Shane
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Was that the one on arbtrader last week????
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It will break! And thats from a landy lover! Also the payload will be 'very low' if you want to stay legal. However, the image of a tipping landy is a good one. Back to you and what you want/need.
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It looks like the top ladder is tied top and bottom, the lower ladder in the bobcat is for access only. Good luck I say. He may, of course, NEED luck but we all gotta start somewhere. Didn't someone once say 'your biggest mistake is usually your last mistake'.
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A lot of that wood appears NOT to be oak - some of those rings look a lot like macrocarpa, but then again, you can't knoock him for trying, he's not forcing anyone to buy it.
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You should see the top handle version for climbers!
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Felix No - I've been waiting for my 'local' supplier. I'll give Forest & Arb a ring tomorrow. Thanks
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Having bought an Echo pole pruner last year - It's noe time to find out about their spares back-up. So far, not very good. I managed to lose the short 'sacrificial' adapter that sits on the end of the shaft between the shaft and the cutter head. They are designed to fail before the shaft gets shafted so I expected a quick replacement. So far 9 working days and still waiting. Does anyone on here know wher I might get one? If their chainsaw spares are like this they will rule themselves out of the 'top handle' race that's for sure.
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Just talking to the service guys at my local shop (a very reliable one) and they recon they've had shed loads old 201s in for constant repair, and virtually all the huskies due to flimsy bits breaking - and they are a pig to work on apparently. Their suggestion is to keep ms200s alive, rebuild as and when necessary. You still have a decent saw for less than the cost of the new 'less well built' products. That is the opinion of the guys who work on the saws, the shop owner may well have a different view. I think these threads will run and run till Stihl and Husky sort out their products. I have 3 running ms200s and one for spares. Theres no point in cashing in on the silly ebay prices if you can't replace them with something better.
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Reminded myself why i went from landys to japanese...
Shane replied to wisecobandit's topic in General chat
It's all about opinions. If everyone selected everything on the same criteria we would all be driving the same thing, we would all use the same chainsaw, we would all eat the same food, bought from the same shop, drink the same booze from the same pub and like the same Rolf Harris picture. But, 'fank God, Arry' we don't. The landy lovers (like me) will ignore the faults and expound the good points (well... good point). It's nothing to do with facts, I love my landy, I've never had a Jap Macho machine and may never. Next thing you know there will be a dispute over which chipper is best Landys for ever - boo to the techno reliable pose-mobiles. -
Reminded myself why i went from landys to japanese...
Shane replied to wisecobandit's topic in General chat
If Japanes 4x4s are so bleedin great why do they need names like Shogun, Warrior, and Hugely endowed he-man to sell them? eh. They should come with a big moustache on the front and some tight denim around the exhaust pipe. -
It must be returned from whence it came, otherwise we are all doomed. Doooomed , I tell ye!
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Similar to Mr Gale, must be a Sussex thing. Usually the phone calls slow up a bit in June/July, especially when its a world cup or olympics, but always enough to keep busy.
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That would go down well with the 'Mind my helibores' brigade.
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Pull his teeth out.
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Wood chip and log tip site Egham/Englefield Green, Surrey
Shane replied to Rhystree's topic in General chat
I think there was a thread on Egham disposal locations a few months ago. Probably worth a search. -
He's just a low life little masticater. While I can't blame these overpaid little plastic gods for accepting the wages that are thrown at them people like him and Joey Barton give the whole game a very poor image. Didn't Sepp Blatter describe Christiano Ronaldo as a 'slave' when Alex Ferguson first refused his request for a move to Real Madrid?? The whole organisation is rotten from the top down. Roll on Quatar 2022 when they all die of de-hydration. Rant over - anyone need a tree surgeon - £80,000 a week?
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Nice one - I've always found them really helpful. A recycling plant with a bit of ambiance, no less.
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He's a rip off merchant, I sold him a load of those saws and he only paid me £290 each! The audacity of some people!
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Stubbs Copse at Arundel should be able to provide the first 4 items on the list. 01903 883751 They also take green waste, £7.20 mtr, or £3.60 chipped
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We did some work for Chris Evans' neighbour near Winkworth Arboretum. You could just see his house in the distance. The house was a Lutyens design with a wing for the staff. Patio must be 50mtrs x 30, leading on to the upper lawn (bigger than a football pitch). No idea how many bedrooms, I've stayed in smaller hotels. The great thing is that the owner only lives therea few weeks a year. He's got places all over the world - He's NOT a tree surgeon, by the way.
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With small chippers you will find you have to spend a lot of time trimming the branches before you can feed them through. Generally speaking, the cheaper it is the less effective it will be. The best small chipper I used for under £1k was a second hand entec treebusta. really solid machine but they don't come up that often nowadays. They were repaced by an inferior design - timberwolf something, which looks like a squared off megaphone on wheels. What sort of volume are you hoping to process?
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Good luck to them. I used to work with a guy (office job, last century) who would remove any tree for the timber. He turned up with a Black and Decker saw and a tatty little Halfords trailer - took the logs home and all brushwood taken to amenity tip. He never paid for logs, just spent a load on petrol and frequent saw replacement. Everyone to their own.
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Do you mean the show where Jimmy Saville introduced the Gary Glitter/Rolf Harris duet? If i recall they were doing two little boys
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There was a program on a while ago where crows had learned to drop nuts on the road so the traffic would break them open. Then they started doing it on pedestrian crossings and dropping down to eat while the traffic was stopped. Absolutely amazing - more intelligence than some of the 'passers by' we deal with.
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If they carry on like this they will refuse to run back from the chipper! Goodness only knows how much this has reduced the payload.
