Stephen Blair
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Depends on the size of the trees, for domestic garden conny bashing and cherry tree pruning, there's no need for staff, especially if you have a micro chipper!
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The thumb makes a huge diference! Great wee machine!
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Jimbo if you don't understand it, it doesn't mean it's wrong! Spruce Pirate, meant half in half with starting the bore cut above then tapering down as you go around. It worked well on the tree I did on the picture above. That was a 100' pine that had grown with loads of space, so had the huge 30' plus branches, it was an outsider in a group of 5, you can see the buttress root on the left in the picture, I tied it into the buttress low down because that's good chewy strong wood in there. i could of put a tirfor on, shoved the 7 tonner against it, used wedges but I did it this way and it worked, would it of worked with a standard hinge and back cut, I'll never know. I don't think much now when I'm felling, I just sink the saw in and I take it from there, my brain just goes into auto pilot I find.
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What if you don't want to use wedges, you want to use momentum rather than faff about lugging them to a job, so you do half and half, get it going then slow it down by coming below so the hinge doesn't tear out due to side weight? What if you want to do the back cut, get as far out the way as possible due to its location, say on a cliff edge then pull it over and you want it to go over as slowly as possible so not to damage say a Golf Tee?
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I often fell lower than the bottom of the gob, it just holds a bit longer, so if I have a leaner and only a wedge and no better assistance and I have to take more out the hinge than I'd rather, I will go lower on the holding side. I wouldn't do it on sycamore, holly, chestnut or beech. I do on Oak, Birch and softwoods!
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Reg you should of been eating cake and drinking coffee somewhere!
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I'm well below it now, I only stay Vat for buying kit. I'm thinking on se registering tbh as fuel is down in price and my kit is all in good working order. Also the old van and Gloria was much less hassle tbh:)
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Works off the extra dig , 2 buttons on the levers.
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It's ok shitting off the crowd part of the bucket but with s fixed grab it's like a robot, if working in a wood you can't pull things or drag brash from high areas very effectively!
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Had a play with the grab today, effortless compared to the 3 tonner on bigger bits!
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You have to add the vat and work like a dog and be miserable or pick your top 5 customers, ditch the rest and find another good 5 customers and repeat, charge them more, give them a better service, they will pay and unfortunately the ones you have been doing for years because they knew your granny will have to wait, and if you feel that bad, do them for next to nothing at the end of the day or week after you have made enough.
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Unfortunately you need to accept your winning quotes percentage will go down, so you need to quote more and work harder to make the government more Tax for them.
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Something floating around stuck and now living on the sap, David will be along with it in Layman terms for you
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What an amazing looking trailer! sickening mate!
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For Eddie
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I'd go and see your local dealers and firstly theirs the cost between the big brands but secondly there is their service. My new local 1 is brilliant, don't try calling their main depot as the phone system is useless but the salesman and storeman call you from their mobiles, text at anytime and jump in their cars and hand deliver if they have too, and we are pretty rural so that's worth a lot!
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Ah ok, now I live in the highlands, most of the digger work I see is hill roads for shooting and hydro. Every machine from 2 ton to 30 has a tilty. I've even seen a micro digger with an Engcon head at a hire company!
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She was around 125'
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Good thinking, a rummage around the kit bag in the middle of no where! On big pines I've always attached my main line after a certain height, usually about the 40' mark, it's just the height I start to get concerned. The weight of the rope when you are above 80' gets a pain and falling limbs can snag etc, so I always put the bag on upside down once ive attached the main line to keep the rope out the way, now with ropeguide I slide that up as I go and that's my safety line so to speak.
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Cost!
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I doubt they would be classed as litter. If it bothers you, take them off, as for putting on the stumps I don't see the point as the tree is now gone.
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Yes 6 ton mate! It's had more hits than Justin Beiber this week
