Mick Dempsey
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My FS1e used to do that, it was a broken ring.
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No professional pride these days.
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I've got a mate out here who has a nursery/landscape business. He had a lot of problems so he got a pair of German shepherds (a brother and sister from the same litter) as guard dogs. He had a trainer come periodically to keep them up to scratch. These dogs were not pets and were never in the house, they just stayed at the yard. He told me that in training when they would stage simulated break ins the (not so crafty) dog would run up to the gate/fence to bark at the intruder. The bitch however would back herself between crates, not out of fear, she actively wanted the intruder to get over the fence, in order to exact proper retribution. I love dogs!
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Why not just take them to a cobblers?
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I see no reason why you cannot retain the tree as a pollard.
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I think you make a good point there, that's a sycamore, it will undoubtedly "throw out"
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Blimey o'reilly! thuja I'm guessing, what did you grind it with?
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The only people's opinions worth worrying about is the clients. Not the bitchy transit full of newly qualified know it alls.
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Don't worry about it, just do it like they say.
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I did one Sunday on the railway. Terrible work, up and down bramble covered banks, sweltering heat, pushing to get the job done before the end of the shutdown. And at the end having to handball loads of cord up into a unimog. Very hard work indeed, not for the faint hearted.
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It's not cowardly or chicken, it's common sense, good post.
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Thanks for sharing. Yeah, it can be a nasty thing, and the spinning thing will render you defenceless.
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Unhitching the chipper whilst chipping.
Mick Dempsey replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Large equipment
I hear you, however all they're saying is drop the jockey wheel and jack it off the hitch ball to avoid the vibes. Biggest problem I can envisage is constantly forgetting and pulling out the electrics etc when moving forward a metre or so! -
Fwiw, I cut down an ash tree on my boundary because I was fed up of the seedlings hiding in my flowerbeds and around my pond.
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Unhitching the chipper whilst chipping.
Mick Dempsey replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Large equipment
Surely even then the gas strut is still receiving pressure pulses? I'm not looking to be right. Just looking for the best course of action. -
I was ordering a new tow hitch (switching from ring to standard) and gas strut for the GM the other day, and the guy at the suppliers said that he has many tree surgeons on bemoaning the short life of the gas struts on their braked machines. He said that if you're using it for long periods you should unhitch it otherwise the strut is working all the time, leading to premature failure, is this right?
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Are you hand balling every piece of that? Edit: just remembered, clients keeping all the wood!
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Exactly. Lots of panties in a bunch about nothing.
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I've had a couple, a 25hp model and a tracked 60/70 hp, depends on the model, they're pretty good machines, built quite simply,been overtaken a bit by the competition. Ideal for your purposes though.
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Move further down the bank to another swim or change the bait.
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Behind the hedge for number 1s, Macdonalds for number 2s
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You're new to this aren't you? The tree is fine.
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Tbh, it's not an improvement, walnuts leaf out very late. It catches a lot of people out.
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Good for you. That dog looks comfortable.
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If I (like many others on here) saw a picture of the form, I'd tell you in a trice.
