Paddy1000111
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You were lucky then if it was giant hogweed rather than the regular stuff. Giant hogweed can cause blindness and all sorts!
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Paddy1000111 replied to dsmith1974's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
Definitely buy a prusik and have a play with doubling the rope up. Also buy a second rope (I know it's expensive) and buy a positional strop if you don't own one (10m of rope, a pulley and a eye to eye) and get used to two rope climbing as you will need to do it if you do cs38 anyway and it's a back up for a first time climber. Have you thought about doing a course? -
I had this last year. Cow parsnip/hogweed. Went out strimming and had little red patches up my arm. Then they started looking like really bad bug bites then blistered and popped. Keep it out the sun as much as possible and get some factor 50+ and apply it regularly. The chemical in it messes with your DNA removes your skin's ability to block sunlight so the red marks/burns are in fact burns from sunlight. Look up Phytophotodermatitis Not as vicious as giant hogweed but still pretty nasty stuff.
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Not late enough in the year for shoots to buy pheasants yet. I've not seen any pheasant chicks minus the ones bought for the shoot minus the odd nest
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Paddy1000111 replied to dsmith1974's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
I would say it's far more complicated than just using a two rope system over a branch/crotch for a first time climber. If you've never done it before you can get up and move around a tree with a prusik and a rope. Why learn about zigzags, chicanes, foot ascenders, knee ascenders and adding in redirects, base tie, tip tie etc when you can just hip thrust up and get used to it. Don't get me wrong, 75-80% of my climbing is srt but If you can make srt simpler than hip thrusting with a prusik for a first time climber I'm all ears? -
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Paddy1000111 replied to dsmith1974's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
Sell the ID and invest in a zigzag or a self tending hitch kit like https://www.gustharts.com/climbing-equipment-c1/friction-cord-slings-c22/kit-assembly-c262/hitch-climber-kit-p1097 you can set them up in srt/ddrt. Although for srt you will need a rope wrench or a chicane or rope wrench with the zigzag. I would suggest you start with it in ddrt and progress to srt as using srt in tree work is far more complicated. Really easy to get up and down but far more difficult to get around. -
Be interesting to see what you get with that. I've got at least £750 of those accumulated about the house 🤣
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Out of interest, how many of you price day rate for domestic customers? I've always seen day rate to be a commercial contract thing as if you tell a customer it's going to be 2 days at £850+vat p/day then that's pretty much a quote and I wouldn't expect to go to a customer and say "it's going to be a third day" and expect a friendly response? I'm surprised you couldn't pull the mewp out with a chipper though. I've pulled a bogged 110 land rover towing a tipper trailer full of logs out of the mud with one. *Edit* scratch that last bit, just re-read about how big the mewp was
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Because it's quite a long process. When I have time later I'll see if I can find the video. I think it was forst but the engines are all the same. They do a partial and a full regeneration. The partial one (passive) is something like 5 minutes which is fine but the full one is 40 odd and it has to happen every X amount of hours so there's a timer build into the screen to tell you when it's due so you leave it running for 40 minutes flat out to regenerate. Personally I don't find myself running flat out chipping for 40 minutes at a time. It gets bulked up, fired through in 5-10 then shut down or it gets fired through in 5, left idling for 2/3 then maybe a 10 minute run.
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Nowt wrong with the vanguard engines. They've been using them for years in America on big deck zero turn lawnmowers and stuff and theirs have thousands of hours on. No, they won't last as long as a Kubota block but if they're properly looked after they can be as reliable. They just take more care, regular oil changes and using decent quality synthetic oil. The fuel filter thing is an issue but easily fixed and prevented. Reality is I think the vanguard engines are going to become more and more popular as the diesel emissions issues come in. I was watching a video on the new forst diesels about how the regeneration works and how you have to leave it running flat out for extended periods to allow the dpf to regenerate. I fire up my chipper, let it idle for over 30 seconds and then run it up. I chip, let it idle for 30+ seconds and shut down. It doesn't get extended run times to regenerate
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Well I budget £130 for a groundie as it accounts for their pay plus a touch more and I wouldn't want to make less than £210 on a job like that even if it's only 3-4 hours
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If it were me, I wouldn't drop anything off the price if you started the job yourself. Still got the same amount of work to do except I would save 10 minutes spiking up and nipping off the first few branches. I would put £340-380 all in on that depending on access and if you wanted to keep the wood for the fire/chiminea. I would cut it into log lengths but wouldn't split it or stack it.
