oldwoodcutter
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Rheumatism, arthritics, finger joints that lock up so tight I have to use my other hands fingers to straighten them out again, feel about 85, apart from that I’m in excellent health [emoji52]
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Everyone’s at it round here lopping n topping and thrashing around. It does have its lighter moments though, as I saw this afternoon an unfamiliar tranny with greedy boards on my patch,with several swarthy types trying to look busy.Closer inspection revealed one guy standing on a wallpaper hangers steps pruning a Curly willow roadside with a long reach hedgecutter, while another fellow was laying on top of a high close clipped Connie hedge reaching down vertically with his hs45 about to break his neck at any moment onto the pavement 15 feet below. I gave them a cheery wave as I pulled my tranny away but was blanked by the entire happy band.
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Where does your domestic work come from?
oldwoodcutter replied to Tom D's topic in Business Management
I've got a website, and Facebook, get recommendations,and spend the equivalent of a third worlds defence budget on advertising, but I think pushing fliers for treework through letterboxes in high rise flats is the way forward for today's professional company. -
The trailer brakes came on alright but didn't stop it skidding across the road onto the verge. It was a tandem axle and doing I suppose 50mph the forward momentum alone had to take it somewhere. Wasn't like it tried to overtake me.
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I've always classed a stunt fell as one where wedges and ropes were used if necessary or not, and in the case of firs where the outermost fond tips just lightly brush past that commercial glass house, or 18th century summer house, leaving 6 tons of timber safely on the deck.
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I forgot to check a trailer was properly on my ballhitch after a new member of staff had dropped it on. Few miles up the road , right outside the back gate of raf marham, the trailer came off, the brake cable did work and then broke, and as someone said above, the trailer went across the road and ploughed into the verge. Gave the soldiers on the guardroom gate something to look at anyroad.
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No breakaway cable can be deemed by vosa as 'ineffective braking system and can stop movement until new cable fitted.
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I liked Shelby, may be mistaken but he seemed fairly genuine to me.
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Yes I shall be turning the blades in my 230 before chipping anything.
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Timbers fairly dense Mr Sword, often full of sap under the bark, and yes, the leaves are as sharp as a witches tongue. The striking colours are where the knots are of course.
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Will be coming down weds 27 sept, heavily branched from base to top. If of interest please txt 07867 764307
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Good luck with that Adam [emoji846]
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Where Di you have your chipper blades sharpened ?
oldwoodcutter replied to RichieR's topic in Large equipment
Saturn lost a pair of my genuine t/wolf blades for my 230 and it took them yonks to begrudgingly send me a pair if their pattern ones to shut me up. I now drop them in to a local machine shop who do them as quick as you like for £25 a pair -
Many years ago now I was walking along a forestry commission fence line beside a compartment. On the other side of the fence, in the middle of a field, was a tractor cutting hay, with what was then a new type of disc mower. A second or two after I heard something solid go through it, one of the little flat blades embedded itself into a post next to me. I always steered well clear of farm machinery after that. I recalled the incident only the other day when I happened to be near that same compartment.
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I wouldn't have believed this had I not seen it with my own eyes , but Wednesday I felled a reasonable spruce and what wouldn't chip, my lads loaded onto my tandem axle trailer and sitting on top of the loaded cord was a big hornet eating the spruce sap. 15 miles later and after doing up to 60 on a dual carriageway, they spotted the hornet back at my main yard still sitting on top there. They shood him away to unload in disbelief.
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Weirdest thing ever is my motion detector at my house yard rings out in my bedroom, when I'm downstairs the high pitched whine is exactly the same as the intermittent ringing in my ears, so often I get out of my chair to see who's poking about outside,only to find when I pass the stairs it's not the detector ringing,it's inside my ears.
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Dealt with one first thing this morning, it had blown onto a neighbours expensive new fence. Had that converted into firewood in no time.
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I for one run aspen in everything with a 2 stroke engine, if you're in the hedge and tree business I can think of plenty of things to waste your money on, but with your respiratory system never more than a foot or so away from that exhaust , Aspen is not one of them. I don't want to end my days gasping for every breath in some bleak nhs cancer ward thank you very much.
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Is chipper dust something we should be worried about.
oldwoodcutter replied to David Humphries's topic in General chat
Yes ivy is bad, and I believe all dead wood is full of nasty stuff. Generally wear a P3 mask when cutting and the dust is flying, but the other day I took over the chipper for couple of hours when clearing some half dead conifers, and somehow we were out of masks. Upon waking the next morning, I was not surprisingly coughing up all kinds of gunge. -
Again first thing this morning they were floating around ready to strike, this time I had my trusty 'deep jungle off' in the first aid kit and that kept them and everything else away.
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One begger was after me this afternoon, I couldn't shake it off ,whichever way I walked it was flying round my head. In desperation I went and sat in the truck with the windows up for a while til I thought if safe to venture out again.
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It's always , 'I want this topped' or 'I want that lopped' I gave up a long time ago trying to advise customers the exact opposite of what they request, 'for the benefit of the tree' , My cheery competitors would waste no time in steaming in behind my back and doing whatever the customer wanted with bells on. So now we do what they ask,and relieve them of as much of their bank account as I can squeeze out of them.
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As a professional company we strive to carry out the customers wishes combined with a little bit of advice. So we do an enormous amount of lopping and topping
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I told my lads to knock it on the head an hour ago when I noticed their mood had changed,unrelenting rain since first thing.
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Think I know that young fellow, goes by the nickname of 'Spike'
