RobRainford

I did a lot of courses through Sue from mill house training in skelmersdale. Google them and I'm sure youll find something. They will help you if you can get any funding too. They found courses for me all around north west within reasonable distances.

That's quite impressive. We've got cones very similar so they would come in handy. Just have to find myself some more roadside work to warrant using them!

'you werent supposed to fell that tree!'

and if you get a bad nick you can drink some to ease the pain!

i can come with a pickup and trailer and take some away, what type of wood is there?

Yeah we have a workshop full of tools. But every bar that's perfect just doesn't quite fit! I like the idea of climbing in and doing it. Would save time. And I don't try and jam it. I leave it for a bit running after I've finished chipping and give it a good shake to check everythings gone. Those bits came outta nowhere!

i agree, after being in the industry for only a short amount of time, i do know ive got a lot to learn, and would like to work for other people to help push, well, shove me forward a bit!

Well, another one of these threads! Im at college 3 days a week, doing an FD in arb at myerscough, with a view to go onto my BSc in september. I currently work self employed, have been for around a year now and have good experience in domestic work, with lots of happy customers. I have CS30,31,32,33,34,38 and 39, with cs41 booked on the 26th april, so i will have that under my belt too. I have full climbing kit, all saws necessary, basic rigging kit, although its enough to get jobs done. I have experience with trailers, however I am still searching for the right B+E course that wont leave my pockets empty, I am quite happy to learn to do anything, will take any criticism on board constructively and will happily offer the same in return. I am very well tempered, i do not get angry, no matter how awkward that customer is! I get on well with anyone and i am honest as the day is long. Long days and early starts are a speciality, grew up on a farm so its second nature! I have a car and i can travel up to 50 miles for work providing its adequate enough pay. Even if you have me in dragging brash im as happy doing that as i am up a tree dropping chunks! I have my own little CS100 too which comes in handy for little jobs, good when doing light reductions, wont drink fuel like a bigger chipper and you can chip in the garden! If you need to ask anybody else about my work, i can provide numbers for people ive worked for and with. I think thats everything covered. My work seems to have gone slack, been busy all march now ive only got 1 or two so far for april, lets just hope it changes. Thanks for reading!

if i lived closer i would offer myself more readily, however, its an hour and a half to wolverhampton from here. If i really needed to, i would happily come down on the odd days

bessy doesnt like strangers either!

if its any help, our JD 6330 (120hp) runs a Timberwolf PTO-300H (12") at 1000rpm all day without a problem.

Just don't jam it up like this, you'll never turn these out with the drum attached! Pete the hole isn't big enough on the drum I find. The only things that fit it are combi spammers and little screwdrivers. Which Bend when you need to use some force! I'll find a pic of it strapped to our trailer. Works well. But that front leg likes to bounce!

Tom you got out further than that!

They are adventitous roots. 15cm is way too deep. It's just going to rot the trees. It doesn't fair well for them in the future. Properly formed roots will have a strong connection to the stem. Adventitous roots are like epicormic shoots. They aren't always 'properly' attached so are weak at the attachment points.

thats a tough question, ive had a 260 since 2007, not used a 261 so no comments for that. Although i love my 260 with its 13" bar, great for snedding up, light weight and good enough power. if i had to choose i would take the 260, its robust and not much can go wrong, although it likes to destroy its chain brake parts, done it twice in just under a year, but not an expensive fix.

never worked near film sets. but i was in grange hill a few years ago!

dont want a landy anymore, i want one of these with a towbar! VW Race Touareg 3: a desert racer for the road - BBC Top Gear

7/32 is 5.5mm which is for the .404 chain? which is wrong if you are running the 13/64 which is 5.2mm, the correct file size, as mark says for the 3/8 chain.

ive used toms 271, its good, the revving seems funny though, when you take your thumb off it holds the revs up for part of a second, then drops them down to idle, its an intelligent management system so its handy if your snedding, no waiting for those first revs to pick back up. its a tad heavy for the power it gives out, but i do rate it well. 13" bar for snedding up, and itll be a great addition.

are they fairly tight? do they auto-retract like a measure tape? i might get some too, weve got plenty cones. Would they take bits of small brash landing on them? Apologies for all the questions, seem quite promising pieces of kit!

Quality! hahaha :lol: Im afraid i cant type a long answer, due to health and safety reasons i might get an RSI from typing too much. It completely depends on the situation, if i was in a truck that had flashing lights i would probably stop and help out, but it would be a bit cosy, 3 of us in a tight landy!

im a measly 5'7'' and i hover between 10 and 11 stone, hardly any fat on me. getting out to those little tips is a handy tool! I wouldnt say being big is a disadvantage in any way, i find the bigger guys are invaluable when you need them, as much use as a thinner guy, if not more useful!

i didnt mean the market share, i know they are doing well and are closing up to microsoft, but i know they made more money than them in one of the last few years. Apples share has rocketed since they brought out the iphone and then started improving everything and making them look so good!

its all rumors till apple says so... the iphone nano rumors have been around for every model, even for the ipad, ipad nano = iphone/ipod touch. The push for marketing on the new devices makes people buy them, we get an upgrade when they come out, and send the old ones to envirophone and get the money back, for the iphone 4 we actually made a bit of money sending in the old 3GS as the upgrade price to the 4 was less. There are a few sides to the apple gadgets i see, there are the people who are early adopters and will get everything as soon as it comes out, those who seem to despise the early adopters, but like the apple stuff anyway, so will buy it eventually, and by the time they have spent half a year deciding, theres a new one due out, so theirs is out of date faster it seems! The last type are the ones who ust dont see apple as anything important, just another company making their money. I believe they are making their money very well, to be doing as good as, if not better than microsoft, they must have some good products and marketing, no?

so i had the girlfriend hunting while i was in college today. PPhoned John lewis in liverpool and they had none, although they had 1 left in stock, in cambridge! so she went for that, it'll be here at the weekend. bought myself the wireless keyboard for it for when im sat working, easier to type on the keyboard than it is on the screen while sat down. its linked to my phone at the minute, works lovely!