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WorcsWuss

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  1. Hi Mick! I only come here when I have money to spend with people these days... I get enough tree nonsense on the AT facebook group, and boy is there some nonsense on there!
  2. Had a couple of guys get in touch now, thanks all, don't want to waste loads of peoples time getting 4, 5, 10 quotes in! Will update if anything changes! Thanks!
  3. Afternoon all. Long time no speak etc etc... Looking for a firm to quote me for some clearance on a site just off the M6 south of Preston. It's for a new car park and will require a mixture of fell & clear and minor maintenance work of retained trees, with some replanting on completion to suit the new layout, all in accordance with the planning permission. I have an arb report [from a lapsed member on here] which I will make available for quoting, but I haven't spoken to them yet. I'll need copies of PL & EL insurances, RAMS & certs for staff pre-start. PM me a phone number and I'll give anyone interested a call. Now the awkward bit; I'll need budget costs back within a week! A detailed quote can be carried out once the project has been signed off but I'm trying to get the whole thing moving at the moment and need a but of cost information first.
  4. Afternoon all. Long time no speak etc etc... Looking for a firm to quote me for some clearance on a site just off the M6 south of Preston. It's for a new car park and will require a mixture of fell & clear and minor maintenance work of retained trees, with some replanting on completion to suit the new layout, all in accordance with the planning permission. I have an arb report [from a lapsed member on here] which I will make available for quoting, but I haven't spoken to them yet. I'll need copies of PL & EL insurances, RAMS & certs for staff pre-start. PM me a phone number and I'll give anyone interested a call. Now the awkward bit; I'll need budget costs back within a week! A detailed quote can be carried out once the project has been signed off but I'm trying to get the whole thing moving at the moment and need a but of cost information first.
  5. Thanks for all the messages, I think this is sorted now. I'm going to retire to bed to sleep off the bottle of red I've sunk this evening now...
  6. Evening all, long time no chat! Anyway, straight to the chase... We've got a project on at Hatherleigh Abattoir and I need to get a row of connies taken out as part of the planing permission to get a new roadway in to an effluent plant. There's half a dozen to a dozen from memory, straight fell, chip can be blown on site, need it doing ASAP. The aroma is not for the faint hearted! Anyone interested...? Let me know here, and PM me an email & phone number please and I'll be in touch with details! Will need written RAMS and the usual insurances. Not a live construction site so no CPCS required.. Thanks guys!
  7. Thanks Adam, Paul and the gang, lot of love in the room! Court hearing on the 8th of December so fingers crossed! Hopefully life will get sorted very soon!!
  8. Cheers Al! Life goes on though! Hope you lot on here are all getting on well x
  9. Messy divorce, legal battle to stop the kids being moved away, busy in the day job, kids every weekend, Ted took the drawings to see about prototyping it but again, he's got bigger fish to fry too! So in a nutshell guys, that's it. Terminally stalled I think!
  10. Evening ladies. It's been months since I was on here last, one or two fine fellows will know why, my life derailed 'a little' last September.... Anywho, having posted in here a while ago (!) I thought I'd drop in and say hello and show anyone interested what I'm playing with now. I decided swinging round trees wasn't dangerous enough so I bought some bikes to cheer myself up.... 2008 Triumph Sprint ST 1050 on the left, 2011 Husqvarna (who'da thought it eh?!) TE310 enduro on the right. The Sprint is currently my preferred daily transport now that the sun is out, and I'm cherry picking the local Enduro events on the Husky. Bloody love it!! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App
  11. No one? Come on chaps, I don't want to do it!
  12. Morning chaps. Need someone who knows what they're doing to pop in and reduce a Magnolia on a site in Kidderminster..... before the guys on site do it! No arisings to worry about, can all be chucked straight in the skip, just a simple reduction to get a new entrance canopy on the front. I'd like to get it done early next week. If anyone is interested please send me your number and I'll give you a call to discuss. Thanks Simon Photos...
  13. WorcsWuss

