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Old football hooligans are hilarious. Two I know: A university lecturer’s dad who I did a tree job for. Interesting, chatty bloke. Showed me his setup for making dental moulds. Successful small business doing that. Banned from half the stadiums in the country. His daughter’s doing her PhD on the law around banning orders, presumably so he can go to matches (and not bray people) again. The bloke who runs my local hippy shop. I buy incense from him. He hires out the basement for spirit yoga and womb bathing etc. Loves a tear up.
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what is the most favoured top handle saw and climbing gear
AHPP replied to manchester tree services's topic in Chainsaws
I’d call 225 expensive when the proper ones are only 4-500. And what Mick says. It’s just wrong. I’ve had this with a winch component over the last few weeks. The pukka bit is from Germany and £163. China have ripped it off for £50 ish (it’s not a completely apples and apples comparison btw but go with it). I’m using the pukka one. I want to go to sleep at night knowing I’m adding quality to the world, not filling it with more fake shit. -
I’m not interested in blingy climbing gear. A VT and rope wrench works well enough for me. Made no real effort after getting that to become any more super squirrelly. I chose to focus on other things instead. Rigging basically. But when I was toying with getting a mechanical device a few years ago I did my usual obsessive amount of research and concluded that the bulldogbone was probably the best. Not much of a review I grant you but just how it looks from my POV.
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I’m sure they could. Or in groups to reduce the number of straps you need. Or buried. Or or or. You could keep them and store water yourself. It’ll seem like a waste of time until you need it.
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Cut the tops off and screw them to a wooden pallet. Add air holes if for logs. Cut them down to whatever height. I have some knee high crates for running tools around in. Easy to reach into. Will they last forever? No. Will they last long enough to be worth the twenty screws and twenty minutes? Only you can answer that but let's presuppose yes. When you cut them, make sure to do it somewhere outside of the environment so as not to pollute it with plastic swarf.
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I need to set up compost up there anyway. Could do the full-on humanure thing while I'm at it. Or I could shit in my house a hundred metres away like the civilised might.
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One step ahead of you.
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Got most of the chip up here and a third of the big bed hippified. The rest will go into storage/compost. Some for the chickens to play in.
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Oui, peds. The whole alpine bum thing. Snell’s field, dinner on the bleuet, jumpers for goalposts.
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Cap with soil, woodchip or nothing?
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Idea: Willow. Hack a load of nicks into it and then bury it in a trench, either completely or with the top showing. Hope it comes up like a bamboo screen. Horizontal or one end a bit up like a hedge pleacher?
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Bleuet, surely?
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That was my angle
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Tonic water. If it doesn’t work, persist anyway.
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They must get some angry/frustrated people on the line. “I’M STUCK FIFTY FEET UP AND TWENTY FEET SIDEWAYS OVER THE M FOUR JUNCTION FIVE SLIPROAD IN YOUR ****************ING SHIT MACHINE THAT MIGHT AS WELL BE HAVING THE ****************ING MENOPAUSE! babe THING JUST ****************ING BLEEPS AT ME! ****************SAKE!” OK. Good afternoon, sir…
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Out of interest, do you know what the underlying assets/instruments are?
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Like spud Bogle-Buffett says, you haven’t lost anything until you sell.
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Fault or not, he’s the envoy. He doesn’t need to be trying to kill himself like a disgraced samurai, wracked with shame that will taint his bloodline for generations to come but he needs to start with sorry and not look happy that your day’s been ruined.
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You need time for that sort of investment to work. At your age, have you considered the horses?
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On hens, you’ve previously mentioned tragedy. Here comes another.
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I found myself the other day thinking idiotic thoughts about wanting a Series Land Rover so I could have the lovely, lovely capstan on the front. No electronics, yes please. Land Rover, no thank you.
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The trick is a second man in the basket. One cuts, one throws. Share the burden. Revert to one if the ground needs a hand. Rigging on picker jobs isn’t illegal either btw. Another advantage of two up. One can get dropped in the tree and picked up from a different place later. I usually take a good amount of stuff up a picker with me, including spikes and a rigging rope (usually three strand for crotching aloft). For one, so I can ab out if the thing really, really strands me.
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A friend is a photocopier repairman (there’s a dying trade anyway). He spends a lot of time driving, often two hour stints between jobs and home at the end of a long day. He gets walked over for paid traveling time btw but my main point is how horrendously dangerous the job is. Climbing trees, you’re only dealing with your own stupidity and your rigger’s. He’s dicing with hundreds of morons in 80 mph steel boxes every hour.
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Got the chimney barrel on it now. Full chat. What the last half an hour has shown me is how absolutely risible the notion is that you could do anything in the event of a house fire except die.
