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Have a look at a Lucas Mill. Very versatile, easy to set up, transport and store away. And I’ll buy it from you when you retire. 👍

Get the 1800kg, you can change the gearing to pull 900kg, only faster, which helps with assisted felling. I’ve found the smaller ones a bit slow.

I bet they are cuing up round the block.

Where do I sign up. 😂

Attach the cable and do the ‘stepping down cut’ in the diagram as low a possible, and use the tractor winch to pull it backwards. I always arrange the dead men laying in the same direction of the intended pull, not 90 degrees to it as in the diagram.

This job just gets better and better.

Any experienced/decent hand cutter will have done some Rhody bashing at some point. Let’s be honest, it’s a shit job. Combine that with spraying poisons on top, it’s now shitter. Combine that with the constant wet weather to contend with and it’s just got even shitter. You can dress it up any way you want in regards to how critically important the site is, the job is still shit and the pay equally so. Good luck with your search. 👍

I’m just quite surprised at the amount of glyphosate being readily sloshed about on a site of such high value, that’s alongside the toxic adjuvant required to help the glyphosate take to the glossy leaved target, two hour drying time after application if I remember right, in an area obvious known for high rainfall.

I was thinking that there was some kind of ‘Jurassic Park’ like Brazilian Rainforest in Scotland that I had somehow never heard of. But it just looks like a wetter version of the majority of woodlands in and around the UK, and ravaged with Rhododendron ponticum just like them.

Since when did Scotland have Rainforest?

The drop down visor is fine in the tree, but you can’t use them for ground based training/assessments, you need a full face visor.

Yes, they are still there, although they lose one every now and then.

I have it in just about everything, especially Mexican dishes. I have to grow it here as it’s not in favour with the French pallet and hard to source.

Had a go on the Husqvarna x Skylotec powered ascender at a Summer Arb competition here in France. The sales guy was trying to impress how useful it was for getting kit in and out of the tree, lowering saws for refuelling blah, blah, he had never done a days climbing in his life. I could see some occasional benefits, carrying up large volumes of bracing gear for instance, but how many times a year are you bracing huge tree crowns? How many times a year are you lowering 661’s up and down 150m trees for refuelling? It could be remotely controlled from the ground, so an injured climber with a damaged line ‘may’ be able to access the device and clip on for rescue. Best part if 5 grand too if I remember, I bought a gravel bike instead.

There are some incredible cheeses here, even in a standard supermarket the range is enormous, and you can even get proper Cheddar there now. Go to a farmers market and the quality and range hits another level. Before Christmas I bought a full round of Camembert that had been sliced into two discs, a layer of black truffle shavings had been added, then put back together for a month. Result, truffle infused Camembert👍