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Stephen Blair

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  1. thats excellent mate, you guys must be so chuffed. we were blessed with 2 boys without even trying to hard luckily, you guys have done well to stick together through what must of been some stressfull times. i wish you all the best for the future. i am at the stage where all my memories of doing the stuff i once did with my dad are coming good with my boys, i get my new truck on monday, really looking forward to driving about with them in it, and picking xander up from nursery in it. so chuffed for you and all you other soon to be dads, it is the best thing in the world. nice one:thumbup:
  2. are you going to do anything with the soil situation dave or just let it be?
  3. is he dodging nails and wire then, and who put the big knots in the rope??
  4. i was about a mile to the left of the ferry robert, dont know the street name. i love bute, so peaceful and quiet
  5. i was taught 8 steps for snedding spruce and the likes:001_cool:
  6. wow, thats a beauty or you are a midget lol
  7. who told you this steve??was it a little lepricorn:001_tongue:
  8. bad news mate, hope you get it back, i wonder if pick up landing ontop of a bus is covered by insurance:thumbdown:
  9. crawlers need low loaded, counties do about 12mph, you cover a big area matt, if i were you i would bo for the mog winch machine in clasifieds. 3 seats, 50mph, 2 remote control winches on it, you can put a chip box and get a chipper mounting on the back blade aswell.
  10. maybe, but if you took that limb off, lifted the other wee ones so basically crown lifting it by approx 35 feet, wouldnt that help the tree. what if i gave it a new name ' crowlopping '
  11. thump off that big left hand lower limb, that should take some weight off the old girl
  12. let someome else make a loss, they wont stay in business long.
  13. great trees mate, cheers for the pics
  14. have you been on many big fell jobs that involve breaking down the crown??if you havent then you will soon be one of those lads, i was ha ha. excitement+lack of skill=jammed saw ha ha
  15. pappies magic boots=spikes wolvereen death grip=when your spikes slip out on a dead elm pole. spahgetti arms=when the trainee come running over because there is a problem that they think is the end of the world.
  16. practice, and caring helps. most of the time you can get away with a sloppy hinge, and if you are using a blunt saw this isnt going to help. put in your gub, come forward and look at it, fix it if you have too, straighten it up. but when you are doing something big or with a lot of lean or especially winching then you need to get it right.
  17. i was 850 minutes last month and about 350 texts. its arbtalk man, it was cheaper having no mates ha ha
  18. there was a cracking thread back in january i think, i think gibbon started it. it was all about sayings and stuff we called things, my favoutite was 'dog eggs' lol by the way, lol means laugh out loud. it took me ages to work that one out ha ha
  19. me too john, i am lazy and just click on unread posts lol
  20. it is always the most useless person with a saw, going straight for the most tensioned limb possible, then they jam it, then they nearly pull the handles off it trying to get it out, then you have to go and cut them out, but they have done it in a big fork and it is the worst possible place to get a saw stuck aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  21. cheers guys, never check the lounge anymore. lol i was wondering why i was getting texts from you lot. thanks again:thumbup:
  22. the weather here is great just now, i am working in Bute this week, so a ferry trip and stunning views to be had:thumbup:

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