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It's annoying but if it was me I would expect to suck up that third day as a loss. I always compare it to building work etc. If you turned up as a group of brickies to do a job you quoted in a day with all the bricks and mortar but your mixer broke an hour in you had to get it all mixed by hand so you got barely anything done then you would have to go back and finish the job not charge the customer twice the price because you worked half the speed. "Day rate" is always a funny one across the industries though because the lines of what is who's fault are blurred. I've always seen it as: If your guys, equipment, skills etc caused a delay then it's your problem. If the customer wants more done, caused delays, provided dodgy kit, changed work plans or requested additional stuff then it's on them. Sadly I think this one sticks with you unless the customer got the picker stuck 👎
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I don't think many people got your japanese maple joke there 😂😂 back on track, I wouldn't worry about the mulch, the tree can breathe through it but don't stack it up against the main trunk. That soil looks very wet, could have a fungal issue that's worked it's way into the tree through that crack. Jap maples are sensitive though, too wet, too dry, too cold, too hot, too much sun, too much shade and they throw a hissy fit. They're like the millennial tree, never really happy
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Sorry, I meant a 10 micron 🤦🏼 To be fair, not many dusts are between 10-30 microns in their airborne form!
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I'd stick a 30 micron in line filter in there, as big as you can get so it doesn't mess up fuel pressures then look at where it's come from. I'll have a gander in my tank and see what's in there. I'd suggest the fuel station you use is crap or you have it coming from a breather but that's a lot of fine junk from a breather pipe. Maybe you had one bad batch or a dirty can and you've got a tank full of shite and it's dragging it in? Pull the tank off, clean it and start a fresh
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I'm not from Tiverton 😂
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But you wouldn't say "I found a load of dildos in my mothers-in-law handbag" you would say "I found a load of dildos in my mother-in-law's handbag"
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It should still fire at 140. It may be your tester. If I test a saw it sometimes shows 130, change the angle it's held and it shows 160... My money is still on the coil.
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I get why you are wanting to upgrade but it sounds like you are having chain sharpening issues more than anything. My 261 cuts under its own weight, if I dig the dogs in to get leverage then it just bogs and gets stuck in the cut. If you're digging in the dogs to the point you're up to the casing and still not getting enough leverage you definitely either have a blunt chain or you don't have the rakers filed down enough. If you're still cutting and you need more leverage to bury the bar then take some more off the rakers because you still haven't taken enough.
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What machine is this from?
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To be fair to the AA, they're getting good at publishing a "what actually happened" breakdown https://www.trees.org.uk/News-Blog/Latest-News/HSE-Fall-from-Height-Incidents-involving-arborists
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Let's face it, if you're going to **************** something up on your hands it's your fingers which have no protection from chainsaw gloves. I still don't understand how you would hit your hand with a domestic ground saw. The grip on chainsaw gloves is shite. I remember on my cs30 course there was a young lad who had chainsaw gloves on and it slipped out of his hand when it pulled into the log, his reaction was to grip it harder so it went full throttle and skidded along the timber. He was lucky as he instinctively went to grab the saw again with his left hand but hit the chain brake in the process. That was some scary shit.
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Try the Showa, I think they do justify the extra cost but still not top price. What ones do you go for? Id be interested in waterproof ones for days it's pissing down. Had it before when my hands were all wrinkled up and they got smashed to hell as they were all soft
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Not sure how I could have potted it up to be honest. Would have weighed a tonne! I wonder if I can run it through the chipper and stick the chips in my 50L brewers 😂
