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  1. Stephen Blair
    Spent the day with Jim M and his crew in Elgin, I'm up here for a few days on holiday.
  2. Stephen Blair
    How mucho Deano:)
  3. Stephen Blair

    break in

    Stephen Blair replied to manky's topic in General chat

    Sickening!!
  4. Stephen Blair
    Mount it on the front of the tracked dumper and extend the back bed, job done mate.
  5. Stephen Blair
    I'm meeting Jim and his mate tomorrow so should get it sorted. Jojams nearer Aberdeen I think, cheers though.
  6. Stephen Blair
    Got new doors and insulated the house in April. Went from £220 a month DD with SG, joined Ovo and now £25 in the summer and should be about £55 winter .
  7. Stephen Blair
    25 miles to Oban, 59 to fort William .
  8. Stephen Blair
    Will do mate
  9. Stephen Blair
    What about Regs Stein bag for the ropes and adjusters that go in the ball with the chains running through the centre. I'm on my phone, maybe someone could put 1 of his videos up:)
  10. Stephen Blair
    As above, I have family in Elgin who are installing a log burner and can't find a supplier. I am here until tomorrow so would like to organise it for them while I'm up. Must be dry and ready to burn . Logs need barrowed in and stacked aswell. Leave your reply below, thanks Stevie
  11. Stephen Blair
    Spot on!
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  13. Stephen Blair
    Here's 1 the other way round, berries but no leaf. The same tree?
  14. Stephen Blair
    Gutsy climbing mate.
  15. Stephen Blair
    Fort William has a hire shop that do them. Not ideal but maybe closest
  16. Stephen Blair
    Here's my first, no tree colours but still nice I think.
  17. Stephen Blair
    Yikes!!!!!
  18. Stephen Blair
    Silver leafed a 120' black pine for an artist, transplanted a cherry tree and the box of ashes that were under it, sectioned loads of Bt poles, stuck plastic owls up trees , removed big swings on trees that would of taken a team of climbers to install and I bet it was a 10 year old kid! Not trees but not the usual Pulled out a car out an old sand quarry for a murder investigation, rescued the bomb squad twice in their bogged pinzenguar with my Mog
  19. Stephen Blair
    If a sling will slip, so will a chain imo. Smooth beech, gum, young sycamore for example. Nothing experience and a notch wouldn't solve, or a well positioned nug. Chockering a sling is less dodgy than hooking a chain for loosing strength, I've seen chains cut themselves like butter if the wood isn't round. They also damage easier when landing stuff on the hard. Slings aren't as cold either on your hands, you do sometimes have to work the knuckle of the loop if they are big fat oil tanker ones
  20. Stephen Blair
    I had a dead elm jammed up against 2 Sycsmores on a big banking, I climbed up under the elm up the Sycsmores , but the elm was taller than both sycamores. Long story short, the first 2 limbs I touched I jammed saws, so I had 2 , 026's tied off on major limbs and had a 46 left to under cut the head. Also what I was on was going to move and there was a walled garden underneath. Very hard to visualise what a horrible mess this was and there was no other way to do the trees. Anyhoo, vroom vroom, clench clench, serious disco leg,a big crash bang , what I was on dropped a few feet, both 26's were left dangling and I was still there and the walled garden was ok. Worked my way down and the final cut on the elm about 20 ft up the stem it just slid off and the root came up, luckily by this time I was on a sycamore. Oh there's been hundreds of scary ones lol
  21. Stephen Blair
    I picked up a cracking TW 150 on here for £4k a few years ago, great little machine with plenty of grunt, keep it sharp and off you go. I sold it to a member on here and I'm sure it still serves him well. If I had £9k for 1, I'd put £4 down and finance the rest and get an x demo at around the £12 k mark and keep the other £5 k as capital in the bank . Take the finance over 3 years, pay about £600 interest( which is tax deductible ) and have a good clean machine with warranty. The £12k is a good capital investment so saves you tax aswell. Once you gear up for chipping, it needs to chip. Price it for chipping and get a breakdown once it on the deck, it's loss loss loss until its fixed, not many jobs are happy with a big pile of brash sitting for more than a day. So you want a good machine. At that money I would go greenmech for 2 reasons. 1 their service and back up. 2 their machines are great .
  22. Stephen Blair
    Fell in a burn today, found a salmon
  23. Stephen Blair
    Sounds like your experiences are worthy of their own thread and pics. I've never seen that done.
  24. Stephen Blair
    With a back pack blower /sprayer I would think. Leaf minor has been a problem round my way for nearly 10 years, this is the first year I have seen chestnuts and green leafs in ages. They decline very very quickly once attacked. Some pictures would be good of the said critters.
  25. Stephen Blair
    Slings are good, big huge slings, well for stem work anyway.

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