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  1. Matthew Arnold
    Nice day clearing elder from a sight line on the side of the A350 in Iwerne Minster. Signs and cones out warning motorist that we were working on the side of the road. We were in a 30mph but on the approach in and out of national limit zone. The cars were fine with the minimal lane restriction. The lorries not so.
  2. Matthew Arnold
    Ere get out of my town haha. What course ya doing and where?
  3. Matthew Arnold
    Nothing major to report in the past few months. Lost another spaniel and thats it. Got some nice pics of the shoot i was at today. Wall to wall blue. The second picture shows what was left from the storms last winter. I wish i had got a before picture but it was a solid lump of douggie fir.
  4. Matthew Arnold
    I have a gardening client who wants his apple trees thinned, shaped and deadwooded. He would like it done as soon as possible which is fine by me. When is the best time of year to prune them?
  5. Matthew Arnold
    The toys oiled up and ready for action
  6. Matthew Arnold
    Not a clue but the man we bought it from has a container full of them.
  7. Matthew Arnold
    Popped into the loca antiques shop and found these two beauties tucked down the back of a modern rusty counterpart. Very happy with the find, even more so i only paid £30 for the pair.
  8. Matthew Arnold
    I use the 3mm Round Stihl cord in their Autocut 40-4 head. I have noticed that i am having to bop the head less often when strimming through heavy material and around posts and such like due to the 4 line taking equal strain where the 40-2 head cord would snap more easily. I am usually re filling the head once a week sometimes once a fortnight, depending on the area we are strimming and how many obstacles. We also soak our cord in water too (dealers reccomendation) as it makes the cord more supple and less prone to breaking.
  9. Matthew Arnold
    We run our gear on it every other fuel run. Once a month we put it through our diesel powered machinery and it does make a difference. Everything starts easier and runs alot smoother. Even the 4 mix dare i say it runs like a dream. We also put half a tank of the V power diesel through the trucks every few months to clean the injectors and filters a little bit.
  10. Matthew Arnold
    Not yet. Have sorted a tractor to fish it out of the murky depths but will take a slice off the butt first to see what it is. If its pop it will be left if its anything else its out.
  11. Matthew Arnold
    Whilst hedge cutting a stretch of trailway and old dear (70 +) tapped me on the sghould and asked if i wouldnt mine trimming her extremely matted, overgrown bush for her husband. How i kept it together i don't no but i was laugh about it for weeks afterward.
  12. Matthew Arnold
    Tree harvesters or maize harvesters?
  13. Matthew Arnold
    The man i nthe box was waving green as it was only a local yellow (entry to corner) and green on the exit. When the loader was there is was double waved yellows telling drivers to be extra cautious due to marshalls trackside. It was a combination of standing water, very poor visability and fading light which caused the crash. When Bainchi's car lost traction on the tarmac he was in for the ride unfortunately he hit the back of the loader. Lucky it wasnt a marshall or two.
  14. Matthew Arnold
    He was a very very lucky man not to lose his life yesterday. It just shows how safe the cars are now adays despite him being in intensive care. Fingers crossed he pulls through after that horror smash. The marshalls should have called the race off after half distance.
  15. Matthew Arnold
    I may have to get the services of the the old man as our trucks with the BFG AT's wont have the gripping power or low end grunt to pull that brute out. It was floating on the surface in May and extends atleast another 14 ft out. Will attempt to pull it out without cutting a massive hole out of the existing vegetation due to locals kicking up fuss when we fell a scraggy goat willow.
  16. Matthew Arnold

    Rats!

    Matthew Arnold replied to IanW's topic in The Lounge

    At a local estate with a conventional pig unit we used to fill the steam cleaners with Jeyes fluid in the cleaner part and have them on as high a PSI and as high a temp as possible chuck the pressure washer lances into the crash barriers at various points with blokes ready with shovels. Had a damn good haul one evening, 150 in 4 hours. Soon after the floor collapsed because of the tunnels under the soil floor.
  17. Matthew Arnold
    Will have to pull it out and take a slice off to find out.
  18. Matthew Arnold
    Two people i work with on a daily basis The herberts got hold of my camera and took this picture of themselves:lol: A new term for our work is the Relfie or Ranger Selfie
  19. Matthew Arnold
    We have been looking at a big lump of timber washed down from the winter floods. The EA would like it pulled out as it could cause a log jam on a bridge further down river so am looking at pulling it out. Any ideas what it could be? It looks like a massive lump of elm or maybe Ash. Its difficult to tell as the bark has come off. If it is something high grade it will probably be planked up. If its a scabby poplar then the log pile it is.
  20. Matthew Arnold
    We have a pair of Old MS170 and although they work, they are very tired after almost daily use. We dont fancy lugging a MS341 for miles to find the tree is only a scrawny elm either. So looking at a comprimise. A 341 is certainly overkill for pointing up posts too.
  21. Matthew Arnold
    Your thoughts folks. We are going to be mainly using it for small fallen trees, pointing of posts and small scale felling and using it as a training saw for this years apprentices. Is it any good for the above?
  22. Matthew Arnold
    Been listening to a fair bit of Alice in Chains the past couple of days. Balanced up with a bit of Ed Sheeran and Professor Green. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFaX66sdHwc
  23. Matthew Arnold
    Don't know unfortunately. I beleive that the tree has had previous fruitings of Dryads Saddle from a previous cut way back in the 1970s which may have affected/arisen on the Picus. The buckling around the graft union has got worse in the past 5 years according to local residents. But this is the first year of fruiting Merip. The road does take a large amount of foot traffic from a nearly boarding school as one of its music facilities is about 100 metres away from the tree.
  24. Matthew Arnold
    Another Beech for the chop. This ones in Iwerne Minster. I spotted the fungi when walking back to our delightful transit (in the picture) and contacted the in house tree officer for the area who came out the same day and did a visual, hammer and picus test. Due to it growing effectively in a small plant pot for the size of the tree it will be dropped in the next month.
  25. Matthew Arnold
    We were removing a layer of ivy and brambles away from a member of the publics house gable end as the brambles were encroaching into the roof space. On removing the thicket we exposed a window which looked directly into his ensuite bathroom with his misses attending to her person. He said thats a fine rug removed from my humble abode. Without thinking a colleague said "Your wife is attending to her rug too". The reaction from everyone was quality especially the husband of the lady. We were laughing for weeks afterwards. He sent a very apologetic letter, he didnt need to apologise as we beleive it was his "mistress" as he was in his late 60s, she was in her 30s

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