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Joe Newton

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  1. Did it fall? Or was it pushed...
  2. I recently got in a sulk when I had to rig a branch off in two for lack of an easily available balancing sling. Quick call to honeys and I knocked up a spider's leg. Haven't done a locking brummel in both ends for a while!
  3. and there's probably someone out there crying about being undercut by you for that job!
  4. Just can't think of any good reason you'd need a combi spanner up a tree apart from chain tension.
  5. Or you could just send your saw down, or get the groundies to check tension beforehand?
  6. If it could climb I'd be worried...
  7. doubt you'll find many machines without operators but if Chris can't make it Simon at Beechwood could possibly help
  8. A guy I sub to has one. Ill paraphrase him: It cost around £20k, which is basically a groundies wage for the year with holiday tax etc. It does the work of multiple groundies, doesn't need holidays/ sick pay/ the shop/ etc. After the first year three machine will still be worth maybe £17k, whereas the groundies wage is gone. They're really versatile. I've taken out trees for him which would have been a solid 3 man day by morning break. Stack 10 armfuls of brash and let the loader take them to the chipper in one. Cross cutting stems is minimised, as is clearing sawdust and humping timber is long gone. Get a tipping trailer to transport it in.
  9. That looks to do a really poor job!
  10. Indeed, you wouldn't want to listen to a nicotine deprived worker bitching all day. I've noticed a few ads specifying non smokers. I'm just sore that I dont live up to some peoples standards.
  11. the whole "non smokers only" always baffles me. The outdoors ous the last refuge of the smoker? Am I worse at my job or less reliable than a non smoker? I perfectly understand the "No crystal/ masturbation" policies that I've been pulled up on though...
  12. What kit do groundies need to carry?
  13. Get a bigger boy to try starting it?
  14. How are you wearing yours? The tm is designed to sit just below your hips.
  15. I'm not sure a "paid toyboy" was the exit strategy he had in mind...
  16. I'm using the pink Stein one, it's not bad, I don't get many 25m+ trees nowadays but it works. I spliced two together for a 75m throwline. God knows why.
  17. There's crying involved?
  18. Always figured I'd cash in on disability benefits
  19. why though? What's the risk worth? A grand? Mark hit the nail on the head? Why put yourself at risk to save some dickhead a few hundred quid!
  20. Oh, the remote? I thought I was in luck.
  21. This industries full of simple fairies who can't run or maintain a saw?
  22. Do you know roughly how long it will take you? If yes then it should be fairly simple if you know your overheads and how much thou want to make in a day. If no, what are you doing working for yourself?
  23. It's worked for pulling too.
  24. Fair point, until then I just had him marked as a narrow minded bigoted arsehole.
  25. I love the airstreams but they don't last like they used to. Perhaps they've changed something in the manufacturing process. On Scafell now and they seem a lot sturdier and harder wearing.

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