hedgesparrow

you say you have holly lay it makes a good hedge. most things are good laying. if you have photos may be able to give a better awnser to your qestions. spindleberry lays brill. do not cut much out as some of it may fill the gaps you have and againts fence will lay ok

welcome on board the ss arbtalk and good luck on your level 6

i see that hyundi are now importing the above to the uk saw them in local dealer in bishops waltham and looked good kit. was looking at 58cc knapsack blower years warrenty £300 half the price of the other two and same spec. looks like it will go on shopping list as need a good knapsack blower.

my one did it when new does not belch flames any more but smoke comes out of it when i finish with it. was told its due to the cat on it and will improve with use. wait and see if it does mine is now 3 months old.

but who sharpens the chain when blunt. or do they have a robot for that job. if its like cnc milling all done on autocad and feed to robots computor. so humans still do play a part

eggs are there no good supplier of pumps in the UK eg sellwoods. now having to be imported. as for bearings can they not get it from a bearing supplier. most bearings do come from them. even when machines are made. very rare to find a bearing not stocked by a bearing supplier. ihave given our local one the old bearing or the pattern number and 90% has it on shelf

well all the trees that keep taking power lines down must be down as ok at moment but blowing well more like a jet engine roaring. not a nice night to be out daughter out as home carer trying t get hold of her as out in sticks.

well its a blowing mad at mo heard a crack but can not see any trees local gone down. last time i saw it blowing this hard was 87 and was out in it. think its going to be a busy time this wekend for the tree boys round these parts. waiting to see if required as on standby for 4x4 responce group.

hi had a reqest to supply stakes and binders to heathrow area. if you can pm me or give me a call. may have a way to get them delivered. also anyone else needing any maybe next season now have a way of delivering in the uk. would say what delivery would be before proceding with order.

you can get from boots and the like ice gel rub it into afected parts and helps. other thing you can do is if using saw for periods keep taKING SHORT BREAKS AND GET A HAND WARMER. that will help the blood flow better so may reduce the pain but sounds like raynards or white finger. but it affects the hands i get it if i use a saw a lot fingers swell to double the size.have to wait to go down was recomended a hot handle saw to reduce it hence hand warmer

very sad was trying to remove a tree across roaD rip to his family at this sad time tried to post link on daily mail site

get a bench grinder makes a good job unless its pico chain then will not do them unless someone knows a grinder which does these

bet thats windy up there though my hedge was high but yours. no wonder you got soaked must of been a mixture of rain and salt spray. hope you got your rope lashed to a firm point to stop being blown away:biggrin:

not heard much good about them. was talking to someone who sells them and said forget it buy a new chain and take time sharpening the old one so you have a spare

thank you all for all the support and kind words mary says thank you and sends her love to you all. well tests done and its granalar tumor so benign like a large lump of bone as specilists said size of golf ball at front of her brain. its between the skull and the soft membrane and it was putting presure on blood vessels and nerves hence seizures. on drugs to stop fits and now waiting for the wessex nuro boys to meet tuesday and then will have to go to outpaitants to se them. good news now home and got to rest. the seizures she had was like running a 100 miles in one go as she was full of latic acid. thats all dropped so good news on all these fronts may ned a op to remove but will not find out untill she goes for her apoitment. downside she is now not allowed to drive for a year due to this. which is a bummer as she is a home carer out in the comunity. but work have said as soon as she is fit will let her go on double ups so she can be driven round like the queen. once again thank you all helped a lot knowing i have you lot on this forum for suport. will post when i know any more thanks chris and mary

cutting edge colden commen does big stump grinders reote control speak to chris

i know i post a lot on this forum and think i have made some friends well what a day my wife we found this morning at 4am slumbed in chair unable to get her to rouse called paramedics. rushed her to local hospital. and did checks cut story short after ct scan found she has a tumor on brain maybe benign waiting for nuro boys tuesday. hoping that drugs she is on will shrink it and stop her having fits. will post with any more details as i have them hedgesparrow

buy yourself a ms170 use one for hedgelaying best investment. got a pico chain so it cuts thin makes cracking pleaches just finish with axe. forest nad arb had good deals on them. also use it in woods coppicing. no 1 saw now for most of my work the others there if anything big comes my way see you lay hedges do not forget the hedgelaying sub forum

i had the camon 8hp and the 15hp lombardini which is BCS camon was sold to the trade and BCS to joe public i think its now jst BCS, but cracking machines. the 8hp digs well as it has wheels which pull it along and the gear box turn the rotavator. the bigger beast would do new house builds would throw out house bricks and the like no problem. but what is good about them is that you can get so many attachments for them. only have to look on there website what you can put on them. even do a chipper for them. will not go far wrong but if its ex hire it will have had a hard life but so simple to fix the clutch on them take rotavator box off undo clutch which is all enclosed in its own drum and re screw new one on blades can change a set in a hourwith right tools. apart from that not much to go wrong all there is the engine and gearbox and never had to work on the ones we had never failed. new bcs have honda engines so bomb proof.

not that far from you and very good Billcar engineering in shrewsbury experts in all 4x4 problems worth giving them a call

when i worked for the NRA and now wish i had been better at getting to work on time but was only 16 then lear the hard way. but there was a gang of 4 we kept all the brooks streams ditches and rivers cleared. we got paid our wage £5 per week but got bonus if we did a certain amount of banks in a day. so could earn £35 per week. which was a lot so you worked hard. but the NRA was disbanded and the EA set up as soon as that happened it went to pot. as in my previous post the EA has so many fingers in so many pies that they can not do a half decent job of anything they look after. they need to go back to having the NRA. and having those in charge who know what to do. not middle managment who all they knew is what they have read in a book not on the ground with those with years of experiance looking after rivers and flood defences. having a lord in charge is a total joke. when he went to the levels he did not even get out of his disco but got taken around. maybe he was woried that some local may push him in the parrott. but it will not change they will pay lip service and do a bit but give it untill the end of the year and it will be back to the old ways. how can you change it unless the goverment of the day listen then it will stay the same. maybe when wanting to be reolected that those with a vote vote for someone who will stand up for the commen people not the aristrocats of parliment:thumbdown:

+1 thank you someone on my wavelenght re plant hedges grubbed out. dig ditches around fields to stop run off from fields. lay and maintain hedges. not just flail them. its not the farmers fault they have a budget and these things cost. so HLS countryside stewardship scheme instead of margins laying fallow to get grants pay the farmers to re plant lay and maintain hedges and dig ditches and keep them cleaned each season. it will not stop the floods but it will help to stop some of the run off from fields going into water courses and may find that they do not have so much wind scoure.. less pesticides needed or rodentacides as this will increase the owl population and the insects who feed on aphids and the like. but this is commen sence which was done for hundreds of years when farms had labour. now one tractor driver to a farm. also the benifits as this post this will give work to hedgelayers who can employ cutters to help. coppicers would be busy getting material for laying hedges. this is a revenue that the tresury will get back in tax,s work for ditchers ned no more than a 1.5 tonne machine. keep many busy all during the winter digging out and keeping them clean to go back on the land so making the soil moreproductive. off soap box

merris wood at woking very good on the arb side not far from yyou

i have posted on a different post maybe worth reading as have to disagree that the EA could not have done much yes we would of had floods but not to this scale it all starts in the fields and works down to the sea that is were it needs to start work digging ditches and maintaining hedges it then follows down the rivers to the sea

simon is one of the best forcaster his forcasts are 99% spot on i now plan what i am doing by his forcasts as i know it is spot on but weekend looks grim 80ft waves force12 winds batton down the hatches