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  1. oldwoodcutter
    Wait til it happens to you one day Gary, you’ll be laughing on the other side of the coin .
  2. oldwoodcutter
    Just this morning, after a full 60 minute drive to the job, I arrive with my TW230 minus the spout. My son in law took his truck back to my yard to pick it up, so we didn’t get chipping today til gone 10. I think it’s time I called it a day. [emoji52]
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    About 100 years ago we’d just finished clearing some trees from behind an old house, and as I was knocking for payment the old dear came out and asked if we could just cut down an old wooden linen line post before we go. We’d been walking round this ivy covered post all day, as I got on one knee to do a 5 second cut, a sheet of sparks came off my chain, yep, the ‘wooden ‘ post was something resembling a piece of track rail lurking deep behind all the coiled ivy.
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    Some familiar ones there alright. I’ve noticed now and again the habit of putting a gob in on the same stem-below your anchor point, iv shouted up my concern, only for a climber to say he did realise that, and was going to reposition before doing his back cut. As said above, this can happen at the end of a long day, but I imagine the worst so still shout up to make sure. Talk about old age, just the other week I quickly reversed my transit at a rather sharp angle up at my main yard, the guys were all busy until I’d finished the manoeuvre, when I noticed they’d stopped and were all laughing at something behind me. Timberwolf sent a new side panel out quite quickly but it will be about 10 years before they let me forget it.
  5. oldwoodcutter
    The more good experience the better, bringing your own saw is a bonus but we are usually hip deep in saws anyway. The ability to read what’s happening up in the tree is a must of course if they are looking after the ropes, but it still helps if they are just labouring and don’t want a 50 kilo chog on the back of their neck as they stroll under the tree to pick a few twigs up. Even volunteering to tow the chipper of a morning, or pull a trailer full of cord back to the yard at night are all good qualities a subby groundy may possess.
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    Red fir
  7. oldwoodcutter
    Yes I’ll do that, no problem, thanks Barrie.
  8. oldwoodcutter
    Nope, of course I know about sawdust in the air, flippin heck. This is in my workshop, or back of the truck when nothings ‘blowing about’ . I’ve seldom got through a can without any bits, as I said earlier the fine screen filter is cleaned after each fill up, and there’s usually something more or less on the screen that’s come out of the aspen can. On Barrie’s advice I will endeavour to collect them.
  9. oldwoodcutter
    Thanks for that, iv had black bits from cans I’ve just took the new caps off, and we always keep our funnel in a sealed bag and wipe the bits off the screen after filling up. It’s not contaminated from my stuff, it’s out of the aspen plastic can. We will try and keep the bits and see what they say.
  10. oldwoodcutter
    Here’s one for Barrie, I’ve used aspen 2 for a year or 2 now. Back in the days we used pump petrol and 2 stroke oil, we habitually used a small funnel with a very fine screen to protect the carbs from flaky old forecourt underground tanks. We continue still with the same funnel, and at almost every fill up you can see small black debris on the screen. Now you would think aspen being sold as ‘clean’ fuel wouldn’t have any bits in it, but I can guarantee it has. What’s all that about then?
  11. oldwoodcutter
    I’ve been on the other end of a kick backed 200T, very very fortunate in it ended up with chain stopped, flat on my chest. Makes you contemplate your own mortality, I can tell you that much.
  12. oldwoodcutter
    Red fir
  13. oldwoodcutter
    Those 2 utter twats on Pointless, the main one says the same things to everybody. You just get in and sat down with your tea on your lap and there they are, all the time , talking absolute crap.
  14. oldwoodcutter
    To my knowledgeable ladder expert friends above who po po the practice of me footing , . . . I stand corrected (on the foot of the ladder) [emoji846]
  15. oldwoodcutter
    This has always been what’s meant as a cord of wood, no ambiguity, no ifs or buts, so years ago when it used to be sold this way, everyone knew exactly what they were buying, from wherever, off whoever.
  16. oldwoodcutter
    We use ladders for all the work that’s mentioned above, and 2 sizes of tripods that are invaluable. I drum into them though that if anyone’s going up that ladder, then I want to see someone standing with both feet on that bottom rung to stop the top twisting and the bottom kicking out, until the climber is tied in, or off it altogether once in the tree.
  17. oldwoodcutter
    Go for a tw230, mine munches everything effortlessly.
  18. oldwoodcutter
    Boy English and I try to squeeze a living out of the same area, and what he says about the competition is absolutely correct. There seems to be a new fresh faced crew starting up almost weekly , with new vehicles,chippers,and grinders signwritten with the latest catchy name. Others may say that’s good for competition , but when their dayrate is from the 1970s that’s debatable.
  19. oldwoodcutter
    Working in proximity to viscous thorns is part and parcel of everyday tree and hedge work. Most of us see them coming and avoid the devils but 3 or 4 weeks ago I got stabbed in the back of my leg, in the muscle. After a week the infection got worse and in no time looked very bad. Mrs oldwoodcutter cast an eye over it and booked me an appointment and the quack gave me 56 Flucloxacillin, after a week the infection has shrunk by half got another week to go.
  20. oldwoodcutter
    I was jokingly called a rogue trader a few weeks ago by the crew comedian after taking cash off a little old lady In my defence I simply stated that she was younger than me [emoji846]
  21. oldwoodcutter
    And what would it say on my tombstone Mike, “ He always gave his clients the best deal, but sadly died a pauper”. I reckon not.
  22. oldwoodcutter
    It’s not just standing in dog muck, it’s the way it then gets on your truck pedals and mats and with the heater on , well it’s sickening. It’s mats out and disinfectant under a tap when back at yard, with pedals and boots too.
  23. oldwoodcutter
    Just a few weeks ago I gave a recently ticketed climber a days experience with us. He talked a good account of himself so I let him loose dismantling what was I suppose an 80 foot grey poplar. I called to check progress with my main man on the ground at 11, only to be told that after 3 hours he had only now got up to the top and fixed his anchor point. I headed over there to see what the holdup was, to arrive just after the first main limb came down, not rigged and lowered but cut and let it go, butt end first straight through a pan tiled roof, through the void, and penetrated the plasterboard ceiling below. No wonder my hairs turned white and I look about 85.
  24. oldwoodcutter
    Young friend of mine runs a 3 van pest control firm, he meets up usually weekly with the owners of the other pest control firms in his area. They swap customers, and generally sort the job out. All maintain a good standard of living and their respective firms grow ever more prosperous. Most tree company bosses in this area find it difficult to even acknowledge anyone they meet on the road, let alone meet up and talk rates.
  25. oldwoodcutter
    I walked past the young fellow who the timberwolf dealer sent out to service my 230, as he was peering in at the blades. He said he presumed I was using genuine ones, and when I said no they were from rotatech, he tutted loudly and shook his head, as if I’d committed some act of wanton senseless destruction on my wolf.

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