tommer9

Haha good point- they are all lovely straight grained logs!!

Is that the black 8mm liros you use Steve? I was using that on distel and VT hitches using yale blaze and scorch climbing lines and xtc for side lanyard with a distel and micro pulley. I found it bound up a bit especially when the ropes got wet or dirty. It was pretty stiff stuff too as you say. I am climbing on blaze with beeline at the moment and a VT and it seems to work ok most of the time, but due to my bad tying of the VT needs help to grip every now and then. BTW Since going over to beeline with the vt i have found it wants to rotate all the time meaning the braids dont bite effectively. I assume this is to do with the leg length being either a bit long or slightly uneven at the mo? (must retie tomorrow...)

One technique I find does work for getting you off to sleep is to go through every second of your day, and don't move through the day's events until you have recalled EVERY detail. I dont often get past the first few hours before I drop off.

BTW was that big or giant........

I reckon thats one of the better 'bodges' I have seen for log splitting!

Betty Botter had some butter, "But," she said, "this butter's bitter. If I bake this bitter butter, It would make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter, That would make my batter better." So she bought a bit of butter – Better than her bitter butter – And she baked it in her batter; And the batter was not bitter. So 'twas better Betty Botter Bought a bit of better butter.

Well mark you need the guy who advertises down here...any tree felled, £2 per foot of height!!!!!

Gorgeous. Well done mate. Is it elm??

Yeah we have a calico tabby....she is totally unfazed by dogs- I have only known her run from 3 dogs in 11 years. If we wnat to worm her or anything you need welding gauntlets on:laugh1:

I have seen pics of one that has failed.

Not me.

I am not averse to a bit of punk now and then. It would be easier (quicker) to list what i DONT like than what i DO lol!

The pulleys are pretty bombproof, but failures do happen for a number of reasons including (RARE) manufacturing defects, in which case buying from a proper dealer would be most advisable......if catastrophic failure occurred leading to damage to property or worse, leading to an HSE involvment/ insurance claim then I think your question would be more than answered. This isnt about getting refunds, its about the fact that you are buying equipment that in the case of failure can be very very dangerous.

I have to say that I am finding this thread somewhat confusing. Many moons ago when I only had 30/31 tickets I was given the job of felling a huge oak for my brother in law. I had an 088 but it was predominately for use with an alaskan, as most of my work back then (this was about 1998) was site clearance, firewood and a bit of milling. I fely way out of my depth (the largest tree I had felled up until then had been about 3' DBH, done with a 039 stihl!!!!!). So i rang my instrustor (LANTRA and NPTC assessor too) for advice and he just said get the 088 out with a big bar- why not? I said about only having 30/ 31 and he said that (in this particular case) it was pretty much the same rules, but on a bigger scale than what i was taught in 30/31. He certainly didnt mention any legal rquirement of having any other tickets. TBH although i have heaps of tickets now (30,31,32,33,38,39,40,41,chipper) I agree with Huck in general. Paper doesnt mean ability/ safeness.

A bloke's wife goes missing while diving off the West Australian Coast He reports the event, searches fruitlessly and spends a terrible night wondering what could have happened to her. Next morning there's a knock at the door and he is confronted by a couple of policemen, the old Sarge and a younger Constable. The Sarge says, 'Mate, we have some news for you, unfortunately some really bad news, but, some good news, and maybe some more good news'. 'Well,' says the bloke, 'I guess I'd better have the bad news first?' The Sarge says, 'I'm really sorry mate, but your wife is dead. Young Bill here found her lying at about five fathoms in a little cleft in the reef. He got a line around her and we pulled her up, but she was dead.' The bloke is naturally distressed to hear of this and has a bit of a turn. But after a few minutes he pulls himself together and asks what the good news is. The Sarge says, 'Well when we got your wife up there were quite a few really good sized lobsters and a swag of nice crabs attached to her, so we've brought you your share.' He hands the bloke a bag with a couple of nice lobsters and four or five crabs in it. 'Geez thanks. They're bloody beauties. I guess it's an ill wind and all that... So what's the other possible good news? 'Well', the Sarge says, 'if you fancy a quick trip, me and young Bill here get off duty at around 11 o'clock and we're gonna shoot over there and pull her up again!

Valium always does it for me. I generally dont have a problem sleeping, but every now and then i get a period when I just lie awake with the nerves jangling, or wake up with the terrors, and after a few nights, getting more and more tired, I just neck a valium or something similar and at least I get one good nights sleep and recharge the batteries.

Here is the response i got ftom the relevant govt department when i inquired about stretching my 110 to a 130. Thank you for your email of 13 October regarding changes to your vehicle. The first thing you would need to do would be to contact the vehicle manufacturer to confirm if any changes are feasible. The garage would have to be a reputable one and as mentioned your insurance company would need to know. DVLA would need to know for any change on the registration document. I hope this helps. Pat Negus Correspondence Section International Vehicle Standards Division 1/33 Great Minster House 33 Horseferry Road LONDON SW1P 4DR 0207 944 2076 GTN 3533 2076

There are 2 photos that came with the email.........

I have enquired extensively about the heavy duty thing, and am assured that the wall thickness is a myth to all intents and purposes on 110. There are slight differences to some of the gussets where the parts of the chassis join, but other than that the main issue is the suspension and brakes, which if you have the Hi-cap will be the same as the 130 anyway. (all this info from my landrover dealers who have been working on them for 50 odd years, and have cut and welded pretty much every conceivable chassis variant there is.

No there isnt. It is blindingly obvious that this thread was a piss take joke FFS. If you cant distinguish that from reality then.....well I dunno!!! I wouldnt want to let you loose with a stumpgrinder though, put it that way!!!!!!!!!!!

Get over yourselves girls, and grow a sense of humour. I have a cat too FWIW, but i can see the funny side of this that was an email sent to me. Do you seriously think I was advocating how to wash your cats???????? If you did then I worry about you...... Alot.

Nah it was pretty easy IMO.

Anytime. Ill stop talking about myself in the third person now. I confess, it was me. Sorry Dave. :lol:

Takeuchi or Schaeff all the way IMO. Lots of tear out power for the size of the machines, better build quality and more than one hydraulic pump. If you are looking at 3 tonne machines IME you can get 2 arm lengths. Get the shorter armed machine, as the longer arm just serves to overbalance the machine. TBH a 1.5 tonne Takeuchi will outdig a 3 tonne JCB any day. Aftersales on CAT is superb from what i have been told.