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  1. Stephen Blair
    it would of been the easy way out to chuck it edd, urban tree work has spoilt a lot of us, if the job is rubbish it doesnt matter because most jobs are probably a mornings worth, well it is for me, the hardest thing i would find is being away from home, the wife and kids for one and the comforts secondly for sure.
  2. Stephen Blair
    i am looking for a job mate, anything going. i might manage to fill the saws and move the mog but that would be about it i am afraid:sad:
  3. Stephen Blair
    or just let todd do it:sneaky2:
  4. Stephen Blair
    it is all in the individual, some folk are just useless, you can offer them money, early finishes it doesnt matter, lazy is lazy in my book. this job isnt exactly rocket science, knowing some big long lattin names may help impress someone on paper but it doesnt help you drag a nasty ass big branch up a slippy banking or give you the drive to slog on day after day in the rain. we are woodcutters plain and simple, you have to get work hardened to survive in any job, especially this one. but it is possible to have a very good knowledge of your job and carry out the physical side of it too, some can some cant.
  5. Stephen Blair
    thats a tidy wee pick up.
  6. Stephen Blair
    excellent pics, i love the little skidsteer.
  7. Stephen Blair
    nice one rob, i think that is excellent, what is the maximum weight that can work on?you could have a good laugh with that scaring old grannies and kids, lol
  8. Stephen Blair
    thats cool, so if i stick an old woodpecker on a pallet truck with big wheels with a caravan jockey and paint it orange i could save a few grand.lol. how much is that edd?
  9. Stephen Blair
    international tree surgeons, transit and a caravan. i will go and weld up the container doors now:sneaky2:
  10. Stephen Blair
    i read this backwards, i clicked new posts and read dog todger and chest hair and thought oh my god! but as i scrolled up it all became clear, buzz did you get a mesh like tan mate. nice rangers by the way me likey:001_smile:
  11. Stephen Blair
    thats impressive for such a small machine, i know what you are saying about keeping it sharp, we are keeping as much wood from everything now, i would of laughed at something like this a few years ago but it has its place i think, thanks john
  12. Stephen Blair
    its the whole cut the bit you are on scenario for me, it just doesnt seem right lol
  13. Stephen Blair
    that would be great mate
  14. Stephen Blair
    on the quad wouldnt be ideal for the tight between the gates stuff, and its another unit to transport.
  15. Stephen Blair
    thats the fella john, looks cool. what are they like with brash though?i hate it when chippers get demod with straight bits of wood, that we thing would be getting used for hedge cuttings, trimmings and conifers with me. go on give me the price and i will go and have a sit down
  16. Stephen Blair
    i think some are missing my point, i am not faulting tracked chippers, they have their place but light and extremely ground sensative they are not, so in the domestic market they are not ideal, i was thinking of a small petrol chipper, nice and light with quad tyres.
  17. Stephen Blair
    i live in a retirement ground mike, these gardens are manicured, you must admit turning them on the hard isnt exactly smooth, i feel i am going to rip the tracks off, it just seems really sore on the tracks,even when you do it super slow, and the thought of carrying 8x4 plye about is a ball ache,going in straight lines is fine and if you dont mind making a mess then you will get them into some awkward places, the vid would be great rob, but what i am dreaming of is something with 4 wheels of its own
  18. Stephen Blair
    i wanted one of those years ago but the guy wouldnt come and demo it. there was a guy in the fbt magazine that made motors that fitted onto the chipper wheels, i think he was from cornwall, this was a few years back now
  19. Stephen Blair
    no point trying to scrape it off walls from a ladder mate, the secret is keeping the pull level, the minute you put pressure on the ivy itself it just snaps, i was lucky the house was lower than the road, but you can always go up a step ladder from a distance, the further away the better, and just pull it gentley, do it with your eyes shut so the rope tells you what to do. oh this only works if it hasnt reached the gutters or slates:ohmy:
  20. Stephen Blair
    i have toyed with the idea of a tracked chipper for a while now, but the fact that it is on tracks i find a pest, they rip up lawns, dislodge slabs and are pretty crap in the mud. and turning them on hard standing is a night mare unless you dont mind recking the tracks. can you get a 4 wheel chipper that is self propelled?even a small woodpecker on the likes of a scag base unit would be awesome.
  21. Stephen Blair

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    Stephen Blair replied to gibbon's topic in General chat

    john even reversing the truck onto the chipper will be easier now, you wont ever have them off
  22. Stephen Blair
    i might have to come on the train, i have sold all my kit and the wife has claimed my window van, i am waiting for you to start sending me videos of your kit so i can feel inadequate:sad:
  23. Stephen Blair
    i had a big old bit of spalted beech, dead as a dodo, it was about 5 feet at the base running to 2.5feet about 40 foot long. sliced it and diced it, cut the rings about 5 inches and did most of it with a splitting mall, beautiful firewood and a doddle to split. when a dumpy bag fetches easy 60 quid a bag it is the most profitable way i think
  24. Stephen Blair
    since you keep boasting about your awesome strength and muscles i have a bandit 250 spare as of tomorrow, i think it weighs about 2.5 tonnes, that would be a doddle pushing round the side of mrs jones's conservatory for those little back garden on site chipping jobs:001_tongue:
  25. Stephen Blair

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    Stephen Blair replied to gibbon's topic in General chat

    worth every penny, i need to get my finger out and fix mine

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