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Stephen Blair

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  1. Stephen Blair
    Learn the job before going freelance, simples!
  2. Stephen Blair
    An 084 with 21” bar!
  3. Stephen Blair
    You will know if you are too cheap because you will be busy as hell and skint, if you are charging to much you will be bone idle and skint
  4. Stephen Blair
    I’ve not answered a phone since I became a dad over 12 years ago. Leave a text or email thins out the herd!
  5. Stephen Blair
    Evergreen oak, Beech, Ash
  6. Stephen Blair
    Looks great John! What controls do you have for the crane?
  7. Stephen Blair
    Looks like a hedgehog
  8. Stephen Blair
    I’m not so sure, if you looked from the other side of the tree that would be a rounded shape tying in with the bottom limbs. I would imagine the first tree company, applied for the works, met the TO and got the go ahead then Mr Know it all customer got the cheaper guy and did 1 on over on the good guy! All this is sheer conjecture on my part!
  9. Stephen Blair
    Jeez that’s a monster! Lucky unlucky guy!
  10. Stephen Blair
    Very nice! Sharp!
  11. Stephen Blair
    I’ve met hundreds of people who tell me they used to do my job, their husband or boyfriend does/did my job! Yet I’m the 1 there doing the job! It’s an ego and pride thing! I’ve got a camouflage jacket but if I said to my mate I used to be a marine too he would burst out laughing!
  12. Stephen Blair
    You don’t get to say you are hanging up your spikes when you only bought them 5 months ago. What you get to say is you have failed at becoming a tree surgeon! Getting a climbing certificate doesn’t qualify you.
  13. Stephen Blair
    Rigged hundreds of dead trees, it’s all about being gentle! As far as no room to free fall! I’d rather climb slowly, get as much height as I can, use a 46 and light sabre the limbs and chunks off it. Get the saw through before the limb even moves. It’s all about the feel and your bottle on the day. If you are in experienced then avoid a crane.
  14. Stephen Blair
    4.5 years is good I think.
  15. Stephen Blair
    TBH the JB and GM are a bit like Massey Ferguson and John Deere. Both great machines !
  16. Stephen Blair
    Apart from becoming a dad twice which is more terrifying that exciting! The best feeling I ever had was waiting for my first ever Mog getting delivered on a low loader! Even now 16 years on, dozens of different machines, I still get excited waiting for the low loader to come into site! New Mog coming this week and I’m already getting butterflies!
  17. Stephen Blair
    RIP Alex and to his dad my heart goes out to you. My eldest Son is also called Alexander, he is 12 and I can’t imagine what you and your family must be going through.
  18. Stephen Blair
    Looks good! The dampener makes a big difference. I think you will gain with 2 arms for holding power but reduce where you can get the head into. Look forward to seeing your progress with it!
  19. Stephen Blair
    Maybe time for a CV revue! Your post just comes across as arrogant and immature! Humour can easily get lost in text! Try a serious well laid out CV, put some pics up of your work, your interests, and see how that goes. This is the first and only reply since you posted this in September! I’ve lost a lot of work over the years as I’ve been too confident and just put people’s backs up. Lots of boring guys like me in their 40’s desperate for hard working good staff but if like me they have had dozens of guys come and go over the years, you see signs that make you think, why bother. If you are unsure how to write a good cv, start a thread asking employers what they look for! I’d choose attitude over skill any day! Skill can be trained, attitude is much harder to manage! Good luck!
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    If you can lift the timber, the screw will stay in if you put it in enough, Mine is on a 3 ton machine but it’s probably more suited to a 3cx of 5 tonner. I need to watch on breaking up trunks. The end won’t come off if you reverse the screw. It’s on to stay on unless you want it off. There is a lot of gearing in them, just taking a screw off a pto splitter and adding an adapter plate won’t give you the same results on a hydraulic oil fed system. It’s really quick, I wouldn’t say it’s for making small logs, I use it to break them down to a size I am happy to put the hand axe through once when they are dry, I don’t sell logs.
  22. Stephen Blair
    I’m not even wearing a harness and strop!
  23. Stephen Blair
    No gob, matched cut for saving timber. No pull rope or wedges either, coz that’s cheating
  24. Stephen Blair
    I’ve had the pincer, it’s ok but very slow! You really need it mounted upside down on something heavy with its own hydraulic power pack and load and rip off with a timber crane and grab! The pecker works ok on easy to split stuff like sycamore with no knots, but it’s like writing a nice letter with a crayon, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. I now have a corkscrew, it’s brilliant! You can pick up and place easily, brilliant on rings and less waste on trunks!
  25. Stephen Blair
    2 week of the gym here, still just doing 2 , 500m on the rower than 30 mins on the cross trainer. What’s best for hamstrings, that’s where I’m jammed up! Romanian lunges and squats is what I used to do, any tips?

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