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  1. oldwoodcutter
    I take my tuned and ported 660 to my woodyard and pop on the 20” bar. Yes it’s a handful but if you want bigger stuff ( but not oversized ) sliced up in a hurry, then this is the brother [emoji106]
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    You can have all the most up to date tracking/ pinpointing gadgets in the world, but If you get crushed, or zapped unconscious, or cut to the bone, they’re only of limited use telling someone where you are. There is no substitute for a trained partner working with you who can help you within that first minute. I would tell your boss you’re no longer working solo, and if he is any boss at all will put buddy working arrangements in place. Forestry commission banned it years ago, whoever you are.
  3. oldwoodcutter
    My 101 had the same issues, although I run it in Aspen. Went in to Stihl shop and they “ put new valves in”. Runs just like a gypsy stick should now [emoji106]
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    Can’t say fairer than that [emoji106]
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    My son in law , whilst at college, had to identify, and learn the Latin names of 10 species of tree and shrub every few days. And he still knows them.
  6. oldwoodcutter
    May be mistaken, but looks a lot like lime, bark texture and colour. Pallet probably pine [emoji106]
  7. oldwoodcutter
    Certainly not very neighbourly, I think I’d have to go round there and have it out with them.
  8. oldwoodcutter
    My little quoting Courier van is technically classed as a panel van. I have a phobia of thinking every parked up white van is a camera van after having a few narrow squeaks, to say nothing of gatsos and average speed cameras. 50 on normal roads , 60 on d/c.
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    When they want their connies cutting, and they’ve been untouched for a few years, I always make it crystal clear that browning can occur at this time of year, and usually will look worse than before. On the other hand if someone’s pride n joy connie hedge gets inadvertently shaved by one of my little helpers, and turns brown, I explain that red spider mites have been disturbed and are attacking it .
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    I’m so busy I only do tarmacing on Sunday mornings, undercutting Wimpeys as their client saw us doing trees. Raf Marham’s main runway will be a bit of a rush job next Sunday.
  11. oldwoodcutter
    If a sub contractor did that to me, he wouldn’t ever be putting any of my cash into his back pocket again I can tell you that.
  12. oldwoodcutter
    Oh yes you can do it, and enjoy it at your age, but as the years roll by your body will tell you otherwise. If you’re hand cutting as fast as you can safely go, in debilitating heat, or pouring rain or frozen stiff,by the time you’re 50 you’ll want to be out of it. There are exceptions I know, but by then most have adopted that familiar walk which conceals a bad back, and bad everything else.
  13. oldwoodcutter
    Be careful,the Treehog maker is very defensive about allegations of copying the arbtrolley, last time this was inferred he threatened legal action to all posters on here that mentioned it.
  14. oldwoodcutter
    I expect that sometime in a few years, while I’m pushing up the daisies, treeworkers will actually be paying clients to carry out all their tree work, or at best do it for nothing. I’m just glad I won’t be here to see it.
  15. oldwoodcutter
    As always, what appears straight forward from an initial picture, after a few questions, it just gets worse, overhanging gardens, all away, big stump for a small grinder, very narrow access etc etc. I get asked to quote off Facebook picture messages all the time, which I don’t price until I’ve been and looked, and invariably there’s one unseen hazard after another, lurking just out of the picture. And when I price I’m compared unfavourably with someone’s mate who has priced off the pic alone, at a quarter of my price. Hard grafting drudge is ok if you’ve priced it high enough.
  16. oldwoodcutter
    Local Septic tank emptier has “you make it - we take it” on his smelly tankers
  17. oldwoodcutter
    I’ve stood underneath rubbish like that, walked away and let someone else kill thereself .
  18. oldwoodcutter
    80% of their wage to sit at home on their fat arses, well when they do begrudgingly shuffle back at the end of October many may find they haven’t got a job to go back to.
  19. oldwoodcutter
    What I meant Stephen is a good climber will throw those branches so they are almost in the mouth of the chipper, or wait til they are cleared, another will just let it all go into an enormous tangle at top speed, without being ‘a team player’
  20. oldwoodcutter
    Yes it’s possible of course, £170 - £200 if you’re on top of your game. And your reputation will grow along with offers of work. But those rates are not for someone who can’t wait to grab the money and get gone by midday, leaving world war 1 behind that takes 5 on the ground til 6 o’clock to chip and clear.
  21. oldwoodcutter
    Dynamite is another option open
  22. oldwoodcutter
    Had a thorn laying crossways inside my finger joint for the past week, after it stopped hurting I’ve just left it there, I’ll admit that I didn’t try a calpol thing but I tried everything else short of cutting my own tendons through.
  23. oldwoodcutter
    I thought I’d do a few press ups the other morning, managed a few but it took me the rest of the day to get back up onto my feet again
  24. oldwoodcutter
    I have thought about getting back and my foreman and lads are keen, but as above, I don’t want those John The Baptist types putting vids all over fb as that’s one bit of publicity I don’t need. Could start again in a fortnight, see how it is.
  25. oldwoodcutter
    I’ve put everything with a 2 stroke engine in my spare bedroom. In the middle of the night they’re about 10 feet from my head, as the crow flies.

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