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540i battery top handle 550 mk2 572
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Looking Free logs best to contact local businesses direct?
Dbikeguy replied to KeithL's topic in Firewood forum
I drop to several locals to me, none of them care what the wood is and the nicer ones get the odd bit of nice wood too. Generally i ask for £15 for a pickup full of logs of various length needing processing. The nice ones chuck us a 4pack of beer occasionally too so they get preference when we have hardwood on board. I have a couple that we cut to 8” length ready for splitting and they pay £50 a pickup full (6ft x 5ft bed stacked up to the greedy boards) -
If there is space to spread it out a bit a pedestrian flail is a quick way to mash stuff like that up
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I’ve started with a CS100 sure it’s a bit slower but when you get used to it and plan how you cut stuff down it’s not bad, for big jobs i hire in a bigger machine, the tiny running costs of the wee CS100 means the extra i make on each job covers the occasional hire. £2.5k in as new condition, blades hadn’t even been turned! small, light, fits in the garage etc cheap way to start
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Why not go 562 from husky, lighter, it pulls a 24” easily so a 28 with skip chain or just cut from both sides. Rips on a 18” Once you use bigger saws and how fast they cut you tend to grab that one. 562 will do great for more of the time rather than just a big saw for odd cuts
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Mental health is a growing issue, sadly it’s the way we lead lives and for the younger folks ( i’m 35 but about 50 in my head i’m told!) social media maybe not knowingly but it affects a lot of people. We just lost my dad to covid and i know if i stop working/moving for long it affect me badly mentally. I discovered a long time ago i need to make myself suffer through exercise to keep any demons at bay. For some a walk with a dog is enough, for others and quite a few of my friends proper hard effort is needed and regular to keep things in check. I think it’s why crossfit etc are booming, the human body is a balance, we become more sedentary (not most on here i understand) we lack that ancestral fight for your life, fight to provide food and nutrition that we are made for. hard exercise releases the same mental feeling as that.
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I’ve done similar installs a couple of times and we used reusable cable ties, easy to install and remove. I assume they are not far off the floor being speakers not lighting. Screws or nails not going into the actual wood (bark doesnt provide any grip for the screw/nail) won’t hold especially if you get a storm through. You also won’t require backing plates using zip ties so faster install and lower costing too.
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Just ordered, great site! Easily the most user friendly i’ve come across.
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Hilux extra cab. bomb proof up to mk6 then fancy emissions stuff gets added. Extra cab gives you more payload than a single or double cab in weight, bigger bed than dbl too (mines just under 6ft internal and over 5ft width) debating tipper or just a drop side conversion next. Even with greedy boards and jumping all over it to pack it in it’s less than 10 mins solo to empty so full dropside gives me more weight capacity and a bigger space to drag chip off from.
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Is 35 too old to start a career as a tree surgeon?
Dbikeguy replied to Hound-Dogg's topic in General chat
Go for it, with age comes experience and hopefully common sense. Caution can help in this game over being 19 and immortal in your head. I did my climbing ticket before my saw tickets and rec climbed as often as i could. If you decide you sent keen then you have had a fun week, spent £750 or so and learnt something. The ability to self learn and be open to being taught will help you no end. Having a basic grasp of an Arbs day to day would benefit you in many of the roles you suggest. Modern climbing kit takes the brutal joint killing masochism of 3 knot systems and thrusting your way up a rope! I’ve taken friends climbing and even the unfit none sporty ones with SRT and ascenders are quickly up into the canopy. It’s a different world up there -
A coded welder/fabricator will be able to repair that to a certifiable and inspect able standard. Sure you could x ray test the weld but i have not heard of it being requested before. I worked as a fab/welder building canal boats and worked for a well ticketed and experienced boss, we did plenty of repairs on telehandlers, skid steers even a couple of cranes etc for a couple of local plant firms. Never had a inspection request to test the weld and we used the crane firm to move the boats onto artics. We had all the loler paperwork as part of the lifting plans etc. I doubt once painted many if any loler inspectors would even realise it had been repaired. In a perfect world that part would be replaced but we don’t live in a perfect world. Someone with the correct knowledge of metallurgy and welding can sort that to a safe and inspectable level easily and at little to no risk of future failure. They will also be insured to protect themselves. Bob from down the pub won’t have these skills
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Plant gets repaired daily all over the country. It was made originally which means you can quote easily replace said part correctly with the right skills and experience. A decent welder (coded if you are worried about traceability) correct grade of steel and heck i’d reinforce it further to avoid it happening again
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Is 35 too old to start a career as a tree surgeon?
