born2trot

Scottyd. You pay for my fuel there and back and you have a groundie. I'll do as many as you've got. Call me a masochist, stupid or maybe just broke. I'll be there.

 

Cheers

Tinker

Tinker , are you a ' nomadic trimmer ' for want of a better word ??

if you dont mind me asking

This event has me absolutely hooked . The favourite is Bradley Wiggins , history in the making for Great Britain ... forget the Olympics guys this is stuff of folklore

Forestry commission used to do information sheets , they are very good for deciding which chemical , where and when etc probably still do them .

I think your gonna surprise yourself

I'm marshalling a 30k TT tonight and the weather is horrific , they must be hardy or off their heads

Not Buckinghams for sure .

I got a call a few years ago now about a cat in a tree, fire service didn't want to know, so they rang me couldn't get near it when it was on the end of a limb so cut end of limb with pole saw. and got people on ground to set up a sheet to catch it in.

Good way of catching a branch , never thought of that

Think Albedo's cat in the first pic is saying ' Go on , try and grab me by the scruff of the neck '

Mark makes a very good point about not being bullied or peer pressured into things.

 

In my view this is one of the most important things. Whilst listening and learning which is fine.

You are the one up the tree, its your call... remember that.

 

How to stay alive in two words:

 

SMALL BITS

Couldn't agree more...

funny i was thinking exactly the same thing there

interesting to hear that from someone who's been involved, as my first impression was that it was just a load of NIMBY's who think cutting any tree is bad.

 

Sounds like railways may differ from highways, I was involved with some motorway embankment clearance a while ago, they were very strict on us regarding ecological impact. had us raking all grass cuttings to benefit flora, making piles of cuttings for reptiles, leaving specified areas of scrub. We even had an ecologist measuring habitat piles to check they were the right size!

We cleared an embankment at a station in central Scotland nowhere near the line and actually roadside , but on the railway side of the fence if you get the drift . We left a tree which we noticed was being used by a magpie . Anyway a couple of days later we happened to drive by and the said tree was gone ... completely unnecessary . I'm not saying these people are right or wrong but there was undoubtely excesses going on , and turning of a few ' blind eyes '

The word used here was ' Excessive ' . When i worked on the railways there was undoubtedly ' excessive ' removals and unnecessary wildlife murder . You cannot assume these people are being unreasonable . They may well be right and if it involves network rail i know who my money would be on .

Wildlife season ? are you having a laugh !!

Not touching veteran trees . hmmmm . It may have changed right enough .

Big advantage that i can see is the continious pull . The ones over here ( look identical to ones shown ) dont do this but are only about £20 quid or something . Only downside is that they can be fiddley to release under high tension which is where the tirfor types always win , but for lightness , cost etc they are good .

I'm liking that alot

Had a guy come up and challenge me to a race at the skating the other day . I was quite shy at accepting at first but there was no way in the world i was backing out . I won convincingly and really surprised myself at the power i was generating . No way in the world this would have happened only a few weeks ago .

Theres nothing will stop you doing this Christopher , absolutely nothing

GriGri 2 ( RADS set-up )

If you biker dudes get a chance to visit Alford transport museum there is some really lovely bikes , my favourites were an MV Agusta ' Senna ' edition and a Honda RC30 , beautiful sorry for the derail Trad .

Thanks Mr Null Annonymous!

Sorry , howz that now ??

Charming! Haha. There most certainly will be suffering.

 

(did you just sponsor me? No name came up.)

Yes i did , put in my full name

Definetely over do it , i want to see some suffering !!

Good luck ...

I'm marshalling at a 25mile TT shortly , does that count ?

Just back from hockey practise , shattered again . I'm enjoying reading your exploits lads keep posting

Youse are talking about' Clegs' boys

I would reckon if its a powerfull brushcutter/strimmer , say a 35/40cc jobby a heavy grass blade ( sort of 3 prong steel head ) would make very light work of it because you dont need the machine on full revs constantly . This would get the grass down to a level which once dried would just need a light strim .

If you use strimmer wire you will probably need to give the strimmer a thrashing all day long which obviously you dont really want to do . If its a warm day the machine could be glowing hot quite quickly .

The killer wont be the height of the hedge but the width at the top , which could be a real issue if you dont have the right tools

You should have a little trail of sawdust come out from their bums

Ah the joys of not reading properly, I thought the title said 'first go at a cock'

 

:lol:

Do you live anywhere ?