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  1. Stephen Blair
    Dilz you asked about top friction, I think that’s a misleading term. You have the friction where you can control it, as in where you are cutting. You just wrap the rope around something! Be it the stem or a branch. Depending on what you are doing. It’s not smooth, forget that word when lowering without a pulley or bollard. It can be smooth ish sometimes but most of the time it’s juddery! It just means the tree is taking the strain instead of the climber or groundie.
  2. Stephen Blair
    From my understanding if all other routes have been exhausted. Each party pays a few hundred quid to the council and they bring in an expert, what he says goes. Interested to hear info on this too.
  3. Stephen Blair
    Imagine it’s a pot hole on the road, do you think the council would let someone with their wheel barrow and bag of tar fill them up? It’s someone else’s work, you have been told this. I’d imagine they have prioritised their jobs and the ones you are seeing are further down the list. It’s a bit like turning up at your mates house un announced when you know there’s a party and you are not invited.
  4. Stephen Blair
    I'm sitting with my tens machine on just now. My problem is muscle spasms now, I can't get to excercise , my wife had to tie my laces this morning!
  5. Stephen Blair
    Thanks J, I don't think the digger has helped . Hunched over tense for hours then jumping out, wrestling stuff and using the saw and then back in. I believe I have bad back management!
  6. Stephen Blair
    I've had enough of being sore, this last 2 years has been tough. I don't sleep well, I ache all the time, I can't think through the day and I'm restricted in my movements. I managed to work 4 days in December! I'm jacking it in, trying to get my body sorted with some pain management at the docs next week and then hopefully get back to the gym for stretches and squats. I've suffered since I was 20 and now my back just goes into spasm for at least a week.
  7. Stephen Blair
    Wake up, make a lot of noises trying to get my socks and clothes on. Go to cafe, eat food, drink coffee, that washes down the brufen, nurofen and glucosamol. Try and work out what I'm doing that day. Go and get a heat patch for my back and hobble about most of the day!
  8. Stephen Blair
    Yes mate! It’s got the 3rd pipe for the over flow, something about oil pumps can’t seal so it must return through an extra pipe. Tom will know more about it I reckon.
  9. Stephen Blair
    I’ve got a hydraulic pump that runs off the 3 tonners hydraulics that fits on a PTO, if you get a digger, sticking the winch on the front would be great for woodland jobs! It came off this chipper.
  10. Stephen Blair
    Have the revs on tick over Mike on 540. I had the same 1 on a 120hp JD, no probs.
  11. Stephen Blair
    I spent £300 on a big rope, pulley and a friction device 13 years ago. I used the device a few times and chucked it under the bench. These days I zip line everything, took still going strong. It will cost you less than a saw to put a kit together. Add it to your kit you take to the job and put £20 onto your day, tell the boss if any of his staff damage your kit, he replaces it or it stays in the van. Give them the option.
  12. Stephen Blair
    I think around 2 years. I did 3 months hiring a mate with trailer, hired a mates tractor and chipper then got a jeep and old trailer, then transit with high sides and cut it all down and burnt it, then got a chipper.
  13. Stephen Blair
    I got to the stage where I needed a chipper to get me through all my work before I bought my first.
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    Handle! Ok good budy!
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    That’s easy sorted with putting a piece in larger than the opening, it will lift it up and then drop it down once through.
  18. Stephen Blair
    Jas P Wilson is a dealer, same day delivery for parts. I’ve only ever needed to get filters and belts. The RD tows are just as good! Lots of other makes of PTO Chippers break down, TP are not good because it’s got a PTO, that just means there’s not an engine attached. Build quality is excellent in TP. TY other Chippers need anvils moved the same way Rakers need filed. TP just have a clever design which means you don’t have too.
  19. Stephen Blair
    Instead of putting wraps around the tree, put it round then add a carabiner, so choking the rope to the stem. Once it’s cut and hanging you can take it off or leave it if you feel you need it. I rarely lower now, pretty much Zip line everything. Or Death slide as I always called it before it got renamed. Self tending, controlled zip line into yourself with 1 rope is a handy method for light stuff over sheds, greenhouses, obstacles. I can’t imagine working at the heights and forces Graeme and the Ozz guys work at!
  20. Stephen Blair
    Turning to a new edge yes, I thought you meant adjusting like other Chippers need doing after every sharpen to keep the gap right.
  21. Stephen Blair
    He's a legend world wide, not just in Oz! Great videos. I've always called it lowering, no matter what I use. I was self taught so used what I had. Always the biggest cheapest rope I could get and ask for an eye on it. I don't know knots so I always used carabiners. For attachment and friction if required. Where Graeme wraps I add a carabiner. And instead of wraps on the main stem i use a peg of another limb. Again I just did what I had to as no one showed me. I've learned something tonight! Thanks
  22. Stephen Blair
    I’ve never moved an Anvil in any TP Tom, they don’t need moved no matter how much the blade reduces in size.( I was told ) TP’s are great, well built, no drama machines!
  23. Stephen Blair
    I can’t see where the survey is John.
  24. Stephen Blair
    Sounds like you need to burn some fat and get sweating! A 6kg weight will feel like a piano after 10 minutes! I’d recommend going to a class.
  25. Stephen Blair
    Really? Keep the holding wood and cut as it goes. Don’t try it with sycamore or even with a pop in that situation, because that’s not wise in an urban environment, but if if I’m felling in an open field, or wood and it’s windy, I’m not carrying a felling lever or wedges with me, I use the wind to my advantage! You won’t fell straight into it, but use it to coax it over. Bartlett’s would of got away with it if it wasn’t for social media and a video phone! Just another story for a handful of folk to share! But these days it doesn’t work that way!

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