Pedroski
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Oi Nick, sort you cm3 and m3 out. There's no way I'd buy a 1cm3 bag of logs off ya, but a 1m3 bag would be fine
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Never pay to tip chip. Said in another post that we often let it break down for few months then sell it on to customers as mulch. Quite often we'll speak to the customer we're working for and explain the benefit of keeping the chip for weed suppression, in which case we leave the chip behind. They often end up asking for more a year down the line.
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That's unfortunate. My Mrs is quite happy with a Pinus.
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To those who are buying, is the 201T really £400 worse than the ol' 200T?
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Last person to comment on this topic wins.....a hand saw
Pedroski replied to hazzygawa's topic in The Lounge
Are we nearly there yet? -
I trust it was British Leyland Green??
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Brilliant news
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Oregon do bars for Makita
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Pedroski replied to hazzygawa's topic in The Lounge
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Last person to comment on this topic wins.....a hand saw
Pedroski replied to hazzygawa's topic in The Lounge
This competition is just sooooo unfair. It's obvious that the winner will be a mod and there is nothing anyone can do about it -
We keep ours, let it rot down a bit then sell it to customers as mulch. By "sell it", I mean we charge them labour + roughly £30 per cubic metre of mulch to mulch their borders.
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Why don't you want it properly dug and disposed of?
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Bahco Laplander. Trouble is, they're green!
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First Aid at work course and Cellox!!!!!
Pedroski replied to HRG Tree Services's topic in General chat
Steph, have you seen the TraumaFix dressings? I've got them in my kits that I got from Buxtons. Might be a good alternative. -
First Aid at work course and Cellox!!!!!
Pedroski replied to HRG Tree Services's topic in General chat
That was Tom Connelly. There's a bit about it on the Buxtons site here Arb Kit Review: Lifesaving Celox Haemostatic Granules in Focus - Buxtons Blog - Arborist & Forestry Equipment -
Yep, I do. No concerns with it whatsoever. It's rated to 25kN so I think if I should fall with enough force to break it, it probably wouldn't be worth me living! It's obviously not a work positioning harness as it lacks side rings, but for climbing it's really comfortable, and I have used it for work a few times as well and been more than happy with it. I bought mine from "Fell and Mountain" for under £50.
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Figs are happy in small space. How about just chucking it in the ground in a large tub (1m diameter) the sort trees come in. It'll already have holes in the bottom.
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I use a rock harness - it's a DMM Renegade sit harness, and is actually very comfortable. At end of day, for recreational tree climbing you're not going to be sitting in the harness for long periods of time anyway.
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You could be right about it being individual allergenic, because I was handling the same fig and didn't have a mark on me. Matey boy who reacted badly is also asthmatic, fair skinned and a ginger, whereas I'm quite dark skinned.
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You're pretty lucky that it's not bright sunshine at the moment, so it should all clear quite quickly. Mate ended up in long sleeves for weeks!
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Reminds me of a time we were doing a fence and were putting it exactly on the boundary line as requested. Neighbour came out demanding work stop and the fence be moved a few inches.... mate went into one, said "F off and stop being a winker". Few minutes later, the fella came out with drinks! Bit wary about drinking them though....
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This stuff is really bad, so good on the reminder. My mate got seriously burned after getting fig sap all up his arms a couple of years ago - huge blisters and bad photosensitisation made things even worse. Ended up being treated as for chemical burns.
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McCulloch Tm250 strimmer spool head replacement
Pedroski replied to RockingDad's topic in Landscaping
I don't think the head is replaceable. I've just had a look at the instruction manual for the TM250, and it seems it is supplied with a wrench but I think that is to hold that nut still so the line spool can be unscrewed. I bet the nut is bonded to the end of the flex drive shaft. You're probably meant to just bin the whole thing when the head is worn - I mean, the whole thing is £80 new and McCulloch/Electrolux probably don't see it as serviceable! -
You might as well buy a few 20 or 30cm slings and larksfoot them together.... much cheaper, and you can make it up to whatever length you want.
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The Kong Robot will certainly have too much friction on ascent, unless you use a footloop Prusik/ascender etc attached ABOVE the Robot to unload the climbing rope when you want to move the Robot up. If you were standing, for example, on a Pantin and tried to move the Robot up you wouldn't be able to budge it. This is how these devices (Robot, Petzl Reverso, Fig 8 etc) work for a Fireman's Belay - the rate of descent of the person hanging on the rope by the descender can be controlled by someone on the ground applying force to the bottom of the rope. With enough pulling on the bottom of the rope, the person descending can be brought to a standstill.
