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Stephen Blair

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  1. Stephen Blair
    I've had 3 ops on my hand, the worst bit is fasting! The getting knocked out is cool and waking back up is pretty cool too! I don't sleep well so it was great counting down from 10 and hey presto, snoozy time! Food was good in hospital and the toast and tea after is great!
  2. Stephen Blair
    That's a blunt chipper!
  3. Stephen Blair
    Very cool!
  4. Stephen Blair
    I totally agree with Nailer, you need to look the part, have a good squad and then just hit the ground running. People will see you are good, everyone feels good and things just flow. All it takes though is a bad customer, a bad employee or something else to distract you and within a couple of months you can be back to scratch and it's very hard to get back up there trust me I know! Consistency,confidence and cash flow.
  5. Stephen Blair
    You are doing well for such a young age. Keep at it. My constructive criticism is put the top handle away for a year and climb with an 026, it will stop the 1 handing, improve work positioning and teach you how to read the timber you are working with. This comes into its own when felling and knocking big lumps and limbs off. And use the chain break, the day you slip, trip or fall using the saw is the day your reflexes will kick in and save your jugular or arm.
  6. Stephen Blair
    That's exactly what I was thinking, I would love a 250 for clearance jobs, my slowest part of the job now is chipping and it means I need labour and a lot of snedding:thumbdown:
  7. Stephen Blair
    Gutting!
  8. Stephen Blair
    My Peltors would work for a month or 2 then need sent away to be fixed, I got fed up with them doing that so sat them on the shelve a few years ago and there they have stayed!
  9. Stephen Blair
    I've ripped out hundreds of dead privette hedges over the years in the 1 town. People blamed honey fungus, i always thought the hedges just got a hard time between people washing their cars, bleaching their Monoblock and spraying their lawns all just take its toll!
  10. Stephen Blair
    No way people let their dogs pee on your stuff? Better spending that £238 to get a taxi away from the city
  11. Stephen Blair
    Great pics, what ropes are you using? Green and blue? I'm needing to get some new ones.
  12. Stephen Blair
    I was full of doubt until you used your pantin to take up the slack, genius! I've never used a hook but I have pulled myself between trees for years and it's always hard work, slackening 1, tightening the other, 1 prusik too long, 1 too short or I'd just use the tail of my rope and just pull myself across and hold onto the rope while slackening my main line! I could play in those trees all day with that set up! Would you put some pics up of the hook please.
  13. Stephen Blair
    Courteous and theif do not go together! Scum , end of! Whatever they do it will be for their own benefit, nobody else's! Sorry to hear of your losses, sickening!
  14. Stephen Blair
    I put a remote control onto my pto Werner. Awesome winches if you can pick 1 up.
  15. Stephen Blair
    I had no problems with NFU when mine got stolen out the van at my house.
  16. Stephen Blair
    Those pieces were 3x bigger than I thought they were going to be! Amazing job!
  17. Stephen Blair
    I presume it's someone who does quotes! Not mrs miggins apple trees but bigger jobs.
  18. Stephen Blair
    I'm having similar troubles. I'm not exhausting myself with trying to reason with a professional complainer. I told him he has 30 days to pay invoice, simples. If he doesn't after another 7 days then If he wants to give reasons why he isn't paying he can do it in front of a judge. I'll have my evidence he will have his. These people keep things vague to trip good guys up, I've been stung 3 times in a row with 3 customers in the last 4 months. I've had enough!
  19. Stephen Blair
    Let him do the work, show you the cards, get a job simples!
  20. Stephen Blair
    Wow!!!! That's fantastic!
  21. Stephen Blair
    Awesome news!
  22. Stephen Blair
    Awesome!
  23. Stephen Blair
    Hi Spud, I've got my tip handle needing fixed if you could pm me your address please. Thanks
  24. Stephen Blair
    It's very simple, cutting below the gob height makes it more difficult for the tree to go over, we can all agree on that I feel. Now use this information to your advantage where possible in a tree felling situation!
  25. Stephen Blair
    When cutting a large tree if you do the humbolt then the gob falls out, saves you hammering it with an axe or trying to kick it out.

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