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It’s the best pole saw on the market. Brilliant for big hedge trimming jobs too. Got 3 on the go atm. Would bother with anything else [emoji106]

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Day rate can be handy when you get an unusual job to price or clients that want you doing various tasks over a few visits and you know they will change their minds continuously Set out what machines are included in the price or what extra they will be. As long as it’s all set out there is little chance for ambiguity. In terms of staff / subbies I’ve always paid day rate. No one has given me an hourly rate except on large machinery Finishing times are swings and roundabouts, sometimes a day is done at 3 sometimes it’s 5. Generally it balances out but if it’s a lot of late Finishes a bit of extra cash smoothed things

Faggot (unit) - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Seems to be a lot of variation on the use. On the woodlands tv channel a local guy in Petworth makes the pimps for fire lighters in the same device as yours and it’s called a pimp machine there. Faggots he is making are in long bundles for river banks. Maybe the variation is regional ? The temporary structure / shelter they use is known as a Bender

Both Faggots and Fascines are used for river bank erosion Pimps are for fire lighting. I bought birch pimps from a garden show once. I have to say they were outstanding fire lighters. Way better than the fire lighter blocks. A mix of super fine twigs to light easily bundled in with some nice kindling to get heat going. Excellent. Gotta love the old terminology. A dozen faggots and a few pimps please my good man ..

Looking for faggots Doobin. Look on coopice-products.co.uk You’ll find a list of suppliers/ makers on their mate.

I agree with @joenewton The crux of this one seems to be an experience / confidence issue. I can think of plenty of trees you really have to push yourself mentally on to get past it and improve. Worst thing about small leaning trees like that if there is usually they are more tiring / uncomfortable getting into good working positions. Spend time setting up though. Try not to make cuts from awkward or strained positions Any pictures of the tree. ?

Yes. Ours came with one face and edges done. Obviously everything you cut / trim then has to be burned as best it can to match in and hide cut surfaces. Just a simple plumbers torch up on the scaffolding was used for this.

No. It had a coat of oil when it went up as well. 0 bleed.

I can always dig out the link for the company we used. They sent a big selection of burn samples to help choose what we wanted. We actually got a surprisingly good deal on our timber at the time. Don’t forget you’ll be getting 20% back too as it’s a new build. For small projects like a small barn / office garden type thing i would 100% say doing yourself is worthy and achievable On house / larger project I would go down the bought in route. I do appreciate budget is a big factor. As is time. Variations in charring will show up dramatically and could give a patchy look. The depth of burn and consistency of colour is very good on our boards tbf. I would say the sugi is on about 60% of our walls. The tyvec and battening was done by the builder. ( which the carpenters had to adjust [emoji57]) Just to fit the boards took a team of 4 to 5 guys about 8 days. 2 /3 guys on the deck cutting boards and 2 guys up on the scaffold fitting. They worked at a decent pace too. If you are having a shadow gap we found a great tyvec style product in black with no writing which was a fair bit cheaper than tyvec Exactly the same thing but essential not to have print on it if shadow gapping. Lost head screws. I bought the screws from the cladding supplier, got screwed on that. Paid £950 for the screws. Carpenter said we could of got them for £400 ish. Classic of being given the spiel from the supplier about specific screws blah blah. Anyway. The gist of all that Tom is if you want any advice from our experiences or general questions how we did the cladding etc feel free to drop me a message. If any of it saves you time money or both then great [emoji106]

That looks a terrible method for controlling depth of burn…. Seen it done with flat roofing torch which offers better control. I think it was on an old grand designs episode.

My advice is buy it. We are nearing the end of our house build. We have a lot of it cladding the exterior. We used Siberian larch. You pick the the level of finish you want. In that I mean in terms of the depth of burn and how charred you want the surface to be be. From a fairly smooth finish to a more crickled charcoal like appearance. The burn is controlled by machine / computer doing loads of boards in large batches ensuring you get an even finish for the exterior. I found a contractor who had done 3 or 4 houses in it before.

And large variation between forecasts. Bit of an anticlimax so far …

At the moment it’s looking like the opposite of a Michael fish … Bit of rain and some strong gusts but certainly no storm in the SE red zone. Main winds supposed to start about 10 am so I won’t say it’s not going to happen but so far this morning the forecast has not been accurate

I think I’d just cut it back to the Ditch and call it quits. Off the field then. Let the farmer pick the butt up when its dry with a telehandler. Or if it’s not blocking the ditch just leave it as nice habitat. Winching it sounds like more effort than it’s worth

Looks like they are coming pre-seasoned. [emoji23].

Is that tree visible from the A3 ? Sure I passed one like that earlier this week on my way up that neck of the woods.

Your right there. Deeply unpleasant to drive. Very bouncy. Tippy feeling in corners. Nasty gearbox. I’m not sold on the 1.9 engine What they do score very well on is a narrow wheel base , excellent turning circle and no overhang at the front so manoeuvring on small driveways etc etc makes them handy for a lot of domestic arb work where getting kit into a drive is tight.

Try Artur Rodak. Heard positive things about his porting work.

I think they increase the room it has to clear sawdust/chip to cope with increased cutting performance Avoids it clogging up. Externally there is a flap/guard to keep the dust away from the user. I’d have to dig out the quote he sent for more specifics. There is a video on YouTube of buckin billy ray visiting the shop testing out the tuned saws husky 572 stihl 462 maybe and echo 7310 He’s as mad as a box of frogs as usual but the saws are impressive. The 572 in that clip was what I enquired to buy.

On the 572 note a while back I emailed an enquiry to Walker saws for the cost to build and ship a fully ‘walkerized’ 572. Ported, muffler mod, clutch cover mods etc etc Having watched their saws on YouTube the porting is hugely impressive. About 1200 dollars shipped. With fingers crossed it slips under the import duty radar. Pretty reasonable

That’s rubbing salt in[emoji23]. £120 quid a year for a mini loader. Decent. Those little kubota compact tractors are ace. Bomb proof. I used to use an 8200 hst in the mid nineties. It punched well above its weight and never ever went wrong. I don’t think the modern ones are too shabby either.

That almost constitutes theft [emoji23]. Nice one. Gotta get lucky sometimes [emoji106]

That’s the trouble with media platforms / text The emoji was added as it was said in jest at micks comment. Obviously it’s ok to comment that someone is crap at business if they work on a Sunday as you personally take no offence at someone saying another member is crap at business.

No probs. Steve Homewood is the guy to ask for. He’s a good chap.