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Get a penknife and go to whittle something. Now scrape with it instead. Congratulations. You're scraping.
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No further risks today but greater further risks in future when it's dead and rotting or has regrown ten tops. Not to mention they'll have to get to the base of the tree again, which was a significant part of the battle. But let's be real. This is probably dolescum work. They'll be competitively doing as little as possible, some just because that's the type of lazy shovel-leaners or malicious-compliers they are and some because they actively want to come back to it and do it again and get paid again. And sod that habitat bollocks. What's eco about sending a team back to do 196% of the work instead of the team there now doing 104% of the work? Nothing. Just a waste of fuel everyone driving back and forth to work when the job could have already been done.
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This is a good thread. I don't know enough to contribute meaningfully but I make most tree decisions with, "Man plans and god laughs." as a starting point. Rob Rainford posted a long time ago about pruning affecting the mechanical characteristics of unions and collections of unions, weight being thrown back and forth, twanginess etc. All about how one thing can have three dimensional knock-on effects. Really interesting. Must find it. @RobRainford
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Do you scrape? I've got great finishes on hard woods, scraping.
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Arsehole curry. It’s the same curry I’ve been eating since pheasant season began except this time while I was butchering birds I decided to leave the arseholes in. It’s a reminder that nobody, myself included, is too good to not eat an arsehole from time to time. And I used red onions.
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I’ve done a couple and didn’t find the spikes/thorns as bad as the internet suggested I would. They were relatively small (young) though. Maybe 15 and 20” DBH.
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I got it before I noticed the spike though. I’m just that damn good.
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I saw (a shortened version of) that the other day and was enraged at the crassness of leaving the bottom half. It took two days to get to it. Just finish the job in twenty minutes extra while you’re there rather than sentence someone to another two days at some point in the future. I’d be cross if I was buying electricity from that line and paying for the upkeep.
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That’s a decent guess.
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The base. Less sure about the spalted bit. Thought it could have been the same because it’s turned and finished but not mega surprised it’s different. I don’t think I’ve seen Robinia spalt. That’s not to say it can’t. I could guess the common spalters for the mushroom but the grain looks too coarse for them.
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That hard one with the thorns? Robinia?
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Silicone, not water based btw.
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It’s a bitter pill to swallow. I’ll keep using the windy gun so the neighbours can hear. It might make them think my van is roadworthy.
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Tesla for tech bro Steve.
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If you’re going to bust by hand, just do the rest by hand or with whatever drill you already have. My pneumatic impact wrench can only just get some of the van nuts off if the cylinder is brimmed. Usually end up breaking them with a bar first. I then only really use the windy gun because I like feeling all industrial. The point of a nut gun is not needing to fag around changing to other tools. I’d say it’s all or nothing on a comparatively small and infrequent task. Get a dildo if you just want to buy something. Milwaukee will do an M12 but you hang around with rugby players so look at Hilti.
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I'm still annoyed about the app. @Steve Bullman
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Gotcha. Sometimes I'm thicker than I look. You'd still be finding the amount of torque taken to overcome stiction, not friction though. If that distinction does matter. I share your amazement that there aren't easier papertrails for stuff like this. We have the internet. I asked Hyundai about the bolts for my my little chipper. Something fairly small like M8s that hold the blades on the drum. They told me something mad like 165 Nm, which they clearly googled and ripped off the Timberwolf specs that appear at the top of google for 'woodchipper blade bolt torque.' I suspect the bolts would have snapped like blackboard chalk. They gave me a more reasonable number after that, which I use because it's in writing and it's sane but I suspect that was still just derived from a chart.
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Does undoing with a torque wrench give you a true reading? Like how you’re meant to be moving when tightening to click to read friction, not stiction. Plus they’ll be rusted on etc. Plus in tension with the wheel.
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Yes, no, who can say. People get what they agree to. There’s no such thing as rates. This isn’t the milk marketing board.
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Apprenticeship plan: 2 days a week, forty weeks of the year for two years. 160 days. Income - £110 a day. Expenditure - £10/day for lunch and bicycle maintenance, £50/day to your mum for bed and breakfast, £50 in the gear fund. After two years you have £8000 in the gear fund (unless you bought as you went along). £2000 van £2000 insurance and tax £2000 rigging and climbing gear £500 2511T £1000 MS500i £500 sundries Just musing.
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Depends. If you teach the right sixteen year old a lot (over say 160 days over two years) then they should be coming out with enough money to set themselves up well for freelancing and they’ll be ready to perform and make more like £300/day. If you treat them like a bitch and they don’t learn anything, then yeah, they’ll want more money instead of education.
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I was climbing for someone once who said I could just fell a pair of butts on a block paved yard. One a bit under 3' DBH, one a bit over. I talked him out of it and chogged them onto pads, hugely unenjoyably. Suspect I was the stupid one there.
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Nah. It's all elbowy. Bad roll, lawn dents. Miserable chogging for the same reason but there are two of you.
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Tricky tree that you’ve made harder by fagging on with that shiny bullshit on the yellow strop. You gear obsessed kids wouldn’t know how to spit on it and make do. That’s where my mind went first, probably with some natural crotching in the third dimension. Am I close?
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That's the exact opposite point the cartoon is making. Let's say your arbtalk character nemesis StimepedP42 is a full on communist, a position I abhor. Their house smells of fags and the children have sticky fingers. I'd far rather go there and attempt, fail or not, to find common ground or convince them of the virtues of my position. Whereas let's say I share your opinion on most matters and we would both enjoy an afternoon clanging steels with a 223. I'd at this point take the communist because you make your position, whatever it is, feel unattractive by association. That doesn't mean I can't objectively view your opinions as what they are and put aside the source but the source will always factor in a bit. We're not 100% objective, utterly unemotional, utterly rational beings.
