Chris Day
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Not enough broken cables, clearly an amateur!
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24mm six point impact socket from britool and a fairly low profile breaker bar for me, tried torque wrench first time wouldn't fit so went by arm gauge torque setting no issues in two hundred hours.
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Had our ranger four years been fine, had a new gearbox recently but nothing to do with orbit key just heavy use by us. Nothing bad to say about them.
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Looks a bit long in the forehead. Where do you attach the defenders and visor? I know from your previous posts that you go with plugs and glasses but for the rest of us duct tape ain't gonna last!
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My point to the op is we as a business have hit a point where we take the dangled carrot and jump through the hoops then potentially get the work or don't or we politely decline and continue as is. The choice is ours, the hoop I have chosen to jump through is chas and will probably be a few days lost work for quals I've neglected and some late nights doing paperwork but he tho it's a choice. I think the systems are in place for the one man band it just means complying with things we aren't perhaps used to in paperwork terms but probably do anyway with visual assessments of kit or dynamic risk assessments of tasks.
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Just read through this thread and the 395 seems thirsty! Our 661 has never drunk so much fuel so quickly and I believe it gets some use. Does anyone run both and can they give a comparison on fuel consumption? I've used 395's bit they weren't mine and I wasn't paying to feed them so never really considered consumption.
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What hitch do you use for lowering limbs/Trunk
Chris Day replied to Top Cat's topic in Climbers talk
Seems we all do the same things we shouldn't, funny that. However I find the running bowline more dicking around than a timber hitch half the time. -
FR Jones Chainsaw Sale: Stihl MS 261 vs Husq 550XP
Chris Day replied to Mark Wileman's topic in Chainsaws
In the dealers the other day and we checked the same spares across the 550xp, 261 and 501 sx. Stihl was considerably cheaper, with echo leading the charge for obscene spares prices. Things will break regardless of manufacturer nice to know that when they do it's reasonable. We will be going back to stihl from echo as kit needs replacing. -
Fantastic work, let us know when you turn your first million.
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A chainsaw cannot be made safe, s##t bust. They are used to cut things much more resilient than what the human body is constructed off. They are a necessary evil as it were to carry out work on trees. Our work is on trees and every single one is different and x ray vision does not exist to see inside what we cut on the ground or in the tree, therefore accidents will happen. Whether that's pure bad luck or user error is something to be decided after the fact. Everyone is guilty at some point of bad practice or laziness, some of us more than others granted. I feel that spending two weeks on a course and being qualified to "crack on" is not right, the irata system does not allow this, why does arb? Some of us are lucky enough to be tutored and mentored from day dot however the training system doesn't make this mandatory in my mind it should and I have added this to the site.
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Well, that's a fairly definitive answer to my question. Thanks all for the responses I will now purchase a tracked grinder and possibly a 360 if viable. Bugger I thought I'd found the answer, however I'm not that clever so everyone would already be doing the same!
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Looking for suggestions on Ms261 replacement or next size up pleease!
Chris Day replied to Secretarb's topic in General chat
I'm considering going back to stihl due to their cheap spares compared to echo and husqvarna! However my echo cs 620sx has had some hammer and never ever faltered. Lovely saw on an 18 bar. -
We need a bigger stump grinder, we have a little rock machinery one which is great for what it is but the frequency we have to hire a larger machine means it's time to invest. My question is has any used one of the stump grinding heads/attachments you can buy for a small 360? Was it any good? I'm thinking a second hand 1.5 to 2.0t excavator and the relevant attachment is cheaper than a decent stump grinder and gives more utility. Oh and I want a digger! The real swinger is has anyone on here with an arb company owned both and found one more profitable than the other? Many thanks, Chris
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Had a look at that, looks interesting but are they any good? Doesn't appear from the photos to provide that much lift?
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My quotes are valid for thirty days as per my terms and conditions, this is to try and work round the seasonal changes issue. However if a quote is accepted but not scheduled for three months say, I just roll with it.
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What about an echo 420es? Old design and bullet proof, mine has had nothing changed in four years. It's steady away, won't break any records but just works!
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Shouldn't Firemen have basic felling training?
Chris Day replied to Luckyeleven's topic in General chat
Maybe the question we should ask is do they have an approved contractors list and how do we apply to get on it? -
I've never thought of monkey puzzle as a useable or valuable timber. If I'm unfortunate enough to have to fell/dismantle one it gets cut up and dropped on the drive at one of our free firewood types. Have i got this wrong? Should I be hauling the stems to my yard to season? Sorry for the derail.
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Bang on john. And if they're a competent hardworking lad or lady and you treat them right then the next time you need their assistance...... Well blow me they do everything they can to help! Not saying i don't treat incompetent ones the same, they just get told and don't get called again.
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You've hit the nail on the head with the word time. Were out five to six days every week. That leaves us none. Even splitting our arb arising timber into logs costs that precious commodity and is done to fill time when we can't for whatever reason get on with a job. I'm lucky, chippings I give away and never struggle to do so, timber we stack and split but often struggle to do this in timely fashion. The hedge cuttings and sweepings are the expensive bit. Especially if like me burning them and even storing them on your yard is not strictly lawful and unlikely ever to be approved as such.
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For me their are two types of marketing the flyer or advert type fire and forget stuff which can be a real winner or loser and often a gamble. Or stuff you keep ownership of like websites and social media, this second type requires input and the more you put in......... The more you get out IME (keeping it real for the kids!). I used to use a mix of both and now solely use word of mouth and the second type. Sorry if this is a derail but seems to have not been said.
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I hope you jumped on the train and invoiced them? I can't stand myself or others being late. The lads who sub for me know to let me know if they are going to be more than five minutes late so I can let the client know, I show the same respect to them in return. If a job is cancelled after 1400 the day before the subbie gets a full days pay, maybe I'm soft or fair not sure which.
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Adding friction via a crab or ring to reduce the load on the system designed for one man/woman for rescue purposes is as taught on the IRATA class 1 course.
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Signed and shared. Didn't theft of a mans (or woman's) livelihood used to carry the death penalty? Now that's a deterent!
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I kneel next to the saw and just put either the scabbard or anything else suitable and handy under the bar tip and push it down. Always turn the saw instead of moving myself out of habit though for some reason. Find what works for you and master that method, everyone will do it slightly different.
