Ian Flatters
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Please don't ever compare me to him.
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Cheers Jon, Seems like im moving away from domestic jobs as such these days.
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I quickly made a new video up, playing around a little bit with camera angles more so. Anyway, hope you enjoy. [ame] [/ame]
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Recent convert, few queries...
Ian Flatters replied to Dobson89's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
When limb walking i used to pull the wrench down against the hitch, climb out take my hand off to allow it to set again, stropped in and worked. Used the same setup as you too. -
The videos I've seen they scare the hell out of me.
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Nice pics Ian, although it took me a few seconds to work out how that log was 90 degrees off the stem. Today back at the mental hospital removing the conifers. The lads dropped the trees and quickly snedded them up for mechanical feeding whilst I sorted some green waste on the site. We reduced feed roller speed down to about a 1/3. One guy on the chipper, one guy by the stems in case something didn't get snedded right and one guy on the skid steer. All chipped with ease. And last of all what I got my mate rob to make up for the skid steer so I didn't have to change grabs when moving bits on site.
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That's mostly only to do with the kit I've spent money on. Some of my mates who own firms have only invested about a third of what I have. Just a very ambitious person whose ocd about detail and a workaholic (last bit I am trying to stop but my goal is to buy the house I want not just to own a house)
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Haha, just really like some of the places im lucky enough to work at. Trees a tree but some of the buildings are just impressive.
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A few bits and bobs today. Lads took this sycamore down to a height I can hiab it off the listed wall. I went and surveyed a site then quickly knocked the height down on a conifer hedge for a friend who was behind on his own job. No finished pic of the sycamore as I had to dart off to price some work.
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Yeah, the lads in today had, had enough so he's coming with me next week.
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Cheers eggs, they are in fact doing me a huge favour, granted they get double pay on a Sunday I'm still making better money so I guess it's owed from my point of view, worked for a guy once who always tried to give you days in lieu. Never really liked it like that.
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You might be surprised how many young lads want a career in arb.
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Sadly yes.
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Yeah, and for the next few weekends. Only because I won a huge council contract and it's caused one severe headache trying to complete it and do some smaller clearances. I've promised if we get it all done by the second week of Christmas I will give them 2 weeks paid to sit at home (they all take 1 week anyway so that's 3 weeks off). All bar one are working like the hulk to get it done.
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I'm using that on Monday. Mines just got complacent being in the gang that I'm not running and needs some strong words off me.
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And a few pics from today.
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A few fells today, brash piled up for a lot of chipping tomorrow.
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What led light bars are you running on lr thanks
Ian Flatters replied to mendiplogs's topic in Arb-Trucks
Hey pal, just a local agricultural plant shop. All britax as well. -
A week off and I milled some redwood down, decided to rough sand it and then decided to draw something different on it. Took me about 4 hours in all because I really didn't want to mess it up too much. You can see on the tape my freehand isn't the best. Critics welcome.
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What led light bars are you running on lr thanks
Ian Flatters replied to mendiplogs's topic in Arb-Trucks
4 led flashers, 2 front, 2 rear, led roof flasher and 2 led lamps in the rear for night works and night loading.
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The wife wanted to carve some mushrooms up the yard today so I took up the Alaskan and milled a couple of bits. Sequoia, metasequoia and paulownia. I broke the redwood down for shelves and cut the other bits to see what they are like milled.
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I found this the point between having employees and going for it or staying smaller and turning away any big works. As I've learnt the money might be good but tackling a big job with small kit can be brutal.
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Cheers, I've had a lot of bad employees over the years too. I am fortunate with my clients, even my commercial ones prefer a tree looking good rather than a hack job.
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Slowly starting to take a more of a back seat role these days and let the lads do all the sites this week without me to see how they get on. First site they had to do a 3m reduction on a tpo'd willow.
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A couple of bits from today. Creating shape on a yew archway and a 2m reduction on a small beech.
