Mark Wileman
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Back on the way up! Money is in guessing the turning point to make profit on the way up and down!
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I just executed my exit strategy. Sold half my kit to buy tools and became a Carpenter! So far so good!
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I was in a bad mood yesterday for some reason! Sorry! ?
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You should have been more specific. I thought you were living up to the climbing Arbtalker elitist sterotype that I try to quash at every turn!
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Do you think I'm an arsehole because I don't value the opinion on my ground team?
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£150 is the top end in West Wales, usually £100-120 - people don't care how good you are around here, they just care if you break stuff or not! I've gone back to chippying, £160 a day no questions asked and the work is easier and more rewarding. I still plan to do a bit of tree work because it's fun, wasn't quiet the lucrative business I thought it was though!
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I think I have an F1. I only do small stuff on it, but it's amazing.
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Cool, upgraded to logosol?
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It's pretty crazy that you'll struggle to get a decent tradesman insurance rate for most building trades without an NVQ 2/3 in that trade, but I can get insurance for dismantling a 100ft tree over a listed mansion with a 3 days long rigging ticket. -
I've reverted back to carpentry! Boarded out a loft and built a banister today!
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Sorry to hear that mate. ?
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Base anchor pulling capability’s vs isolated fork
Mark Wileman replied to TTownsend's topic in General chat
I just pull trees over sometimes. You all take this far too seriously. -
Base anchor pulling capability’s vs isolated fork
Mark Wileman replied to TTownsend's topic in General chat
It was my interpretation of base anchoring that it also has the advantage that should the crotch fail, the rope should hopefully grab something (the next crotch down) else and not lead to having no line in the tree! That and I'm shit with a throw line, base anchoring is easier. ? -
Nah the glass will be in a ply frame that will attach to the back of the timber. Might use some rubber washers or something to keep it off of the fresh stuff. The fresh stuff has still been cut for over 2 years so shouldn't warp too crazy.
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That is the joy of West Wales. No developers would ever build a huge site in the country side here since there aren't enough people to even keep the normal property market afloat
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I am the retailer, not nearly big enough of a slice unfortunately. But I was chancing it getting the job, and they are happy with the result! I'll whack some pictures up once the mirror glass arrives.
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Don't get me wrong, this was a bit naughty. But it's not quite the witch hunt it's being made out to be on the news website its reported on. 20% of the shit was probably encroaching the lines away so would have been cut soon anyway! I'm all for these super housing estates, keeps all the idiots away from me in the countryside
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All the wildlife was probably living in the actual woodland 50 meters away
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Do people hire you in to mill from them Rough or do you buy stems off people? I've just been commissioned to make two huge live edge mirror frames for pretty much what I paid for the logosol... starting to think there might be some money to be made here!
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It is! I shortened the platform down to one section (1m) since I only have about 2 bits of timber longer than 2m! It's surprisingly accurate, can rip 1/4 inch boards. Only using a cheap rotatech bar & chain filed to 10 degrees too.
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9 new houses for 9 families. I'd vote for that over a 3 minute walk through a litter infested forest you only use for your dog to take a shit. We did a clearance job recently for one of the bigger development companies in the UK, had 9 complaints about the work on the first day.. all from residents living in houses built in the past 5 years by the same developer.
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Just finding my feet with my first mill! Got plenty of Leylandii to butcher practicing on! Milled a bit of Alder that has been sitting for about 18 months as well.
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Training to do LOLER assessments
Mark Wileman replied to felixthelogchopper's topic in Training & education
Seems to be not many people running LOLER examination training courses/assessments these days. -
Oh, if you are taking the whole pump off, not just the motor then yeah you need to disconnect the pipes with it down, or there will be one hell of a mess as the oil sprays out. I can take my ram off with it in the upright position so I didn't have to worry, if you cant though then you need to take the pressure off the ram somehow.
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I'd lift the ram, prop it up with something sturdy then disconnect it all. The motor is separate from the pressure valve on your pump so it'll hold the pressure whilst you remove the motor. Are you sending it off for reconditioning, if so I'd only remove the motor, don't try to strip it out as there's a million little springs that you'll never get back in place. Learnt that from experience ?
