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Morning all, A weekend to potter.

Morning all, Second day dismantling two ashes, using subbie climber. Went well yesterday. Doug, you have my sympathy with having to remain polite with busybodies. Stephen, perhaps you should only count digging out the stumps as pottering if you do it manually!

I reckon taking that connie hedge out can only be classed as pottering as presumably you did it with the shear, sitting in a nice digger cab. Had it been with a chainsaw might be a bit of a stretch to call it potttering, but then then I suppose the village goodwill job swings it as a potter overall.

Morning all, Couple of ash trees to dismantle today and tomorrow. Got a younger man with a younger body in for the climbing. For once, a customer who wants the wood taken away. Yippee!

Morning all, Nothing like a flat battery for a good start to the day. No pun intended. Not my battery but one of my men's. Oh yes, power line lads on site at 9 for us, best go pick him up then hadn't I.

Used the rebuilt Jo-Beau M300 for the first time today. The lads were impressed by it, but I knew what it was capable of from having had the same model some years back. Taking it out later in the week when we are dismantling two good sized ash trees in a rear garden that is a bit tight for extraction. Plan is to put the smaller brash through the Jo-Beau in the rear garden as customer happy to keep chippings. Then take larger cordwood/brash out through tight access to the bigger chipper and chip into the chip box on the truck.

Morning all, Dry now here. Quick bit of MEWP work today to remove an oak branch over a shed roof. Tree owner worried as crown had a tearout in wind 12 days ago and doesn't want the neighbour's shed to get damaged.

Oh yes, gout really does hurt.

I'm reading the pottering thread on Arbtalk. Does that count as softcore enough to count as pottering?

Morning all, Light rain off and on here. Small job doing odds and sods for a domestic customer. Early finish maybe then log up a customer's spruce trunk from last week for her.

Morning all, Off to Manchester for lunch with our middle offspring. Nice to see him, but can't say being in the big city does a lot for me.

Re: Jo-Beau M300 Peds was asking me about on the pottering about thread. Got the bolt out of the drum with magnet on a stick. The bolt was stuck between the end of the drum and the sidewall of the chamber. The bolt was to fat to get in between the drum's circumference and the chamber wall. All back together and running nicely. In terms of mobility it is very good. It is 28 inches across the outer walls of the tyres, and 41 inches from the far end of the tyre to the front handle, when the hopper is hinged up into the vertical position. The machine comes with a fixed side discharge shute as standard, but I have fitted the optional high rotating spout. With this option you would need to undo 3 bolts to take the top part of the spout off to allow the hopper to get into vertical mode - very quick to do and makes it so easy to get through tight spaces. Two old codgers can lift it over steps if we have to, younger blokes would find it easier. See photo for more info.

Agreed. I will now try and go back to the wee chipper thread to post further details.

It is incredibly mobile as I have just been standing it on end to try and get a bolt out that I dropped into the drum! No doubt patience and lateral thinking will win the day. To give a sensible answer it is very mobile, as you can undo just two bolts to let the feed hopper move into a vertical angle so you can get it round tight corners. I move it on a trailer as it is a bit too heavy for two old fellers to lift into the chip box. The guy I sold my for M300 to a few years back uses a ramp and winch to pull it into a transit van. Hopefully I can post a positive outcome about this lost bolt🤞

Putting my Jo-Beau M300 back together today, having collected the bits form Global Machinery at Newark yesterday. They seemed a decent bunch of people. Mowing lawns. Trying once more to fix the intercom unit back onto my Petzl helmet. Mended the bracket recently, then broke it on a branch climbing on Thursday. Going to just stick it on with car body filler. Pity really as the units were only about £45 a pop and they work really well. I think when this fails again time for the big spend on Protos units. Ouch!

Morning all, Nice bright day here. Pottering then mowing ours and two neighbours' lawns then pottering.

Morning all, Up early to travel while roads are quiet. Going over to Newark to collect the parts for my Jo-Beau chipper rebuild, then finish putting it back together.

Morning all, Sunny day here. Couple of small dismantles in the village today. Saves the hassle of all the local road closures to find a way through.

Morning all, Dry here. Doing phase 2 of a beech hedge reduction. Did the side last August, just the top now.

Morning all, Day off today, meeting up with some friends from student days. Back to work tomorrow.

Morning all, Lazy day, but might reduce a laurel hedge in the garden if I feel up to it. Have a good day whatever you are doing.

And don't the wasps just love being around the ivy at this time of year!

Morning all, Raining this morning, better later. Off to look at a ?dying weeping willow, then a maple damaged by the recent winds. Then hopefully on the home straight with my own hedges. Have a good weekend

Morning all, Normally I take Friday off from site work these days. After last night's wind I would make exceptions for existing customers, but not new ones.

Morning all, Rain and wind as expected. Glad we got everything on the ground yesterday. Just cutting and chipping then rake and blow.