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The avantgardener

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  1. The avantgardener
    The gap is normal. I just run it flat out from the start and for rest of its life, never had any issues, the dealer I use runs it up flat out and checks it over before handover anyway.
  2. The avantgardener
    They emptied the fags and rolling tobacco last night near me too.
  3. The avantgardener
    I found the ratchet wedges extremely slow and painful in big timber, the effort involved and time it took was far more than the effort needed with wedges.
  4. The avantgardener
    Just heard that they have removed the food bank from my local Tesco as people are stealing from it, they should be put in stocks and publicly humiliated.
  5. The avantgardener
    Two weeks here in East Sussex.
  6. The avantgardener
    I think your right about the schools, my little one came home with a notebook and pencil from her teacher today, they will have some on line work to do no doubt. They are worried that if the kids are off they may infect the grandparents. At the school my missus works at quite a lot of the grandparents drop the kids off so that the parents can go to work. I don’t know anyone with a full time job that fits around school hours.
  7. The avantgardener
    That’s what benefits are for, not fags and booze.
  8. The avantgardener
    I usually just get the harvester driver to give it a good push. ?
  9. The avantgardener
    Seems to be very concentrated in London at the moment, my mate in Islington has never seen his area so quiet. Is France running out of foie gras and Ortolan yet?
  10. The avantgardener
    The shit will hit the fan here when KFC and Mc Donald’s close, how will people feed their kids? I think we are just a couple of weeks behind. My Easter trip to France now looks doomed, could be worse though, no one I know is sick or dead.
  11. The avantgardener
    I have found that all the ratchet type ones that I have used are limited to small & medium trees, for which they work well. But the effort involved with larger trees/ back leaners was more than pounding in wedges, treemans jacks are great but pricey.
  12. The avantgardener
    I am coppicing with one guy on a huge estate for the next two weeks, I have enough fuel in the truck and enough Aspen to last the job, won’t be at the pub or supermarket, in fact don’t need to meet anyone outside my home. Unfortunately, my missus is a Primary teacher, she is in contact with hundreds of the little blighters every day, they come from all over town and have probably not been concerned about their movements up to this point. So all the steps that I have taken to self isolate are F*****g pointless.
  13. The avantgardener
    Best 50cc saw on the market, bar none.
  14. The avantgardener
    If you have data for this claim send it to HSE. Unfortunately they will probably use it to push more legislation at another glaringly obvious issue in that the bulk of tree surgeons I know regularly fell large stems after a dismantle without more than CS31.
  15. The avantgardener
    I think sawpod has developed a prototype one of his own, most of his decent climbing friends seem to use one, don’t think it’s at full production stage and I am unable to comment on what the price might be.
  16. The avantgardener
    My grandad used to make things like this with a foot peddled, bench mounted fret saw, he had hundreds of amazing patterns on grease proof paper, I wish I had it. You could buy a normal fret saw from screwfix, time consuming but it isn’t hard to get a decent result.
  17. The avantgardener
    I’m not too worried. My missus is an obsessive ‘special offer’ buyer, she bulk buys all year round, our pantry looks like it is owned by a Doomsday Prepper.
  18. The avantgardener
    Been here several times. If he can only produce one, that’s probably all he has and is blagging it. If he has LANTRA certs he will usually have an ID card with all the certs on the back just like an NPTC card.
  19. The avantgardener
    I would be very wary of the horizontal line in the bark below the birdbox on the right of the photo, looks like an old fence line may have been nailed to it at some point, could be full of iron, could you metal detector it before you put it on the ground?
  20. The avantgardener
    Just think it’s odd that that she wouldn’t mention an Arb injury that she had seen to her brother who works in Arb but tells him about gardening injuries instead. I agree but it this isn’t happening, and if fall injury numbers drop, two ropes will stay.
  21. The avantgardener
    If the fall injury numbers drop they will be vindicated, if they don’t they will just come at the industry from a different angle, which may even be worse and less thought out than this one.
  22. The avantgardener
    I can only go off what the nurse told the guy, your sis works in A&E and has never seen an Arb guy ever, is this accurate?
  23. The avantgardener
    But that’s the whole point, it isn’t changing, too many injuries are happening and the HSE have stepped in to make the changes.
  24. The avantgardener
    I agree that inexperienced cutters are more likely to fall and get injured at work. Unfortunately the HSE are reacting to the numbers of injuries per year and not how experienced the injured person was.
  25. The avantgardener
    I didn’t state that all A&E departments in the U.K. have this amount of injured Arb guys, just this one in Burgess Hill. I have no reason to disbelieve the nurse who dealt with this guy either.

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