Vespasian
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Conservative seats 331 Labour 232 Conservatives 99 more seats than labour, tells me Labour got smashed trounced and mauled... Ed Miliband, dictionary definition, officially the most boring man on earth..
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Wasn't Ed Milliband a left leaning labour leader, didn't he and his party just get trounced at the last election?...
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I would suggest a business card should look business like. who you are, what you are and how to get in touch.. By showing such a card to a customer, it shows you mean to get the job done, and not fanny about spending most the time thinking you're Micheal Angelo
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forget any logo, logo's are naff anyways.. white writing on a green card, or grey card with red lettering.. your aiming for someone to phone you up, not admire or pass judgment on your art style.. whats the saying?.. keep it simple stupid... make the phone number twice as big as any lettering.. That'll be ten dollars,,
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Not that I'm an expert, but my one piece of advice would be to test all your kit out somewhere safe before you put them to work... You can never be to careful if your asking me...
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if asked I'd tidy up and get some money out of it.. I wouldn't get involved beyond that, if the neighbors think your up to something like goin to court on their behest, they might take your number and send you on all kinds of fools errands.. best to let these people sort out their own disputes and not drag other people into it..
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how many times have I thought, oh that should do it.. how many times was I wrong?... and why are a bunch of firemen chopping down a tree?... did some numpty think by phoning them, they could save some money?.. and why did some moron think it a good idea to film the firemen at work and put it up to get a cheap laugh?.. Be nice if I found out the idiot responsible found himself in a car wreck and the firemen turned up and chopped him out with lang handled axes... have a film of him cacking it on Utube..
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who mentioned the Romans?...though I'm sure even they could move a chipper, tracked or otherwise..
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why else would you use a tracked chipper, errr Doah, because its the only one you have!!!!.. Oh hang on, I have a tracked chipper and its sunny out, phone customer up an tell him I'll have to cancel until it rains..
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Lots of things are hard in theory, but have to be done in practice.. If you couldn't fix the chipper where its at, you have to get your thinking cap on... I'd still like to know how heavy this mysterious chipper is as well..
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I wish people would stop moving the goalposts, the original question was, could it moved without fixing the thing. No one mentioned wet boggy ground then..
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Not sure what a PICOW is, assuming its someone in charge of safety on a rail line.. but anyway, necessity being the mother of invention.. suppose you do what you can with what you got..
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If your chippers broke down, you ain't doin nothin till its moved, so time doesn't much come into it.. you're there till its done... I'm assuming (havin thought on it) that you can't get a trailer in, so you have to either fix it or move it.. If fixing isn't an option, then moving it comes next... get yourself some pulleys an make a four to one pulley system.. Use fence posts to guide it over the ground till you reach the trailer... Now if you can't fix it, and don't have the wherewithal to drag it out, then I'm afraid the little tracked chipper is just gonna have to live there for the rest of its life..
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The point being, that if you wanted to, you could get it moved and its easier than first imagined.. a bit of faffing about but doable... timewise though, I'd suggest a mechanic, unless you already owned a bunch of pullies I'm not dure how cost wise would be... As to the Egyptians, no they didn't have a woodchipper on tracks, but they could shift a thirty ton block at a pinch, how much does the chipper weigh?
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I remember years back Fred Dibna driving down Manchester Rd in Bolton, stuck his hand out the cab of his scruffy looking landrover and gave me the thumbs up.. Couldn't put my finger on it seeing as I didn't have a landrover at the time. Then it dawned on me, I had a beaten up Toyota Hilux with offroad wheels on it, lifted suspension.. Then again, it could of been one scruffy f'er saluting another LOL...
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Looks like you have two options, winch it somewhere by inches if the ground conditions suit.. Fix it.... OK, just thought of a third way, two pieces of plywood in front of it, greased up. winch onto plywood platform, then winch that on a trailer... or just stick loads of grease on trailer an loading struts.. If the Egyptians did it like that, then so can you...LOL..
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I've spent many an hour slavering at all three. researched all of em, utube vids, opinions an whats bin said on here.. of all the ones mentioned, the only one I wouldn't bother with would be the Jo Beua 200. not many have anything positive to say when compared to the 400/500 model.. I like the look of the Haecksler myself, but I imagine the greenmeck would be easier to pull about..
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Hiab truck...
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Honda 4 stroke hedgetrimmer (Hobby weekend warrior)
Vespasian replied to hazelnut's topic in General chat
I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing the coil.. -
Yea, gonna get one come spring.. at the moment I' just learning some of the basics.. I haven't even hoisted myself up a tree yet LOL.. Although I have occasionally done the odd tree, I used ladders and climbed up the rest holding onto the branches for dear life..
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Well, its been a fascinating read this thread has.. I started off thinking, (No way would I ever buy one of those death traps).. then ruminated on the possible reasons why this zigzag thing might of failed. I put it down to user miss use, then thought, well maybe not, maybe production faults on the metals used. stress built up during production of some but not all products.. Then Mark Skyland turns up and explains all.. Not a death trap after all, maybe I should get one one day.. Anyways, I'm now reassured about this zigzag prusic, which is a total 180degree turn from were I started when I turned up to read it earlier yesterday..
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Just had someone ring mum dad up asking about there laptop
Vespasian replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
I had one of these types some time back, made out I might be some mug and kept him talking for half hour then just hung up... Phone went a minute later, same fella telling me he hoped I burned in a fire... hahahah... gave him a mouthfull an told him what I thought of his shady job.. usually though, I just hang up.. -
for one job!!!... you sayin you don't intend using it after the jobs finished?.... If it ain't eatin nothin, might as well keep it..
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been watchin loads of utube vids on climbing in the last few days, started off looking into fliplines then went onto climbing gear... Amazing whats out there, if I ever did a tree in the past it was me an a bit of rachet strap to tie in. After watching all these vids I intend getting some gear, if not for doin tree's then just for the fun of it.. But heres what I came across this afternoon.. [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp7eZDEKFOM[/ame] he uses a rope runner on his set up..
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I've a good theory on this problem.. Give women £150 a week for their first child, then 70 for the second.. 30 for a third, then none thereafter... find a mechanism to drive down rents and morgage costs and pretty soon everyones gonna be happier.. Apart from city institutions that is, they like to see house price inflation as it inflates the value of their assets..
