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Hi all, might be common but I've never noticed it before... I have a black oily residue around the exhaust of my t540. Don't get the same residue on my 560. The last mix was using the green stihl 2 stroke oil, I usually use the red stihl 2 stroke. Wondered if anyone could clear this up for me, if it's a problem I'll act straight away, if it's not just tell me to wind my neck in! Thanks in advance
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I did all my resettlement through TKF. Awesome lads, Brilliant experienced instructors and good facilities, everyone is really friendly and approachable. I'd highly recommend TKF. Did the basic arborist course with them.
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Freelance groundsman / 2nd climber OL postcode.
GordonRochdale replied to GordonRochdale's topic in Employment
Edit: Cs30/31/38/39/50 Full UK driving license with towing and heavy goods. -
Looking for ground work / climbing jobs in and around the area of Rochdale / Oldham / Shaw / Royton / Heywood. 10 months experience, around 8 of which I have been the main climber for a regular firm that I sub contract to. Proficient in most domestic climbing tasks despite the time that I have been climbing. Hard working, fit, motivated and can fit into any team with ease. I have all my own equipment including climbing kit, climbing saw, ground saw, and have a small van. Willing to travel outside of my preferred area of work, however this may reflect on my day rate. Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. Feel free to PM to discuss work / rates.
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I find ESS ice safety specs pretty good, don't steam up, come with 3 lenses: clear dark and yellow and a retaining strap, which I don't use to be honest. Got them issues in the forces, but you can buy them new for relatively cheap.
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Thank you for your reply Nick, yeah treated them a few times with nikwax as per my mountain of various boots for various jobs! The leather is very thick, which is obviously a bit of a trade off for drying time versus extended life of the boot. IMO the boots do take a lot of breaking in, closest to them would be a pair of Altberg peacekeepers that I stupidly broke in during P coy. Ouch.
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I've had a pair of phantoms, some Things I've noticed that may or may not be personal to me, took quite a while to break in to a point where they were comfortable, after 3 months the left boot started leaking enough to make my feet pretty wet after a day walking on wet ground (not submersed), think it may be to do with the bunching / folding of the material at the lowest lace eyelets? Keeping the phantoms for summer to alleviate wear on my airstreams. Did notice the quality and instant comfort of the airstreams compared to the phantoms, but that is to be expected considering that they are Meindls, and basing this opinion on military boots I've had in the past from Meindl.
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Nice one I'll give that a try next time.
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I agree there, Love the harness but it's a bit of a worry and an annoyance having to pull it back up off my arse halfway through a climb. May look at a new one eventually, but it's only 6 months old. Seems to be a bit of a common problem, do other harnesses suffer the same?
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Haven't tried it, but I'll give it a go tomorrow, may be a bit of a faff getting the harness off after? Borrowed other harnesses before, and not noticed others slipping as much if at all.
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I do a few days now and then for them, good bunch of lads. Small world....
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Hi all, As mentioned above my harness loosens off - quite drastically at times - and obviously with a saw attached the looseness is increased a lot. I've lived with it for a while now, but wondered if anyone has any ideas to remedy the problem, particularly anyone that climbs with a tree flex. At times the waist tightening straps have gone right back to the buckle on the relevant side (RHS usually the worst, probably due to the saw) I was under the impression that the "double buckle" type arrangement in which the straps run through prevented them from loosening off once pulled tight, unless Lifted with the little webbing tabs. The legs straps also loosen off quite a bit. Any thoughts / insights, thanks in advance.
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I've found that the side case incorporating the bar tensioner on my husky doesn't marry up with oregon bars intended for use on Stihl machines. I to have a bar mount adapter for said bars, but can't fit them due to this. Just something I've noticed. Haven't tried drilling a hole in them yet.
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Hi Nick, try beneficial tree care, based in Shelley. They do a lot of utility work, but offer to repay the course costs after 6 months of employment.
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MSR pocket rocket (the set with the titanium kettle) more compact than a jet boil, but if space isn't an issue I'd get an MSR stove with a fuel bottle, then you can get a proper pan on the go.
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Cheers Joe, sounds like some good advice there. Still Looking for the right one at the right price
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Sounds good Warner, my budget is significantly lower than that, there's a few on some sites for just under £4k, but they are few and far between, and in most cases over 100 miles away, the search continues
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Cheers Marc
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No worries cheers Andy
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Awesome thanks, some good info there to consider, yeah I was thinkin of putting a van vault near the back, but would be a bit of a faff when it was full of chip, otherwise put a few loops for a chain to run through. I thought they would be quite reliable, at least the older models. Looking at a 03 plate at the moment
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Any thoughts on a Nissan Cabstar tipper as a first arb-truck? Work would be small domestic type jobs, as and when they appear, between sub-contracting to my usual clients. I'd be looking at getting a box body fitted for chip.
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First time I've had them in my firewood to be honest, but I think I'll keep the basket outside from now on until needed. Didn't even think they were from the wood at first, but then noticed the little pin holes in the logs. Any chance of them breeding? Or do they need the logs to breed?
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Are you ex-military?....no not one of Steve's polls!!
GordonRochdale replied to armybloke's topic in General chat
That all really depends on a number of factors: time served, rank achieved, voluntary discharge, redundancy, etc etc. For me it was all the money I saved in the nine years that I was in, including two tours. If the kids want to be true arborists then they'll work hard for it, as for the soldiers -maybe a bit biased here- they've probably earned a bit of cash by puttin up with all the crap over the years and the dangers involved. -
Not the best photo, my macro lense has gone missing so iPhone it is. Also check this page out, the beetles look almost exact to the picture on the top of the page:- http://wiki.bugwood.org/HPIPM:Ash_Bark_Beetle
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Hello all, Came back from holiday today to find loads of beetles all over the living room (after some research identified them as ash bark beetles). My question is: are any of the surviving beetles likely to breed or start eating anything in the house? Cheers, Gordon
