Buzzsurgeon
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Big winch tractor and burn up, lovely!!
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Bring back street pollards. If pollarding is considered bad practice now by modern arboriculture references, why are so many pollards retained and maintained as standard trees? Surely if the severe cutting caused so much damage why don't we have to fell them all? The common sight in a lot of urban environments is 20-40 year old regenerated pollards, crown lifted and thinned (lions tails) they look ridiculous, and how long can these trees be retained in this fashion before they get to big for the space they were planted in? Think how easy it would be for the tree officer to deal with moaning residents complaining about shade, leaves and honey dew on their cars if pollarding was back.
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That didn't answer my question, what about the decrease in diameter of the sharpened blades leaving gaps between disc blades, allowing twigs and long fibres to escape?
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How do you sharpen a round blade, surely as you do it's diameter will decrease leaving a gap producing stringy horrible chip, this is my experience of a greenmech anyway????
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Try this, works best with pto skidding winch, anchor your winch line to top of tree, near the bottom of tree attach yourself in your harness and wind in the winch, you will be swinging 50' up in seconds, mint fun! I don't recommend horse play in the work place!
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looked at an old ash tree once for an old bloke and he asked "will use use black powder to log it" he was serious!
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How many traditional tree surgeons are left, that use both ends of the rope and don't bother with flip lines, loops or strops. Only use three knots prussik, bowline and timber hitch. 24mm poly prop with topping strop and climbing spikes, job done. A typical climb will involve branch rolling and climbing above anchor point and snatching the top off an old lombardy pollard, oh and the old 020 that weighed 3 ton and set on fire while using it and you had to be trained at Merrist Wood!!
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Gross train at 7000kg, if it was the landrover only grossed to 7000kg think it would look like a 4x4 bedford MK? Now that's a real tree bus, ex army you have to stand up to steer due to the lack of power steering!!
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on a vehicle like this you have to remember not to exceed the max axle load, with the tipping body unbalanced (more of it to rear of back axle than front of rear axle) this vehicle could be overloaded with half a ton in the back!!
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My 110 is 3500kg gross and with tipper body came in at 2150kg empty on the weigh bridge, so payload 1350KG with a gross train of 7000kg.
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As I said that's business and something we all have to deal with in any trade. People beat me sometimes and vise versa, but I can help my losses by making a saving on kit.
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Most people shop around these days via the internet to get the best price. there is a lot of big price variations, e.g. noted Arborcut were selling a new Predator 28 for £11750 and Beaverplant came in at over £17000 for a similar machine? I know it's good to have local dealer backup but with parts on next day delivery the saving makes economic sense! So I'am not bothered who sells the machine as long as I get the best price possible. Yes if you deal in machines and operate them your running costs could be lower than a non dealer but that's business.
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common sense start small to get a feel, simple laws of physics. Bit like lowering as your confidence and experience grows you get to know what your kit and anchor points can handle. Once I had a few lifts under my belt, just easy, I would use a crane everyday if I could!!!
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Timberwolf throttle creeping back arrrgh!
Buzzsurgeon replied to Rowan the Bruce's topic in Large equipment
On a 150 if you remove the 4 screws and extract the lever mech you will see that it pivots on a rivet. Drill out the rivet and replace with a suitable bolt and nylock nut, fixed!! -
Use a roof rack, can carry saws, wheel barrow, climbing gear rakes etc
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Predator Stump Grinders - Going cheap...
Buzzsurgeon replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Large equipment
You can get one brand new from Arborcut for £11750 !! -
I was told by a pro forester not to use extra oil in your mix as it can alter the tolerances between rings and cylinder, thus reducing compression and power! I use 50/1 (Aspen Fuel these days) straight out the box and use as normal, never had a problem in 19 years, got a 1995 254xp still going strong!
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absolute doddle easiest tree work you will ever do, let the machine do the work, just enjoy cutting!! You can get fat using a crane all the time!
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Hope you were wearing chainsaw gloves when felling Ha Ha
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That yellow strap looks like a proper grill smasher!
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It's already burning as you will see by the smoke in first PIC! Driving up the road did get it going much better!
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This is one job you can do with a landrover, move bonfires !!