    ms 460

    Great saw, have 20" & 25" for mine, usually lives on the 25" though. If any new ones are still out there I'd certainly grab one while they are...
  14. Funny, I just posted this on Facebook.... I need to shift a bit, and get back into condition... 10 years of sitting at a desk, quitting smoking (I've just temporarily taken it back up again to try to wean myself off junk food, I found the fags far easier to knock on the head bizarrely) and a resurgence in the social acceptability, and hence 'availability', of cider, have seen me put on a couple of stone round the middle and suffer tragic upper body muscle wastage. I'm 33 next month and just round the corner from finding it virtually impossible to get back in shape so it's now or never for me!
  15. We have 2 full weekend camping tickets for the Cornbury Festival between Oxford & Chipping Norton if anyone wants them. Unfortunately we can't go. They were £200 each but any offers considered. If anyone wants them and can pick them up then get in touch. Be a shame for them to go to waste. I could next day post them if need be so you could get them Saturday morning if unable to collect. Not really an Arbtrader thing really but I thought I would offer them to you guys! Great line up!
  16. Bet she was thrilled... Kettle for valentine's day? Always goes down well... Trust me Joking aside, I want one!
  17. We got dicked with a monthly return we had to do for a year, same thing, fines for non return. I can't even begin to count the levels on which it wound me up..... They never said it had to be accurate though.... God love the civil service. Someone has to....
  18. I used to do the same, but I have to say, get a 125 and do cbt, it's amazing how quickly it drops into place just being out on the road. I'm going to run around on it this summer and I might well throw some cash at doing the tests to see how it goes before autumn. If I fail then I'll just do a 3 day course next summer. Tool mine to AMS today for a service and check over today, had a great ride there and back this morning but it was hosing it down this afternoon when I took their demo bike back to pick mine up. Less fun. But still fun!!!
  19. A valid point and worth noting... It was unfortunately the only photo I had.... That said, it would work like this, but you'd soon find you'd need to throw the rope bag over the other side of the line to get it to run freely....
  20. It's a terrible photo, and not set properly through the 8, it was only set up to show the basic arrangement, and the surplus biner and camera angle make it look worse than it is. You've got the idea though, tug a little slack through the prusik (and it does only need to be a couple of inches) and flip it over the 8 (it doesn't lock up too tight) and you're away, just push down on the prusik and it runs through the 8, let go of the prusik and it all stops. It's not TOO gear intensive - snake anchor, 2 biners, fig 8 and a bit of hitch cord - and it suits me, in fact it's basically the same as Adam's second one from the first page - [ATTACH]127189[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]127190[/ATTACH][ATTACH]127191[/ATTACH] - but using a bit less stuff, and I soft lock the 8, which is probably unnecessary. In this one the snake anchor does the job of the anchor rope, bat plate and sling from Adam's. No. It's just you Adam And my terrible photo and slapdash set up
  21. Yes, the f8 is still controlling friction from a static point, once the 8 is unlocked, lowering can be controlled through the 8 with the back up hitch either still attached to the tree/snakeanchor or clipped to something/someone else and controlled remotely. No slack, to unlock it you do have to pull enough slack in to unlock the 8, but only a couple of inches, after that it's no different to descending on an 8 backed up with a prusik.
  22. Here's what I use.... Knew I had a photo of this somewhere! Ignoring the fact that 2 crabs are clipped together (this was only set up for a photo) Snakeanchor round the tree, fig 8 clipped into it and the climbing line soft locked off through it, asymmetric prusik on the tail clipped back to the snake anchor. Anyone lowering can take the tail with them and clip it to themselves (even just to a loop of cord round their waist if they don't have a harness) and control the descent remotely, and let go of the rope completely if they need to with the hitch as a failsafe.
  23. More than welcome to pop over here and try it if you like Ed.
  24. Cheers Chris, it's pretty innoffensive for a 125! Fun to ride, nothing like my old 2t 250, but puts a real smile on my face on twisty back b-roads....! Good to hear your bike's earning its keep now, would love to have a crack at something similar!
  25. Next summer I reckon, want to take my time and enjoy it! Did a couple of hundred miles yesterday, all good until the throttle cable snapped at Brecon...! Threw away the sheathing, re-fed the cable up through the frame and wrapped it round the twist grip to do the 50 mile journey home. Bit tricky pulling out of junctions in town...

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