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Took down this compromised Beech Tree today. Dismantled and cleared away In 6 hours thanks to my buddies grapple saw truck saving me a load of rigging and hard work. Some nice big pieces kept for milling and making garden furniture for the customer. A good day in the office. Back tomorrow to grind the stump out. HiCap with us again today [emoji106]

By the looks of it he’s after the cm-w (heated handles). This list is the CM - non heated variation.

The new TR8 55 diesel is stage 5. On the whole I’m pleased with mine. Chips like a beast. Few little niggles on the newly designed machine but Först have been excellent at resolving any minor bits very well. Nothing to do with the engine either. Worth a demo. They also gave me nearly double the px value on my outgoing Timberwolf which certainly sweetened the deal up. Keen to get your business they are. .. I think forst have a 10 inch in the pipeline so hopefully in a couple of years the TR8 will go back in against one of those [emoji4].

Is that as you slid past him into the kitty litter [emoji23] Good times eh. Still safer than green laning on a bike. I tried that idea , inadvertently bought the most powerful 2 stroke going and scared myself stupid on it. Sold that pretty quick before I really hurt myself. Was fun jumping the wood chip piles though. At least they had a soft landing if it went wrong [emoji38]

68 - got any black and white track day photos ? [emoji12] I’m pretty sure I would have the bottle or stupidity of my youth to ride like I used to if I bought another bike. Probably a bloody good thing to.

I remember those well. Friend of a friend had one. Nice bike.

The picture looks like it might be from a Ron Haslam day ..... ?

Good era though wasn’t it. The last sports bike I rode was the BMW 1000 rr. Epic performance but about the same size as my Ninja B1H. Bloody uncomfortable. The ninja was wonderful on track though. Way to hard sprung on the rd. I’m starting to hanker after an old zx9r , sports tourer by modern standards but I like em.

929 or 954 blade. ? Looks 929 to me ??

Aren’t you racing up on this monumental decision Stubby. I’ll buy a few of those ported saws to help your purchase power if you like .....[emoji38]

I’ll have to see what’s written on my BFG Tyre’s on the hilux and compare to the transit ones. Would be interesting if they are viable. They last forever too Best thing these 3.5 t tippers could have is a diff lock. That would help this time of year. All to easy to get one side spinning up and the other doing nowt.

Can’t fault my transit. Super reliable , very good torque. Parts are cheap and on the shelf. Mechanics find them easy to work on. Got to go a long way to beat it. Less sure about the most recent incarnation. Iveco is also very good Up rated rear springs are a must. And a set of barn doors to hide the naughty loads ...

Mud terrains aren’t load rated high enough unfortunately but yes I’ve heard the thought before.

For sure. I didn’t want to be pushed into a design I wasn’t 100 percent on. The style of work was the same. What should of happened was I should of been passed back to the person responsible for allocating work to artists but the artist didn’t and really didn’t come across well in their emails. Big shame as the work I’ve seen from there is amazing. I shelved the idea during lockdown and work got really busy so it was just this thread giving me a kick start again. Now I need to find an equally good studio with better customer relations [emoji38]

Small world. Sadly my experience with the artist who was deemed best to do my design was pretty negative. The guys talent is amazing. First class tattoo work. I gave him my brief via email but he decided for me that it was old hat and I should choose his idea. I wasn’t keen on his idea so he said he wouldn’t do my tattoo as it wasn’t his thing. He said he would see if one of their other artists would do the work and that was the last I heard from him. It was very clear in the email conversation if you weren’t selecting a design he personally liked he wouldn’t do it. Not good service. The reason I selected their studio was a friends son had a sleeve done and I was amazed by the quality of work. Their studio isn’t local and I was happy to spend about £1500 as a budget so I was very disappointed with being brushed off as the artist didn’t like the design. Hey I don’t like what some customers as me to do to their trees but I always carry out their work to the same standards .....

Good work. I like this one [emoji23]

London’s a bit of a schlep but worth the trip to find the better studios / artists. Keeping up with work is consuming all the time of late but yes will do. [emoji106]

In your circumstances the 10 week course at merrist wood would be a much better option. It’s about 3 grand you will get a balance of theory and practical that I’d imagine will give you a better foot on the ladder that just 4 weeks practical.

I’ve been looking into a tattoo of late. I found a studio called old London road or something similar in Kingston , some of the work was hugely skilled. I’ll chase it all up again soon but I’m imagining there will be quite Some back log from Covid

Like all things they can be done well and look great or they can look a bit naff. Not very good work going on here ...... but each to their own.

Don’t worry, the rear tubs heated [emoji4]

Went to refresh my memory on a job coming up that I priced about 6 months ago. Nice woodland so took Maisie for walk whilst I measured up some of timber being removed. Terrible weather so she got daddies jacket for the drive home

Coincidentally I’m working next door to the real Mick hucknalls house in a couple of weeks.

Just bought a new 3 way tipper trailer German made. Readily available no supply issues. Couldn’t get an ifor until April from same dealer. Or any other uk brand. Trying to buy a new canopy from N and J Aluminium at the moment. Those guys are on their knees Will investigate the van situation. I’m most likely to get a new iveco.

Are you after timber on a regular basis ? I’ve got some half decent sticks to knock over coming up in the diary. I’m Haslemere. I don’t mill very often now so happy to move some on else it’s the big biomass boiler in the sky for them ...