Stephen Blair

I bought a heated lumber support pillow for the digger this week. Never known comfort like it!

It’s not fuss, it’s discussion.

Dislike to upside down eating! Fantastic!

I’m at the opposite end, I’m good with my money and saving so I don’t want someone to have it before they need it when I can have it working for me.

Interesting stuff Huck, my 6 pony Friday night reply was miles off then ? I was told the disease was carried in the Beatles saliva . Most of the weeping Elms survived the longest in areas I’ve worked over the years. Would they be similar to a pollard as I think the weepers are grafts.

Less leafs, less food for the Beatle. Les chance of their saliva spreading the disease. It’s nature, the strong will survive, thinking human intervention will make a difference to the overall outcome is a typical human control response when we just don’t know.

How do you manage it?

Looks like a canker. What evidence do you have it is damaging the trees health?

That’s was my thinking, did it with a travellers site after the flail guy had enough ofntyres and mattress springs jamming the flail! The nappy mountain still gives me the shivers when I think about it.

My machine is a Cat 2.7 ton, the Lasco would rip the ram off if I don’t keep an eye on it

That would be easy to hang off your harness on a small tether, like a 3’ tent peg!?

When I’m lathargic it’s usually when I have money in my bank and not many jobs on. So by stopping you are not moving and creating energy. You should always go for a walk when you can’t be bothered, motion creates motion. Go and donthe thing you love, not money, not for anyone else but for you. My thing is building dams and pottering about a ditch getting the water flowing. I spent my childhood in a burn behind my house, I’d follow it to the top of the hill, a good 600-700’ climb, then over the dyke into the moor where it started. Then when I’d turn round I’d be looking over the whole town and estuary. Whenever I go and do this whether it’s walking the dogs in the woods or up the river I always come back re energised with the answers I need. But my back usually aches for days as I get a bit carried away with the dams! And sometimes in a busy life of work , relationships, parenting we forget to just go and do the simple things. I’ve never had hobbies, too boring. I like an adventure with no plan, no time to come back. Oh and leave your phone!?

That’s genius, no end pinch! Great tip!

Few wet areas there John! Nice work!

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.

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!

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!

Troops! Ha ha where you fae? ?

these pics Shows thebstumps size off better.

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.

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!

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

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

Fantastic Conor! i have a yanmar on demo today. Anyone on here got 1? input please