Stephen Blair
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thats the ones adam:001_smile:
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when i feel the need to lift something i dont.lol:001_smile: the landy isnt mine.
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what size?i got 1000 for 126quid 60x45. pretty small:001_smile:e bay
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could some whizz kid put up the scene on 'so i married an axe murderer' where the old scottish dad is slagging his son with the HUGE HEED lol:001_smile:
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you dont have to do big trees all the time, i love the fact i can have a 10inch chipper,chip box,3 seats and a winch on one vehicle. i dont need to muck about every morning and night taking on and off a chipper. no rd tax,no mot and red diesel. if i want i can stick a big ag trailer on it, and take on pretty much anything that this job throws at me. it is far easier to manouvre than a vehicle with toe behind and i dont have to screw the guts out it with a load on. we have loads of hills up here, and i got stuck on a grass verge before with the transit:scared1:they hardly depreciate. they do break down, but what doesnt. my mog is a no spill unit, the spout fits inside the box, no sweeping up of scattered chips. this job took me 50 mins from start to finish yesterday.
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mog mog mogity mog:001_tongue:
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as i said i am no mechanic:blushing:
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ostio,ostio,ostio. i tried doctors they gave me pain killers. i tried physios they told me to rest. back got worse. tried chiros. got worse. tried an ostio, he spotted my problem the minute i took my top off, bow string back. a common problem with laboures and pannel beaters. all arms and shoulders. bashing and lifting heavy weights all day long, and one side of my body was obviously stronger than the other. i do my first back exercise before i get out of bed, i have a special pillow and sleep in a different position. what does a dog do when it stands up?has a big stretch, every time. they have even proved ants stretch. even when i drag brash i alternate sides, even brushing and raking. if i have a really hefty day knocking my pan in, i will take it easier the next. oh and a hot tub helps aswell:001_tongue:
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get to an ostio dean, i have been going for years. when i was at it like a mad man i used to go twice a month, he would straighten me out and off i would go.(now i go about 4 times a year, even if my back isnt sore, a bit like a dental check should keep away the tooth ache) but when you dont do as much you have to get the balance between keeping strong and abusing your back. i hear a lot about people just too scared to stop because they think they will seize. it takes time and changing your ways. but getting yourself some kind of lifting kit certainly helps, or spreading the work between the staff, you sound like the kind of guy that will go for the big log everytime, getting stuck in is one thing but your health is another mate:001_smile: oh keep away from chiropractors, they will want to sign you up for 12 visits in one go:sneaky2:
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when i renew my prussiks, it takes me ages to get it right, i am terrible with knots.
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i am no mechanic but is it not the hieght of your airfilter. thats why mogs and big 4x4 have snorkels:001_smile: but i would steam clean it first so you dont pollute the river with all the spilt diesel and hyd oil
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have you tried an ostio yet dean?
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i bet the thorn was like a javalin mate:001_tongue:
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that is shocking, i am sure this could of been done a little more discreetly. that has got to be the saddest part of a funeral. i am very sorry to here of your loss mate
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good man, would you have gone if you hadnt asked on arbtalk.?????
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if you hadnt had a scare with the first, do you think the others would of went so well andy?another day older and wiser mate:001_smile:
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such a wise head on such young shoulders.
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very easy done andy, you wont do it again i am sure, and you can advise others aswell. glad you are ok mate
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'melanin' is what gives our hair colour, when you loose it you go grey. pointless unrelated hairdressing fact, i am sure frank can back me up on this one:001_smile:
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maybe it started here and made its way down to you dave. i live in a very tree neglected part of the world, every hc i have taken down that has died has been with leaf minor(you cant mistake the white sick looking larvae on the underside) we dont have anyone monitering our trees, i emailed someone down south years ago and got no reply. the last time the town up the road got its street trees done, they just left the dead elms and dead hc standing, until the year later they got taken down. even if my diagnosis is wrong, there is something killing our horse chestnuts within a year. i took this today, while out and about. notice how the tree is coming into bud, yet i could of picked that whole piece of bark off in a oner on the stem.
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i have seen hc trees loose their bark while still in leaf, the idea that the minor just eats the leaves, and everything is ok, is so wrong. i will go and take pics for you this weekend dave, trees that 100% healthy last year, are stone dead, with no signs of bleedin cankor. i took my first hc, down over 6 years ago suffering from leafminor, and it was 8 years ago i saw the first signs of it. they are terrible to work on, dead hc is really brittol. the bark can lift off in 8feet lenghts no bother.
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thanks for that dave
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could be dave, my brain takes in what it allows, and i pretty much fill in the gaps myself. yours/shigos sounds so much better mate.
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found this the other day, we are loosing lots to this and leaf minor up our way.you can pretty much watch it oozing out. this is on a tree where i used to gather conkers with my dad, it is where i grew up, he was the head groundsman. really sad to think i wont be taking my boys there in the near future.:sad:is there anything i could do to help this tree?
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dont want to derail your thread dave but i took a pic of bleedin cankor for you yesterday me thinks:confused1:
