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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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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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    Switchable , it just diverts exhausts fumes I believe . They are excellent!! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    I have the Pillenic battery system, saw, hedge cutter, strimmer and blower. There's about £3.5k all in. Brilliant system for light duties, a joy to use. The battery will last 2 days pruning , that's cutting 4/6" stuff non stop. The strimmer will use a battery in under an hour non stop , I just did it to see, but usually a garden isn't big for edges. I can get a week out it when getting used here and there for odd bits. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    Turtle wax! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    I would think so, but these machines are brilliant. I've had mine for 4 years now, never serviced, bounces about in a van, shoved in a shed for months at a time, fallen over a few times in gardens , bounced down stairs, lifted with hiabs into awkward spots and starts first pull every time.
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    14 hp is plenty. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    I moved a 30 footer about 4 miles. You'll know when you start digging. If the ground is good and she has been sheltered then the anchor roots shouldn't be too big. They are horrible things to handle, get the biggest machine you can to dig and lift it. The 1 I did took a 3 ton digger and a 1.5ton timber crane to manoeuvre onto the hookloader, luckily there was a 13 tonner to lift off. Prep the planting hole, get some good leaf mould if the ground is sandy, and plonk her in and look after her. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    I only buy good stuff, they would get to use that aswell! Pitty I don't have any staff, I wonder why:001_rolleyes:
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    No I wouldn't , I'm the boss, I know best!
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    I dreamed of them when trudging around in huge orange Wellies trying to climb over Sitka brash!! Nice find.
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    Need bigger spades on that county me thinks:laugh1:
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    Cracking pics!
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    Youch!!! Hands heal quick but are throb by sore like a sore thing!!!! I've cut my knee and fingers twice but never like that!! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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    On the front is much simpler and where they are meant to be on a Mog, it balances them out. Just driving into a job and you are ready to go, no faffing about getting reversed in and frustration with people who can't guide you back. And it leaves room for other implements that aren't aswell suited on the front. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

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