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Stefan Palokangas

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  1. Stefan Palokangas
    Petzl TIKKA® RXP Headlamp Now thats alot better compared to the one i use at the moment. So tempted to "Add to cart"
  2. Stefan Palokangas
    Felled trees beside life power lines for alot of years, when you get in to the swing of it its quite easy. Don't even need to double check, it just goes by itself. Never had the time for hesitation, and only twice did i fell a tree over the power lines, once i did the felling cut to small so it broke further up and took the line out. The other it was very rotten and lending quite heavy over the lines. In Sweden we do the power lines a little diffrent compared to UK. There is such an amount of trees so the work would take to long if we used special equipment or climbed them. We fell them in one go, many times we fell them so they just touch a little of the line. When cold in winter it can easy go wrong, specially on pine trees they break so easy when its below -20 .. Felling in summer is easy, back in my hay days, or even today i would not hesitate a second to fell that tree. did simular trees or harder many times daily
  3. Stefan Palokangas
    Tree Man Tom, now that would be right down lazy
  4. Stefan Palokangas
    Try and get involved discussions on facebook in areas you like working in, thats what i'm trying to do. A friend to me get's alot of work that way. I search on a town name, and see what groups it have, i press like.. and then i try to take part.
  5. Stefan Palokangas
    I will try the green teeth at some point
  6. Stefan Palokangas
    Brilliant !
  7. Stefan Palokangas
    it's a tungsten grinder for tig welding, i took the angle grinder to open it up a little more so i could get the stump grinder teeth in there. it's a diamond wheel
  8. Stefan Palokangas
    How do you guys sharpen your stump grinding teeth ? I add a few pics how i do it. That was the first teeth i done, so quality can only improve with time. video on https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stump-Grinding-Direct-Ltd/535977609864991
  9. Stefan Palokangas
    There is also anti vibration gloves to get, i use them all the time if i use power tools now a days.. The vibration of tools can give me a week of even lower ability if i dont use the gloves.
  10. Stefan Palokangas
    Female Arb Would you return the favor ? https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stump-Grinding-Direct-Ltd/535977609864991?ref=hl
  11. Stefan Palokangas
    Mountain man, my thoughts exactly still liked the page tho lol !
  12. Stefan Palokangas
    I'll keep that in mind, i might need a bigger bar for my Stihl saw.
  13. Stefan Palokangas
    Some would have to pay me to get in to one !
  14. Stefan Palokangas
    I would have had been 30 pounds if it wasn't for me being a smoker.
  15. Stefan Palokangas
    We used Aspen in Sweden while doing power lines, and it was like night and day. Before bad head at nights, and with the Aspen it made the nights so much better. Another benefit with Aspen was the guys never made the mistake again to put in straight fuel in the power tools and burning them out in half a minute. A shame i never had any Aspen when i was 12 years old and started working in parents forest, aiming for 3 loads a week, cutting after school and up with the tractor in weekend. Could have saved me alot of bother back then if i had the Aspen.
  16. Stefan Palokangas
    The first job i did with the grinder was beside a fence and was so near with the wheel to the fence all times, so i stood infront of the machine, not thinking the fumes points directly forward. Was a very bad experience not to be repeated, actually the picture below my name shows just that job.
  17. Stefan Palokangas
    Thank godness for light screens and remote controlled stump grinders
  18. Stefan Palokangas
    It's way better being upfront and honest, i would respect that so much more no matter what the reason was. The "excuses alot breed" needs to grow a set of balls.
  19. Stefan Palokangas
    I do. I find it if i keep it busy, lifting light weights it gets better .. "for a while" The pain is inside the elbow, i struggle to grip things. It's in my right elbow. I find it if i keep it warm it gets ok for a while, also if i lift very light weights it gets better. Had this for 2 years now. The pain is there always, either very very bad, or just bad. But i'm not letting this pain get in the way of things i have to do. Keep it warm, lift weights, massage it on that spot very light. The annoying thing is that it is very hard to grip something if i keep the arm straight out. I just work around the pain.
  20. Stefan Palokangas
    I came to Scotland in 2003, and being Swedish i had not seen drugs in my life ever. First day at work the climber rolls a cigg, and smokes it, and i think it smells funny. Weeks later i understand he smokes joints all day long. It was an eye opener.
  21. Stefan Palokangas
    He never seen me and i didn't confront him, but the trust died there and then. I walked up the lane towards his house when i seen them loading the car. I knew then why he needed to borrow the van the week before, to get all this Yellow Pages to his house.
  22. Stefan Palokangas
    Thats from Predator, so trustworthy
  23. Stefan Palokangas
    Phoned me up said his battery in his car was dead so could not make it, I drove to his house to pick him up just to notice he and his daughter packing his car full to the roof with yellow pages to deliver in the area.
  24. Stefan Palokangas
    Predator 450, 460
  25. Stefan Palokangas
    I work as a welder and stump grinder and pay 60 pcm. That is at legal and general.

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