Conor Wright
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With a late start! It'll be years before I catch up to where I think I should be in my head. Just have to keep doing a bit every day.
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Remind me. I'm up to my eyes, work booked til October, half way through a little building project of my own, trying to keep on top of machinery maintenance, lorry licence to do, cs refresher coming up, veggies to weed.. harvested garlic today.. we went a bit overboard. Ended up with about 20kg! Need to build another shed now too, cant be leaving the camper outside for the winter. Oh and theres that 20 ton of cedar and cypress to mill for the house.
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Waterfall is the best part of an hour away, we were testing out the new camper. 312 sprinter. Needs a freshen up but mechanically sound and very clean underneath. Virtually rust free except around the windscreen. Ex ambulance with buckets of power for its age. Sits in the outside lane of the motorway no problems! Couldn't stretch to a four wheel drive model but it will do for now.
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True. Theres a small holding thread here somewhere would probably fit in nicely there. Wont be tonight, I've a 5 am start and still haven't finished my beer!
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A few pics of our stroll up the hill, you can just see our place, it's in the trees in the centre of the pic. Nice view, pity the beagle was pointing the wrong way to appreciate it. We also went over to aasleagh falls. The beagle lost his bravery when he heard the roar of the water bit no bother to the shepherd, she wanted to go for a swim!
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A large capacity chipper and something mechanical to feed it helps too. Unless the client wants the wood.. A small crew of people that work well together is essential to keeping the pace up. I really enjoy the odd days I get with 3 to 5 person jobs, the time goes fast and the work gets done.
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Not all from today, nothing too exciting. Conny bashing, roadside removal with powerline and phone line dropped to make life easy..... ..then the hard job, took its toll on me! Keeping 30 kids attention for an hour while teaching them about the life cycle and habits of honeybees.. well out of my comfort zone! That said, it was satisfying to see their interest in the natural world.
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Had both front and rear drive transits, going back about 10 years. Both gave trouble! I reckon they are only good buys when new. rwd was better to pull with weight. Fwd drove better when semi laden, very poor with a trailer off tarmac. Decent tyres makes.a.massive difference, as does parking up with your drive wheels on a half sheet of ply, getting a bit of motion going before hitting the slippery stuff is the difference in going home or going for the winch! -
Could always stay at home and have a road trip...
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Heard on another thread you cant afford a decent arborists tshirt so I wouldn't worry about the cost of hiring a whole arborist, what with all his daft ppe and expensive specialist equipment that he doesn't need to cut trees you say you can do yourself. Goodbye now anonymous troll.
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Land for the Many A report to the Labour Party, June 2019
Conor Wright replied to Stere's topic in The Lounge
Sounds like they want to get a load of people with no notion of what farming or land ownership entails to own (read rent from the govt) land and go farming, ideally along the train tracks. Populist and unrealistic. You pay the money, you own the land. Cant afford the land? Work harder. -
Could work for you, if the weather is right and the price is good on the job it's nice work. I gave up on lawns, did my last one late last year. Had three attempts at it because of broken weather and made nothing. I don't miss it. Stoney ground, shallow services, buried builders rubble, unrealistic client expectations of what it should cost, fighting weather, revisiting jobs to achieve a decent finish after one heavy shower, lack of availability of competent labour, everyone wanting you the first fine day of the year even though the ground is still wet.. Different climate to you though. I'm not saying don't do it, just don't think it will be any easier than what you're at!
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Not really, the rotor turns the opposite way, bringing some soil along with them, it also has a row of static tines which the soil passes through, leaving the stones to fall below, there is then an adjustable skid before the rear roller which flattens out the stone free soil before the roller compresses it.
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Sounds relevant to your original question alright. For what it's worth I'd class that job as difficult.. fragile targets, tight space and greater than average work involved in the chip and wood removal. Maybe suggest hiring a local gardener type to spread the chip, to keep it to a full Saturday and tidying/grinding on the sunday? I usually work alone or as a two man crew, I'd have a man with me for two days and two days on my own at a guess.. I'm just looking at pics after all. To do it as a weekend job you will need three onsite imo. Wouldn't go under €2k myself. It's only worth doing if its profitable.
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Inside his head somewhere. I can only imagine what he is saying since I made good use of the ignore button. I would suggest others stop feeding the troll and do the same! Actually, on reflection, no. I cant be arsed imagining what he is saying. I'm sure its irrelevant to the op's question and based on what the local knackers told him about tree work and a video he saw of some heavily tattooed "tree guy" while getting paid in tea and biscuits, because he ain't worth paying in actual money.
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I was led to believe gentlemen didnae kiss and tell!
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Any joke that bad requires an apology!
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He wasn't abel. Sorry.
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Haha! The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune. I wonder does it mean people used to live longer back then?!
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Clean saw. Ratman may be right, leave it there until it's a relic from times past and some misty eyed ex tree surgeon will pay a small fortune for it!
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Some age gap there!
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Resurrecting an old thread here, has anyone got photos of their unimog cranes, specifically rear mounted? I'm looking at an amco veba 3 extension (11m reach, hiab type) to go on the rear of a u1200. Would rather mount to end of chassis, don't have faith in 3pt linkage cranes, not at that reach! Has anyone fitted one this way or does everyone use crane x frames to spread the load? The crane has its own outriggers and I would like to be able remove it relatively easily. Any thoughts or ideas welcome. Thanks!
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Ouch. Glad you have her up and running again. I like to see old machinery still in use.
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My last stihl proved unreliable so I took a chance on an echo 171, secondhand but with little use. It may be a touch slower to rev out than the stihl but it's light, powerful and has good anti vibe. I'm so happy with it I replaced my stolen stihl pole trimmer with an echo pas 280. Also very pleased with that. I then went out and got an echo 501sx, also a good machine so far. I would give it a year or two before I'd say for certain that they remain reliable but so far all have been faultless.
