Paddy1000111
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If it had a lean like that, there wasn't a huge bulge and the tree was correcting itself by starting to correct it's lean or it had a good amount of canopy on the side against the lean I would just monitor it. The fact that the tree is leaning, there's a large bulge (which sounds relatively new?) and it appears to be massively imbalanced towards the lean I would get it removed assuming there's a target underneath. If it's just a clear area owned by you I wouldn't be too concerned!
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Well the customer has said that they want to keep all the wood and it can be left at the base of the tree so I imagine that once I've pinged down anything brash size and cut all the wood out in log size bits as the drop zone is a 6ft square the 2 groundies should have shifted the brash. I'll just up the price by a few hundred and if I get it then I can get in more guys and a mini chipper maybe.
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That's why I'm just going to bump the price up to the point he will go with someone else. I'll be up the tree so a long drag isn't my problem but it's going to be a crap job regardless
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Maybe there is friction there. At the time the next door neighbor was fine with it. He's having his house extended so there's no garden to be seen and he seemed perfectly happy to have it out as it blocks light to his anyway. I don't understand why he wants it through the garden, lots of tiny little flowers and plants to get crushed, the drag also has to go over a little wooden bridge over the coy carp pond so that will no doubt get crap in it of the branches were just dragged. 🙄
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It's becoming most of my jobs too. Tomorrow is a largish bay prune and 2 other trees to be taken out through the house. The job with the leylandii is annoying. I went to quote it and the neighbour seemed nice and was happy for it to be removed through their side. I gave a lower price because I could park the chipper 15ft from the tree but the customer has now decided that they want it taken through their garden and not from the neighbors side (asking at the same price) so I'm tempted to just stick a load of £ on it and not do it. I get the feeling I'm the only one who quoted a sane price because of the easy access from next door where the other guys quoted for removal through the garden. I think I'll just go higher with the quote to the point where I probably won't get it and if I do it will make it okay and I'll throw the guys some more money too
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Fair enough. I guess a skinny tarp and some bungies might make it easier.
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If it was that deep I'd just tuck the brash under the gravel 😂
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It doesn't bother me but I know it's gunna suck and it's not a good day for my groundies. It's a shit drag, across an ornate garden, over a little wooden bridge and across a 40ft deep gravel path. Just trying to make life easier for the guys.
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Not my petrol winch but I have done that before. Not in a garden but on a big maccy where the access was good but it was a fair drag. Worked an absolute treat!
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I think I'll go down the route of a mini chipper for the day and barrow it out/use a Wheely bin!
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It's not big enough for a crane, that's for sure and it's about a 80 yard walk back and forth. Not sure on the crane boom distance?
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So recently I've had more enquires for domestic work where its a tree at the end of the ornate garden and all the bits have to be removed. Logs are easy to handle with barrows etc but does anyone have any hints/tips for brash? I've got a small/medium Leylandii to remove (about 30ft) but bulky as hell and the access size is a wheelbarrow/walkway so large dumpy bags are no good. I've got loads of the green waste dumpy bags 40x40x60 size which are great but I want to make life easier for the groundies if I can?
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Takes forever it feels. I've got 6 of the Makita 18v ones and I was using them with an angle grinder to clear off paint and I was rotating them out the fridge, into the grinder back to the fridge and into the charger and they still couldn't keep up!
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To be fair the Makita batteries are good. I can notice a big difference between the 4ah and 5ah batteries. My main nemisis is heat. If I run them hard then they take 10 minutes on the charger to cool plus the charge time
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If you're thinking of switching then the sooner the better. Saves pulling all the pipes out and rebuilding the carb unless they are already well aged
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I'd remove it. It doesn't look like it's really dense enough to give a huge benefit to bats etc. As others have said, cut all the ivy stems around the base with a little hand saw. Make a special effort not to cut or score the tree at all when doing it. I've seen many dead trees from poor ivy removal jobs.
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Aspen is 100% worth it. I've got asthma and I find I get a tight chest if I use petrol milling instead of aspen. Also works well for storage. I dragged out a hedge cutter that I hadn't used in over a year and it was full of aspen, second pull and away it went. Pulled out a strimmer that I hadn't used in 6 months and the regular petrol was orange and rank.
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MOV_0665~2.mp4 MOV_0665~2.mp4 We have Berrybrook Steam in our village. They rebuild everything from miniature to full size stuff. Have one a week go past! MOV_0665~2.mp4
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That's pretty shit for the company 👎 I guess they, in theory, should have had the skills not to outsource. My xtrail has been playing up recently going into limp mode and stuff. Scanned it, boost pressure sensor code. Tested the sensor on obd with a mighty vac and it had failed. I put a new sensor on and it worked a treat. Two weeks later the turbo exhaust pressure sensor blew. It never makes sense how related sensors all go at the same time.
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The main question: All covered under warranty?
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With it parked up and the handbrake on, engine off and out of gear grab each side of the flexible joints (universal joints-UJ's) on the driveshaft and try to rotate each side in opposite directions back and forth. If it's got play in it or its clunking then get it checked by a garage.
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New truck build where to get materials? Alloy planking etc
Paddy1000111 replied to swinny's topic in Arb-Trucks
Definitely go with marine ply if you're going to put it on a van. Anything else will just become mush and I always find that screws pull through OSB if it gets hit by a log or something. Marine ply lifespan is still limited though. I got mine as a cage back and then finished it with polycarbonate/aluminium hoarding boards and it looks good https://www.cutplasticsheeting.co.uk/product/amaribond-hoarding-panel/ -
Yes and no. It's less hooked than a dmm hook so it's not too bad. If the rope is tied to it tightly then a good flick usually frees it. If you clip it on with a carab it can be a bit of an arse. Reg coates uses one that's slightly bigger I think. I only got one after seeing his and how he was traversing between trees with it. Works a treat when you have multiple stems to deal with and you don't want to go down and back up the next stem.
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Sorry but I don't understand how you could incur serious injury. If you're trusting it (or any open system) to the point where you could have a serious fall/pendulum swing you deserve a serious injury. Neither that or the Captain hook is life support. What it is good for though is pulling yourself out to a branch where you need additional support or putting out on a limb to give yourself better stability for a pruning cut. I've ground the teeth off mine and rounded it off so it's not so aggressive. I even used it during my nptc pruning course. If you're not using it for life support it really doesn't matter.
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Changing vehicle class from Car to Commercial
Paddy1000111 replied to Powerfab's topic in Arb-Trucks
I can confirm that commercial vehicles are more to insure, at least in my case My car is £168 a year (Volvo v50 2.0 r-design) and my slow as hell transit was £487....
