Stephen Blair

Superman right there! Get him dragging brash and lifting logs![emoji3]

Get as good stump grinder guy in and turn it into soil and dust.

Still a 261! My first saw was an 026, it’s been my main saw for over 20 years. Only ever had 2 bad ones I bought at the same time, just Friday afternoon saws. They both still work but nothing like they should. I’d recommend keeping away from top handles when first climbing, learn to get into position and do cuts right rather than learn to cut and hold or catch and swiping around like zoro!

Effortless, you can put 1 on your forwarder.

Hi Nick, what courses would be needed to accurately use and interpret both the above. Thanks

What is it you do Trotter?

I’ve only ever seen it on beech trees.

Interesting stuff Steve.

Deezyboy, firstly please don’t take anti depressant. I understand counciling didn’t work for Westphalian , my answer to that it, get a better councillor. Firstly reading your post, you are not depressed. Real depressed folk can’t leave the house. You have successfully ran your business for 2 years, you simply are not loving your life the way you want to live your life. I believe you will know WHO stresses you and WHAT stresses you. My first business move was to dead wood the energy vampires, firstly work related then in my personal life. Go through your phone, delete any contact that you know did not treat you like the awesome guy you are, if there is any resentment to that person, delete! Any family member, so called friend that uses you, manipulates you and doesn’t support you like mate should as you are crossing the line of a marathon, then delete, ignore and put them out your life. These people won’t go without a struggle, like putting a young puppy on a lead, it will wrestle and choke itself trying to get free, just hold the lead tight, ignore the little shit and guess what,mit will behave before it chokes out. Anything you are doing that you know you shouldn’t, stop it! Anything that’s not what you would want your parents or kids to know about, just stop it. Be it doing 31mph in a 30 mph or robbing banks, stop! You need to get the balance. If anyone owes you money, either go and get it or forget it. Being in a rage about it will eat you up, hating someone is like drinking poison and hoping the other guy dies! Do something that you are scared to do and just see if the world falls apart like you think it will. Sit down and write down some business rules and follow them. Stop talking negatively, teach yourself how to get better at what you are trying to achieve. If your partner is suffering, then tell her you are sorry and ask her what she thinks you need to do. This guy puts into 90 minutes what I’ve searched for myself in the last 10 years. Well worth a watch. Enjoy!

Forgetting he’s laws, rules etc. It comes down to the morality of the person in charge of the climber. If they care for others well being, their gut instinct will be to teach and keep everyone safe. Imo it depends what trees have been put in front of them, get new starts up the deadest scariest stuff imaginable straight away, get them really bricking themselves, then they will decide how much they want the job and if they are willing to trust their mentor on the ground encouraging them to trust their guidance. Running around connies with a top handle and a go pro for a year doing domestic garden topping just leads to arrogance and false confidence in many, so when the day comes they have to get up something scary they try and save face and then that’s where the danger starts, they can’t climb, can’t cut and put others in danger. This is all based from my little goldfish bowl in tree work and watching lots of utube videos [emoji3]

My Cats the same, I upgraded my trailer like for like and when I got home the cat fitted on by a whiskers! Last trailer had 6-8” either side.

The answer is do it the right way and it’s all good, that comes with experience and your skill set. Jim’s saw was probably blunt and he would of had a stitch from eating too many pies at lunch [emoji3]

Good to see your work again Reg, I’m 43 next month and still scrambling around trees and hitting wedges. The battery saws are great, I really need to upgrade mine.

I got a VAT review when I first registered in 2002 I think it was a Si was claiming about £8k back on assets, a nice lady turned up, looked through all my receipts and found a further £1100 I hadn’t noticed, no drama job done.

I don’t know what the business answer is but what I’ve always did when my business was growing was explain to my annual hedge cutting customers( as they were only really my regulars ) that I’ll get to them when I can at the old prices, if they want to book me in it would be so much more as I then had bigger kit and staff. The good ones were always happy to wait and wished me well, the bad ones would be stroppy and I’d make them wait longer until they would finally just use someone else. If I’d had a good week and bills were paid then we would catch the little jobs on a Friday afternoon or Saturday and just blitz our way through the list mob handed, job and finish.

They all have their own job, take a look at the tree then decide what’s best, If I take any saw I’ll usually have a silky in a saw pod too. I’ve got the pillenic back pack saw too, the automatic chain break and not having a running saw is great.

What I found is my transit with tow behind many years ago, couldn’t reverse up steep driveways and was underpowered for the drive home as a lot of the towns I worked in were on the coast. Also my chip sites were limited to clean hard standing. A lorry was too big, even a 7.5tonner and I was still stuck with where to put chip. A Mog was compact and narrow, in the cases of poor driveway access many a time there would be a field, park or no mans land behind the house so I could drive in that way. I think it’s perfect for the owner operator, within a big company their benefits as a Swiss Army knife are not as high because you can swamp a job with labour if you need to.

There’s not anymore mogs for sale then there usually is if you are looking at Ebay, Vos and Ac Price. If there is somewhere all these other mogs are for sale then share away.

Just have to suck it up and crack on!

My 2013 models were terrible. When I collected them they felt lighter, had nothing but bother with them. I would just use either top handle or 461 as I lost faith in them. I persevered and got them fixed until finally buying a new 1 in 2017, it’s like an original 26, feels better and runs great.

Nice 1, I love a bit of A team ingenuity, and the tougher the better[emoji3]

If you are young and very fit and go as hard as you can no matter what you do then it’s an even playing field imo. Your weaknesses will come out on certain physical tasks. Except grounding, that’s not even on the same page as the other 2.

Scorchio here too!

Fair play on being a supportive dad, unfortunately I’ve binned so many young lads because their dads have bigged them up so much so I give them a start and it was usually a huge anti climax when a wee shy goofy teenager would turn up who sometimes helped his dad with logs! Get the lad to start his own thread I say, goes a long way using your own initiative!

It’s a break cut, the wood holds not you! Usually a front cut, a stepped back cut, chain break in, put saw away and then break off with both hands and throw to the ground.