Daniël Bos

Just above the box you type your reples in, is a row of buttons. Click the one with a Globe and a link of chain. This wil make a little box appear in wich to paste your link. After you've clicked ok it'll be part of your post. The bit that's highlighted after you've clicked ok is the bit people will see after you've posted it, so if you want to change what the link is called you change that. Is it a part of the page you want to link to that you want to highlight? Not sure how to do that, if it's a long page people tend to just refer to "3/4 down the page" or something.

Could you perhaps clarify? Do you want to post a link to another website on Arbtalk, or to Arbtalk on another site? Also not quite sure what you mean by highlighting a bit of link?

I gave some scruffy looking bloke with a small girl a lift yesterday on the way home, turned out he lives less than a mile from my house and on the right route as well. Instant Karma.

ALWAYS wear protective trousers when there's a saw running. It does not brush away the saw, nor does it try and be unbreakable. it's a specially designed fibre that simply blocks the saw by jamming the chain. I'm sure there's more informed people on here that could tell you all about the ins and outs of proper PPE.

My next pair are going to be from the Engelbert Strauss catalogue I think. They seem excellent value for money. There's type A and C, C offering more protection, ie further round the sides and back of the legs, whereas type A's protect just bthe area's most likely needing protection when using a saw on the ground. Type A will do fine and you'll not suffer heatstroke quite as quickly, (the added protection adds insulation, more protection=more heat)

Chainsaw trousers are designed to help you not to cut your legs and bleed to death, unable to raise the alarm as your live slowly oozes out of you. They're filled with clever fibre-stuff that blocks the chain if you cut it.

thanks for the support guys. After having recieved that email we had a few more to and fro, and I reckon it'll get sorted without having to sort him (sorry BrassMonkey). It seems to be one of those cases of someone who is very good at their job, but crap at running a bussiness doing that job. I'll keep you posted (pun intended)

Yes, it's pallet-line. They tend to use local firms wit 7.5 tonners to collect and deliver to their depot then load on big 'uns then back to locals for delivery. I specced a tail-lift either side, tends to be easier and when you're out when they collect/deliver they can (normally) just get on with it. The plot thickens though, I got this email this afternoon. Hi Daniel, I think the couriers don't won't to pick ur stakes up as there been again and told me there can't load them as u need 2 people to move them. Told them no one would be there many times. I have never had this problem with courers before so I can't say I can make it easyer for them as can't see what the problem is know. I will be willin to refund u ur money miniuns the making of the pallet frames. This we be up to you if u want me to then let me know M****** Apart from the spelling it's a decent offer. I did not ask for a refund, and would prefer it if they could just get the bleeding things loaded as otherwise I loose the courier's fee and have to wait for somebody else to supply me, get that delivery sorted etc. Not counting my time I'd loose £260.- He also told me they're on tarmac, right by the road. So now, the couriers appear to do all they can, the supplier seems a decent enough chap, and is willing to help but is not working on the site the posts are on. WTF do I do?

Appreciate it, thanks. But as the couriers are coming tomorrow it's gotta be tomorrow morning. Think I'll have to go down myself then. I'll go in a minute to make sure I clear the M25 in time.

The best I ever had was when I used to live in Bedford, the spot on the freckle on the bum of England. Me and the mrs woke up on an unusually quite, peacefull sunday morning to hear a couple gently argueing their way up our street and just when they walked under my window he shouts at her at the top of his voice:"WILL YOU JUST SHUT YOU FORKING FACE BEFORE I PUT MY FORKING FOOT IN IT!!!"We still quote it now, whenever we have one of those friendly "arguments" years later.

Just wondered if you did that hedge or not Treebloke? If you did how did it go, how's the regrowth etc?

Hi all, You may have read my thread on SC posts I'm trying to get from near Hastings TN35 4PH to Lincs. Basically I have a load of posts ready for collection, a courier coming to collect them on monday and a completely incompetent supplier who only had to strap them to three pallets but has failed epically. If you're near and have a few minutes it would be a lifesaver if you could just go to make sure they are on pallets. (bring three pallets, some wire and some gripples or similar, just in case). It would take me a day basically as they're 200 miles away. If you've had a bad weekend and need a vent, please feel free to use the guy supplying the posts. Even if you're not near and need some sparring practise, please feel free, you have my blessing.....

The couriers have been great, and I named them already! It's pallet-line. Like the "nice guy" option, any nice guys near TN35 4PH?

Torry Hill would not deliver to us as we're too far. When I asked them if they could put them on pallets, they said yes, we can put them on 5 pallets, 50 on each pallet making haulage hugely expensive and I don't really want to go get them. Didn't consider Jacksons. I think it may be against forum rules to tell the name of the bloke. I think it's just a one man enterprise but not entirely sure as I've only ever spoken to him on the phone as they're so far away. I like the idea of just going to make sure they get loaded. All it takes is a bit of wire and some gripples FFS!

I could ask, and am probably legally right to do so, but consideriing the inadequacy of the supplier and their attitude towards their customer I very much doubt I'd get any money out of them. As far as the courier refund is concerned , It is in no way their fault or responsibility, they've already done far more than their legal and moral duty. Also, as I've arranged for the courier to pick up, rather than them having arranged to send them I do not think I have the legal right to a refund for the courier from the supplier. Moral, yes but it seems he has none. If they can't be collected on monday I'll try to arrange something else but am not sure what. I could go and pick them up, but I'll still be taking a hit on the courier and the costs of me getting them. I don't know how I'd be getting any sort of money out of them.

he's 200 miles away. If he were a bit closer he would not be standing up to hear me tell him off. I've tried to call but no answer. I also have paid for the courier, and seeing the amount of effort they've put in so far I'll not got a refund if I'd go myself, that's £250 gone. I can't afford that and having to drive 400 miles myself= a full day + fuel etc.

Quite agree, but in the mean-time I've paid for these ones already. I'd have thought it pretty obvious i'll never use them again it's the now that's the issue.

Hi all, need some advice on how to proceed with the following: I asked a fair few people on "woodlots" to supply me with 250 sweet chestnut fenceposts, and went with one that seemed reasonable in price and said he'd be happy to put them on pallets for me. I need them on pallets asthat way I could get them collected by a normal courier and still be within budget. Not many people were happy to do this, the usual reply was:"no mate, we're in Kent/Sussex/Surrey/Hampshire and can't deliver to you (Lincs), even after I'd said I could arrange collection if they were palletised. When they were ready for collection, I payed via BACS as I am a self-employed person myself and know how much stress it can give to have to wait for your money. I was told they were on two pallets and he'd had to make up a framework on the pallets to keep them safe, £15 extra. I booked the courier for collection last wednesday only to be phoned yesterday (thursday) by the courier that they'd been unable to pick up as the one pallet fell apart when they tried to lift it, and the other they thought not safe to move as they need to move them a few times in between there (E Sussex) and here. They'd been in contact with the supplier and he'd agreed to re-pack them onto three pallets ready for collection today (friday) The couriers (pallet-line) have been really good about it, esp when I explained that I was already paying for 4 pallet-spaces to accomodate the 6ft wide pallets. They agreed to collect them with no extra fee charged as they could almost fit the three pallets in the 4 spaces I paid for. Just got called by the couriers that they tried to collect, the 3rd pallet is not a pallet, it's a stack of posts held by balertwine on two blocks, the other two have not changed and could not be moved by their driver with his pallet-truck. Both the driver and the person I dealt with tried to phone the guy several times but no answer, the driver tried for about 40 minutes (on a friday afternoon, sterling effort old chap!) to get hold of him/get the pallets moved but in the end had to give in to the luring calls of cold beer from his mrs. Again the couriers are being really good, and will try and collect yet again on monday, providing the posts are strapped in some way to three actual pallets. What do I do, I don't think the supplier quite understands what a pallet is? I've paid him and need the posts to erect a 1000m of stockfence but don't have any faith left in their ability to supply. Any suggestions welcome

beautifull, did you carve them straight off the tree then, or was it seasoned first?

MDF, depends entirely on wether you want to use it or not. A chainsaw is not really designed to cut long accurate straight lines in sheets of mdf but can if you really want to. It'll tear a lot at the cut though and leave you with a very rough finish. Not sure about bar and chain wear, but providing it's clean I can't see it'll do that much damage. Cutting sheets with a chainsaw does sound a bit like a job to do with an ambulance on standby though.....

My darling other half suffers from this madness, any clear water she sees and she'll whip her kit off and plunge! Do you guys have the "wild swimming" book? It lists nice places to swim all around the country wich is great if you feel like a dip when you're not near home and unfamiliar with your surroundings.

Sorry, it's just the "fun" one that I knew of, they never offered them as "normal" pickups in my native Netherlands. Must be pretty much the same vehicle though, apart from the foldy back-seat (wich I always thought to be the best thing about them).

I do not much else than hedgelaying when it gets cold enough to wear long sleeves and i wear these really quite expensive but really good quility nice fitting gloves They last really well, I've been wearing two pairs last season and they're both still un-torn etc. The puncture resistance does get affected by its age but only when they're wet. I used to wear the welding gauntlets but they'd normally last just a few days and be uncomfortable while they did. It seems a lot for glove I know, but I'd still have these if they were twice the price they are. p.s. no I do not get paid by them

The skoda Felica "fun" is a very good buy indeed. It's basically a vw caddy but built better. I think the main issues with it are the age, as they're all getting on a bit. Skoda used them as a marketing tool to wiggle their way back into the market when they started , their uprising. The colour, only available in yellow. There's only one engine option, think it's a 1.6 petrol but not sure. They are quite low, this is why they've put the towbar up at normal level wich means you have to twist it out of the way to open the bottom tailgate They're great little cars though the back seats can fold up to give a decent load space and with the hardtop on the back (wich is very rare to find 2nd hand and v expensive) and the back seats down it makes a reasonable family car. I've a mate who's got one for sale but he''s near Colchester, so a bit out the way for you.

I used to live in my van, one day after a hedgelaying job near Market Drayton I made the misstake of parking up between two pubs, at some point in the night I got woken by some noise at the back door. When I opened it, (holding my broad-axe just in case) the two guys trying to undo the knots that held my steps on fell over backwards trying to get away. I spoke to a policewoman the next day who reckoned the knots would have baffled them beyond reason anyway if they were local guys.