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  1. maybelateron
    Yes, the diesel will have relatively more torque, but it tends to be in a narrower rev range than a petrol. However, if the engine stays in this range the revs will be less likely to drop.
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    Aaaaaargh! Mea culpa. I did that awful thing with the apostrophe that shouldn't be there. Spare me the birching your lordship.
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    I have one of these machines - the genuine item, not a Chinese copy. I bought it from Fresh Products, who sell the range. I gathered that the manufacturer had made a few lifting devices that were like a sack truck that could then be tilted back hydraulically. I was thinking of getting my local fabricator to make me a small grab device to run off the spool valve, and pivot down to pick up brash etc. I think that this would be ok for picking up brash, but any heavy timber would need someone pretty heavy standing on the foot rail at the back as a counterbalance. We use the machine for moving timber in large gardens, can use ally ramps to get up onto patio's that need crossing etc. Only reason I have not pursued the original plan is me recent purchase of Bobcat E10, with thumb. Planning to cannibalise my old stump grinder to mount on the boom, with its own engine. Will post this once completed.
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    Looks like the most sensible option in all respects. I upgraded to a Jensen A540 turntable 4 years ago and it was a game changer. A year later I managed to add a Forst TR6 to the kit, and that opened up more options - like taking the hopper off the gate through narrow gates in rear gardens when customer will keep the chip. If I could only have the one chipper it would be the TR6 or the GM quadrac. Having said that the Jensen is fantastic.
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    Agreed entirely. Going off at a slight tangent - if the job involves working for A, but pruning tree belonging to B, I always insist on meeting B if they have not given clear and specific written permission to the neighbour. On more than on occasion we have turned up at B's place to prune his/her tree for A next door, only to be told they have not agreed to so much coming off. On one occasion I was pretty convinced B had agreed to more to A's face, for an easy time, but then when A was at work for the day told us we could take less off. Grrrr. So I learnt the hard way.
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    Wicker basket. Easy to bring them into house in, looks OK by the stove, holds plenty. Bottom of basket lined with cardboard to catch the debris.
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    Turned 60 late last year. Still climbing regularly. Just had a few weeks off to recover from a hernia repair and it felt so good to get back up a tree last week!
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    Have any of you any awareness that anyone at all from HSE has undergone basic climbing training and then been allowed/encouraged to get up a tree and see first hand what it is all about?? Some years ago a couple near us both worked for HSE, one of them was in agriculture and forestry and went on a residential practical one week course in Scotland covering various topics including tree climbing. She was fit (physically capable of climbing etc), but NO NO NO, they weren't allowed to climb. WTF? Yet they want to tell us how to do it.?
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    That's interesting. I have often been surprised by how many of my customers want to pay with cash, even for jobs costing several hundred, and I had assumed this would probably be the case for most of us. I wonder if it perhaps varies from one part of the country to another.
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    I would suggest that if HMRC decide to audit the books thoroughly (which they can do at random) they will get suspicious if they feel there are not enough cash payments being banked. I sleep well at night regarding this. Not playing holier than thou here, just like to have no worries.?
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    My payment methods, in order of preference, are internet banking transfer, then cash, then cheque. I put the cash into our domestic cash and transfer the same amount from our domestic joint account into the business account. Then we use cash for most domestic shopping/car fuel etc. If the cash builds up faster than we spend it, I can always use the cash for business purchases then refund the money from the business account to the domestic one. My bank charges for these transfers are minimal, and I can't remember the last time I had to use a cashpoint.
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    Nothing worse? I reckon cat shit is pretty bad too
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    The saying used to be "those who can, do, those who can't, teach". I then thought it was more like "those who can do, those who can't, regulate others". Maybe the latest version is "those who can, do, those who can't, teach others to teach others". Separate whinge, but on a similar theme: As a former NHS GP I always wondered who was regulating the CQC (Care Quality Commission), but I never managed to find out.
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    Agreed about prussic loops in principle, but not the body thrusting so much. One one my men prefers his prussic loops on the grounds that he feels he can't trust a mechanical device like our zigzags not to fail. Each to their own I guess, but he doesn't even use a slack tender pulley - WHAAAAAT??
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    This is a bit galling, considering that an 80 year old (not being agist, just the plain fact that reaction times slow with age) could legitimately drive a heavy 4x4 + twin axle caravan at 60mph on the M25 in the rush hour after dark (not being agist, I am the first to admit that at 60 my eyesight is not what it was). Best of luck.
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    I take it you mean they are charging to take the chip in? One firm near me is paying £200 per 35 cu yd skip to buy in the chip from tree surgeons. They will even pay for conifer chip. They can burn the fine dust left after screening it, in their own boilers, and they sell the rest.
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    Sadly this is all too true with respect to all the local councils I deal with.
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    I did a job for a former JLR development engineer. He still has his Disco 3 as a general hack. He said it was both the best towing vehicle he had ever had, and also the single must unreliable vehicle he had owned.
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    And 95% of politicians
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    I am on my second Disco 2 TD5. I regularly tow up to 3.5 tons, and it does it very well, and this is without a remap. Both mine have been auto. Less electrical gremlins than a Disco 3 or 4, and the TD5 is pretty bullet proof, especially compared to the TDV6's liking for shoving a con rod through the block or snapping the crank. I have had two air bags fail, but was able to limp home slowly, cost of replacing them (with new bags) was minimal. Need to check chassis before buying, have had my 04 reg repaired on one rear leg, otherwise sound underneath.
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    I did think the price your tree man quoted seems a lot, even if there are a few problems that are not clear from the photos. Clearly a good idea to get another quote or two. Been said before, but sorry you got a few replies that were perhaps a bit harshly expressed about the non viability of it being taken down in exchange for the timber.
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    I would be asking myself if I really want to tender for them.
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    As has already been said, utter twat. You do have my sympathy.
  24. maybelateron
    I think this may be the most important factor of all. I haver seen some experience climbers do crazy things. I saw one guy spike the first 20ft of a Poplar that was leaning over a tarmac surfaced car park. What did he think would be the outcome of a fall??! The reality is some people are just inherently risk takers, while others are not. I have heard many young lads quote the saying that if it's thicker than your wrist it's OK as an anchor point. Do they think that applies even if it is Willow/Poplar and four ft out from the crotch? For years I have climbed with one DRT main line, short strop, and 30ft strop. If I were to cut my main rope I am still able to have another sent up to me, or if I am too high up, be brought up to me. I have never found that my long strop is too short to reach a safe secondary anchor point.
  25. maybelateron
    What's the odds the Ranger was stolen too?

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