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Stephen Blair

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  1. good on you mate, i bet it was a hard decision to make, but you carried it through. well done and good luck
  2. valmet is 99.9%sold mate, will know for definate on monday, buyer is just waiting for service report from valtra. fingers crossed, she is amazing on jobs like that. we did that whole job from start to finish in under an hour.
  3. marc being on a boundary with a farmers field, it had a few big limbs removed years ago that were rotten from the cut to the base, approx the bottom 10 feet. but the poor old girl had a tarmac road on one side and had been ploughed to about 4 feet on the other, the roots didnt have much of a chance either. one of its nieghbours snapped last year, they are saving their pennies for me as wee speak, should be interesting:ohmy:. if it wasnt for the rot-iron fence we could of hauled it back into the field.
  4. weather has been great here for weeks now, the fields are nice and dry. the ash is on the log pile ready for the chop tomorrow lads. even the rotten bit, i dropped it from about 20 feet for a laugh and it broke up nicely.
  5. got called to this yesterday, it happened around 2 o'clock. lovely sunny day with not a cloud in the sky. it must of been her time:ohmy:
  6. wee used to call it the ' funky chicken '. if the top roller gets jammed you need an even bigger bit to shove up the top roller, always comes down with a bang. when we would be chipping and it would happen, it was hard to describe what we needed and what the problem was through sign language, so we agreed to jump about like a chicken, worked a treat...
  7. there aint no substitute for skill marc,:001_tt1:i love knocking out big lumps, but aint done one as big and tall as that, respect!i am a fan of the big beech crown reduction in a oner. yehaaaaaaaaa:001_cool:
  8. was there enough room on the stem for your big kahoonas:ohmy:nice one:001_cool:
  9. jonesie has a special section for account holders:001_cool:
  10. 3.5m leylandi, potted, handleable. haha. absolute nightmare mate. what is the ground like, stoney, sandy,??unless you dont want to bust your gutt and make a loss then price in everything you think you will need, stick on some more and take no responsibility for their survival unless you are pricing in watering aswell. i charge the same rate for planting as i do cutting/climbing. can usually make good money on the trees aswell. but dont price too low mate.
  11. gillette, the best a man can get. body form, body form for you you cant get quicker than a quick fit fitter she cried, and then she farted when you are in love with a beautiful woman monkey say, monkey do
  12. i bet you use the weight to hold the line on the ground and throw the bit of wood.
  13. tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooofarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  14. i cut em down and get paid for it, take them away and get paid for it, split them and sell them and get paid to deliver them:001_cool:welcome mate:001_smile:
  15. nightmare john, its when it has been mashed down and in there for years and it has composted. worms and bugs. i had to ladder onto a hedge from the outside because it was so jammed up. i usually find old bow saws and b+q loppers aswell.
  16. i would love a coffee thanks
  17. mash mash mashity mash, catching the 046 on the capes and floor:scared1:using an extra gallon of fuel a day. those were the days indeed.
  18. flat file mate, get them nice and pointy.
  19. when the batsman is left handed all play is opposite.
  20. my answer would be more obvious than smart mate:001_tt1:

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