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  1. peds
    I’m over in France, but only for another three weeks, then we are leaving the country. And I’m afraid I barely even have time to wipe my own arse at the moment, as we’ve just brought a brand-new tiny baby back from the hospital, so chainsaw shopping is pretty low down on my list. Sorry I can’t help.
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    A few seconds of Facepage stalking suggests Little Sutton Road, Sutton Coldfield. These trees, to be exact: 52°35'11.2"N 1°48'25.9"W
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    Idverde, according to social media. Blower Man knew exactly what he was doing though, he wasn’t just pushing leaves around mid-fell, he was getting ready to blow the explosion of shards and splinters away from the moving traffic. Safety first.
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    Cheers dudes, solid knowledge.
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    In France? Is it the sort of thing you’d be taught as a matter of course getting your French saw tickets? And I guess it’s more of a CS32 thing in the UK, as no one mentioned anything like it for my 31. It would definitely have to be used for something other than the size of the bar, as I’ve seen it on the stumps of some tall-but-skinny larch and spruce, no fatter than 40cm. (There’s some absolute horrors of a hinge on a few others, I’ll post a couple on the Rate My Hinge thread...)
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    Makes perfect sense, cheers dudes.
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    Convince around 170 of your fittest cycling friends to hang around on a load of dynamo bikes all day, and you’ve got enough power to run a Timberwolf 280. Pedal-powered wood chipper. Not sure how you’d price that in a quote.
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    Hi, Question from an FNG here, I’ve seen this on a few stumps whilst walking around my local forest, and I was about to take some pictures and start a new thread to ask about it, but your photo illustrates it perfectly. I see you’ve cut out the center of the hinge (with a bore cut from inside the gob?), can I ask what that cut is called and what kind of situation you’d use it in? Many thanks for any knowledge you can share.
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    Labradors are nothing but a stomach on legs with life support systems. They eat as fast as they do because their taste buds are in their anus. That said, they are among the most noble and loyal of breeds.
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    Don’t worry dude, I agree. I’ve had a bunch of uni students work for me over the years when they’ve found out their degrees are worthless... lazy fucks, mostly, no effort to put the hours in.
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    Thanks eggs, I’ve worked since leaving school. Good to catch a hint of your anti-education bias, though.
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    I don’t disagree with a word of that dude. My point is that it isn’t the people voicing their concerns about the future who are to blame (as they are not the root cause), and chastising someone who has worries that they (or the person they are advising) might not be able to pay an employee isn’t exactly constructive. You could just as easily argue that a gung-ho attitude with no regards to the realities of the situation is just as damaging, or possibly even more so. But I wouldn’t know about that, I mean I was managing kitchens and not an arb company. So I probably don’t have a clue.
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    My main responsibilities were feeding unnecessarily-fancy food to Russian oligarchs and their film star wives whilst hiding behind a fake smile and trying not to die inside. But what I, or any other individual, was doing at any moment in the past doesn’t mean a thing, and it seems pointless to bring it up. The point is that it isn’t people expressing their concerns about impending financial turmoil that causes the financial turmoil. You can put a brave face on it as much as you want, but a stiff upper lip isn’t really going to put food on the table when things go belly-up. Anyway, best not derail this thread any further. Apologies, carsmarco252!
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    I’m not 100% sure that that’s a prerequisite to hold an opinion on the matter to be honest mate.
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    Haha, no it isn't. It's the fucking up of the country that will fuck the country up. Don't shift the blame!
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    No job, just hanging around.
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    I’m 32, just done a career change, I got CS30/31, 38, and 39, plus stump grinder and woodchipper tickets on a 4 week course. I picked up a trial day with a dude easily enough even though I had essentially zero real-world experience, and was offered a job off the back of it, but I seriously doubt that I would have had any success, or at least so quickly, without at least 30/31. Personally I’d recommend that as a bare minimum, and if you can spare the time and cash for a bit more, then go for it. Two other guys on my course had similar success, albeit with a fair bit more practical work experience than I’d had. If nothing else, it gives you a chance to make some really stupid mistakes (and learning from them) in the relatively-forgiving arena of an educational environment, instead of next to a paying customer’s greenhouse. Good luck dude!
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    Definitely not recorded by the drone! They are noisy buggers.
  21. peds
    They aren’t strapped to me, they are all strapped to the dog. He was practicing his rescue techniques. Anyway, Ashley isn’t allowed any more fancy toys until he’s spent another decade climbing DRT on a Blake’s hitch.
  22. peds
    Get back on the prusik you pansy.
  23. peds
    That makes a huge amount of sense, I hadn't considered that. Thanks.
  24. peds
    Then again, I speak solely from the experience of working in kitchens and catering, where hours and conditions are notoriously shitty, where you’re up two hours before breakfast and get home three hours after dinner, do that seven times a week, let the owner jizz on your face every now and then and you’ll still say thank you and beg for more hours, because we (the whole industry) had this stupid machismo bollocks going on where you’d assume you were better than everyone else because you could put the time in and get the job done to high spec for no money without complaining. It’s bullshit, and a huge reason why I’m not doing it any more. So yeah, I’m all for people putting their foot down and not working silly hours in exchange for pennies, because it’s toxic.
  25. peds
    He said a 25 minute drive, but all the same, if you are at the stage in your career where you are earning a tenner an hour what difference does it make if you start at 5, 7, 9, 11? You don’t earn danger pay for owning an alarm clock.

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