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right im officialy bored to hell with my stein helmet. yes it grips the head better than any other, yes its the only hi viz helmet. (that i can find in uk ) BUT; HOT mesh is ill fitting and has big gap at top, already the 'alloy mesh' is coming away. prefitted reflective stickers peeled off. with clear or smoked visor the peak scrapes past it and after a couple weeks is scratch to hell. the tightening nuts for the viser need constant rescrewing. kask / stein doesnt seem to be handing on information to its retailer; i wanted the mesh and visor set up, asked about, bought the helmet and it apears that on the pelter muff set up you cant have both mesh and visor (its either /or) im guessing that you can use both on euro slot muff. but thats IS a guess. such a shame, so close yet so far...
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i burnt up some brash of one of those, incl. some small timber and didnt smell anything of note. went up well tho, kinda a bit like fraxinus. cut a robinia up last week, it was reekin!
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keep a triplicate book in the cab. 2 quid, hey presto, no more verbal agreements. bargain!
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on that trail of thought, used 'clarks' in southern scotland and they were grrreat. also talked to a new company in perth called 'puzzled monkey arb' also very good. esp. after a very bad encounter last month, with one of the big names in web based sales ( not honeybros...)
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Dead Creature I Found In A Tree Today :(
jonathan hall replied to farmer_ben's topic in Picture Forum
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Official "Yank'" Picture Thread
jonathan hall replied to GASoline71's topic in International Arborist Forum
WHAT THE HELL!!!! thats a new one to me. how much those bad boys cost? im showing everyone that tommorow! great pics the lot of them. im not being rude, but ive never understood why so many guys wear that kinda leg protection? is it just cos they arent as hot? -
have seen to many man eaters, but this fella was hungry for signage.
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also funny the brits have lost the cord as a usual every day measurement. your average rural german, italian or frenchman knows his cord size/ price. we seem to have lost this. go to the swarbish areas of the south of german or bravaria for that matter, they all run crazy hi tech pellet boilers and crazy compact bio mass set ups but the average house holder still knows the price of a stack or of cord as if it were like knowing the price of milk or butter.( which are beautiful in these parts of there landscape on every field you look at- they are a naturally permacultural counrty without knowing it!) the public dont seem to know the price of wood these days.
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if youre looking for climbing cos things are slow and you have the opportunity to be flexible, there is always climbing for ecology projets. you'll payed sweet fa and you'll never use a saw. but going collecting pollen with a piant brush for ecologists is an option. theres always some projects runnning somewhere. botanics proffesors are a hive of contacts and quite open folk on the whole. ive known afew people up to that over the last couple years. i know for a fact theres plenty of work in venezuela, mainly because its dodgy at the mo but you'd be fine in the wilds... borneo is nice and settled at the mo, contrary to belief and sierra leone is now one the quitest places about and has alot of fresty projects at the mo. with borneo and venezuela or costa you gotta be prepared to go up Big trees, and i mean big. sorry to waffle but sounds like your flexible and its another option.... pays a pittance but live on pittance and see some rare sights...
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dunno about this... the market is all over the show as far as selling direct to client. reports of low and crazy high prices, affluent young folk have been taking off my hand for seasoned wood. theres alot of stoves going in so, say fitters. i think the market is going to be better soon than ever before. demand will be high soon, ill bet my ass on it. some waiting for prices to improve ( feb or next season.) keep cutting and piling it !)
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working the 17" bar on the 84 sounds fun! but the 30" on the 88 is fine, you want to cut more? take a smaller dinner break! if your wood is organised better you'll cut as much. rise earlier, buy some work lights, if it gets dark to early. relax bro...
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was in dordogne region in France a couple of months back, 100's sqr miles of sweet chestnut coppice, the ground was ankle deep in nuts that were good for eating. dont know what the poles are used for... did see a few barns clan in riven poles, must have been 10 year poles...
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properly shocked what they can move...
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really sad. anyone know details? i know a family has lost and it's fresh but good to look objectively at details. all the same, breaks your heart when you think of whos left behind.
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spelling mistake? trim all widows and shape?
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great stuff. heres something to consider... Fabrick T-Shirt Sizes i get my work tshirts from here, up-load anything you like from home. (if they have a shop near u they r v.good for playing with your designs if you arent computer savy...)
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From the album: general work pics
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From the album: general work pics
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ive got a nice foley 130 tipper, but the other day i went to remove a couple ash trees and clean a conker and the cleint had one of these...an 'austin gypsy'. id never seen one before, apparently austin brought it out as an answer to the landrover, but it didnt take off really, lovely front wings on it. when i arrived at the job, the client was standing where the gear box was and he was grinding out a huge peice of the chassis to accomodate a mitzi engine! apparently he has never done anything like this at all, but he said rekon it would be ok! you gotta love enthusiasts...
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turned up to do a large birch a month back, and found 7 strands of climbing rose ( is it prince Charles or something? ) underneath the ivy, just to make it a little more irritating. we decided to have a go at giving ourselves a head start by cutting the strands and plaiting a rope round the rose and ivy and driving the landi back very slowly as struan kept watch. we really could believe out luck when the whole trees worth of ivy and rose and general scrot came cleanly out together. No tree damage, just a beautiful birch tree left. Job done in 1 hour, and a smug feeling to boot!
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super for fruit trees, no curved blade so slightly more arm power needed, but not that youd notice. straight blade so less lightly to get bent if it gets trapped at the tip. sweeeet saw.
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a question to all you dads or sons out there
jonathan hall replied to Stephen Blair's topic in General chat
can i just ask if you were doing a boring job today and had too much thinking time? if im doing something like hedge cutting, i start worring about what kind of dad im am + all the other troubles in the world!! after reading all these nice well wishers to you, i had to go and check the kids hadnt kicked their duvets off! kids eh? break your heart! -
its so naughty, if you franchise their company you get a van with all that stuff and a big grinning picture of your self on the side! the edinburgh rep is smiling on the side, but always looks as grumpy as hell behind the wheel! that 'tree wise men' vehicle and branding is a lesson to all...
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keep it simple. me and struan ( climbing chum ) always laugh our heads off when we see this van.... it gives me a head ache! Google Image Result for http://www.irishfranchisemagazine.net/images/articles/1-3948.jpg this van sez it all!
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Fracture Pruning Retrenchment on Fulham Oak
jonathan hall replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
there seems to be alot of interest on this and ive been telling some of the boys up here about it, and we have some candidate trees for it. how about an informal course on it? just get some people who are interested about it and do a tree? i would travel to the south to see you do this, would help expand the amount of trees that get fracture pruned like this and more trees experimented on means a larger 'data' set to look at, monitor and understand the effects and would educate us with best practices. a fracture prunning day would be verrrry intersting for all of us who woud like to give it ago but are aprehensive about the first attempt.
