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Bucket Trucks / MEWPs etc - safer than climbing?
AHPP replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Climbers talk
Bear in mind that Americans are generally stupid. -
Well stop buying new trucks that have taken buckets of energy to make then. They might be regulatorily and tax efficient but two tonnes of complexly arranged steel every year or three is nowhere near as kind to the world as a few pints of paint and a welding rod or two.
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Everybody gets the itch but the bottom line is that they’re fucking awful.
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Hang on. Who’s paying for men to make firewood and sell it at £20/cube, which I suspect is below cost?
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I get the impression it’s wetter where you are.
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That’s a handsome shed!
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Bucket Trucks / MEWPs etc - safer than climbing?
AHPP replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Climbers talk
Apologies for thread hijack. Nearly as bad as the fat girls thread. -
Bucket Trucks / MEWPs etc - safer than climbing?
AHPP replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Climbers talk
Little use if the hedge is 20 feet wide. -
They’ve only been there for about a year so I can’t say yet but I suspect you’re right. The next ones going down will have double bases. I’m not that bothered if they only last one drying cycle though. I’ll just salvage the screws, burn the pallets and make new ones. Pallets are free from local industrial estates and I can get twenty or thirty in the van, usually loaded by forklift.
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Just some pictures of the crates I’ve been making for logs. Hopefully they’ll help someone. One pallet for the base, four (ideally matching) pallets portrait for the walls. One screw per side at the bottom centre blocks. You could get away with four inch but five or six is nicer. I like torx, allen (female hex) or socket (male hex) drive. One tie at each top corner. Plastic cable ties have lasted over a year so far but wire, string or whatever would all do the same job as long as it doesn’t uv degrade in the time you need to store them. Top them with whatever. You can stack them on each other and they survive being moved by telehandler.
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Bucket Trucks / MEWPs etc - safer than climbing?
AHPP replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Climbers talk
I gave my most solemn and earnest apology ever to a client who had only mentioned forty or fifty times about not dropping anything through the roof of the newly completed and very smart garage. Let her hang for at least fifteen seconds before showing her the mug and telling her the roof was fine. -
Either be tiny and sell free arb arisings that you split when you’ve got nothing better to do or be big and profit with economies of scale. Being in the middle, buying expensive final product or expensive raw material (roundwood lengths that then need cutting and splitting) to then try to sell against every farmer and tree surgeon in your postcode, is pointless. You’ll just make petrol stations, trailer manufacturers and the government happy.
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Bucket Trucks / MEWPs etc - safer than climbing?
AHPP replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Climbers talk
It might just be that he’s doing the best he can with what he’s got but there are genuine advantages to being on the hedge rather than off to the side or leaning over the edge of the basket. He’s got two uses out of one tool, possibly saved buying another tool (or his long reaches are broken, at work elsewhere or whatever) and solved the very common problem of crap anchor points when doing conifer hedges. As long as he doesn’t scare the horses, all power to him. I’d do it if I ever accepted a hedge topping job and a lift could get within reach. A basket big enough to carry up a few sheets of ply and you’d have a good surface to stand on and the perfect anchor point all the way along. It’s not dangerous pikey tomfoolery just because it’s a bit different to what everybody else does. It’s probably just that nobody else has thought of it. -
Bucket Trucks / MEWPs etc - safer than climbing?
AHPP replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Climbers talk
Uninterested in rest of thread but the pictures look fine to me. Very enterprising. -
Much obliged.
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Fuck France. It’s full of French cunts. Come back to England.
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Can’t help with question but what does hockling mean please?
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Ah. I see. I was expecting the long frontage open and the highest.
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Do you use one by or similar for purlins?
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I think I’m following #something as well as following people. I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it. Having stuff like #retrievableredirect or whatever pop up might be good. Not fucking #wokeuplikethis #branchbrotherhood #ropeknightsmuggler though. No idea what my name is. I changed it to some nonsense to try and stop people following me (which didn’t work). Will change it back if I ever take a photo of something worth showing. I resisted for ages because I’m on Facebook and didn’t see the point of being connected to the same friends on ten different platforms. Instagram is proving excellent for interest specific stuff and interacting with strangers though.
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He’s done some specifically on sharpening but the thing about his videos is that you have to wade through hours of him being silly to find some isolated little tip that you’d never guess would be in the video. I don’t even look at the video titles now. The tips are often very very good though. Worth having hours of him running in the background if your mental health can take it.
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For anyone who’s written off Instagram as glitzy timewasting for the aforementioned hashtag wankers, give it a go. There is some brilliant stuff on there.
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Watch a Buckin Billy Ray video. He’s a proponent of the latter and his saws cut like fuck.
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I’m interested in the splicing. What’s your handle?
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This thread is a great example of exceptions to stereotypes btw. It started with neanderthal tree cutters talking about fat girls and now a man who calls himself an idiot is schooling us on philosophy, psychology and neuroscience.
