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maybelateron

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  1. You are so unreasonable, only mentioning the elitist non metric units. What about the half miller's thumb and the weaver's bottom?
  2. It passed with no problems. Mind you has a galvanised chassis and does 250 miles or so a year, when we need the pto winch. No problems with the Adblue sensor either, nor the engine management warning light.
  3. Another dry day, even sunshine today. Taking the old series 3 Land Rover in for MOT this morning. Even though exempt I prefer the reassurance of "doing things properly". Hope those of you going through a bad patch find things improve soon.
  4. Morning all, Another dry day it would appear. Nice easy morning cutting back a silver birch over a house roof, using the mewp. Then taking climbing kit in for Loler. Stay safe and have a good day.
  5. Morning all, Another dry day looming it would appear. Unfortunately also dry in that this customer doesn't offer brews. Look on the bright side, nor does he have a dog that could leave shit on the lawn😀. Monty Python ... always look on the bright side of life. Have a good day all.
  6. Will do then. Surgery booked for 12/12. Better remember to take some before photos!
  7. You may well find it doesn't become an issue, but it does progress generally (not sure if always). Mine has taken 20 years to get to a point where it needs doing on the one hand, and the other is only just starting to show. If you want to see a severe example try to catch a glimpse of Bill Nighy's hands. Not sure why he left his untreated.
  8. Morning all, First day of a two day job cutting back laurels, yews and conifers for a regular customer who didn't get it done last year. Oh, how they hold all that water on their leaves at this time of year😂 Almost makes the looming recovery period from having my Dupytren's contracture treated look appealing. Might start a thread on that? Dupytren's is very common in our line of manual work.
  9. Morning all, Quick press of the keys on laptop and VAT return done, then 5 miles to a nice power shutdown to clean a hung up silver birch using the MEWP. Have a good day.
  10. Morning all, Taking it easy today, got a dose of covid negative low grade man flu. Power line isolation job booked for tomorrow, so want to not overdo things today.
  11. I'll share this with you all: I was a full time NHS GP until April 2001. In December 2000 I had a meltdown due to ridiculous work pressure. Decided my head was worth looking after. Very lucky in that my wife was also a (part time) GP, so we could afford to take a financial hit. Trained and set up as part time tree surgeon/part time GP for 12 years, then at age 53 decided it was time to give up the desk job and go full time on the trees. To my last day at work I still loved dealing with patients, even the few awkward ones, but I felt I should retire before I irritated my partners too much. They didn't have the luxury of a new career, and being able to acknowledge fully that half the stuff we were having to do was bollocks, and detracting from proper patient care. Out of interest, gand, when you say mental health is a big thing in this industry, I assume you mean people take up this type of work to help with mental health, rather than this industry causes the problem? Cheers all.
  12. But it sure does deliver some feeding power. I am still impressed 8 years since I bought it by the feeding ability of the rollers on my Jensen A540. That said, I still think my Forst TR6 crushes and pulls in well.
  13. Morning all, Lovely blue sky here. No site work today, but plenty still booked in. Pottering about at home with dog and wife, maybe a bit of garden work. Have a good day all.
  14. Morning all, An other dry day or tow looming😀. First job today is taking down two dead holly stems. Quick divert/rant coming, see photo. These are in a conservation area. Customer notified council, with photos. Was tolded needed a tree surgeon report. I did one. Council did a site visit. Gave permission to fell, but put a TPO on the small live shoot at the bottom. Most of the green at the base is euonymous, not holly. I better not sneeze on the job or the green twig might snap.
  15. Morning all. Forecast says orange thing will be seen in sky today. Two or three of our annual trimmings for today. Need to replace the old combi ladder, just found our local ladder specialist does on line only. What about looking at it first?! Rant over😆
  16. Cheers. Very belated morning all. Nice and sunny and warm here in Nice, been visiting our eldest who lives here. Home tomorrow, work on Wednesday.
  17. Just like Rice Krispies perhaps - snap crackle and pop. Hopefully you were able to know most of it off in large pieces. I wouldn't have fancied going far out on a limb on that. Or did you have a MEWP, but I suspect the ladder says not.
  18. Like a broken hip or similar when it's icy. Since I slipped on wet leaves 3 weeks ago and had a bleed into my knee joint I am walking so carefully on slopes and where there are leaves on the ground. Much safer up in the tree away from all that.
  19. Morning all, wet again, maintenance in sheds and office work. Yep, the customers will just have to accept us running behind schedule. I use to get bothered by running behind, but I would be more upset getting soaked every day.
  20. Morning all, More rain again🥱
  21. Morning all, Meant to be dry here today. Laurel hedge reduction and trimming hollies and conifers next couple of days for an annual regular. Have a good day.
  22. I have a pair of Distel Gecko carbon spikes with velcro pads that I bought to replace my old Buckingham irons with leather straps. Phenomenally comfortable and quick on/off, but I found that compared to Buckinghams I had to make a real effort to dig in with them - Buckinghams were excellent for not gaffing out. These Gecko spikes are now the spare pair as I have swapped to Panther. Much cheaper, just as quick on/off, and just as comfortable.
  23. I would just sell it for spares/repairs and get a new 661. That's what I did when my previous one died. And run it on Aspen from the start.
  24. Very fair comment. Poplars are a bit like sheep: Sheep that want to break free, sheep that want to get sick, and sheep that want to die. Achieved the customer's desired end goal, then maybe further work removing in due course. Unless of course you have retired by then. I am now saying to my annual regulars; See you in a year's time, unless I have died or retired. If I die I won't bother letting you know, but if I retire I will give you ample notice and another firm's details.
  25. When I had a Jo Beau M300 I made a wooden blunger that’ll could push almost up to the blades but was too wide to get through the feed aperture. Worked well, make from offcuts.

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