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  1. 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.
  2. 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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  4. Stephen Blair
    Handle! Ok good budy!
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  6. Stephen Blair
    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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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!
  9. 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.
  10. 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
  11. 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!
  12. Stephen Blair
    I can’t see where the survey is John.
  13. 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.
  14. 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!
  15. Stephen Blair
    All of them!
  16. Stephen Blair
    Put it away and climb with a rear handled saw like a 26, quite big, quite heavy so you need to learn your cuts better and lower things that need lowered! Swatting away like Zoro only leads to damages, accidents a bad back and tennis elbow!
  17. Stephen Blair
    That tree could of went over with the help of the wind, even if it was at 90 degrees to the fell. The cutter just hasn’t a clue what he was doing!
  18. Stephen Blair
    Most I ever got up to was 12kg. We used to do 36 minutes non stop,1 minute a movement if that makes sense, then 1 minute break and 6 minutes of core! Used to be brutal, after a good cool down, food and then back to work feeling great! I really must get back into it.
  19. Stephen Blair
    I got into Kettlebells when I was 35, I stuck it for about 4 months, 3 times a week! It got me really strong and feeling great! It didn’t fatigue me for my work like lifting weights do. I’m all seized up, 42 now and lack a lot of strength! I really need to get my finger out and get training, not just for work but for life in general! I used to have an amazing instructor but I moved home and it’s not something that’s done here unfortunately and I am no use at training at home. My hamstrings are my enemy!
  20. Stephen Blair
    Steve I don’t think there was a hinge mate!
  21. Stephen Blair
    Awesome kit!
  22. Stephen Blair
    I think you couldn’t get a better investment than a County!
  23. Stephen Blair
    Didn’t even get a coffee out the van! They were the last 3 items, got bored well before that so went for a walk about the industrial estate instead!
  24. Stephen Blair
    Crawler made £16.5k Big county £19k Smaller county around £10-12k I think
  25. Stephen Blair
    All you have achieved is putting off others to use Arbtalk as a tool for employment and wasted Lozs thread tbh!

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