Mick Dempsey
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I can just about get a boiled egg and toast down. My wife works as well and is out of the door before me. My mum always made dad a fried breakfast or porridge before he walked out of the door.
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Hangover or backache?
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Good idea, I'm in.
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Like a cambium saver? Wasn't worth it on this job, I just went up 20ft, anchored in, cut/lowered all the branches below me, up another 20ft......till I got to the top. I do use a cambium saver a lot though, for just that reason.
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No:blushing: just the ZZ. Where do you put the pulley? And what for?
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Hero shot.
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Bit of a back lean towards the house which always gets the butterflies going, but a 2:1 pull with the tractor did the job
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Not enormous, maybe 85 ft. The branches snap off nicely, haven't done one for years.
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Sequoia takedown today. Used the Zig-Zag!
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! He's so hot right now! [ame] [/ame]
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Early days.
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Volterol is very good stuff. Naughty but nice.
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I like polo neck, turn it up if it gets really parky.
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Iirc, mine overheated sporadically, I took a hose pipe (with a spray nozzle you know the sort of thing) to it at a clients. The gunk just kept coming out. There is, (according to TW) a overheating jobby on it that will shut it down when it overheats, this has happened to me. Honestly, first thing I would do if I were you is clean the rad with a hose THEN use an airline on it to ensure its dry otherwise the new dust/crud will form a new "cake" on the fins. Sometimes things really are that simple. Good luck with it anyway.
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No, I asked at the garage and they told me not to worry.
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Mine has done it sometimes when chipping all day (2003 TW). Might be worth low pressure jet washing the rad, you'd be amazed at the build up of crud you can't see.
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Make sure the rad is clean.
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Fwiw, I had a Navarra for a couple of years, only issue I had was the timing chain adjuster took its time working so it rattled a bit in the mornings for a couple of minutes. The 2.7 Terrano I had 15 years ago was soooo slow 80mph max. My mate had another Navarra and it blew up in classic fashion. New recon engine didn't break the bank. I wouldn't hesitate to get another. (Although tbf I'll be replacing the ranger with another ranger)
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Mebees.....
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I'll take what you say on board but why complicate it? Maybe if I was swishing round big planes all day tipping ends out I'd think differently. I'm nearly all take downs, conifer up/downs or repollarding. Always in spikes. Plus that bloody thin rope is always tangling up.
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Here's why I don't like my ZZ. 1. The thin rope is hard to hold. A blakes is nice in the fist. 2. It doesn't have the organic feel of a blakes/prussik. 3. When chogging down using the climbing line under the wire core flip line as a safety it self tends, thus tightening around the stem rather than staying loose, making it harder to move down.
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On the last day it was blowing a hooley and raining, I felt like I was in a washing machine climbing these. All done now.
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Felling the last sticks.
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Good stuff, well done for leaving the odd hang up in the film as well.
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Did you read the OP Guy?
