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I still like Pfanner fine grip although I think the quality has dropped in the last year or so....

Just a bit off when anyone asks for help with an issue, nothing personal but it took a lot of advice and then...nothing, especially when the issue has been a long running one.
It is always good to know the advice is good and has solved the issue but hey ho....it is a modern world and the manners my mother drummed in to me seem to mean less and less as time goes on!

I've seen a few of his videos, awesome kit but I can't see domestic tree work in the UK being able to pay for that equipment

I have both, I have the Land Rover 130 that is used everyday and a transit for the bigger jobs. The key in my opinion is having lots of top sites or getting the customer to keep the chip. The Land Rover can get in places transits and the like can not. I'm on my 3rd 4x4tipper now and it works for me.

I was working at a property today and got chatting to the neighbour who was a retired arborist and he showed me something very interesting from various tree root systems that had failed during storm Arwen. The ones in the picture are from Oak and Beech. The are quite fascinating up close. Any ideas as to why these form and what they are? Some of them I have seen before when the roots squeeze through rocks but some of these are so strange.

I have always given them a bit of bonemeal once they have been in a while, especially if they were in a pot. They always have survived after being yellow....

To give an update on the Ash tree I quoted for a while back….. A firm I know locally did the job, all done and dusted by 2pm, for £500. So, I’ll put my hand up and admit I was totally wrong on that one! Happy to hear the fella got it done, and the lad I know did the work and he was happy too.
 
On a totally separate note; someone my mrs knows has I dare say, been absolutely shafted on price for a job. Now I don’t know specifics about site, access etc. but, they had 16 Ash trees felled, and I think ringed up on site for firewood so no real arisings to deal with. The photos I was shown depicted a portly man wielding what looks like a Stihl, but not sure what exactly. Oh and he had shorts on. And the job had to stop as someone cut their hand with a chainsaw.
 
 
 
Oh and they were charged 7.5k.
 
 
 
I don’t even know if the job was finished, and I have a terrible feeling they might have paid up front. When they told my mrs who had done it, I looked them up quickly. All the classics there on the advert: OAP discount, lopping topping etc. Unbelievable really, but sadly, believable somehow 🤦🏼‍♂️

Been to TractorFest at Newby Hall today [emoji41]

I do, but I can’t get into French politics or football.

Anyone else!
Don’t you get it?
 
Fred West for all I care.

How Ukraine never got such a blatant penalty baffles me?

Care to expand on why my point is nonsense then? Why would any web designer worth his / her salt need to know how many pages the site will have? It's a bit like someone asking for a quote for a tree removal, and the arb asking the client what chainsaw they would like to be used. 

Any sandwich ideas would be nice.
I’ve forgotten most of them.
 

Rubbish when I used it. I had far more success using a lead generation.

Interestingly one of my customers has just ripped up a couple of hundred square metres of not a cheap plastic grass he put down a couple of years ago as he's kids hated playing on it because it just didn't feel like real grass.

Whats it like for dogs to shit on ? Just out of interest like ...

Whats it like for dogs to shit on ? Just out of interest like ...

Ahh, did you change the unit or just the seal? My rollers would turn no problem but when you tried anything over 2" it wouldn't take it in. I took it into him and that's what it was.

Might be worth having a chat with Aidy at Spectrum Plant first though. He knows his stuff.

Our machines are a similar age I seem to remember mate, it's a rubber seal that goes but it's best to change the whole thing.

Mine did this the other week, it is a hydraulic valve that's on the side of the engine near the starter

A mossy lawn is a thousand times comfier than a monoculture lawn, and anyone who disagrees is shit at parallel parking. 

Lucky it did not " shoot " its tail to get away .

Brilliant walk today on some of our local Limestone pavements, we even found a slow worm so I let the kids have a hold and experience these great little creatures. I had one as a pet as a kid. They are great and it was good to see one in its natural habitat. They are protected in the UK but you can handle them. my little lad was made up. We then put it back where we found it and watched as it blended in with its surroundings and disappeared. Brilliant.