RobRainford

My girlfriend is essentially a prostitute who does a lot of charity work.

Noticed this on one of my belts on the chipper today (after i found it wouldnt run because there were a few chunks of wood blocking the blades, so out came the whole drum to clean it out!) Is it anything to worry about? should i get new belts?

we are having a little climb next weekend (me and tom) if youd wanna pop along, depends on weather. was gonna be today but didnt feel like getting soaked for fun. plus im tired from yesterday!

its 8mm same as ocean polyester, but does seem thinner! Rob: ive got a length tied that ive used for VT setups, very smooth and works well on the XTC 16 strand ropes

I think that's still a couple of nights worth I didn't manage to do anything. Had assignments to do and a bit of chipper maintenance. I've got one of those massive red noses for your car. To put on the big black landy!

You shouldn't be cutting it. It's classed as propagating it. You could miss that one little piece and grow a whole new plant! You are best spraying it with a high concentration solution late summer/ autumn when it starts to pull it's reserves back in to the roots. If you get it right and hit it hard you can achieve a good level of control. We were getting 90% control using this method. We now stem inject where possible. This can be done any time of the growing season. And we were seeing upwards of 95% control. We have just done a garden full of it. Garden probably wasn't more than 10x13m but we had to remove 15 ton of soil. Then put 15 ton of clean soil back in! The roots had spread 2 gardens each way. One bit has gone through the foundations of the house, another is coming up though a garden shed. Inside it! The most severe is where it's grown under the house then gone up though the cavity wall. To remove that the whole outer wall has to come off!

looks like a nice climb, would love some nice pruning jobs like that! heres one that might need a clean

Id put that down to a weak chair, being out in the sun would have weakened the plastic Its happened to me too! but i was leaning back on a plastic garden chair, off came the back legs! laughter ensued.

crrrraasshhhhh! Thats amazing reg. top job!

the navaho does come with a full body attachment. its an IRATA harness too, hence the good sized full body harness which isnt too uncomfy. if you want something fancy then sequoia, treemotions are nice and comfy, id love to swap my seq for one. but ive still got years in it yet! tree austria are good harnesses and do have the seats as mentioned. Komet dragonfly for a permanent seat afaik. i think the seq swing is a bit of a contradiction to itself, a lightweight harness that aids your agility with a seat that will keep you a bit rigid?

fly tipping of the material seems to be a big spreader of the plant. Plus it really does take nothing to make it grow. theres a pub near me with a farmers field at the back full of it at the edge. You would think its a hedge theres that much!

knowledge is power. you know what to do, do it right, do it well, do it fast, do more, earn more!

if it wasnt able to hold you, why would you be using it? just lay off the cakes and pasties and you wont need to worry as much!

willow? very wet, thick bark. first pic looks like its either been rubbed a lot or has had ivy on it a bit like steve said. can i see pine needles in the bottom right of pic 1? just in the blurry bit.

the kid got suspended for defending himself? no justice! that little kid deserved every second of that smackdown! i thought the big lad was going to jump on him or something but that would have been insult to injury! Bullying isnt fair to anyone. You just dont know what those people are going through, or what you make them think. Its caused some pretty nasty things!

bark seems thick enough to be a Pinus sp. especially with the deep fissuring which is characteristic of pines. Pine wood, mainly scots pine, is good for kindling and will light off a match if dry enough. Makes good logs too, only if very very dry though.

If you want a Navaho then get it without the seat. They are good harnesses. For extra quickness go for the Navaho fast. It has the posh petzl buckles that make it easier to get on and off. They are good simple harnesses!

i tried out the gold rings on my petzl the other day, for when your tied with main line to your left and then have to strop to your right and its a bit of a squeeze, clipping into those rings makes it a lot comfier!

look along dual carrigeways, youll find bits along there where its blown off a truck and rooted. It is everywhere, theres loads round here.

Our new landy pulls 3.5. Updated springs means we can put 1.5t in the back and it sits down an inch or two. I've had a bit more than I should in our 12ft ifor trailer. Bit more than the landy was rated to. It pulled itself home from Bradford. I didn't want to attempt the weighbridge!

He might have been talking about the new husky topper!

i use poison ivy for my lanyard, it is very smooth and works well with a distel tied short with 8mm ocean polyester, i wouldnt mind buying a long length for climbing on, but my main line has a while in it yet!

I must be in a special club then, i got a free set from Ian to help me on my way. Sorry to derail a bit, but how much would it be to sharpen the blades? mine have dulled a bit already!

i got an ex demo 18hp last week, i am impressed with how they perform, as long as you are gentle with feedng it dense conifer then they do the job well!