armchairarborist

havn't had to defrost any padlocks for a few days..

you don't chain your logs up?

if you can grow me two 4m quercus ilex by next week i'll give you a small fortune.. been quoted £165+vat each by two horties, i'm selling them to customer at cost+planting as theyre so much..

hey swb that reminds me of this pic of me a couple of years ago, found it high on the hill behind kinloch rannoch, there were two of them, must have been there years and years, tried to find them again this year but they would have been 2ft under the snow..

..balls, keep forgetting the pix

that giraffe jobbie looks handy, heres a couple of pics of a mewp we hired for £150 per day lastyear, 1st pic looks almost landy mounted haha, the brash was only going round corner so piled trailer up high, oh laddo dropped a small block of oak onto the hydraulic leg pipe and snapped the union clean off. peed hydraulic oil all over my hiflexes, thought i'd wet miself at first- lovely n warm..

nice pile of firewood that.. are they big lumps? or is it a really small pick up truck?

one went past house today, had a huge excavator on the trailer, looked like a slowtrak to me..

garage just rang n said £175 for box + £60 fitting, shud be ready tomorow, nice fast service from this guy B.A.S at cleckheaton. something else for the creditcard im afraid.

Haix boots (protector pro) if you can afford with stihl hi-flex kex, my haix's are so comfy im still wearing them now. obviously try them out first if you have shop local..

after seeing this one go i don't think im brave enough to chance a secondhand one.. could turn wheel lock to lock with no resistance.. (wheels not turning) thanks anyway man.

don't have time to fix it this week so RAC took it to my mates garage, anyone know where to get a steering box for less than £190? oh its 300tdi, thanks Ed

hahaha oops, i'll come quietly

...balls

saw these guys today, wakefield rd hudds, no ppe, ladders (take note bob) full chapter 8 kit (invisible version) the guy up there was pulling a length of polyprop blue rope, not sure if it was for tying in with or rigging..

haha HSE police, excuse me sir were you aware you were sawing at 32 m/s in a 30 zone?

erm sorry oraficer, it won't happen again, honest.. (unless i get a 7tooth sprocket)

well done Jim, now clean yr saw, sharpen it, fuel up ready for tomorrow and.. nah sod it, get to pub n celebrate..

had to leave the disco at the shops tonight.. the woman wasn't too impressed about getting into the 110, its pretty bad in there at the mo..

hope you spiked up the back of it..

back from college in the wifes disco after blasting down the motorway at 70mph ooo, went in house, woman went straight out to shops in it, then rang me to say she's at the shops and the steering won't work, had a look, and well it looks like the bottoms fallen out of the steering box.. couldn't believe it at first as id just been on motorway in it, guess what i'm doing tomorrow now?

haha can it reverse into a big drystone wall, pull forward stall then roll back through the wall with only a scratch? with one 'new driver' behind the wheel blaming the gearbox..

was just thinking 8am is pretty early, then doh.. i've gotta go to college at preston tomorrow, need to be ont motorway at 7am, if yr there weds i might nip down..Ed

never did spot you in the mondeo, might have a better chance now, looks a tidy machine:thumbup1:

of course you would need your groundy ticket as well when rigging, got mine free when did rigging course..yay, didn't even know there was one

do you mean graft when the tree is young? or like the victorians did, graft 40ft up to get massive cascades? or both? just wondering as i'd love to give the latter a go..Ed