Stephen Blair

Cracking! Name ?

It wouldn't play for me on utube

Do you look dodgey????

How much do they want to spend? Cheapest way is fell it on the lawn, a few bumps can easily be fixed with a garden fork.

£400 a week. Sounds like you are self employed when you shouldn't be.

This came up on Facebook last year, the guys who made the pic did it for a laugh.

Nice 1!

Contact the Forestery College in Inverness.

Believe it or not, things are expensive here too. If budget is that low then forget the chipper, get an old trailer, weld some big cage sides on it and tow it with a jeep or van. Spend 2-3 hrs a day handballing it in and out, jumping it down and owing farmers favours for the pleasure of tipping it at their bit. Hire a tractor off a farmer and a chipper off a hire company, get up at 5am, drive the tractor an hour to the chipper that's lying at angle on a broken pallet, spend an hour in the rain trying to get things going, drive another hour with saws at your feet to the job, have some breakdowns, then spend until 11pm at night putting everything back to where it has to be. That's what I used to do. Do that for a few months then the loan payments don't seem as bad on the right kit. That's just what you have to do BUT always have the dream of the ideal bit of kit, even if it is £100k, it's all doable. You may need to drive thousands of miles to find it, grovel to bank managers for loans, stress every day and night for years about finance payments and breakdowns. That is what you future will be and the joy of climbing will be a distant memory

Happy Birthday David! That looks like a huge project! Tom I never got round to putting a winch on the machine.

I very much doubt a couple of paragraphs of text will solve the worlds problems, the problem is huge and terrifying. My thoughts to all innocent people caught up in this hatred!

Caravan movers are brutally slow! Out of all the combinations I have had, the only thing that ticks the box is a Mog and chipper. No reversing hassles, you can have a much bigger chipper for a fraction of the cost. Loading them with logs is a bit higher but if you are fit and have a good labourer then you just get on with it. You could have a tracked chipper on a trailer, that works but again hitching, un hitching, double running logs then coming back for the chipper is a pain. You could put the chipper on the back of a truck but this uses up timber space. I mounted a tracked chipper on the rear of a 10 ton tipping Hiab lorry, that worked well but again had its drawbacks with side feeding the chipper off the pavement wasn't ideal.

I got a load made up about 15 years ago, I think most are still in a box somewhere. Gimmicks to give to the customers kids imo. I've not given out cards for years, I say ' Google me!'

Is the spike on the outside?

Wow, cool job!

The guy took on the hardest job in Tv and gave it a bash! Good on him! I can only presume everyone who criticises him will be on the BBC's shortlist to take his job.

I've been turned away with an armful of kids clothes in my family Kombi VW before, the guy was just a little jobs worth. I parked outside the gates and walked in, he had a right tantrum and confrontational. I just walked past him and put it where it should. Other times I've went in fully loaded with old couches and carpets from my house, the guys have seen a tree sticker, seen the couch and just given me a thumbs up, they got rewarded with the van booze and biscuits customers gave me that I never drank or ate! Good guys don't fly tip, idiots do! If you have a chipper then do some scouting about, always somewhere that will take them. Having a Mog makes it easier as you can get into places transits can't and people will take the chip and not trip over it. I've always rewarded these people with logs and cheap or free tree cutting within reason.

with Drone technology coming on so quickly I think that would be the perfect job for 1 with a saw

You saved someone's life today! Imagine some kids playing in that garden and that came over!

I never new hedges were not protected by a TPO! What about in a conservation area? Personally I'd call that a screen of trees but my knowledge is limited as you can see by my first line on this post!

Mikes tattoo will never go out of fashion!

I think assuming others opinions on things is a reflection of our own personal prejudices and opinions.

Firstly have a huge resentful hissy fit, get it out your system! It's got to be done! Then you will want revenge, get all that stuff rehearsed a million times in your head then realise you would never do it and just laugh it off! Accept he was never a friend and only needed you for his own gains. Now that the emotion is out the way! Get down to hard facts! Get a Lawyer, give him the details and facts and then take it all the way! Worse case scenario is you don't get paid, you might have to pay a few hundred quid for his costs and you have another life experience under your belt and you will feel better for standing up for yourself!

End load that limb on the right by a metre or so and leave it alone. The re-growth from the centre the will balance the crown out in a year or 2.

I've heard of a guy out the Black Isle way, I'll try and get a number for you.