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What are the kerfs on the floor of the gob? Did you bore a rough square one out and then finesse it?

Maybe fourteen ish down to eleven ish.

Something like two grand off the arb package; thirteen ish down to eleven ish.

Buy or make a rope wrench and stiff tether and add them above your current hitch. Buy a foot ascender if you don’t already have one. That’s it. Lash up some bits of bungee or string to your chest/neck if you want to keep the stuff tending better. #srtsooi on Instagram.

Was the “help” he got her more or less “proper” than stacking her a brash screen though?

I saw the show deals they had for the current Sherpas at the APF and thought that they were actually decent discounts, not the common thing with shows where it’s basically normal price and you have to carry it miles round a field. And now it all makes sense.

Let that slide. Arborculture, arboculture etc are useful flags.

I'm a hateful person. It stems from my happy childhood.

I wish I'd saved that training provider's promotional video where the bloke is blowing a path in slow mo with some heroic music on in the background.

That’s not necessarily it. The guy above can spell geometry, woeful and Gloucestershire.

What type of money? Predominantly dirty would be my guess. I’d be interested to hear from the forum’s hedgelayers how much work is private and how much is via the landed dolescum filling in forms.

Why do people insist on spelling Kubota with any combination of vowels other than the right ones? Often done while accompanied by a picture of a machine with the logo on. Is it a code?

What's your brand? A mate's dad is Hogan of Hogan's Cider.

The lack of woodland demo walk was a great shame. There should be more of that, not less. Punters should be able to run machines. As it was, I asked a couple of stands to pick diggers up on the blade so I could look underneath. “Sorry, mate. Can’t run the engines.” Vermeer had the right idea. Put on a vizi vest and crack straight on.

Having this obsessive to stay while his master holidays. It’s been two days and he’s now just about able to lie down further than six inches away from me.

Had a good talk through the switching with a Stihl rep at the APF and then had a go with one in a tree the other day. It's a dangerous piece of shit. The switching absolutely ruins it. Turns itself off when you don't want it off, encourages you to accidentally turn it on when you do want it off, discourages good chain brake discipline. Will cause accidents through mistake and through frustration. The more serious accidents will be on time sensitive cuts, chasing hinges, waiting for wind etc. The saw will prevent people making the cut at the correct time and then they'll panic, mash the button and charge at the cut too late or too far. Will also increase fatigue, handling the thing for longer than necessary. Infantilising professionals will not make them safer or more productive. Nor will it help less experienced users. It'll imbue them with a lack of confidence in their tools and take their minds off the job. I cannot emphasise enough how utterly shit the 220t is. I'm spending tomorrow brushing up on my German and then I'm going to shout at someone from Stihl on Monday. A flagship model and an opportunity to put Stihl at the top of the tree for battery saws. Absolutely squandered. Cretins.

I would probably lavish a new spark plug upon it first and then investigate the governor.

Bit loud. Must get my airship off the ground.

Man and skidsteer available for coppicing/woodland work Want to spend more time cutting product and less time clearing a way in or tidying up afterwards? Get me and my little skidsteer in to do all the stuff like bramble/scrub/rhododendron ripping, brash burning, product stacking and moving, even minor extracting; basically anything that would take you away from the actual profitable work of cutting product. Other benefits are pushing leaners, pulling hangers, holding stuff off the ground to cut, stuck saw retrieval, tool carrying and (very small) trailer towing. It's really useful and does far more than a man, far faster. Main attachment is the grab, rigid swivel type. Bucket also of use for repairing ground and rudimentary track building. I also have a petrol capstan winch, saws, rigging and all the usual odds and sods. Got the odd edge tree that needs climbing? I can do that. Most of my work is freelance climbing (but I'm trying to do more with machines). Have me in before cutting, during cutting, after cutting or all three. Exact prices dependant on location but roughly as below in most of England, some of Scotland: 1 day - £400 2 days - £700 3 days - £900 4 days - £1100 5 days - £1300 No VAT. Fuel included. Also available for arb groundwork, operated by me or operated by you while I climb. Also available with bucket, pallet forks and post hole augers for building/landscaping. Most of England, some of Scotland. 07929 855913

The Bank of England needs turning into a trendy wine bar before it can do any more damage.

I used to think this but I've now settled (not immovably but firmly enough) on the point of view that in the time you spend waiting for a crash/dip/adjustment price bargain, you lose more because of inflation. I say you're best off just getting on the train and not worrying about the fare seeming steep. It'll seem blissfully cheap next year. Say you have £200k. The house you want is £230k. A £30k dip could happen, you think, so you wait. You wait for a year while inflation is running at 10%. The house is now £253k (or your money is worth £182k, whichever way you prefer to think about it). Another year passes. House is £278k (or your money £165k). Now you wish you'd just paid "too much" two years ago. 10% is the inflation rate this year btw. It won't be that next year.

Joke's on you. I don't have any money.

I saw that phrase the other day and threw up a bit. ****************ing odious doublespeak. There's no presumption of you having my money. There's a presumption I have my money.

I remember looking at it and wondering which stem would be most convenient to fail. The answer was none of them. They were all doing something for the other ones in terms of balance and rigging strategy. Proper pain in the arse. They want to hope it all falls over or all lives forever.

I can't see why we should bother doing anything else.