tommer9
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Nice of you to say so:thumbup: I think its a bit agri looking, something i am trying to avoid. No offence to farmers, i live on a farm, its just that i dont want to appeaer as farmer palmer trying to do tree work ( tractors, loader buckets, chainsaws, etc etc:sneaky2:)
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Just wondering- like i say i havent used tachyon, but isnt it quite a thin and light rope? Maybe that could be why it seems to twist more than the likes of Yale blaze or marlow gecko (which both do it IME).
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Point taken, i do have to admit to being a cynic when it comes to big business:blushing: and to be fair, i suppose they have had quite a few flood related claims in the last few years.....the same guy i mentioned earlier from the ABI said that the floods a couple of years back cost the ins industry 3.5 Billion!!
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I dont use it, but it was going to be my next purchase rope-wise (after getting advice on colour on arbtalk)....I dont know if it would make any difference, and i am sure you lot do it anyway, but when you descend and pull your rop out of the tree, i always pull all the rope back through the tree, pulling from my hitch end, so that the trailing end has to come through the tree. This takes out any snags and twists that may have occurred. I just wonder if after a while lots of small twists may accumulate and cause the problem you have described? (burble gibber waffle:001_tongue:)
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The higher tailgate is a good'un- more chip, yippee, although if i have a lot of chip i takr the chip side off and fit the ifor canopy which will hold a proper amount, it just makes the truck look odd, and the chip box is easier to deal with having only the tailgate to think about as opposed to a canopy door too.
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Well said....my point exactly. What really makes me mad is the amount of profit they make, and the amount of people they insure, versus the number of payouts they make. They are estimating 75mil for this flood, which is a drop in the ocean compared to the income they get, yet they will use this as a reason for increasing their premiums. WTF?? If you offer insurance payouts then dont scritch when people claim.
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I have thought about this time and time again- and every time i measure up large ammo boxes or think about custom building lockers i think ' i wish i had bought a 130 in the first place!' There just isnt enough room on a 110 to do what i want, and i cant be bothered to build a compromise. I reckon the roof rack is going to get a box one day.
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On the insurance note....just been listening to some arse from the Ass. of Brit. Insurers sasying that no-one was refused insurance after the last floods. It just goes to show what a total bunch of charlatans and thieves insurance companies can be. OK, so no-one has been refused, but obviously many many people have been priced out of it. I honestly think this is a classic example of the awful standards that the big businesses and industries in this country adhere to.
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Looking for someone to haul timber in the southwest
tommer9 replied to Tree Man Tom's topic in General chat
Thats the guy. -
That is such an awful situation for everyone affected, whose lives have been devastated. My heart goes out to the family of PC Bill Barker. I cannot begin to imagine the sense of loss they feel,....he was trying to get motorists off a bridge for their own safety, at the cost of his life, and only 44 years old. Tragedy in the truest sense. Ukminch.......i think that 'insensitive' doesnt even come close to describing how those affected would feel if they saw you up there on a jolly mate.:thumbdown:
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There is evidence that Laryx spp. esp l. kaemferii (sp) is a host, and there have been studies on P. ramorum and P.kernovii that show the infection spreading FROM larch TO Rhodies. That is even more worrying given how much Larch is in plantation in this country.
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Very nice work Matt. That is an approach to pruning i have neither sen nor considered, and i think it honestly looks fantastic! Top marks mate, for what its worth coming from a humble tree butcher LOL:thumbup1:
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I take about 10% of the timber i produce home with me. By january this year firewood was almost non existent down here, and there was a six week wait to buy a stove.
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Looking for someone to haul timber in the southwest
tommer9 replied to Tree Man Tom's topic in General chat
Leave it with me, ill get a few names over the weekend. -
Haha- that'll NEVER change- except it could get worse......wait till they start driving over the cones and hurling abuse at you as they drive past coz you have inconvenienced them for nearly a whole 30secs of their petty lives.....
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Road / Lane closure - how should I go about it?
tommer9 replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
Lux a-plant mate. -
Bargain for someone!!
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We had road closed signs out on a job back in june. The grandson of the guy i was climbing for (16 y.o before you askLOL) was feeding the 10" farmi which had a blown exhaust, and never heard Farmer Tosser coming who knocked him over nearly into the chipper!!!!
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They do look a bit arse heavy....
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:lol:
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:lol: Thats a proper bit of kit though- why cant they make one nowadays.....with the 4.8 diesel lump in it?
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Brilliant:lol: Working in penzance this week, road closed signs and cones etc etc, road totally and visibly blocked with tree, vehicles, and chipper......fine all day, including two delivery lorries. About 4pm a little red car appears, turning round in front of truck that the chipper is attached to. I approached the car, and matey starts giving me aggro about how the sign is inadequate and should have been 400m down the road.... WTF?????Knobhead.
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Cool. Ill have a look if there is.
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Hey? Its not my job, but the price put in by TCD was more in the region of thousands not hundreds i think.
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Thats because they have been being so tight on their payments they can only afford twits who do crap cowboy jobs:thumbdown:
