Timbermcpherson

A mere 6 years after the great war finished, you see wreaths still being placed at what I assume is a memorial.  A lady and her son stand there, I wonder if they lost there husband/father. 

Artemis Tree Services undertake cheap marketing stunts to promote there services

I would not use or recommend using Artemis Tree serviced

Id go for a soft pack over something thats framed because arborists are rough on gear, and once you bend or break a frame the packs an utter ass to use.

A caving or canyoning pack is tough, simple to clean, keeps water out and has quite a bit of room and can be stuffed into places or roped in to an overpacked truck

The old cs260t was as good as the MS150, the 2511t just left it behind

Not answering your phone when people call will cost you in time and money. Many dont come up with ID and dont leave messages, I have been climbing and taking phone calls up in the tree for the last 2 decades with little trouble. It can be annoying but sometimes every job counts.

Big gucci phones dont do well in our type of work, especially when the screen comes all the way to the edges, Its like buying a porsche and asking how to make it work as an arb truck. 

You want to be an arborist and have a phone, pick a phone that will better suit and SURVIVE the work. Its something that is smaller in frame AND has decent cases available for it. My staff have collectively gone through many thousands of dollars worth of broken phones in the last 10 years, and I have not broken one

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY

Carry your phone somewhere its less likely to get broken. One option is to make a pocket in your workshirts that will hold it and not let it fall out. it could be on the inside of your shirt where the breast pocket is. Easy to hear and reach for when you need it. 

I carry mine in a side thigh pocket of my chainsaw trousers or shorts which sits just below the harness leg loops. I got over 5 years from my Iphone 4 in life proof cases. killed 3 or 4 cases but the phone is still fine. Im now using a Iphone 6 for over 2 years. (I dont like apple but they have survived very well so far)

On 25/06/2020 at 06:48, bigtreedon said:

And another one just for fun

In desperate times, husqvarna attempts to make a decent top handled saw through a forced breeding program. 

Looks great! well done

Found this while poking around the net, thought you guys might like it.

10 hours ago, Mike Hill said:

You sound quite justifiably proud of the success your Company enjoys.

 

 You are not the guy I thought you were, apologies for the assumption.I mixed you up with a fella from Dunedin.

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No worries! 

I did visit Dunedin a while back and met a few arbs down there. Its pretty cut throat for tree work rates. From memory they were charging only a little more per day for 3 guys than we would for 2 and even the well established companies were still struggling to grow.

I think the issue is that for the population, average house hold income is low and to many arborists are being trained there and doing cash work for student beer money and its dragging the whole industry down to unsustainable levels. 

And now with the brakes on tourism due to the lockdown, its not going to be any better

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1 hour ago, Mike Hill said:

I drove past you working last time I was in Dunners.

Your kit was the same as I used when I left in 99.

Except it wasn't 20 years old then and everyone earned more,fuel was half the price and competition non existent in South Otago.

Good luck with Cindy's new utopia,when Aunty Hellen makes a slot for her at the UN ,Cindy will have the keys to China on the way out the door.

 

Change my mind.

Ah so miguided and angry.

I have never worked in Dunedin, but I did buy a brand new truck this year.

With the lockdown here mostly lifted, we have 11 weeks work booked up. We are still doing social distancing in public and we are not completely out of the woods, but overall people I come across are very positive.

19 hours ago, Mike Hill said:

How many are going to die waiting for operations?Chemo,suicide,domestic violence etc?

 

The death toll in NZ from the common flu is 500 per annum.

 

What Magic Cindy did was the financial equivalent of Chernobyl for the New Zealand economy. She is after the lowest death toll from Covid so it makes her look good on the world stage.The surge of deaths in the months/ years after won't be reported by the lefty media, especially in the wake of the hand out they received.

 

Anyhow,I chose to leave New Zealand to actually make money doing treework.Making decent coin in the aftermath of the current government's "loan-a-rama" is going to be a distant memory.

You poor thing, you couldnt make money in NZ. Thats a moving and tragic story.

We will trade our way out of the extra debt, just like we have had to do after 2 world wars, a few depressions and muldoon. We dont all run away just because times look a little tough. 

1 minute ago, trigger_andy said:

Im not sure what your point is but it seems to be that country's with high populations densities that are 'Police States' can abuse their population into controlling C-19 but countries that also have high population densities but importantly have a lot more civil liberties cant? 

 

And countries that have more Sheep than people can contain the spread of C-19. NZ has a population density of 18 per square km. Scotland has 70. Its little wonder NZ has had so few cases of C-19. 

