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looks like you mean business with those big chippers have you ever used a log splitter on the sections and/or rings so you can chip oversize bits of poplar, lawson etc?

yes - Labour always seem to think the national debt doesn't matter, they want to enjoy being the benevolent ones

https://youtu.be/Ad4zMZHwjRk PCB effort

as evidenced by this graph - Mogatron obviously likes his genitalia sensations, but its mostly foreigners overdoing things

if time is not important janey could send you some seeds off his one

Scary stuff indeed. You may have seen the latest Mad Max, not that far fetched - a warlord controls the only water for miles. Wee outside to save flushing the bog. Just dont get caught by the homeowner

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If the bosses couldnt get away with brushing off a few crumbs for the thickos they wouldnt bother doing it. The whole point of being a boss is to make absolutely sure you get so much more than everyone else.

More gaps than anything else. So havent done enough homework, sorrybud pic poor, was embarassed not knowing this tree, customer said good autumn colour. ?

nice job, looks as good as it gets to me, and worth it for the customer, none of this 1.5m nonsense, may as well pay someone to go up there and dust it

I'd unbrick the front wall of my lounge put up an rsj and some acros, then buy 10 ton of copper on the London Metals Exchange and get it delivered on wheels so I could stuff it in my lounge and brick the wall back up. Some years later there would be a price spike and I would send it back to the LME.

my initial thoughts are would it clamp tighter if you used Duck tape around the carbon fiber shank a couple of times before clamping it? I guess worst case is the Duck tape adhesive could degrade the resin, but I doubt it, anyway spikes are dear but not ppe, so even drilling is not the end of the world. Different diameter bolts have different torques before the thread strips, maybe even a 2 mm stainless bolt M2 off ebay would be enough to stop it sliding up, in addition to the clamp and perhaps Duck tape too, belt and braces. I guess with the Duck tape there is a limit to how tight you can clamp it without crushing the carbon fibre, but from what I've seen of carbon fibre it can take some considerable forces On seconds thoughts - no I don't think its best to use the smallest diameter bolt if you do decide to drill it off - if the clamp slips with it bolted all your weight will be on a very small diameter so increased pressure on the carbon fibre - a bolt similar size to the spike ones better, personally I would try the Duck tape first Interesting about the kiwiclimber spike sender, didn't imagine it would pop out, was on my wishlist, looks like the Arbpro is a better option

I enquired about a ro ro a few years back for a line of conifers, it was a skip firm with their own waste transfer site, if i only put wood and chip in hed do a bulk green waste at 10 a ton, plus 120 for haulage for each trip it needed emptying. I thought £ 10 a ton cheap even with the haulage, lower cost overall on a big clearance. The Biffa Amey commercial local one is 4.4p kilo Amey or about 55 a ton Biffa, green waste only, also no stems over 8 inches.

If a big leylandi hedge is removed i can see the wood being acceptable for biomass chip, what about the foliage greenery conifer chip, how is that processed and moved on in quantity?

Yes the tuckpoint guard and m class extractor i have done without, however im asthmatic, and dust extraction really helps my breathing. The extractor will fit my other Festool stuff circ saw, planer, sanders, bit of Festool fanboy, really industrial top notch gear, rebuilt some wooden garage doors, tracksaw helped enormously, with extraction power tools you can also potter about indoors too without making a mess, fitted a new kitchen door for a lady. i had a small extractor but the new one is m class dust, self clean filters, can do wood and masonry. I dont have money to burn, just like having good quality gear, saves a third being lopped on tax. Just got a nice mobile welding set to patch up my tipper. The thing i want that i cant afford is some land and a unit, must stop splurging on tools i dont need

