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  1. tree-fancier123
    that seems fair comment - if the probabiltly of an injury could be given a figure where 1 means it will always happen every day and 0 never, then if its say 0.0001 - this means statistically after ten thousand days each worker will have had an average of one accident. The good news is that the probability of having an accident two days in a row is very low.
  2. tree-fancier123
    like Mick, I've never undone knots, but if kit not to be used for weeks or months, storage has to be dry and dark - UV from the sun is supposed to degrade rope and textiles
  3. tree-fancier123
    if you have flooded it - constant pulling with choke then take plug out and dry it and pull a few times no choke with plug removed. Then Holts Easy Start aerosol sprayed into air intake (remove filter cover) Easy Start usually starts most garden machinery that has been left a while I have fitted one of the cheap import carbs to a Stihll hedgecutter, works fine a complete replacement carb on ebay for £7 e.g may fit yours New Carb Carburteor For STIHL FS38 FS45 FS46 FS46C FS55 FS55R C1QS153 Trimmer | eBay i can't find a listing specifically for FS36 only FS38, so if you want to try a carb, check out part numbers before ordering a non genuine replacement
  4. tree-fancier123
    i thought it was funny when the guy came on saying he was the one who felled a huge redwood - a few year old thread he had trawled up from somewhere - i was a bit sceptical, someone said 'is that you out there Cody' the poster replied 'sure to god is'
  5. tree-fancier123
    i read about Duck Oil on here a while ago - been good keeping hedgecutter blades from rusting, freeing up carb springs - 5l tub with a sprayer to decant into for 25 on ebay, probably last me a few years unless i use it up before Swarfega duck oil 5lt with FOC sprayer 5 litre penetrant releasing lubricant oil | eBay
  6. tree-fancier123
    interesting to learn about where teak comes from, my grandad fought in Burma - he hated the Japs for the rest of his life
  7. tree-fancier123
    I think your maid did alright with that, 500 not too steep, nice picture of you - dont look like someone who would nick anything, although you can never tell. You were number 6 on google - tree surgeon exeter, not bad at all
  8. tree-fancier123
    Simon above with the Isuzu posted a good thing a while back re capacity - he said get a big tipping trailer put tracked chipper in and on big jobs leave chipper on site (with minders) and take full tipper and high side tipping trailer away - so if the tipper (like Simons at 170bhp) is pokey enough and can legally tow 3.5ton, then you have maybe just under a ton in the back plus 2.5 ton on the trailer, so 3.5ton legally of chip without operating centre or o licence. Of course elaborate tool boxes and over specced greedy board frames, crew cabs etc mean less than a ton of chip in the truck, legally. However, on this point if the fine is a few grand this would have to be factored in to see if increased profits could cover it - obviously if you wipe out a family on the pavement overloaded it wouldn't
  9. tree-fancier123
    at least they are advertising in winter, some desperate people may hack away at them and try to burn it green
  10. tree-fancier123
    just picked up a ten year old 35c14 Daily tipper - 140bhp 3 litre , pulls much better up hills than my transit , and 3.5 ton towing on the Iveco. Pleased with it. Paid just under £3k, even if I end up spending another £3 on repairs over the next few years, still cheaper than a newer truck. this place looks very good to me for arb, gardening trucks - they wash down, rust treat (obviously not welding) and prime then coat with epoxy mastic (same stuff applied to RNLI Ford Rangers) costs about 2000, seems a lot, but considering it for the Iveco (whole chassis, underside of tipper bed too), if it means it will give it years of protection and keep it from needing welding up. EPOXY MASTIC EM121 RUST PROOFING PRICE LIST
  11. tree-fancier123
    I like the burning ideas - it wouldn't get you the job - but how great would it be to pour 20liters old engine over the tops of them and burn where they stand
  12. tree-fancier123
    Very good. Had no idea it involved taking the case apart - still 200 for 3 hrs work not a bad setup, even if its needs a few years reading up on it. I expect he gets his investment back a lot quicker than the people who invest in buying the vans. We cant all be vantuners, not enough ecus to go round
  13. tree-fancier123
    I nominate Bob for Arbtalk employer of the year. What about when they retire? Gold watch as big as a frying pan?
  14. tree-fancier123
    'a social media tree surgeon is something to be' after John Lennon - Working Class Hero
  15. tree-fancier123
    the big firms seem to keep rolling on, loads of paye arborists and plenty of contracts, bosses go skiing
  16. tree-fancier123
    not done a really big reduction, but imagine you'd struggle to find something you can trust on the end of a long lateral, cut through your climb line then and the amount of leverage between there and the trunk....
  17. tree-fancier123
    that chipping malarkey seems like money for old rope - the vantuner site charging something like 200 for a 'postal remap' send him your ecu he sends it back with allegedly another 15 20hp programmed in somehow, wonder how much his gizmo to do them cost
  18. tree-fancier123
    i don't understand the point being made - if you're part way along a branch and you are on a cambium saver or srt above, and then put a lanyard around say something growing vertical from the branch you're stood on then the lanyard becomes a second climbing system - it may not be advisable to put your full weight into something far from the trunk unless its really big, but is it not still a secondary tie in point?
  19. tree-fancier123
    2 person bounce test - or just hope for the best
  20. tree-fancier123
    a second bridge for safety and a special machine for checking all aluminium carabiners for hairline cracks
  21. tree-fancier123
    there was a website not long ago selling stingy nettles 'attracts bees and other wildlife to the garden' £6.99 or something. Metrophile office bods would possibly click to order http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/plants/10265984/Dont-call-them-weeds-stinging-nettles-on-sale-to-urban-gardeners-for-7.99.html
  22. tree-fancier123
    well I can see why you're only partially interested in tree work then, if your current job can support that
  23. tree-fancier123
    so how much does eggs pay his drain cleaner helpers?
  24. tree-fancier123
    £80 max on the books, meaning anywhere between minimum wage and 80. No wonder people can't always get staff - of course it is pleasant working outdoors in great surroundings, but that sort of money will always leave someone feeling bitter and disappointed, at least some of the time. The national living wage imo is something good from the conservatives, shame brexit is being blamed for missing the £9 hr 2020 target
  25. tree-fancier123
    been trying to replicate Mattmoss's success with this - a reverse image search next to useless - then tried a simple text search ' trees with fernlike leaves' and eventually saw it in the middle of a load of results in a document 'common trees of Los Angeles'

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