Stephen Blair
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100% rod, its like when you take the top out of a tree, no more sway, i have learned about this job on the tools, no college and not many books. when folk ask me questions i struggle to answer them, you just get the feel for it. i think you can think too much about things, gutt feeling is what i rely on. especially in our job, because there arent too many second chances.
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nice pics guys, thats the way trees should be allowed to go.
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cheers, closing the stable door after the horse has bolted so to speak:sad:
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in the 3rd pic, too the left handside of the bay beside the marina you will see a monument'the pencil' the vikings invaded largs a few hundred yrs ago but they bit off more than they could chew and we sent them packing
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Request from customer - would you?
Stephen Blair replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
if you are a consultant, charge her loads of money for your letter, if not. no chance. i have done this before because i didnt like to say no, next minute my name is in the paper and not exactly worded in my favour. -
i thought it was the same thing mate:001_smile:
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if you are felling that john, just watch out for the crumbly bark, i was felling a dead one and i stuck the felling lever in the back and continued the cut, when i went to lift the lever it crumbled all the bark and slipped out closing the cut:scared1:i would usually of had a wedge in but it had a lean on it so i hadnt bothered. i bored in and made an opening for the lever, gave me a bit of a scare though.
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i found these on a beech tree yesterday. any thoughts guys?
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this is the only fungi i have found on ash since i started looking, and it was on standing deadwood, the snall ones were qite guey when i poked it with a stick but the larger one was hard and crumbly.
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havent a clue about fungi but i would say its on a chile pine
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i got shot of my google toolbar and that did the job. maybe coincidence who knows. but i am glad anyway:001_smile:
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its not as bad as i thought it would be mate, a tidy up with some lopers and a hedgecutter and she will be as good as new. ish!!i dont get folk doing this kind of thing, why dont they just knock the door with a bottle of wine, before you know it your mate would of had you round and job done. your mate could try and prove a point and fell and replant and have a lot of hassle with lawyers, but i dont think he will get anywhere. i would definately try and get him done for damages though. but conifers do cause a lot of arguements. had they approached him in the past?was this the final straw for the nieghbour?
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some trees behind my house.
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that would be good penfold, if you could get as many wood related guys there the better. if you get a nice day you cant go wrong, if it rains make sure you have some gazebos. you can get them from homebase for abour 30 quid. a big pot of home made soup to keep moral up.
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they have there place, i dont think they are for the novice tree climber though. it is too easy not to get into position and do some swiping. i found they gave me tennis elbow and a sore back. but that is a different can of worms mate. good luck with the assignment.
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what would you personally recomend tony. there are loads of infected trees that are in farm ground and unmanaged woods. they will never get touched. i could have them down and burnt in a few weekends of my time, do you think this would help?
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its all about karma mate:001_smile:
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you have certainly got the crane bug mate, good on you. makes life so much easier. but needs to be on the right bit of kit to get full use out of it. i would still enquire about cost though mate, they will either want fortunes or pennies:001_smile:
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hi mark, i started a thread about this last week, i got some good responses. i dont know how to send a link. if you go into my profile and look up threads i started you will find it, we have it bad up here but no one seems to bother:sad:
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Boxer Mini Skid steer Video with 50 attachments
Stephen Blair replied to bazbro's topic in Video forum
i used to have a small skidsteer, i only ever used it on a few jobs. it was terible for turning up slabs, it was over a ton though, what is yours like. i find all these toys great if it doesnt matter about damage. i had a tiny tracked chipper out last week and it still managed to break some paving in a straight line:thumbdown: -
left mate:001_smile:
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i bet you were glad of that, looked horrible. pop is nice to work with and i love the smell, but takes years to dry for burning.
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has that been a firebrigade machine at one time dean? it looks like there is some kind of nozzle tucked into the boom at the first knuckle. johny i am ignoring you:sneaky2:
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i use one of them everyday mate:ohmy:
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on the 8th day god was sick, so mrs god had a go and invented a girls saw.
