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Joe Newton

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  1. So you're planning to buy all new low emissions kit because you can't afford Aspen?
  2. That's nothing! A training provider near me takes on work (clearance, thinnings, pruning etc), they gets paid to train lads for their tickets, gets them to do the work for part of their training, then takes the chipper training lads to clear up! He gets paid by the client, the trainees, everyone!
  3. I wonder if the folk that have the gear to fix broken lines, break more than those who don't...
  4. Call me a cynic but I reckon shower rape was the goal all along...
  5. Here we go...
  6. You could always send it to Spud
  7. Try it mate, when things go well there's such a sense of satisfaction, but when they don't I've almost been reduced to tears! It's an expensive hobby though, I keep seeing stuff and thinking: " I need that"! Buy some tenex and a wire fid and start making dead eyes and whoopies. If you can't manage that than go no further! If you do then be prepared for an addiction!
  8. Why haven't you modded it?! Seems very unlike you is all.
  9. I've never had the problem of trousers being too tight in the crotch... Although I have to say if I did I wouldn't be whining about it!
  10. To the staff at treeworker mate, it's their bit of the forum we're in. Really great to deal with, and my newfound hobby is both bittersweet and addictive!
  11. Just like to mention the fantastic service these guys deliver. Very helpful and friendly to deal with, and they really know their stuff. Also very patient and accommodating for a "learner splicer" like myself. Great product range, especially for those with expensive taste in hitch cord! Big thank you to you all!
  12. In my experience you can have decent or cheap, rarely both. If you go for the latter make sure you're handy with a spanner!
  13. Haha I actually enjoy working oversized timber with a smaller saw.
  14. Did you hear laughter behind you?
  15. Same here, might be a Christmas present to myself! Good luck tomorrow! Edit: looks like once you've got it down to the union you might be able to fell it? Sod chogging that down on a 20"
  16. On a 30" I can save you wondering and tell you right now, it won't! 20" will be fine
  17. I'm running the same setup on my 550xpg. As long as you don't force the saw into the cut the 8 pin makes a decent difference in cut speed. The sprockets are less than a tenner so worth a punt.
  18. Could make a nice aperitif with them? Used to have a few Mulberry trees when I worked as a gardener, was one of the few perks of that job!
  19. Mulberrys?
  20. Good man, put an 8 pin rim on it and it'll go even faster.
  21. It really is that simple. There are no good reasons to buy the Stihl.
  22. Even when I tried using a ZZ on 11mm velocity it was too thin by far. I think 11.7 or thereabouts is supposed to be best.
  23. I'd love one of the Teufelberger ones but I know I'd spend as much again on shiny crap to hang off it! I'll probably get a DMM Porter one when my bag for life wears out.
  24. We had this at a student rented house in Coventry. No answer, gate locked, etc. the place was a mess, open bin bags scattered through the alleyway etc. The landlord came out and suggested putting a boot to the gate, and he'd reclaim the cost as the tenants had been notified! I couldn't believe my luck! I have to boot the chipper container closed twice a day anyway, so I've got a pretty solid front kick Anyway, gate sorted, conifer killing ensued, then the cheeky tenants later accused us of breaking their rickety bodged up weight bench!
  25. That's just climbing, full stop. 11mm for me is easier than 13mm. I've adapted to working in a low impact style that doesn't knacker me. And if you start to preach SRT in this thread you can sod off!

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