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That brown one is a handsome beast. What is it? If I had to guess, I'd say some kind of Rhodesian/Vizla Pitbull mix. Fully prepared to look stupid when you give the actual answer.
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I feel more naturally disposed to climbing than pickers too but I've always assumed that's because I only use them a few times a year so I'm probably just not that good with them. It comes down to economics as always. I had a guy put a rope in the top of a 3 stemmed conifer from a picker a couple of months ago because it was already on the site. We agreed it was a climbing tree but five minutes' fighting through brash at the top meant I had a lovely safe, easy skin-up climb the next morning. No way would I have hired the machine in just for that though. Forgetting what point I was making...
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Ah. It goes down the back of your leg and tends it from there. Someone could have just said that.
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SRT 95% of the time. I use a HAAS and I know or can reasonably guess what climbing stuff does. I've looked as much as I can be arsed to (which includes turning off that mincer after three seconds btw) and it's still not clear. If it's not over the shoulder or tether, is it through your bridge biner?
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So this bungee goes over your shoulder or through a neck tether?
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Anyone have anything productive to add now that moron has gone?
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Sailor, a dog, pictured on Britain's worst carpet.
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Yep. Had this yesterday. Told the guy to run it because I wanted it down, away from the basket. He ran it through a fence.
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And from the same folder, something to give doobin a sense of unease.
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Necessitating a textbook system of step cuts to resolve the situation. P.S. I know that's not a walnut. There was one close by. It was years ago. I've basically got Alzheimer's.
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Garden structures are surprisingly strong. Years ago I was present when a pretty stout walnut was felled onto a pergola, expecting it to crush straight though. No, sir. A fkkk off heavy tree ended up sat on top of it. It didn't notice.
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For we too shit with or too lazy to use throwlines, mewping past a fat stem into a climbable crown is huge. Did exactly that deadwooding and cleaning crossers etc on Tuesday. Up the pickers for anything I say.
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Fast growing evergreen tree recommendations?
AHPP replied to Hardanger's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Five eucs and a pole saw. -
Still not a scooby what these do.
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Depressing post. I hired a lovely little (fairly old) Hinowa 1470 yesterday. Manual levelling, analogue everything. No quicker to move and setup than a newer machine but I had no strandings, sensor strops or frustrating alarm/no-go moves all day. It just worked. Compared to the last machine I had, a (fairly new) 25m ish CMC. Piece of shit. Had a guy in who works with the brand all the time. Stumped him consistently. Stuck in the air pressing buttons and wearing out the starter motor for twenty minutes at a time etc. He put the cage down on a little coppice stool - twenty minutes gone while we saw it out from underneath to appease a sensor. This is the future; barely-usable, stifling safety bollocks. Hugely disappointed to hear Hinowa are going downhill. They've been my favourite for years. Easy decision making when choosing what to hire.
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Nice. What sort of weight do you think you were handling at full reach? 100kg?
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Aye. That looks lovely. Now I have a GRCS, I don't want to climb. I want to hang around on the ground and listen to it click as I wind the handle. The picker. Getting to grips with the nomenclature of them. Is that what's called a stick boom with a fly jib?
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Problem solving began before getting to the job.
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One of those problem solving kind of days. Picker came without pads so made some. Staked because on a slope. Track mats were sliding.
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Ask me in a week or so if you haven't got anything. I'll get a logon from a mate and peruse a legal database.
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23:16 and I've just seen off the second of two extremely oily sandwiches. The greenest things I've eaten today are the capers and pumpkin seeds in a pair of bacon and cream cheese rolls. Dill in both, pepper in one, chili flakes in the other.
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If you get no better answer, try the Intepretation Act 1974 (or is it 1978?).
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Hastings Direct but that doesn't especially matter. This isn't another general insurance question thread and an opportunity for people to idly say try so-and-so. There are millions of those threads already. This is a specific question about this time of man. Of course if anyone has found an insurer who is bucking the trend and making a name for themselves by keeping premiums the same for the same cover, I'd like to hear about them please.
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We've been in this even-more-swingeing-than-usual price rises period with van insurance for a while now. My renewal is coming around and sure enough the auto-renewal quote is in line with what I've seen people reporting over the last 6 months or so, £301 up to £574. How have people been navigating this? Just paying up? Going back to comparison sites (last year all the comparison site results were more than the auto-renewal (£292 up to £301) so I let it renew)? Arguing/haggling?
