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I thought that. We've forgotten to ask the most important question though. OP, Is your wife either a nurse or a primary school teacher? It's part of the uniform for tree blokes in the UK.
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The difference between the 150 and 230 is the infeed. What's the difference between the 125 and 160?
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👆 Checks out.
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It really is a street tree 'factory job' vs everything else thing. A day that illustrates the difference perfectly. Domestic development site. Couple of climbers in, me and another. His tree was on the fenceline, very typical. He'd come from a street tree firm and was keen to start putting brash on the ground to show some progress. Probably PTSD from some former gangmaster. He rashers down the leader over our garden in record time. Then had to cut and chuck the other 90% of the tree from over next door's side because he'd cut out the rigging point he needed at 08:15. He was having a nightmare on the wood. My tree was very similar. I didn't start a saw for an hour probably. Set up some lovely rigging and then lowered it all into the same spot a few feet inside the garden, no fighting the fence. I went down and had a coffee. He had his redbulls and cocaine sent up.
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Can't tell you mechanical details but I've been a freelance climber for over a decade so have worked for a lot of different people. Those with Forsts always had a story about the chipper being away for something.
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Being good looking, funny and conducting myself with a reassuring ease with all strata of society, I've never had to graft very hard at anything. I did have a bad back before I started though.
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You can join the masons at any age.
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That's bollocks too. I could start climbing at forty and outcompete kids within a year or two because I'm clever and lazy so will find the easiest way to do something.
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I actually wasn't thinking of you, Mick but if the structural cummerbund fits...
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Timberwolf 125 and 190 are both good too. 125 light to move around. 190 will make you look at the job a different way coming from a gravity feed.
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Forsts are shit. 150s are good. 230s are great.
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Depends what sort of climbing. Despite my youth and conventional good looks, I climb like an old, fat drunk. I'd be no good scurrying round a whole street of plane repollards. But a removal where I rig the thing down without having to go very far, I'll beat a 20-year-old who can't see the ropework.
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I've got a Stihl MSA 120 for sale but it's a backhandle. Two batteries, charger, a few chains. £200.
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And you went back for a second.
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Not a planning expert but I suspect you're fine on the tree btw. Enjoy it. Plant it far enough inside your boundary that your roots and branches don't encroach onto your neighbours' land as it reaches full size.
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Never done one. Never going to. I've seen them up close. That was bad enough.
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Some more local chicken consultants concur and also add that hindquarter feathering is another giveaway. Fluffy roundarses for girls. Sharper thighs for boys.
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This thread feels underused. It could be mega useful. Aware it's harder to post things without specific questions/stimulus but anyone feel free to chime in with any little win/loss they've experienced recently out there at the coalface of customer service. As seemingly insignificant as you like. Someone will learn something. Tell you what, let's talk websites. I'm writing the guff for mine atm. I know what most arb websites look like. What have people had on theirs that have caused them grief? What don't you have on there but keep thinking you should add?
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Then they're a tasteless prick with worthless opinions. Another one for client psychology, @Mick Dempsey?
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As in an article 4 direction?
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Always nice when Mick calls into the news thread.
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Classic sharing bucket with five piece popcorn chicken.
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Bloody gatekeeping terms. It's clearly a chicken.
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This is the only other photo I have that I don't think I've already spammed here with. How do you tell? Are there things to look out for or is it just you can see it with experience?
