tommer9
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he-he! ill stop now or it could get really silly. Halfway through bottle of red. sorry. Ive never even driven a mog!!:
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only tongue in cheek!! I agree 100%
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arent they the most exciting ones to mess with tho?
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Nice pics. Good job!
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How long does it take you to climb a tree to the top?
tommer9 replied to cerneARB's topic in Climbers talk
[quote name= I think Mr. Ed is exaggerating at 7 seconds and we should take everything he says with a pinch of salt.[/quote] yeah you must be right- no one could be that slow.lol:001_tongue: -
:001_tongue:nice one skyhuck!
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Im going to try that technique! Ta! Are you lifting the log onto its side first then? I think i get it. I had a break from a few years of tree work/ sawmilling, which i still did but a lot less, as the stonework was really taking off with all the second home london types buying places down here. Learnt to climb 2 years ago when i stopped stoning, and really enjoy it. Always good to have strings to your bow though i reckon.:001_smile:My days of hammering all day-we reckoned on about 10000 hits a day to make all those little 'pitshers' in the second pic-are over. I can do about 15 mins now and my arm gives up:thumbdown: The things we do for wonga!!!
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Id rather be up a tree any day btw. Stonework has wrecked my body- 34 with a twisted spine and two discs disintegrated!!
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Wow, thanks!:001_smile:The mud filled ones- 99.9% of them- are used for boundaries, garden hedges, field boundaries, dogs dinners...:001_tongue:Only up on bodmin moor and a few other places do you see old dry dtone stuff down here, but it isnt generally very pretty! I can totally understand your frustration with "tradesmen". most builders down here are more than happy to put the labourer on the stonework, whether hedging or on a house facing blockwork!!!:scared1:You can imagine some of the horrors! It isnt helped by the fact that a large proprotion of people dont seem to be able to tell the difference either! And the building boom didnt do skills much good in general either if you see what i mean- loads of work= cowboys? I didont like to mention it earlier, but we did win an award...., but praise from up north means more!
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i Dont think there has ever been any pollarding. The owner said that it is possible that there was a fire,The rest of the tree looks just as it should!?
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That all sounds like the bloke was a tosser. Still, from the little bit visible in your photo, it looks like he is getting a good job. I have built stonewalls in cornwall for a few years, and down here the wall are mud filled, with mud in the joints, designed to become grown in and then called cornish hedges. My mate and i built dry stone walls though, filled only with stone. always wanted to meet a "proper" drystone waller from up north. Honest opinions please- what do you reckon?
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If it is burry elm and you can get the thing down in millable lumps you couls be sitting on a tidy sum mate. Too far away for me, but if you have a sawmill near you... Ithink there is a pretty big one at Inverleith if that is in your area.
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He works the whole of the south of england, based in redruth area, and as far north(?) as bath, and east as surrey before xmas. He mostly uses an ms200 rear handled with a 14" canon carving bar, along with a husky 354(?) and an old stihl 011 with a tiny carving bar, but has about 6 saws in total. He used to have an old stagecoach bus you mayhave seen joe.
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Get as high as you can. solvent abuse does it for some people.....:001_tongue:but i prefer just to get to the highest point where there are branches as fat as my wrist, and tie in there.
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i found a couple of pics- havent got any of his birds in flight though- wish i had. It amazes me what can be done with a chainsaw!
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Love the bench/table. Dont burn it all mate!
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The back has a letterbox cut in it, and the seat is what we call a spoon, but is actually more phallic i am sorry to say:scared1:, and the spoon slots through the back. They were all sold on the side of the road. My mate travels for about 8 months of the yaer in the dodge g3 bus you can see in the top photo selling his carvings for his living. Ill try to find some pics of his work- it awesome.
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Nice one on the info about the martian treewolf and dean- i only knew its name!! How awful are they to drive- my mate had a commer q4 and reckoned it was about the worst thing on earth! Nice to see other people as sad as me re classic commercials. I am not as knowledgeable as you guys though.
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That wrecker was a laeyland martian.
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Glad you like 'em:001_smile:cheers! Better than turning it into firewood i reckon.
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apparently it was a photoshop fake!
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Found thes pics of some chairs me and a mate who is a top carver made last year out of some sawmill offcuts ATTACH]11924[/ATTACH] The one with holes in is oak, about 6' tall, the one that looks sort of like a shark diving is ash, the other three are macrocarpa.
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whats the reco truck. is it a scammell? the word whoops springs to mind! Great pics, ta!
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if only i knew the wheelbase/ length of a disco......
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Top effort woodpicker! Nice work. Arbtalk- take a kudos point!
