armchairarborist
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Everything posted by armchairarborist
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..you take the back roads back to the yard rehearsing the words "i'm on me way to the weighbridge" in your head
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..you rate customers tea out of ten while knowing it'll end in 'can you just..
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..you trip over near the end of the day and just lay there for a minute to get a breather
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whats wrong with sycamore wine then?
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crack willow, i have searched them from top to bottom and guess what.. there's no crack, i reccon thats false advertising. oh and everytime i step on a branch it breaks away, if you chip it down a wet banking a million new ones pop up too.
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secret weirs haha, i went past them lastyear and they had shrunk a bit (or had i got bigger), i'll get some photos at the weekend
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always been into bikes until recently, we used the weirs on the beck to ride across, it was a real buzz being the first across when the water was deep, one of them no backing out thrills after you left the first dropoff, just hold tight and hope for the best
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yuck, that sounds horribly familiar:lol:
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treated the old tug to a full set of wipac genuine crap lamps 12mth ago, 1st pic -yep that is smoke, one of the contacts in the bottom of the plastic bulbholder fused against the side contact when a new bulb was inserted, and melted the wire right back to the switch, pic2 -12mth old:thumbdown:. lost faith in the loom and re-wired all the lighting circuits with a new fuseboard and new switches completely separate to the original loom/fuseboard:001_smile: -
i was looking forward to pics of wiring, did you bodge it or do it properly? i ask because i've been wiring the landy for a couple of days, (thought i'd start early as the mot is in april)
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i'd also like to blame a horse (if possible) for me getting stuck too:thumbup:
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not really, just re-wiring more of the landy and a few quotes.
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i have a similar problem with landy lamps, all the wiring for the lighting circuits has been replaced and now the remaining faults lie within the bulbholders, you push a new bulb in and it pops back out within seconds, i just bought a bunch of heavy duty bulb holders with grub screw type connectors, i'll build them into the existing lamps and no more problems:thumbup:, i did consider led lights but had already bought a heavy duty flasher unit as it's rare the trailer is not attached, now the landy is wearing back lamps robbed from a trailerboard and i just need to rebuild the fronts.
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cool work:thumbup1:, did you wet yourself though?
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i'd plant scots pine, it burns well without much spitting, when seasoned you can light firewood sized lumps with a match, you don't get a dark woodland as much with the scots so will allow an understorey of other plants not just a needlebed. its british native and the main species i'll be planting in my small woodland after i rip out the useless black pine. hope this helps. Ed.
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i know..just wanted to see that picture again:thumbup:
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i bet thats never been stuck has it rob? haha:001_tt2: proper sweet though
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Thieves will be shot, sawn and fed through a woodchipper, before being fed to the pigs as swill. -maybe there should be an AT comp for the best signpost for firewood piles?
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'you shall not pass..!' -(lord of the roads) Edit-yea i'm bored
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sounds like you're ready for the 341.
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root protecting foundation systems?
armchairarborist replied to stihllearning's topic in General chat
expose roots using hand digging methods or air spade, then bridge over the roots with blocks etc (like bridging services), and backfill with nice soil, don't leave roots exposed for long, just enough to map them and then re-cover, obviously check with local tree officer/planning dept first before work starts. -
that was worth waiting for, cool vid. edit- love using the saw as a crutch to escape with
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my 110 insurance is £600, plus this year i'm adding a 22yr old onto it for an extra £400 when he passes his trailer test next month, company called markerstudy. oh i'm 29, both with clean licences:001_smile:
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sounds a good deal to me, fancy a nice metal one? out of interest, what colour diesel was in that tank you filled it with? i assumed it was red but filled dumpy with it and it looks erm.. not red?
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Your throw weight? or Access system?
armchairarborist replied to RopeKnight's topic in International Arborist Forum
the pvc ones split in cold weather when they take a good impact (like a failed throw, pulled back out, landing on a paved surface), then lead shot spills everywhere, using pvc tape makes it last a few shots longer but will also split in the cold, the best you can hope for is some pigeon eats it as grit and gets lead poisoning and is unable to reproduce.