A good glug has always done for me. Cool, no need to be too anal about it, I suppose

so if there is only one groundy and a tagline is needed to pull stuff clear of a roof for example, snatching the piece using a stub, or even having a small portawrap sent up could be worth it. There must be hardware maybe from rescue gear like the Petzl ID that could be attached on a sling inboard of the cut to allow fishing pole style dismantling of large branches - some gadget that can withstand the drop force on the rope when locked, then lets the climber control the descent with a lever? The ID looks like it would wreck the rope, but the ISC D4 looks more like something that could be used as top friction in self lowering http://www.iscwales.com/Products/Descenders/RP880-D4-Work-Rescue-Descender/16614/

a glug - that means an exact number of millilitres per kg of dry mortar mix

yeah - jack of all trades and a master of none - I get that, but I do get satisfaction from learning new stuff, I'm not particularly good at any one trade, but like to try my hand at different things, even plastering and car mechanics. There isn't enough time in one life to have a go at all the things people do for a living. I'll probably never get a chance to earn a few quid clipping poodles or shearing sheep. I asked the guy for extra as I didn't realise the materials costs of the sweep in grout, so up to £160 from £100. I will lose money on the job, but I often see reasonable patios in need of tlc, if I can get the hang of it I feel it would be a good service, maybe not as profitable as tree and hedge work, but I do get satisfaction from doing landscaping stuff, even just putting up a few fence panels, or laying a few turfs. @forestboy1978 I appreciate your choice not to repoint others work as you dont know if the slabs were on a solid bed or not. This particular patio is not real expensive stone, its the concrete slabs. I've invested in a few bits of kit for this upcoming job, hopefully this gear will do if I ever veer into the brick repointing malarky. https://www.ffx.co.uk/tools/product/Festool-Ctm-36-E-Ac-Hd-4014549206577-240V-Cleantec-36L-M-Class-Mobile-Dust-Extractor?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrrC_2pjW2AIVhLDtCh1D9wSlEAQYBSABEgJ3gfD_BwE https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Makita-SJS-II-5-Angle-Grinder-w-Tuck-Point-Guard-GA5040X1-new/391449860928?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D49131%26meid%3De238ee586544451bbf10a084b3ffcba4%26pid%3D100623%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D172218479346&_trksid=p2047675.c100623.m-1

Mike Hills post was excellent advice - I would add it may be heart wrenching to do, but if you take out all the racking in your van a tracked chipper would go in between the wheel arches esp something like a TW150 VTR vari track. Search completed listings on ebay for tracked chipper - a tatty one for 7k. If you're van was emptied out you can chuck wood in there too. 200 ps should be good to pull 3.5ton plus 3.5ton trailer up hill! Ive only got the wimpy 140ps tipper version and that still pulls reasonably I used Tony Darbyshire for training - very good knowledge level. If you've already paid for it then too late, but I know I paid about half that for everything up to CS39 and that was even doing CS 39 twice as I cocked it up, cutting too close to body and other deadly sins. For 7k done as individual tickets you could have them all, rigging, medium felling, windblown etc. If you start advertising for tree work after you will definitely need to sub in or learn rigging, otherwise its trimming and felling conifers. Spending 7k - I would spend a hundred or so on books first and know some of the techniques before you start. Jeff Jepson - To Fell A Tree, and Tree Climbers Companion . G. F . Beranek - Fundamentals of General Tree Work ( now a £20 pdf) Also Best Practices For Rigging in Arboriculture. Probably £100 quids worth in total and a few months time to digest it all. Oh and just walk away from the knackered looking trees, let someone else hire a MEWP in until youve got the mark of it. Only thing I thought with Mike Hills post is he was close to distorting the chipper chassis winching with all those snatch blocks. Impressive though getting a tractor out

I'm losing sleep over FB too - shares went as low as $18 in 2012, up to $181 now. I looked at it at the time and passed on it - and life has passed me by:(

i was going to like your post - but now i know the dangers my new years resolution is to use the like button sparingly

I dont suppose I had a point really, just mentioned it as you stated hard work is the main ingredient for success. It struck me as a remarkable story as I've never been a really hard worker - three hours sleep a night for six months, made me feel like I should pull my socks up a bit. I said to her I'll have to do a bit more I'm not running at full capacity - she replied ' yes you'll have to get your whip out'. I dont think they would have beeen successful without all the hard work - but whether they chose to work hard of their own free will is another matter. Philosopher shoe gazers - most of them not got a pot to piss in

one of my customers has a farm - really nice place, she said for six months when they first started her and her husband went to bed at midnight and got up at three, can hardly believe any human can survive on three hours sleep, but she said is was when she was young before they bought the big place, don't think I could do six months of three hours sleep, 6 hours minimum, I do believe her story though

People like to feel they have some control over their lives, so the sciency stuff can be hard to swallow