Stephen Blair
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Some days you need to go down and clear your head, other times you need to take a deep breath and keep going up. Experience makes the desicion making easier as time goes on. I’ve never had a negative outcome from getting out the tree and either felling it in a oner after speaking to whoever is in charge or coming back and seeing it in a different light with more confidence and cracking on.
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Aye my new home is better than the wet west coast. I’m got wet today in Inverness, last time I got wet at work was in August in Skye! Most of my work is Cairngorms and now Nairn. It’s so dry and sunny!
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I just cut the slices at an angle so they slide off, I’m usually too lazy to put in a wedge and put my shoulder against an edge when on the last bit and just burn through the last few mm, the steeper the cut the less it sits back. It certainly doesn’t work that way when on big stuff and my big stuff will be your small stuff.? 50-60 degrees is king if you can get away with it as any steeper means a lot more cutting and depends on how far you can reach up on your spikes . Look forward to the teeter totter wedge trick!
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Troops! Ha ha where you fae? ?
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these pics Shows thebstumps size off better.
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Nice looking bit of kit, I used my lasco cone to bust up this big stump yesterday once I found the weak points i broke it down to 12 pieces and loaded the dumper and away. About 30 mins all in, I thought we were going to be there all day.
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Takes a hardy breed of sawman to work on skylines, usually on ground a billy goat would struggle to walk on with weather to match!
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gray Git you cant go wrong with that, mate has 1 for his quad for the boys to use on big gardens and estates for shuttling timber, signs, cones etc! Mathew the yanmar has pros and cons compared to my Cat, but I’ve only sat in it for 5 hrs riddling and levelling so need to give it more time and different tasks before I could make a call
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if Customer had soil on site. I’m doing 6 ton an hour and it’s full of bricks, roots, glass etc and the soil is cracking. It would cost £40 per ton easy to buy in
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Fantastic Conor! i have a yanmar on demo today. Anyone on here got 1? input please
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It’s a world championship course! You can go on utube and watch the riders view. Not for the faint hearted or amateur. There may be a gentler way down but I don’t think so.
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Amazing work! heres mine, it won Carve Carrbridge 2017. Not my work, I just bought it.
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I remember a groundie trying to scramble up a rock face as I was chasing the hinge on a big oak I was felling and I could feel the ground lifting. I soon learned that day to rope in and leave the groundie up top. I was trying to teach him how to be more aware, think it worked! Great work as ever Reg! Needs your wits about you on those trees!
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Fantastic!
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AWPR? Inverness David. Got my guarding made too.
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Some machine Eddie! If you ever get any scrub stuck in your tracks I could help you out with my new flail ?
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Screwfix, £30 including inserts
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Deep fried with chips or sitting on top of a scallop.
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3.5 ton plant trailer for 2.6 ton digger and other duties...
Stephen Blair replied to benedmonds's topic in Large equipment
If needing a 2.6 ton max pay load then avoid a tri axle, too heavy and the middle wheel takes most of the load on uneven ground. Unless you want length for a lighter machine and loads of room for other stuff. As for knocking someone down loads, I say what goes around comes around. Find a good dealer who is fare and needs to earn a living just like us, support him and he will be there in 2 years when you want to replace it. Ifor Williams has served me well over the years. -
Digger topiary mate!
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My new flail got fitted tonight, only tried it out on a small Rhodie to make sure everything was ok. Very well made and seems up to the job.
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If you want tracked, buy a tracked barrow and a cs100. Benefits of both machines and less restrictions. Once you build up your leg muscles, you won’t bother with the tracks. On wheels is very manouverable and you don’t rip up the ground like tracks.
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Snowing here again.-12.5 degrees here last night, coldest in 10 years.
