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The youger dog has always bum surfed, even after worming. His party piece is when we have visitors sipping tea, he will bum surf into the room with a big smile and surf out the next door. The older dog is real 'butch' through hedges on shoot days but the younger dog is a wimp and goes around the back of the hedge to get the bird as it comes out. Down to the last few pieces of turkey for the dogs so the dog-gas level should drop - glad nobody smokes:lol:
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big problem - dog gas:sneaky2: Last year the game keeper got some turkey chicks in to fatten up for us all but mine was so skinny it flew on top of his cottage roof , so he shot it (didn't tell my wife) but this year we had a big one, well so fat it was like a fat lady trying to fit into a size 8 oven:001_tt2: We had so much left over the dogs bloated on it - big problem with visiters, dog letting of spicy gas and bum surfing around the carpet:thumbup:
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So once you've laid a hedge, how do you maintain it?
blazer replied to agg221's topic in Hedgelaying
Many hedges have been lost to Elder dominating, best to pull out Elder with a chain on a tractor and fill gaps. Hard going to find hedges that are easy to lay, normally with tangled top growth. Some local layers have stopped using binders and used stakes but tied the hedge down instead, makes it easy to trim with a tractor in following years. -
Yep good family get together day, my wife couldn't find her 'Christmas with Cliff CD' - don't tell her but I wraped it up and gave it to the mother-in-law:001_tt2: So I could play my Stones - Rolled Gold CD:thumbup1:
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So she has gone off the idea of making up a 4some for a 'Rocky Mountain chainsaw spotting holiday'
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Noticed the above newspaper has adverts for 'cruises' is your wife trying to give you the hint. by slipping it under your pistons.
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Cheers Spud, forgot to mention Megatron - thanks for all the help & part numbers. Yep it's sort of relaxing to do the engineering that you can relate to. I had the spares for a few weeks but no time with work and the shootdays, so it was a good afternoon. I bought a tacho, so marked the saws with max revs and will tune in the woods after xmas - pity somebody wanting to go for a post hangover walk in the woods:lol: have a good one:thumbup:
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I waited for the card - then fired it up:thumbup: Only moded it today - ok not everybody's idea of how to spend xmas eve. I removed the muffler and drilled x2 5/16" holes, deburred and refitted, I gave it a test fire up (will tune later) and it's not much louder just added a nice 'crackle' to the tone. Happy xmas Spud, Ironbark and Cut4fun - thanks for your help over the year.
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We had alot of 'cat' nicked in the North Oxon area say a year ago but not heard much recently - maybe they move areas. may wrap mine in barbed wire.
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I have seen pictures from China of woven basket helmets the same shape as normal. The original hard hats from the US in the 1930's were two hats with pitch to give (some) protection from falling stones. I was amazed by the construction of the old 'noddy' police helmets used on motorbikes in the 1960's were made from cork - didn't believe it until I found one and put a hammer through it in one go.
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My vote goes for 25"bar on a MS460 not just power but the clutch is the same as a MS 390 so limited.
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How about using some 'skillful editing' - big drama build up, rope being pulled but not in chipper, guy in panic and rope in static chipper with engine loading sound. Remember the best horror films where you had to imagine what happened - just put it together in sequence but no rope being fed into chipper - maybe a few static shots of other accidents? Must be a local film guy who could help you out. It was stories passed onto me that helped build up long term safety
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Reading through the posts, I think it comes down to team training for all users to be aware. There are always 'points' to look out for make this one of them - good subject. Not sure about jamming up a chipper with a rope the prob , if it only shows a cut rope, there is a risk this will be seen as the outcome - whereas the image of a mate being fed in should trigger 'the horror switch in everybody brain'. Yrs ago I remember in an factory the old foreman wanted to test out a 100yd long run out table. He wrapped a rope around his arm connected to the overheard puller. He asked for the power to be set low to test the pull, when he started to wave his arms the operator thought he wanted it wound up - yep he flew from one end of the run out to the other - not hurt too much.
