Mick Dempsey
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Bit weird....pity on the noob!!
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I'm usually a sort of, "get on with it you ponce" sort of bloke, but this is a really bad situation. What are you doing? Strimming, tree work or what?
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Under those circumstances I suggest a piece of bamboo about 2mtrs long comes in handy, to repeatedly strike them as they run around the yard!
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Mind you having school kids continually sitting under a tree changes things compared to a tree in a private garden. I wouldn't give any assurances and would suggest a tree consultant with relevant qualifications/insurances rather than taking seeking and taking advice from an internet forum.
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Yeah, it's out or nothing.
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Ok thanks, Not being all "I'm so concientious" or anything but does anyone else regularly remove the air filter on their chippers and give it a blow over with an ail line/blower between services?
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Taupotreeman. I love that stuff! Was that some kind of birch?
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Hi Wolfie, great picture. How long do do reckon that's been left for? (You know that photo actually makes me a bit angry)
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I had a petrol 4.0 litre. Had it converted to run on gas. If it's cheap enough go for it, my experience was mostly bad, the worst was the unbelievably poor stopping distances.
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I've always enjoyed it, this has been a great tour so far, in this hot weather I try to get the work done early, get back, kettle on and enjoy! (Like today)
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Common out here and often reduced heavily, starting a pollard cycle. they come back very strongly.
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Rewarding great service over the years with the purchase of a new machine is a good move, congratulations on your new machine.
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Ask them to send a photo.
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Not for the Arb nazis! I've never really understood the rationale about "if the tree was there before the house" I think some lecturers were spouting that stuff at college when I was there.
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Honestly I don't know, the two cans they give me are so dirty and battered it's impossible to see the names. It's one light paste and a grey one, you mix them together in equal quantities and slap it on. If that sounds like JB weld that's what it must be. Brilliant stuff.
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Get them to drive an old banger into it again and again until it's stripped the bark off nearly all the way round, maybe set fire to the car as well till it's all scorched up one side.
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Oh yeah right, I'm sure they'll be thrilled at this forum rather than whatever 16 year old boys look at on the computer. (Probably similar sites as me, just more times a day!)
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If I'm honest I was absolutely useless at everything at 16. There has been some improvement in a some areas since. Not much though.
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And make sure the chipper spout (on whatever one you have) will blow the chip into, not onto the box.
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Oh right yeah gotcha.
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If it's 14" diameter trunk then I would say that the branches you want to rig down would be very manageable.
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If it's that small I wouldn't bother with a pulley and all that jazz. Half hitch-gob-half hitch-timber hitch.
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Good stuff Sean. No true beauty without decay and all that.
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Fret no more!
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I lost two young weeping willows to it, much to my frustration as they were key to the landscaping in my garden. My tortured willow seems immune though.
