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  1. Stephen Blair
    Bad news!!! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  2. Stephen Blair
    Looks cracking Eddie! What benefits are there with the 2 piece boom? Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  3. Stephen Blair
    put a ton bag over it, tie it off at the base the tightest you can, cut in with a hedge cutter , flip it over. And it's in the bag! Dig out with a round mouth spade like a chocolate orange segment type way. Throw it all in the bag and burn at a later date, I personally wouldn't put it near my chipper due to doing it once before , even mixing stuff in lol. Or rip them out in oners with a hiab and stick in the trailer, once filled a 10 ton cylage trailer with 2!! Burn at a later date Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  4. Stephen Blair
    I have a kibuto Rtv, much more civilised Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  5. Stephen Blair
    Unless I knew a lot more info about you and your business I can't give the best advice, £9k on a van sends alarm bells though. £9k can get you a transit high sided tipper and a chipper. If your starting out, £3k can get you a micro chipper that goes in a £1500 van. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  6. Stephen Blair
    I often climb on 2 ropes And Prusik . So double DDRT. I would definately use SRT if I worked with another climber or trained groundsman on the right trees. My work is mostly topping conifers and Sycsmores or felling them. When I do have a big old tree needing a limb removed and there's no lower limbs, double rope and Prusik is hard hard work. As far as a single line being safer on a healthy limb, I feel that's bad judgement on the climbers part and also SRT puts twice the force on a limb/crotch as double.(I'm pretty sure ) Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  7. Stephen Blair
    I forgot the rope guide, that's got to be 1 of the best things in rescent years to come out!! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  8. Stephen Blair
    I wasn't being sarcastic and I'm not an idiot either! I was having a laugh, it's obviously gone over your head. Read it in a year or 2 and you'll get it. As for speeding up, just do things quicker. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  9. Stephen Blair
    If you use a top handle, stop! If you climb in Prusik, change sides or try VT, mechanical hitch . If you feed the chipper 1 sided, change to other side. You need to change what your doing and even stop altogether and rest it. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  10. Stephen Blair
    Let's not make this a men v woman thread. It's the individual not the gender. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  11. Stephen Blair
    Stay strong Rich, My brother got the all clear back in february, after they removed his brain tumour. REAL surgeons are amazing as are all medical staff and the NHS! Good luck Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  12. Stephen Blair
    Do the tree to suit you. crash out the biggest bit you can, that will keep them busy, then do a few wee easy bits, while eyeing up your next big kiboom!! Drop heavy logs onto brash, make sure the branches are like a birds nest aswell, that will slow them down. Shout down for a bigger saw and lowering rope, then when they are away, crash some more stuff down and shout ' it's ok, I don't need it now ' just as they have got it all out and saw fuelled. A true climber is like a singer in a band, everyone else knows it and they don't like it, tough! Either strap on the spikes and upy upy or get dragging. A touch of arrogance is what your needing !! :) Oh and stay safe and listen to your elders . Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  13. Stephen Blair
    Nearly choked on my pancake and can hardly type for tears!! Ha ha ha.
  14. Stephen Blair
    Any pics? You don't want to get hit, that's the main goal as you know. If you can bounce the cable off a pulley so man and machine are out the way that helps . Usually steady as you go with an escape plan. All depends on kit and ground I'd say. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  15. Stephen Blair
    Involve them in everything from carrying in the food and kit, gathering wood, cooking, tidy up and a huge game of manhunt, because that's what it always ends up as! Good luck Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  16. Stephen Blair
    Depends on how good the guys and kit are, also terrain and size of timber. The bigger the risk to man and machine, the more I charge. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  17. Stephen Blair
    Chris that looked horrible on an enduro! I hate in the woods unless on the trials bike! Always end up hurt or breaking something, or both! So I avoid if possible.
  18. Stephen Blair
    Looks good. From what I've seen of screw type splitters the force is emmense and there usually needs to be a lot more re-in forcing done at the attachment point. I know the bobcat skid steer is just a lip and a couple of pins. What's your thoughts?
  19. Stephen Blair
    Nice 1! My old u900 used to have 1 before I owned it. I've seen pictures of it, looked great. I'm sure it had a fold up back actor aswell.
  20. Stephen Blair
    Birch are here on planet earth to grow quick and rot and die even quicker to give nutrients for other life to grow from what I gather. This little Panda has been taken out its natural environment, flown 12k miles across the pond and stuck in a pen in the highlands, I don't think the people behind this are going to be worried about BS whatever it is on pruning. This threads about the Panda, let's stay on track and keep it light hearted and let the thread disappear into the archives of Arbtalk to maybe reappear if its lucky in the future
  21. Stephen Blair
    I have a feeling the OP is talking about top handle saws !
  22. Stephen Blair
    That's brilliant!
  23. Stephen Blair
    I like costa!
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  25. Stephen Blair
    Hope he's ok! And his work mates, they are going to be pretty shook up!

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