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tree-fancier123

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  1. this would do - chipper on front, trailer behind
  2. If you're PAYE on the books why go flat out ultra efficient like a permanent military exercise? I mean if he's paying the foreman say 28k, if the foreman really pulls out all the stops and tries to bust a gut to get it done ultra efficient is he suddenly going up from 28k to 36? It's a long road to retirement - sometimes better to do just enough and not develop high blood pressure. Why can't it be - nice day - exciting climb - great surroundings, rather than yay we're the best organized most energetic fastest team going
  3. [ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEQzaS4CnL8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEQzaS4CnL8[/ame]
  4. it would be good if your tracked grinder could have a tow hitch on and help move it about, maybe it's not a big enough grinder for that I've spent a while browsing the various options - a Greenmech safetrack is a nice chipper - or the wheeled version 19-28, seems a bit beefier than a Jenson 540 Although if you got a tracked machine on a trailer towing behind a transit you can soon get up to the towing allowance, safetrack probably pushing the limit, Jensen about 400kg lighter. A bandit 90 is around 2ton too I believe.
  5. why can't you just spend more time reading the course books and material, then writing less sleep and leisure time till you've passed this is 'general chat' there is a sub forum in the menu ' training and education' check the threads, esp recent one they set up a help group for a cuddle up
  6. if there's room for the trunks to expand and a big canopy above, maybe the trees would live if you severed just the big roots going towards the wall - bit of digging and a few old chains. You could say kill or cure. There is a big horse chestnut outside where I live and several big roots have been hacked to keep them out the drains, this tree still going strong, but your sycamores could be the unlucky ones that get fungi into the wounds and its done for
  7. brilliant - thanks, didn't want to splash the cash on a dedicated product if I could use what I have already i.e a bit of rope
  8. just wondering about this myself - Mistahbenn or anyone - is the Blake's ok to hold a spiderleg (of say 2mm less dia than rigging line). Also if you were to tie a large eye in end of intended spiderleg rope to enable tying the klemheist, what knot to tie the eye? (need to get splicing really)
  9. sure - I just meant if he's already got O licence and HGV drivers it would seem easier to convert the registration to HGV
  10. Especially seeing as his drivers got HGVs and they got the O licence, surely an extra half hour on the road is worth it if you can turn up with that thing
  11. interesting those species both look like black blobs on the tree one for the field mycologist just noticed this after a quick trawl - has a key for discriminating between species http://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/files/5612/8294/9082/Hypoxylon_part_3.pdf
  12. excellent, thanks - didn't think about stresses on the chassis (or wheel chocks)
  13. I see the LR on arbtrader has winches front and back - is this so you can stop the vehicle moving when winching? Do you have to do anything to anchor when using the winch, or does it just rely on the vehicles weight for most jobs?
  14. 5.30am till 10.30pm - geez. It's property price inflation that's killed it. People never used to have to slog their guts out to live comfortably.
  15. thanks for the pointers - customer keeps sounds great if you're a smooth talker
  16. 12 in a day - well industrial what are the best outlets for a lot of conifer chip? I see it all layed out in the field there, and wondered how you could find a home for it. I'm not up on the horticultural properties of different chip, but is it conifer not a good mulch?
  17. this - I bet loads of the interbred vermin read these pages
  18. a couple of possibilities with chippers and trailers - if the container and / or yard are fairly isolated and likely to get done over - consider taking the wheels off trailers and chippers and leaving them on axle stands. Maybe take an extra 10mins with battery impact wrench. A tracked chipper , could even take the starter motor off. Of course none of this works if they hiab. Chainsaws take them to bed
  19. I bought a Ridgeline smock after you raved about yours. First coat I've had that keeps heavy rain out. Only usable for work in winter though.
  20. all the time spent typing and reading, could have fixed the machine or been on the way to another stump
  21. makes sense - much quicker to burn. Used a customers shredder, petrol thing and it takes ages to process if you trim trees or lower a hedge. Maybe ok for pruning off shrubs to avoid driving to tip
  22. almost a finished coffee table
  23. seen it done in a movie (Wolf of Wall Street) would bring tears to my eyes to part with the readies
  24. just realized if I get a generator I can just buy a ready made electric compressor, probably cheaper than building something to bolt on a petrol engine
  25. thanks - metal/rubber drive dog - that's the sort of engineering know how I was looking for

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