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  1. kevinjohnsonmbe
    Good on you!
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    Agree with that Mark! I used 4 ½ flappy discs after de barking the legs on tree house. They chogged up pretty quick but did the job!
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    Rob, both yourself & Mrs J saw through my plan! This is actually a scale model / practice run for a bigger version for me!
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    Alec, I'll put some detail pics up if it'll help. I just kinda made it up as I went along so there may well be a better way!
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    That's more like it!!
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    A little bit off topic but I had some head scratching and a bit of fun making this for my little one. It's Mont Pine and I've got heaps of it to get through, big, long, straight round stems and some really interesting angled limbs. Everyone who's seen it says "you could sell that!" and I guess it's possible but the time & labour of making this far exceed the price I could make on it. That's fine for this one in my garden, and I enjoyed just tinkering. I guess if I made a pattern, prep'd a batch of timber and bought in fixings in bulk I could get a unit cost but can't see it being a big market place. Might give it a punt at some point
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    Good news! Glad that came good for you.
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    How did that money issue play out in the end GG?
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    Like it! I have to try harder to make my imagination take charge of my eagerness to finish the job and in doing that, take a moment to see the potential rather than smashing through it to get cleared up. The dilemma is how to realise a monetary value from it so that it is more than 'hobby work' and more like an alternative income stream.
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    Yes, the skill of the politician! Made a show of standing firm but avoided an ultimatum which he could be held to or measured against!
  11. kevinjohnsonmbe
    Have you seen the flatdog led bar? How do they compare? http://www.flatdoguk.com/m/showdetails.asp?id=1411&name=21%22+FD+Predator+LED+Light+Bar
  12. kevinjohnsonmbe
    Nice work! Do you have to instal a handrail?
  13. kevinjohnsonmbe
    Agreed! Nonsensical, made up figures from an organisation that can't get it's own accounts signed off https://fullfact.org/factchecks/has_eu_budget_rejected_auditors_18_years-28593 Well done for the table thumping "I ain't gonna pay" from Cameron but there's a large part of me thinking now you know what it ******* feels like when the dick-heads at HMRC try throwing their weight around making demands on small business. Be interesting to see how you get out of this one Mr Cameron....
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    The new Belgian Health Minister explains how the extra money from the UK will help the EU tackle obesity!
  15. kevinjohnsonmbe
    Burn him!!! Gather the angry mob!
  16. kevinjohnsonmbe
    Try MTV??
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    It doesn't play from IPhone but will if you go on laptop. It's worth a watch! When he says "I partied hard as a chef" I think he was slightly playing down the longer term effects of LSD. I think a Jagger / Osbourne combo would be safer / more productive - it's ok though, he comes across as a "nice guy" - wonder if he knows the builders I've been using?????
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    It's a good point, looking at the broader potential emotional impact, it might have been a tree that had particular significance to the deceased / family. Not beyond reason that it may have been planted by a previous family member etc, etc. All just speculation of course and maybe totally irrelevant, but I offer it only as an example of how trees span generations of families and offer a metaphysical link between the 'now' and the 'before.' What with internet, email, mobile phones and the desire for instant gratification and reward that seems to pervade modern society, it's easy to forget that a human life span is but a fart in the greater scheme of things. Actions taken without due consideration can have long reaching impact. Conkers!
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    Beauty!
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    Now that is a CLASSIC example of blind adherence to the written risk assessment despite prevailing / emerging circumstances resulting in a complete abrogation of personal responsibility. I'm also recalling a cherry picker incident where RA stated use cherry picker in preference to climbing as an inherently 'safer' method. So cherry picker was set up with inappropriate ground support and went over. Blind adherence to RA without considering prevailing / emerging circumstances is the new hazard! Oh, the irony!!!
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    Typical! I'd say it speaks volumes about where, in the grand scheme of things, people place tree work. I know in some cases it can potentially lose me the job, but if there are too many constraints I'll just walk away, you know the customer is going to expect more than is realistically achievable - you'll have to work miracles in a space barely big enough to spin round in, remove the tons of wood that should have been dealt with years ago, don't make any noise or mess and leave it looking like you'd never even been there! Bhaaaaaah! Bad tempered with a bad back!
  22. kevinjohnsonmbe
    Yesterday & today been dismantling cypress trees adjacent to a croquet lawn. To give an indication of the "mindset" of the customer, I should have done the job last Summer but he didn't want to disturb his onions! Gave the option: remove knackered fence, replace with new at cost + time, fell over veg patch - disadvantage, either lift early or sacrifice £40 worth of onions. Alternative, climb & dismantle with related additional time / equipment / complexity issues. Guess what, saving this years veg patch cost £100's extra on the job. 2 weeks before we'd arranged the dismantling, he'd had the turf lifted & ground levelled then turf relaid on croquet lawn (rather badly in reality), so with no time to 'take', you only had to walk on the turf to cause it to skid. How do people really think they can keep putting off the tree work year after year until it's ridiculously out of control, then expect large take downs with no collateral damage??? Grrrr, rant over!
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    Fair breezy out there today.... Got a bit of motion sickness up aloft!
  24. kevinjohnsonmbe
    Sounds awesome! Design in ease of handling systems just adds to the justified sense of satisfaction that must give you.
  25. kevinjohnsonmbe
    Nice! Like it!!

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