Dbikeguy replied to Hound-Dogg's topic in General chat
35, started my own setup gig last year. Climbed a couple of weekends a month for about a year previous to that. Happily acknowledge my skill level and sub in a climber as needed if it’s beyond my abilities, fully booked to the end of Nov currently all from word of mouth. So it’s possible, it’s graft for sure, the ground work is far harder on the body than climbing is. Having your own business takes up a lot of time and initial capital to get going. Would i go back to being a sales rep like the world i left? not for a long time! -
Local spotted page, ask once a month and i get 15 or so from around my village and the two next to it. befriend a couple of builders, they get loads of the things and they end up in skips.
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i paid £2.5k for my cs100 18hp key start model, mint from a dealer (some private estate guy owned it, for 4years, used it a couple of times a year and had it serviced every year, traded it for a mini tractor) jumped on it and travelled a couple of hundred miles to collect it. Bargains to be had! fit a winch... could even mount it to the chipper...
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the cs100 is 180kg without fuel so add another 10kg or so. i can measure mine to see if it help?
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i now only run my CS100 on pump fuel, anything hand held is Aspen, found the chipper doesn’t affect me but saw usage did. Had to rebuild a 200t when moving to aspen, all my Husky stuff didn’t care
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Any days a work day in our house, mrs is a nurse so we plan with her shifts so we get at least one day a week together. Try and avoid working sundays unless it’s finishing a job off as too many people moan about noise! If i have anyone in to work a weekend i try and keep it a short day sat and they get some extra to cover a few beers, Sun would be double bubble.
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Truck cover fabric, light weight. easy to attach and you could even have it so it clips into place and can be rolled up when you are not chipping into it. less of a wind brake so better on fuel
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Seen a lot of this colour stone come with staining from the suppliers! A mate landscaper had to take his client to the supplier and show him all of their packs had small rust coloured marks. Last time i checked trees were not made of metal so don’t leave rust stains...
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Witch one mini digger, small tractor or forklift
Dbikeguy replied to Guy 11's topic in Milling Forum
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How are you diversifying your business during Covid-19
Dbikeguy replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
moved all my work to external, i run a small property and grounds maintenance setup so did do a good chunk of internal work- UFH, flooring, tiling, bathroom and kitchen refits etc plus tree and mainly wooden landscaping. The variety worked well for us. Post March we are only doing external works, apart from at the very start it’s worked well, ive been fully booked bar rare odd days since April, now booked well into Nov with a mix of tree work, fencing and garden builds, decking and pergola’s. Have a couple of home office builds starting next month too. There’s enough tree work alone to fill my week if i want it but i’ve found there is more money in the builds side, but more stress in material sourcing. So a mix of the 2 keeps things fun and fresh. Also can move bits around if the weather looks awful, would rather be on the deck building something than doing a prune job in heavy wind and rain. -
Shame you are too far away as i run my own small gig doing a similar mix of work by the sound of things, nice way to add variety in and move things for really bad weather, silly high winds we can go build a deck etc. Sound like a great guy to work for so i am sure someone sensible in the area will jump at it!
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I ran a wrench with a ZZ then tried a chicane at a show last year, felt smoother so bought on early this year. Tried both side by side and the chicane is way nicer to climb on, silky smooth up and down. Wrench now sits with friction cords for when i go rec climbing and mates come to try this tree climbing stuff, they get the ZZ and i go back to the dark ages to remind me how good i have it haha
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Depth of cut will be your deciding factor on big timbers... Cheap way of making a straight cut, get a long spirit level and some clamps or a long screed bar, clamp it in place then keep the edge of the circular saw tight to it. One straight cut far cheaper than buying track saws I’ve cut Solid wood worktops like this, tons of doors etc as Dewalt (all my battery kit is from them) didn’t make one till fairly recently and it seemed expensive when my method already worked.
