armchairarborist
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its more a case of your safety, if something happens to you what happens then? scenario.. you are up a tree, boss not about or out of reach of ladder rescue, round the back of a building where fire service can't get truck near. its not worth it to you and the people who care about you, i'm not doubting your abilities as a climber to work safely, fair enough if your boss doesn't know current practice yet but you need to tell him its not right to work this way. Ed.
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them brainiacs were nearly toast, hope nobody got zapped
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rob has that one i think tom, heres ray's aerial lunge, rob climbing, rob on his landy roof, no thats not the end of the zipline, and another pic of that beastly landy:thumbup:
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i think it suits you tom..
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couple more, clearing a path for the zip line over the stinkwater pond:thumbup: recreational climbing can be fun, depends how you look at it, its nice to chill out at the top of a tree:001_smile:
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just a few from today..
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just got in from an ace day.. thanks for organising it rob, nice to meet everyone, im watching avatar on dvd so i'll log back in later, (cant wait to see the big tree on pandora again..!)
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council is having cutbacks, teabags get used 3times now and there are talks of going onto brown sugar and cheap biccies:001_tt2:
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does anyone run their chipper on red diesel?
armchairarborist replied to Pete Hart's topic in General chat
aye when you get yourself a diesel chainsaw:thumbup: -
hi did you get some helper springs sorted, i nipped into the local landy shop this week and got a price for them and the retainers, forgot how much now but added it to my thread 'landy helper springs' if you want to look it up, hope you ok.. Ed.
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gosh we're going to look like a bunch of japanese tourists with our cameras:001_tt2:
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hahaha yes i accidently went wading in the haixes last month and they took a few days to dry out fully, i couldn't find my old pair straight away so worked in the chainsaw wellies, uncomfy or what..? and yes i wore spikes and dismantled a couple of cherries with them on.. ouch:blushing:
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there's the newish vw twin cab pickup too:001_tt2:
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this thread has a nice international feel to it.. come down on red did they?
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if you are painting it why not do it to your company colour scheme? no point advertising for entec/tw when you can have it matching your tug, just a thought.. Ed.
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ok that guy is crazy:scared1:
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cool, brava's are a decent truck, i dont think my tailgate is strong enough anymore for the loadhandler kit as i keep reversing by braille when its open:blushing:, i imagine a bit of wax or something on the truck floor might help, you want the friction to be working on top of the sheet more than below it:001_cool:
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new chains are nice, stay sharp for ages and look ace (nice big cutters) i was wondering the other week if i could replicate the polished surface of the filed bit to make it last longer after filing but then i laughed and thought yeh right its not like i sharpen mine that often anyway.. unless i blunt one using it and sharpen it there and then i just give all the saws to my bro approx once a week for a blast out and proper sharpen, he likes doing them to perfection and makes him some extra cash:001_cool:
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the chimney needs to draw air upwards so it makes sense that wind passing by will achieve this, if its a still day and the chimney isn't drawing (it fills the room with smoke instead) get a hairdrier or blowtorch and blast some heat up the chimney to get it pulling:thumbup1:
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does anyone run their chipper on red diesel?
armchairarborist replied to Pete Hart's topic in General chat
always use red, just shop around for the best price, at the moment you should find it approx half the price of white, ask farmers and plant hire firms or oil companies, i was lucky and found someone who gives me red in exchange for clean white woodchip:thumbup: -
windy? yep had curry lastnight, fires roaring away:thumbup: gusting a fair bit outside too:001_cool:
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sounds like a piece of pish, the hardest bit in reducing connies that size is if the wind is going the wrong way, access both sides as rob says is easy money:001_cool:
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confirmed, want me to fetch the rigging rope?
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driving past a war memorial today and the pavement around was packed with people, i had just put the radio on and thought it was on mute or something, then they played a song with 'remember me' in the lyrics so i knew something was going on, i didn't know beforehand at all as there is no radio in the work tug (i was driving the womans disco) and i never watch the news so am painfully ill informed these days..
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Grazing response- A "thorny" issue
armchairarborist replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
i did a presentation on antiherbivore adaptation at college and think that this qualifies me to put my stamp on this thread, thats all i've got:blushing:, isnt it usually horticulturalists who mess with plant traits and get a cross with no thorns/more thorns etc, not sure if everytime it gets pruned/bitten/wounded it reprotects itself so how to change that is a tricky one, im a big fan of thorny security hedging, you know - the thick, closely planted stuff that nobody can wriggle through because its planted in 3 or 4 rows of mixed berberis/blackthorn/hawthorn etc..
