete rip off. You would be better driving into the countryside with a picnic and save yourself the stress, extortionate prices and all the people!! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    I put water on the fire 1 night back in winter to calm it down and now it's a bit rusty. It's cast, any tips on what's best to clean it up. Thanks Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  22. Stephen Blair
    If you want a green bush beside your house, cut it in half, if not, dig it out Simples. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  23. Stephen Blair
    Your new business is your main focus by the sound of it , the customer just wants to know how much and when . You are now self employed, break the chains of set hours. My kids have all been carried around jobs in back packs, towed in little bike trailers and walked to price jobs with me. Not council contracts, but domestic stuff. Don't take on jobs that involve a lot of man power and machinery, get a micro chipper and a big van. I went from running a Mog and chipper, roofmount and big trailer with a couple of staff, to me and a micro chipper working 2 days a week. Organise yourself, focus on profit and prioritise your family and enjoy the freedom. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  24. Stephen Blair
    There's also no bad mouthing any other tree tree cutters, whether you think they are cowboys or not. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  25. Stephen Blair
    My mate has 1 on a 3cx,I wouldn't put 1 on a timber crane, there's a lot of torque in the head unit and the crane will take a beating. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

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