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Tree id, a spruce variety?
oldwoodcutter replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Tree Identification pictures
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Yes I’ll do that, no problem, thanks Barrie.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Red fir
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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.
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Why I love using ladders for tree work
oldwoodcutter replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Climbers talk
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] -
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.
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Why I love using ladders for tree work
oldwoodcutter replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Climbers talk
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. -
Go for a tw230, mine munches everything effortlessly.
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Do you rates go up as much as they should each year..
oldwoodcutter replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
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. -
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.
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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]
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Do you rates go up as much as they should each year..
oldwoodcutter replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
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. -
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.
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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.
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Do you rates go up as much as they should each year..
oldwoodcutter replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
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. -
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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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.
