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    Not sure about the vac but the makita 4 stroke hedge cutters are the dogs nuts. Really good build quality it seems. I don't own any but I sub for a guy who uses them and I would consider buying them over sthil when mine come to an end.
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    It really winds me up when I see people using long reach hedge cutters trying to cut through branches as thick as their bloody arms. Then they wonder why the gears are knackered. :-/
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    Make some jewellery then :-). Woodchip neckless maybe.
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    Ahh yeah that won't do then. Sorry not too clued up on padlocks. Hope you get your answer make.
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    The kriptonite circular locks are pretty good. The bastards will Struggle getting at them with a crow bar. It'll be the hinges they will brake first.
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    I'm not sure it's a viable business opportunity to be honest. But then again I'm not very clued up on that side of things so I may be wrong. I'm sure someone could give some more accurate advice though I would say what size bags you were on about.
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    I like your thinking Steve. Should start a money saving tips blog on YouTube :-).
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    I think my misses would give me the cold shoulder for a month if I tried giving her a arb product gift(unless it's a present from the money made). To be honest I never know what to get the misses, I just go shopping and hope for the best :-/.
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    Westworld the remake is good. As said 'game of thrones' is amazing. Oh and 'the man in the high castle' on Amazon prime is pretty good.
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    It's compulsory in this game I fear :-/.
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    Got another... when you have a load of hangers in the tree and the groundy stands there watching you struggle while the poles are 10 feet from them. I've lost count of how many times I've shouted at people for just watching me climb with their bloody arms crossed when there is stuff like that to be done.
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    If they last that long :-/.
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    Oh another is stobs left on logs, fine I get you might not be able to get everyone in the tree but if I see a log pile full of logs covered in stops and sticks that could easily have gone through the chipper I see red. Again it's the same people you tell time and time again to not do it that way.
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    Yeah the guy who constantly bangs on about time really winds me up too. I'll get down and we will have a break when I want to not bang on 10:30 every day. It's even worse when you in an awkward position and you hear "Umm it's 10:25 are you going to be much longer?".
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    You know that show 'Grumpy Old men' (been years since I've seen it on). I think there might be scope for 'Grumpy old Tree Surgeons' after flicking through this again. I never realised how much anger I have to keep bottled up inside on a daily basis :-).
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    I'm on about if I'm up the tree and ask them to get me say a sling or something and they leave it wide open. But I agree look after your own kit (when you can).
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    Another one for the cab is when someone changes the radio station or messes about with the air con without asking me first. Or when people clutter up the dash with crap wrappers and wet hoodies (made even worse when they leave it there). I have taken to sneakily popping it all back in to there bags when they aren't looking(banana skins and all). My van my rules if you don't like it walk.
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    When people leave my climbing bag open in the pissing rain. If I could get away with wrapping a soaking wet rope around there head I would. But it's slow breathing counting to 10 as well for me.
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    I personally think it is fine to use a top handle chainsaw with one hand if not safer sometimes. I have come closer to having an accident using both hands on the saw, a good example of this would be doing a step cut and the branch snapping off before predicted, you instant reaction is to try and grab the branch before it goes through that green house below. all could be avoided using cut and chuck. I think it should be touched upon when people do their use of chainsaw in a tree, maybe not told to use a chainsaw one handed but in a 'if you do' kind of way. As Reg says its each to their own and I'm not telling anyone to do things anyway but they way they know best.
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    Makita as well do good drill bits for metal. Ive just worn one out and I've used it to drill the holes for about 200 pot rivets. That was through ally and steel. Come to think of it I think the bit was a multi purpose bit. :-)
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    Good Work Hamdogg, I bet you were over the moon when that top came off. Did it spring back at any point? assuming it was the roots that went.
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    How did the job go in the end? Did you get the car moved? I'm guessing it was a mewp jobby.
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    Doubt the transit would tow it that well :-/
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    If I heard someone say they were going to buy cigarets over baby milk I would have kicked him out of the van gone to the shop and brought some baby milk and dropped it off. No wonder that worthless git is still unemployed. Jokes are fine as long as they are done in the right place, without having a laugh your just a bunch of miserable buggers getting through each day. Once worked with a company and one of the groudies tied a dead crow the the climbers rope, so when he palled her rope through he shat himself, job still got done on time no one was hurt and we all had a laugh. I'll point out we found the bird dead in the woods. I'm not one for violence so if someone has gone to far with a joke on one of my jobs they are walking home unless there is a sincere apology. Fair is fair.

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