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  1. colwoodlandcare
    Back in the day when we used to cart brush.
  2. colwoodlandcare
    i run a 36 ,28 and an 18" on my 660, with the 18 i have the rakers filed down quite a bit and the chunk fly off her
  3. colwoodlandcare
    Got to say i didn't really like it either, it was a windy day and i was just getting over a cold, so my balance was not all that.
  4. colwoodlandcare
    What made me laugh was the owner of the tree saying the wood is good, i then showed her with a hammer that the middle just crumbled. A moment later when the grab went to pic up part of the butt it just cracked in half
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    Maybe a few cube of wood but most was really quite rot, a lot of dust coming off when cutting. I say crane in it, it was a friends friend, but its a lorry recovery truck. Doesn't reach to far but had 4 20 tonne winches on it and when lifting 1m away with snatch block supposed to be able to do 140 tonne, but looses a hell of a lot of that at it limited 8m reach. Did the job very well though at short notice.
  6. colwoodlandcare
    Got a call this morning about an Oak falling onto a house despite the no wind. Story was some one i do there climbing for spoke to the owner of the tree last year advising her to have it taken down due to rot and she said it was all well and good. 6am this morning it falls onto the neighbours house above were they are sleeping. i finished up my mornings work and arrived on site for 2 ready for the crane at 2;15. We had tractor and forestry trailer ready also. The crane took the weight while we removed as much as poss between two of us before then lifting and pulling it round with the tractor and lowing it into the garden. Ill try get some pictures off the the neighbour when i can.
  7. colwoodlandcare
    Today at my regular the time came to pollard the Poplar. Quite a windy day with 1 side needing lowing.
  8. colwoodlandcare
    Before pic
  9. colwoodlandcare
    Will try get the before pic of my partner.
  10. colwoodlandcare
    Just done the 1st of 3 Oaks to reduce at a regular client. He's speading them out through out the winter.
  11. colwoodlandcare
    "I think we will leave the tree till its dropped its leaves as cutting it down will kill it"
  12. colwoodlandcare
    Sorry to hear. I live in one of the villages around Haywards Heath and had all my climbing and rigging kit nicked a year or so ago. Will keep my eyes open
  13. colwoodlandcare
    Hmm i do hope its not an expensive thing, the little cog still turns but hand just nothing when you touch the throttle. do hope its something simple.
  14. colwoodlandcare
    Was cutting brambles on friday when the blades stopped moving but it would still rev, shock it and they moved again then stopped. Ive taken the bottom cover to the gearbox off and the 1st little cog isn't going round. Any ideas what the part inside could be broken? Is it a timely thing to do?
  15. colwoodlandcare
    Arsome pics there, Ive got my first bit of major work to some redwoods coming up. I have to take 30 and 40 feet out of 2 trees and deadwood a 3rd. A little unsure of work method yet to take the top of the tree out, there is a very small drop zone which i might cut the pieces small and chuck them or try and some how rig and not get it court up.
  16. colwoodlandcare
    This is pretty insane
  17. colwoodlandcare
    Thanks for the comments, i have used the tech of taking a pic before hand and drawing a line on it where it will be cut to. I normally always do a written quote, but they didn't want one. In the past i have just given them the paper copy in the morning also. I guess how I've tried to explain it on hear has even got me confused. The morning of the job we agreed on the point in the tree where it would come down to but guess once the work was done he can't see what it used to be like nor what has come off. I think ill just talk about meters coming off the tree and not talk at all about percentages, to save confusion.
  18. colwoodlandcare
    Ill stick to finding a big lump to pass through it to let it drop back out then. On another little fort when you put through a big v piece of wood that won't fit through the opening the top roller some times stops turning, only happens though when it can't pull it through. Im reckoning i have a pressure relief valve that i need to adjust?
  19. colwoodlandcare
    Fraid not, not on this one
  20. colwoodlandcare
    Did an Oak reduction on saturday, the tree is in a neighbours property and they wanted more like in the garden, so after they had spoke with the neighbour and gained permission and i went and spoke and agreed on a 25% reduction, i explained this wasn't 25% of the height nor width to come off and it was 25% leaf volume and they should loose about 3-4 foot off this tree. Any how we took the evy off which was 4cbm of chip worth and reduced the tree, i took 15ft out the top for them. At the end of the day they said it wasn't what they imagined and fort that the tree would be a 3rd smaller. I have agreed to go back and take a further 4-5meters out the top of the tree, but personally i think it will spoil the look of the tree.
  21. colwoodlandcare
    On are KwikChip the top feed roller some times get held up by a chunk of chip, this is usually from when a larger branch goes through. In most case all that is required is to put a branch though large enough to lift the roller and the chunk of chip falls out, but some times the chunk won't dislodge. I then have to lift of the shout and lift the roller up. Is there any way round this problem, a modification i can make?
  22. colwoodlandcare
    Other option thats just come to mind is a bobcat with a flail. Is there any where to hire these? Sussex
  23. colwoodlandcare
    Ive got a job coming up involving some clearance. The quote i put in was subject to being able to burn on site, they have come back saying no burn so I'm after a way off getting rid of all the waste. The material is brambles and a lot of 15-20ft saplings and field hedges. The ground it is on is very wet with standing water. At present we were having a 1 person on the ground, 1 7.5 tonne digger and a jcb 434 to keep moving the material onto the bonfire after it has been swung onto a bit of dry land. Does any one have any numbers for rent of a pro shredder, prefible with a grab arm to feed its self.
  24. colwoodlandcare
    Cheers guys, just heard today that a few hours after we left she went back in to hospital. do hope it wasn't from the shock of the transformation.
  25. colwoodlandcare
    Had a job today for a women my auntie helps. Her husband died 5-10 years ago and she is bed bound. Her husband had plant a weeping willow which she wanted the least possible done to it other than the height taking out. Other than that there was 2 conifers to take out and 4 to take 15 feet out of. Took 2 loads of chip and 1 load of logs and where out by lunch

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