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Fitted a 'superwinch' say 4 tonne on the back of my L200 (03 4life). Had an insurance prob fitting to the front + bumper prop, so as it already had a square section drawbar I fitted it onto the back. 2ft piece of heavy angle on the top toe flange (spacers on the bottom to allow toe ball to work with trailer) got a picture on here somewhere. Second number plate on IW top. I also made up a large anchor fork out of heavy angle and plate to hold the truck when winching. with cable running underneath to isolator. Works brill, would fit one again to the back. Also useful for pulling following landy m8's out _only joking. Brought a loada gear from the 'rachet shop' - 10mm chains made up for tree hauling, slings and rachetstraps (often used to strap front of L200 to tree for anchor for big pulls) Tip buy a pulley so you can double the load.
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I have one main handle tube off a 266xp slightly distorted but usable - FOC if of any use:thumbup1:
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I enjoyed the work but had problems with 'twitchers' saying it now a nature reserve - so by clearing ivy from graves it makes a statement 'this is a village graveyard'
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Cleaned up the village graveyard yrs ago during the foot& mouth for something to do. First look for fresh flowers on graves, families get a bit upset. Had one with a Angel on (child) plus fresh flowers, had to drop either side about 12 trees. Ended up breaking one cross but went well otherwise. The whole area was totally overgrown but I had a lot of objections at first untill they saw how good it looked afterwards. Now I go back and clean other areas, my son helped and became well involved by uncovering ivy covered graves to read the often sad stories of mothers dying young etc. Well done:thumbup1:
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interesting loader for quad bike.
blazer replied to offgridchris's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
nope - the front rack of most quads is only rated at say 60kg and with the engine well forward it won't lift much extended out like that. I have a Suzuki Eiger ok only small as they go but very useful. I made up some woodland chains so I can drag out say 1 ft dia by 8 ft long logs out, or with x3 chains pull out three 6inch 8ft poles. That way I don't do any lifting untill loading the trailer. I haven't tested it but you could use the 'old loading method' of having side ramps on the trailer with a loop rope to roll the logs on. -
pack plenty of spare skids M8 - you could be up there a long time. It's rare to have big storms following each other, this time 3 in just over a week. The Thurs/Fri storm looks like it will track across southern Scotland - that's bad, with the whole of the UK in a Yellow Warning zone (could upgrade) plus the whole of the Uk shipping zone shown in red - never seen that before, looks bad.
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Paul - lets hope the high doesn't come up behind the low as it moves through or we will have what I call 'the gear wheel effect' where cold artic air is drawn down between both systems. The last low ran on a track over Scotland and the next looks like it will do the same, often they run up high through past Iceland. I remember the 87 storm track right across England hence the damage. Problem with storm damage 87 style was alot of cowboys made a lot of money by going out to buy saws and off they went - no training or insurance:sneaky2:
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Just checked out the BBC Atlantic chart for Tuesday it's bad, with the whole of the North Atlantic full of one depression system, the isobars are shown as tight not only for Scotland but for England as well - could be worse that the last one. I hope not for everybody concerned.
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I also take on your point about being over cautious:thumbup1: but you can't allow for idiots when my son was at a village based secondry school (covers a big area) due to heavy rain some parts were flooded - so the headmaster closed the school in the middle of a storm, relying on kids to have mobile phones to contact parents to pickup - no buses, so all the kids with no m/phones were put at real risk of exposure (most didn't have coats) and were told to stand outside the school in the heavy rain, some started walking 3 miles home soaked - for no reason.
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Only needs one kid to be hit by a bough - would you take the risk to let them travel in a storm.
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For new try 'Brindleychains' anything for from a KA to a giant quarry truck:thumbup1:
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I try to run mine on low - not smolder tickover, as not only does the liner clogup but with no rise of smoke due the the stack cooling I have found it can smell downstairs in the morning (I now have a CO alarm). Plus a mini blowback from low O2 levels once (simular to opening a door during a house fire) - on the estate the old boy who looked after the bale sized log burner had a big blowback from shutting down too much when he opened the burner door.
