Jump to content

Log in or register to remove this advert

Stephen Blair

Veteran Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    40,706

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    70

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Stephen Blair

  1. Stephen Blair
    Ive had a shear for the 2.7t for 5 years. Anything mechanised has its place mate. It's not so much the cutting it's the lifting and handling part and you know what a mini digger can do.
  2. Stephen Blair
    Shear arrived the other day, unfortunately the relief valve on 1 side of the hammer line is sheared off so can’t get the adjustment to get the pressure up. Waiting for hydraulics guy to come out this week and get her sorted and set up. Had a play earlier just doing wee stuff, it’s just so easy! 😂
  3. Stephen Blair
    Oakleys first time in
  4. Stephen Blair
  5. Stephen Blair
    I'm not used to anything else so I've not noticed tbh. It's coming out it you need to watch 😂 visibility is great when working.
  6. Stephen Blair
  7. Stephen Blair
    Do you think it was luck he didn't hit the rope? 😂
  8. Stephen Blair
    Anytime I’m having nerves or doubt, I watch this video! It’s a back to basics big balls, big saw and a set of spikes. Get up it and get it done. There no gadgets or shortcuts! The humble legend that is Graham McMahon.
  9. Stephen Blair
    Taken the jump to a bigger machine, aiming to put a shear on it.
  10. Stephen Blair
    No it's my mates for about his Croft.
  11. Stephen Blair
    Bobcats been sat in the yard for the last month as I've been using the Avant, back earning her keep.
  12. Stephen Blair
    Best trees to start on, skinny and scary! Kick your spikes in as hard as you can, always be at the back of the tree and get your chore working. Cross your flip line or add a carabiner to choke and suck it up and learn this is the job. You’ll be scared, you’ll have to battle the WTF am I doing up here emotions but you’ll get there.
  13. Stephen Blair
    Stick some sign writing on saying grass verge cutting and snow plough specialist! Oh and put a big picture of the circus on there to. You'll be grand! 👍
  14. Stephen Blair
    Tractors come in all shapes and sizes, if they are facing into the wind the fumes tumble over the cab and sit there. Also not all tractors are large with cabs .
  15. Stephen Blair
    The first few you do you think there's nothing worse, then you get 1 that's worse! Then when you think that's bad, someone on here posts a bigger more horrible 1! Clambering through conny hedges is UK tree surgery! The stuff you find in them! The ones that have had the previous cuttings jammed and layered in to avoid taking away are ever so jolly, pushing your head through composted conny! Down your back and baws with your saw jammed below you, carry tool clipped onto a branch and an old bow saw half way through a trunk digging into your back! When you can't see your legs, your feet are agony wedged into whatever they can and you've got a pole saw full reach trying to get to the edges you really start to question your life's choices 😂 Head down, get it done and get home at the end of the day!
  16. Stephen Blair
    Got bag to finish the Beech this morning then a brutal drag up and out a low garden. No access for machinery!
  17. Stephen Blair
    No one wanted to buy it.😂 I've used it a lot this last few weeks, the new grab/shear has made it much more useful tbh.
  18. Stephen Blair
    Yesterdays takedown
  19. Stephen Blair
    Mines X demo with a few bits of wear and tear, not sure on new price.
  20. Stephen Blair
    It's solid! Well made and simple! regarding the rotator , it would make a huge difference for getting into awkward limbs, on the digger I wouldn't be without it. Unless it was on a 13 tonner where it's pure power and strength, I'm just playing in gardens with mine.
  21. Stephen Blair
    Jack shear for 3 tonner fixed, no rotator is £4900. I just laughed at that price. I stopped my enquiry there.
  22. Stephen Blair
    It’s exactly all those things that have caused me to need to use machinery for almost everything now, 25 years of chainsaw, pole saw and repetitive lifting has damaged my back and caused arthritis too. I did shear work this week that I’d of done quicker and neater when I was 20 myself, sweating and grafting and running round a big garden feeling invincible. Now I hobble to a machine, grit my teeth getting into it, blink hard at every bump I drive over and get frustrated when I have to reposition and maybe churn up a bit of lawn I then need to fix. But it’s the only way I can keep working. I’m an advocate of machinery always have been. The jake shear doesn’t need the top grippers, that’s going to reduce where it can get into, tight forks etc. The force these rams have too shear means it can have a 20’ tree by the 2’’ of steel making up the grab and it might take a lean but it’s got it.
  23. Stephen Blair
    The likely hood of tipping a 1000 kg machine with a tree or branch with a diameter of 6" is pretty slim, and if something does go wrong, the likelihood of a catastrophe is pretty slim, maybe a skinny 30' tree at max lying on something and a machine small enough for a few guys to shove back on its wheels. Go dangling over a cliff with power lines underneath like Wyle coyote and then you might have a catastrophe 😂
  24. Stephen Blair
    For grab and rotator you just need enough hydraulics or an electro valve set up. To cut and not grab just is not in my thought process. It would create more work, the cuttings the easy part, the lifting is the best thing to reduce manual handling.
  25. Stephen Blair
    Only weakness is the blade just being attached on a hinge, mines an x demo so there's a slight bend so the blades at an angle, I'm going to take it off and put a new spare blade I've got off another shear and bolt it on similar to my other 1

About

Arbtalk.co.uk is a hub for the arboriculture industry in the UK.  
If you're just starting out and you need business, equipment, tech or training support you're in the right place.  If you've done it, made it, got a van load of oily t-shirts and have decided to give something back by sharing your knowledge or wisdom,  then you're welcome too.
If you would like to contribute to making this industry more effective and safe then welcome.
Just like a living tree, it'll always be a work in progress.
Please have a look around, sign up, share and contribute the best you have.

See you inside.

The Arbtalk Team

Follow us

Articles

×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.

  I accept