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  1. Yes but no point as will be taking the mill on the tipper and multione on trailer. Im already modifying it- added a second bar so you can pick it up with the forks making it much easier to set on the rails on your own.
  2. Or you could just use a couple of trees you’re being paid to cut up anyway? Sorry, I’m doing an Andy! 🤦‍♂️🤣
  3. Well it’ll have to live outside, I’ll spray it with something. Sits quite well on the beaver tail (minus the soft tyre). I’m going to make a bracket up to pick the mill head up with pallet forks, so it and the track can go to site in the back of the tipper and then be moved into position on the trailer with the multione. I prefer it up on the trailer, so I’ll turn the handle the other way around. You can easily wiggle it to the middle of the trailer for transport if needed, and four ratchets onto the mill head should hold it steady for site transport or road if not taking the loader too.
  4. Says the guy with a diesel loader 🤣 My Sherpa will easily drink 15-20l on a long day being used flat out. Still way cheaper than labour.
  5. None whatsoever I’m afraid- I only swim breast stroke! I like my head out of water. I find a powerful breast stroke is good cardio as it keeps pressure off my dodgy joints as well as the water helping me to keep cool. But my best progress has come from a squat rack at the yard. I too did a lot of cycling when I was younger, my cardio isn’t terrible but it could be better. Probably carrying a bit more weight than I need currently which doesn’t help.
  6. How do you think I pay for all the toys? It sure aint from tree work!
  7. Squats are just fantastic. I find 5-8 x 5 depending upon weight to be good for me. The only cardio I do is sprints in the pool. I'm a very strong swimmer but my willingness to spend thirty mins in the water comes and goes. I like squats because you can be totally shagged within fifteen minutes. I hate with a passion other forms of cardio, but probably because I should do it more often.
  8. Compound lifts, heavy enough to be a challenge but without getting into bodybuilder territory where injury becomes a risk. It makes me laugh, almost every customer says "wow, I bet your job keeps you fit!". No love, all I do these days is pull levers and point fingers.
  9. I’m pretty impressed with the quality. I figured it was a good entry level model and if it goes well I won’t loose much on it to upgrade.
  10. Basically a Mazda. So a proper truck, not a tartmobile (apologies, I know most on here use them for actual work!) Both of mine are about the same as the photos posted above minus the rotten sump- but the doublecab hasn’t gotten worse in the five years I’ve had it. And that’s a 57 plate! Keep meaning to waxoyl them, the new tipper especially.
  11. Doubt it mate, I reckon this one is the big one! Hope you are all stocked with food and weapons 🤣
  12. Nice one Mark!! This was two of us yesterday, four hours work. It’s mental how much a mini skid speeds things up.
  13. You won't get decorative bark chips from here, especially not for free. Bark chippings are produced as a product, wood chip is a waste product from tree surgery and includes all the wood and leaves.
  14. Those of you who do air spading- what is the going rate per day (especially now on white diesel!) and how many CFM on the compressor is needed to be efficient?
  15. Thank god for that.
  16. God, for a moment I thought you’d stolen one of my photos!
  17. You’re an animal for ringing that up!!
  18. I remember felling a large ish oak with a 16” on an old 036. My first letterbox cut, went well 💪🏻 biggest I’ve done so far was where I needed to bore the hinge using a 28” bar, but that was with some wide buttress even after pencilling down. Personally if I have to ring up after, I’d much rather switch to a larger for for felling and ringing, but the letterbox cut is a good skill to have.
  19. He’ll be lucky to find any of those saws for sale currently.
  20. No idea. I just know it’s a thing on the 462.
  21. Nope, all good. It's just eco bollocks.
  22. I run a 36" on my MS462. Knocked the oiler pin in and wound it to the max and it's fine for the felling cuts and ringing up the first few metres of big butts, which is all it gets used for.
  23. Social Democrats are worth a look too just a shame the current system means it’ll only ever be labour or Tory.

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