armchairarborist
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i guess standing on a scaffplank between two wheelie bins is beneath you? saw someone doing it once next to a main road on a slope, the bins were a good 10ft apart and plank was fit for snapping:thumbdown:
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'what did you do in the war grandad?'
armchairarborist replied to arbogrunt's topic in Picture Forum
oh yeh, does kinda look like a blower now:blushing:, im still buzzing from spud cannon, metre long drainpipe sharpened at one end, other end has an expansion chamber thingy with a threaded rodding eye cab, gas fire ignition starter with two wires nearly touching inside, glue and tape all joints, two second burst of hairspray + spud = halfmile spud gun.., get all the bits from b+q for £45:thumbup: -
'what did you do in the war grandad?'
armchairarborist replied to arbogrunt's topic in Picture Forum
please tell me that is a spud cannon and not just a drainpipe, im getting a plumber mate to make me one after playing with one last week... awesome, my mate is using 3bags of spuds a day at the weekend its so addictive -
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8D-5XvXl_U] well of course its real..
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hi-flexes, however dont get the womens fitment ones or you will be busting a zip at the first tight crotch..
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I need a climber thursday 26th aug 2010, thats tomorrow depending when you read this:thumbup:.. nothing huge, couple of ash/sycs to reduce and scots/birch to fell/dismantle. pm me or mobile 07747022678 or office 01484647860, thankyou. Ed.
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the outhere brothers, 'boom boom boom'. finally tested my waterproof phone today, the samsung tough fone, could have wrung me undies out by 10am:blushing: with todays downpour and dragging brash out of soggy overgrown laurels. there was 2inch of water in back of landy by 3pm
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4.5t, can i enquire as to the water content of the chip? and the fullness of the fueltank?
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slowly working out how to get pics off a memory stick.. here goes, ash cut high as there were rocks jammed in lower down and a footpath circles the stump,(they get slippery you know) shallow gob into decent wood to create hinge in best timber at sides, followed by bore and release..
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felled a weeping willow today with phytopthora just starting to show under branch unions and under the bark layer, the woodchip all went back to the yard as usual, but.. am i transporting a problem that hypothetically could cause a problem if dumped near unaffected but already stressed trees?
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good job i didnt put money on that, i never do really well because of the pathetic steering lock on the landy, i was thinking 'no way will a jensen go down that quarryface on the last trial' haha:thumbup:
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didnt get chance to nip under bonnet but found the logbook and.. well.. its the worst news, 3050kg:thumbdown:. now im really interested in getting it re-plated, anyone know the thread from this week where this was discussed?
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by bad luck do you mean you got 'eaten', where the bonnet falls on you (the wheel is really heavy) its happened to me once so far..
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WANTED ! 110 hi cap ifor willams canopy
armchairarborist replied to defenderjack's topic in General chat
haha it was so funny, he had somehow modified a 90 canopy to fit the front half of his rear tub, it looked really bad.. can you believe when they did project hicap in the mag they left off the rear axle breather, when i first saw it lastyear it was spewing emulsified ep90 everywhere.. -
like to back that up on a landrover trial?
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WANTED ! 110 hi cap ifor willams canopy
armchairarborist replied to defenderjack's topic in General chat
you have incredibly bad timing my friend, i gave one away last month to john carroll, lr magazine chap for his silver 110hcpu that got nicked recently doh, the canopy was sat for ages doing nowt in the garden:thumbdown: -
my dream arb vehicle would be a landy 110 or similar with a chipper mounted on the back of it firing chip into a box type tipping trailer, the chipper itself could be surrounded by tool storage boxes, chapter 8 boxes, fuel store maybe even a small welfare unit if it is a 130. feed chip into it from either rear corner of the vehicle then the chute going to trailer would be a sealed flexipipe to stop dropping bits over the road. obvious issues include infeed hopper height which would need to be quite low and the chipper would have to go everywhere the landy went, i.e. to do quotes/ general runaround jobs, on the plus side you get a useful truck that shouldnt ever be overloaded if its built right and assume a 1t trailer you can get 2.5t of woodchip/logs. shoot me down if its wrong guys..
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couldn't work it out at first.. its the print off the bottle jack, thats a long hinge:thumbup1:
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i just had a quick look for the logbook and cant find it.. will it be stated on the plate under the bonnet? i need to nip under there tomorrow anyway..
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i'll dig the logbook out tomorrow and have a looksee.. hopefully its the latter:thumbup1:
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Rise of the Mamils(middle aged men in lycra)
armchairarborist replied to melvyn's topic in The Lounge
funny that, i used the old push iron today for the first time in 3years, had to nip down to the yard, landy wasnt back from having its clutch fitted and the woman was out in her disco, the downhill bit was brilliant.. but me bum still hurts from the 2minute uphill bit that made my legs turn to jelly, might have to take it out a bit more regular now the tyres are inflated, i see them dudes who spend hundreds on bikes and lycra and helmets shades etc and laugh because im having just as much fun as them but for much cheaper.. and everybody can see their nob haha -
dropped this birch against direction of lean, took some fair beating with a freshly cut oak wedge and the axehead, it was in the quarrybottom so was quite tall.
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yes probably, im not claiming to be an expert welder/fabricator but its got to be better than the rust.. hopefully converting to a tipper when i get the bits so i can strengthen it when the backbody is out of the way:thumbup1:
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update on my truck, just got it back from garage today with a shiny new clutch and slave cylinder for only £258.00, i dont know how he can do it that cheap.. not a rip off as i saw him do most of it:thumbup1: only problem is now the wipers are stuck switched on, pulled the fuse till i get a few mins to trace the fault..
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haha, having computer issues this week, havn't worked out how to get pics from backup memory thingy onto new computer:blushing:, new machine doesnt seem to have a card reader either:blushing:.. or is it just an excuse to keep my lovely hinges from prying eyes for a bit longer..?