Singapore is unique, they could tell there people to crawl to get around and people would do it.

I think Scotland and NZ's urban % of population is similar. NZ just has more non developed land

Scotland has more sheep than people so that might not be the best measure for you to use.

Scotland has 4 times the density but over 100 times more deaths. That doesn't tell you that somethings gone badly wrong? That there have been severe systemic failures? 

I have family and friends in the UK, its heart breaking

1 minute ago, trigger_andy said:

 

38 minutes ago, scotspine1 said:

 

Compare New Zealand to Singapore, approx same population size, approx same number of covid deaths yet New Zealand is 374 times larger than Singapore. The 5 million strong Singapore population are crammed into a geographically microscopic area. 

 

New Zealand should've had zero deaths from Covid if you compare it to the high standards of Singapore's containment of WuFlu. 

 

Jacinda failed. 

 

 

Oh your having to reach far to fail to make a point

Tell you what, you can live in Singapore, its a freaking police state. They still cane people, there are laws about not flushing toilets, chewing gum is bannned and being gay can get you years in prison. How many others can you name that did better? perhaps a space station somewhere? North Korea?

 Jacinda did great

11 hours ago, Mike Hill said:

Cindy kept 5 flights a day from China landing in NZ up to two weeks before the lock down.

 

Medical experts basically told her they needed to lock down because she had left the gate open this long and there was no other choice.

 

She failed to quarantine an Island in the middle of an Ocean and you strangely think she has guts?

 

How much free Money has it taken for you to vote Labour? 

 

 

In the week before our lockdown we had less than 10 new cases a day being found, and they were coming in from all over the world,  The USA, Iran and europe etc as well as china

When that figure started to increase (you know when there was evidence) she put NZ in lockdown. 

World leaders could make one of 2 hard decisions

Save the economy but kill off people

Save the people but kill the economy

Most leaders seem to have tried to do both, and have failed to save either.

We have had to date, 21 deaths here. 

And Jacinda nationally has a 90% approval rating for her handling of the pandemic. Maybe her timing wasnt perfect but she did better than most world leaders I can think of. Not a failure

The "Free money" I gave to my staff, along with the money I paid them. I had paid a tax bill many times greater than that I had paid a month earlier so it was swings and roundabouts.

We are on our 4th day in a row without any new covid cases. pubs and bars open tomorrow. my kids have been at school this week.

If your politicians had the balls to do what was obviously needed you guys would all be much better off, there is no excuse for there incompetence,  Im sorry how things are going there, you guys deserve better 

 There are thousands of 2511's about, if it was a common issue it would have been sorted like the heat issue with the 2510's were.

Mate you not the first guy to fall for those long running cons

Theres one where husky dealers tell you have the a good top handle husky to sell you

Turns out its just like All husky top handles

All to often a truck thats got about 50% of its life gone in milage is still demanding 70% of its new price. The cost of breakdowns and repairs and inspections can be crippling on older trucks. I worked out that if I got a smooth 5 years from a new truck, the saving in time and repairs would cover the depreciation and 50% of the total purchase price. I NEVER thought I would buy a new truck but doing the math, it made sense.

Since 1867 the mercator has been made pretty much the same way

Thin profile so you can carry it in your back pocket of your chainsaw trousers and sit on it and not know its there

Great quality blade, lock, and easy to handle

My daughter will be the 5th generation of my family to own one

I buy it in 205 steel oil drums, saves on having 10 of those containers made, and you can make a lot of things out of a steel drum.

Operators can just get to hot in trousers, causing them to be more impatient, fatigued, clumsy, dizzy and generally a hazard to themselves. 

 Here, chaps are standard wear in forestry, and if my climbers want them in summer, I provide them and shorts for their use. I wear them to, happier and cooler than I would be otherwise

I was working there over 20 years ago and never once found an aussie that gave the slightest crap about the rate of deforestation that was going on there. They were knocking down forest in queensland faster than it was going on in the amazon.

I found evidence of the worsening flooding, worsening droughts, dropping river levels and higher local temps which corresponded with the rate they were clearing the forests for cotton, soybean, maize, sorgham and sunflower crops.

I was called every name you can imagine. My job was threatened.

 They would have mined the great barrier reef for lime if it wasnt for some union guys wanting there kids to see it when they grew up and stopped any workers doing the job.

One of my great uncles died at Auschwitz

He got drunk and fell out of his tower

Really not hard to do yourself with a diamond wheel, bench grinder and drilll press

23 hours ago, Jamie Jones said:

Is there one you prefer out of the two?

No, one is much newer but the seem the same overall.