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  1. oldwoodcutter
    Leaving the chipper revving its guts out for yonks when there's plainly nothing left to chip. Have I told them about it ? Only about 100 times.
  2. oldwoodcutter
    In a lot of years cutting I've only had a topper come back at me once, and at the time I posted the experience on here. Yes, I still cut one handed a lot, but having that chain come to a stop a few inches from my throat with the bar flat on my chest will always be in my memory. Most of us regard ourselves as being fit and with good reflexes, but it was too quick and powerful for me to have any effect on, but I'm still cutting one handed. Well said Reg.
  3. oldwoodcutter
    If anyone lit up in my truck, they would be out the door with my old boot behind them.
  4. oldwoodcutter
    I've had q.chip, now got a tw230, which outperforms and is easier to maintain than qc or forst.
  5. oldwoodcutter
    I'm often tempted to pull over to that bunch of hi vis clad do-gooders and say "if I weren't completely bladdered I'd have an argument with you but I gotta go cos I'm bursting for a leak" That should wind things up a bit.
  6. oldwoodcutter
    Two lorry firms I know of want a down payment from new drivers of £500 and £1000 before they start their employment. Their lorry is inspected upon return to yard and any broken mirrors, lamp clusters, dents and grazes are taken out of that, no questions, no excuses. If they don't stump up the down payment they don't start driving, go and drive for someone else if you don't like it. The owners like this scheme, the drivers don't.
  7. oldwoodcutter
    I wouldn't want to be within 10 feet of that, knowing what can happen.
  8. oldwoodcutter
    I spend a good deal of my time up in north Norfolk and yes, it is soaked with tree firms from quite big players to many many sole traders all following each other round pricing up the same jobs and cutting each other up. In my humble, you may be better off specialising in aspects of tree work other than cutting and climbing.
  9. oldwoodcutter
    Drinking tea in front of logburner,gonna move back a bit in a minute.
  10. oldwoodcutter
    One tool worthy of a mention is a sledge hammer handle I keep in a handy spot up at my main yard, I expect it will come into full use when I catch the weasels red handed that like to help themselves to a few ton of my best cord from time to time.
  11. oldwoodcutter
    Yes, too big for your trouser pocket unless you're just walking around. Anything to do with work and I leave it in the truck.
  12. oldwoodcutter
    We were working in a village last Monday and when the builders turned up first thing to continue their work on the church tower found that over the weekend all the scaffolding around the steeple had disappeared. There was a lot of chin scratching and disbelief, obviously whoever they were that dismantled it all had to know what they were doing, and have the front to do it.
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    I very seldom lone work nowadays,latterly when doing log production I too had my truck pointing the right way for a quick getaway, (which did pay dividends one time) and worked more slowly and methodically to keep myself safe. Back in the day I have many memories of lone workers 'accidents'. - some got away with it and some sadly didn't.
  14. oldwoodcutter
    I have a 2045 turbo which we use temporarily when a daily saw has broken down, it punches well above its weight, was this marketed as semi-pro Mr Troll ? Sorry, just seen your reply to adw.
  15. oldwoodcutter
    Thanks Bob, it was just that I thought "migrate" was what birds do, but i guess it's a word used by people that know a lot about grease.
  16. oldwoodcutter
    I give my 230 a few pumps when it's running but I can never quite see that its going where it should, no surplus grease oozing from the bearings etc, which worried me. I mentioned it to the Timberwolf mechanic when he came the other day, and he said that it migrates easily,whatever that means.
  17. oldwoodcutter
    I wondered where my ladders went .
  18. oldwoodcutter
    My tippers a double cab mk 7 with alloy sides, and is really good. You will have your work cut out finding a decent low mileage mk 6 , but not impossible. There are plenty of mk 7s about, yes they are dear but if you find an owner driver one that's not had the guts thrashed out of it you should be ok.
  19. oldwoodcutter
    There's no shortage of climbers, Merrist wood and Easton are churning them out wholesale. They work for firms paying them £80 a day for a few months then buy a Renault kango and start their own tree surgery company hiring a chipper and working with a mate with a chip truck. Yes they are then run off their feet charging £150 for a days work between the two of them. I see this all the time but we can't change the world.
  20. oldwoodcutter
    I've often noticed that it's when hedge cutting or tree topping on a still day or cutting in a confined space like beside high hedges that the fumes would be very noticeable with the old pump petrol, occasionally gagging , so you have to stop and have a breather. With aspen you still can feel the hot gases around your head , but you're not poisoning yourself doing it.
  21. oldwoodcutter
    Yes it is expensive, but I don't want to end my days in a cancer ward because I liked inhaling pump petrol. So I put aspen in everything with a 2 stroke engine from a leaf blower to a 660.
  22. oldwoodcutter
    Generally if you use agency workers you've got your work cut out motivating them, often the week before they were plucking chickens or cutting lettuces out of a field somewhere. I use a strategically placed advert locally or get them via word of mouth. The Eastern European lads that have come to us like that have proved to be very hard working and switched on. Apart from one fellow who, if I understood him correctly, came from Macedonia. That was all he could say in English and was his standard reply to everything I asked him to do.
  23. oldwoodcutter
    If you don't slow down a bit as you get older, tiredness will take over sooner or later. Getting to bed before 11 at night, and delegating more during the day works for me.
  24. oldwoodcutter
    My brother in law (a full time pen pusher)gave me a qualcast electric chainsaw after buying it new to slash a few bushes down in his posh garden. A more vicious saw I've seldom seen, self sharpening with very weird cutters. I plugged it in just to see what happened and soon blinkin switched it off again. It's a wonder he didn't cut his own neck off with it. One of my daughters got shot of it for me on eBay. Steer well clear of that model my friend.
  25. oldwoodcutter
    My old Ranger had an intermittent starting fault, nothing serious just clicked on the key now and then before catching. Owners forum said key switch is known fault, but local garage would hear none of it and put new starter on. 6 months later got worse so back it went, this time they confidently put a starter relay on. And then it got quite bad so they put a big 5 year battery on. Then it got even worse, again I suggest key switch but this time they put a 'genuine 'starter goes on ( wouldn't be warranty as over a year now). Then stops and won't start at all, just clicks. Now they think yes it may be ignition switch. Has been trouble free now for years.

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