JimM

In the dictionary, sympathy comes between **** and syphilis. He'll get neither from me. Personal first aid kit? Vehicle kit? Solo working? Candidate for a future Darwin Award I think

If I have to delay a job for either my family's reasons, or my mates, I let the customer know that family is first. If they don't like it then they can go elsewhere. So far the response has always been positive and supportive. My daughter loves it when I take her along for quoting.

Really liked that vid. The music made me smile.

Don't get me wrong though. Once I've sorted the charging issue it will be straight back into use. It is always the first saw into the tree in the morning. We reduced a big lime to a stick with just 1 1/2 batteries the other day. Went to petrol only for the chog down.

If you're currently using a 550 and 576 for your logging then a 536 will not be a suitable replacement. I've been running the top handle version for over a year now. It's an awesome saw in the tree, but battery life does suffer when you start dismantling at bar length. Your charge/recharge cycle would be through the roof for heavy or constant cross-cutting. Cost wise I was £674 for 2 batteries, saw and charger. Bought another battery when one came loose and broke. Husky then gave me a replacement too, so that was another £110 plus vat, but I now have 3 batteries. The charger is now playing up I think and I can't charge any of the batteries either last night or tonight, even though 2 are only 3 months old.

Yeh, with a full roof you're a bit stuffed.

You can tilt the bed up about 15-20 degrees before you start chipping. As long as none of the rear bed framework is in the way it reduces overspray significantly. Only problem is if you have a warning horn as it tips up.

Keeping it simple. Works a treat. Sides and back £180. Will come off using a hairdryer when I sell on.

Got two of them now. One when they first came out and another just two months. Been working hard on them last two days cleaning big cedars. Only use Aspen though. Start well and run great. Guess you got Monday morning saws. Be interesting to find out Huskys evaluation.

Ouch! Heal quick.

Video posted on the review thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWRlb5ynbN4&feature=youtu.be Apologies. I should have made this clip weeks ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWRlb5ynbN4&feature=youtu.be It is a belter of a saw. No argument from me. Unfortunately my battery came out from 20ft up the tree. Roni MacDonald's from 60ft. 1.5kg of battery free-falling. And £110.00+ cost. Can replicate this with all 3 of my batteries. Then replicated it with my colleagues new T536. We now tie-wrap around the battery, and extra checks while operating.

My accountant is now my sister-in-law after having used a local firm for the past two years. She put it to me like this. Accountants don't give a damn about how your business is doing, how you're failing or how you're not getting the best out of your business. You pay them to submit your return and that's it. End of. If she worried about her 80 or so clients like we think they should be doing then she wouldn't sleep. So they get your figures. Put them in the right order and submit them. Until she told me that I wondered why I wasn't getting calls. Or some sort of guidance from my accountant. I think we all tend to think or them as our personal business accountant, as if they were part of our firm. But they most certainly are not. If you want to PM me Simon then I'll send you a copy of the spreadsheet arrangement I use, with some figures in so you get the idea. Cheers Jim.

Or Australia, Canada, Western US. One guy even went to Argentina. While you're single these could be great opportunities.

I wondered if it was the short choking around a stem that's stressing the zigzags laterally. That and when you are going past a horizontal limb and the zigzag is sitting hard against it under your weight. Still using mine and checking it. Went through the recall process with the mk1 and Jonesie was very good in contacting everyone they could. I sent my mk1 back as I didn't want to risk an insurer denying a claim if I was using recalled equipment and it failed.

I've got a couple of elm jobs coming up, all removals though. But in two locations there are really healthy looking trees next to full skeletons, all around the 60ft in height. Just finishing a survey that had two elms on the site. One fully dead and heading towards skeletal, the other is in full leaf to the tips. Both are going to be removed by the council for a minor road to be widened, which is a shame. Felled some big elm on the Ballindalloch estate for Big J. The ones we took down that were "healthiest" looking had been hammered at the butt by kretz and were majorly hollow, much to our disappointment. Only pruned one, a large elm in the centre of Elgin. We removed a large limb over the top of asbestos clad garages, plus a couple of limbs away from the house roof. The large limb was fine, rigging in small chunks, cos the stuff is heavy, the smaller stuff did do its damnedest to tear.

It's a no-brainer Stevie. Been using it for a while now. Top handles pole saw hedge trimmer blower are all on it. 550 when I'm in a dip or enclosed area. 346 isn't as happy swapping back and forth. You'll notice the difference especially on hot, still days.

I think you left out the bit about the quadriplegic deaf and blind cancer sufferer who is only hanging on to life through being able to see the tree each day, or the fact that Britain's only native leopard hangs it's kill in the upper branches. ;-) Sorry, but I think it's a bit dramatic to say all that and gives the owner additional worries. The simple situation is that the owner gets the tree surgeon round. They quote a reasonable price to do that job and take it down. Two days later the neighbours are more concerned about who is now killing who in Corrie or Enders and the tree is forgotten about. A couple of weeks later a new small tree appears and they walk past and say "oh, that's nice".

Maybe because I live in a rural area I can only think that it's completely the wrong tree for that size of garden. It's too close to the house and in a tiny garden. Get rid and if your conscience is twanging away then replant with a small cherry/apple or similar more in the centre of the garden space.

Have a look at the Brian James trailers. I went for the 3m bed tipper as I cut a lot of logs on the estate to 3m. I opted for mesh sides too, and added ramps, which can hook on anywhere around the trailer. There are longer ramps available which helps if you are loading machinery, but not found the shorter ones a problem. Been using mine for around 2 1/2 years now and it's holding up well. The battery is good for quite a few tips, but if it runs out you are supplied as standard with a plugged lead that connects to the car battery for emergency tipping. That size, near to the brim with leylandii chip and logs on top came to 1300kg load the other day.

Great video. Been to Rotorua twice and didn't know about the redwoods either. Mind you, I was pretty drunk both visits! Would love to go back.

Nice film. Glad you didn't erase it.

It's the figures that get thrown around to justify them that gets my goat. "Enough power to supply 10,000 homes". Yeh, right. When the wind is perfect for them. The over exaggeration is disgusting politicking. Up here there are thousands of households away from the gas grid, reliant on expensive heating oil or outdated leccy storage heaters. Plus we get to have our views in all directions now spoilt by turbines on our stunning scenery. A couple of years ago we had high pressure for a week during winter. No wind, stationary turbines, and temps around -10c..... For a week! So where was the wind leccy, if that was what we had to rely on to heat our homes. Not doing 10,000 homes now, are we! The near constant power source is tidal, but the companies all saw that as expensive development, difficult engineering when they are in pursuit of their quick buck. Which they are now getting.... Even when the wind stops!!! Much as it's disliked, we cannot get away from our methods of constant power generation such as nuclear. It just isn't feasible for the next generation or so.

Gotta say now running a 28" bar on my 576. Full bar depth through elm and it's quite happy. With 18" on its a fast cross cutting saw on the medium stuff. Might be worth a jump to the orange side?