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Haha- that second truck is something else !!!!! Music was bold....but did i spot a bit of Tchaikovsky 'swan lake' as that second truck started up, very nice.

unless you go to trust. NFU in cornwall are worse than useless for new customers. Trust were half the price.

Wow- i reckon they must be related to my man in Falmouth yesterday!!!lol

Sweet graham. Glad to hear you have it sorted. After my recent fuel and head related engine probs, i was stumped as to why it was fuelling so much (black smoke from diesel is unburnt fuel, blue is fuel starvation or burning oil -you can tell from the smell- and white fluffy is water in the combustion, white and not fluffly or evaporating is oil burning) yet not starting.

Sorry to say that it will have cost you some from your moby deano. Good effort though mate.

Yeah- i could see him looking at it longingly and i felt sorry for the lad so i let him have a turn...

Absoloutely p issing myself Liam:laugh1::laugh1:

Miker is that a 166 in your avatar? (sorry for the derail john)

Oops! Bad luck mate. PITA. New steering box then......Thats why i would NEVER have a landrover. oh hold on a mo.........I HAVE got a landy.....

Fair point.....i will now have to have another look over assessment criteria..

Thick black smoke is almost guranteedto be unburnt diesel, which would suggest too much diesel, whhich would lesd me to suspect that you may have govenor problems in the injector pump, but usually if the govenor is stuck open then you would just get an engine revving flat out. My knowledge of injector pumps is limited though, and it could be that if the shut off govenor goes that it goes with a large puff of unburnt fuel, so i could be off the mark. Fuel starvation in a diesel produces missing and blue smoke. Can you get it running at all, and if so does te smoke smell of diesel?

Day off!!!!!!! I shal be having words with youngMr Matthews.....cant have people slacking off here can we now!!! LOL

Good man, thats the attitude Stevie.....never turn down work however out of your depth you may be....:laugh1:

LMFAO:thumbup:

I dont think that that is an entirely fair point Blakes7, and although i am not for one minute going to fight anyone elses corner, i strongly agree with Skyhuck. There is no way that i could find that sort of money for a scheme with little or no tangible advantage to my business given my customer base, and would hazard that this is the case for many others for a myriad of reasons.

Thats some stick....no god for me. Been down to long and iner ring separation sounds like ring shake to me- a miller's nightmare. As the boards come off the log they run a grave risk of falling apart, esp on a 'short grained' timber such as S.Chestnut. And i reckon the others were right...it does look to be alive still. Mind you, i have seen sawn logs ready for milling with the ends sealed which have started sprouting!!!

Crikey- i couldnt work out if it was his rigging or abandoned access or what. What were you up to in Falmouth Bri?

Especially in the third, or even fourth eyes:scared1:

No he isnt, and he was with me. We were on our way to pick up a piece of aok for milling from a job Rowan The Bruce was doing. That guy in the pic is a chainsaw carver. He was deffo lurking tho LOL

Haha love it.....the guy in the pic isnt the guy doing the work....he had retreated to the safety of that garage!!

Nice John. Where was that..?

LMFAO Great response mate. I take it you mean amateur , as opposed to an electrical component. It was an old guy doing it on his own......

Well the gob was ok....but it stopped there! Like others have said. They should have put the gob in, then bored in behind it to create the hinge, cut away from the hinge toward the back of the trunk, leaving about a 10% hold at the back, withdraw the saw and then sever the holding timber at the back, allowing a controlled fell, and NO barbers chair. Do this for any tree with a lean or heavily weighted in the direction you want to fell it.

Saw this in Falmouth today, and just had to get some pics for you lot....... I offered my services, to which the owner of the property (i assume) replied "i've got permission to cut them down":laugh1:

Thanks for taking the time to answer Paul. I really feel that Skyhucks point is the crux of the stumbling point for most of us. Most of us are small firms of boss and one or two employees.The amount of time effort and money required puts AAAC out of realistic rach of the vast majority of arb busineses in this country, ESPECIALLY given how little the AA means to the kind of customers we attract- Mrs Miggins one tree in her garden, who when asked about the AA thinks it is an rehabilitation service or a road rescue service. Until AA accreditation is recognised and promoted in the same way as (eg) corgi for gas, then it will always be seen as a huge waste of time and effort for small firms. Coupled with that is the fact that there are firms who do not exactly excel in the quality they produce (trying to be tactful here) and yet are AAAC. They have the money and time to get on the scheme, we dont. simple as. (rant rant sorry