Mick Dempsey
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Interesting, thanks.
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Sorry to tell you that it’s beautiful again here today! I’ll do some mowing in the field, and tinker in the workshop.
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Threads like these are quite common. You usually get a variety of replies. A. It’ll be fine, just take it out. B. Pay for a structural engineering/arb consultant to assess. 3. No one can say for sure, people shouldn’t give opinions over the internet based on photos. My take, make sure your gutters and down pipes are clear so water is getting away effectively, and take the tree out. Trees die all the time near houses without heave. This is free advice and as such is worth what you’re paying. Opinions vary of course.
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Can you put up a photo?
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Yes she has. I was watching an episode of KUA last night. Was very good, but every episode was the same. Had the writer developed the characters more and placed them in different situations, it could have been as good as Only Fools and Horses.
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I ended up getting one, brilliant tool Pulling a willow out of a river, using a redirect up a sturdy oak. No way your pulling that out with the machine alone d39eb903-dcc8-4861-ad66-f1f63694e38d.mp4
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We’re on a run today!
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Rained in the night, standard weekend planned here. Waiting for Igor to decide he wants to go out.
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Saw a bit on the bbc news about the Green party and their conférence/policies Reminds me of the famous Gérald Kaufman quote. “The longest suicide note in history” No chance.
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I know of what you speak, it was shameful.
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Splitting of weight across a tree (2 rigging points) lowering of a branch off itself (does that count as negative rigging?) Rope placement and cuts to swing a horizontal branch round off a roof (no need for spider legs etc.) Tag lines to avoid excessive swing. And…you knew it was coming, natural crotch rigging for small/medium work.
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Drifting off topic à bit.. This thread has caused me to remember my rigging course (as part of ten weeker at Merrist Wood) My take outs from that were that they concentrated on stuff that you hardly, if ever, used, stuff like horizontal lowering of big branches using two ropes, or an entire day spider-legging branches, I feel that they could/should have worked more on the basics. Long time ago of course.
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It was a bizarre period, insects that were thought to be harmless and friendly turned against us in a Hitchcockian manner. The summer was unprecedented, people getting water from standpipes. John Noakes taking a shower in his swimming trunks on Blue Peter to illustrate how more economical it was compared to a bath. It had an End of Days feel to it.
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Another clear bright and warm day. Finishing lifting round the field today, plus flailing the brambles etc. The three fallen oaks were a breeze so agreed to fill the second day with lifting round the edge. To give you an idea..
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There was a plague of them iirc, and they got pissed off and hungry.
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I remember the ladybirds started biting people.
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member After some advice/opinion, I’ve asked on the yank forums with no success. I have has Raycos to this point an RG25 now an RG35 (wheeled) and consider them a well built reliable tool. I’m looking to replace the 35 and am looking at a very low hours Bandit back in the UK, on tracks. New is out of the question because things are scandalously expensive in France, and no dealer in the UK will sell me one and support it if it goes abroad. My question is, will the Bandit be a better grinder than the Rayco? it’s got 3 more horses because it’s fuel injected, smaller wheel, but looks like a better system for replacing teeth. I want better, can live with comparable, do not want less effective. Any advice, informed or not very welcome.
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I had no idea they were so recent tbh. Live and learn.
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I guess we should get the terminology right. It’s a strimmer if it uses nylon cord. A brushcutter if it uses a blade Problem is that most have interchangeable heads.
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Yes strimmers were a very common tool in 85.
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You don’t think strimmers were around in 85? When were you born out of interest?
