Recent content by TheDarkLordChinChin

Trimmed a beech hedge back to have a slant. It looks bad now but when the new leaves come in April it should look great. I saw a massive red stag on my way home. Biggest land based mammal I've ever seen in the wild.

We were working for a professional photographer the last couple of days. They have a lot of trees and are slowly getting rid of them. Another case of "just cut it in half" Smile!

Some more butchery in waterlogged ground "I love my job, really" that's whitethorn, very spiky stuff. The one fun part of the day Lots of mushrooms out at the minute, found some cool ones at today's job site. Don't know about the first one but this second one is a boletus...

We had the first proper storm of the winter on Friday. I got a call about this on Saturday. Half the tree broke off and landed on the house. The chimney and ridge tiles got roughed up a bit but the house is fine otherwise. When we arrived today the builders had already cleared the...

Finally, someone who wants trees cut down and not topped. 3 spruce, 1 silver fir and one lawson cypress. I like using a humboldt when conditions allow. I pike how the butt of the log hits the ground first and then falls flat. As you can tell i didn't make any side cuts into the...

Fcuk yeah!

Back butchering more conifers. The customer is very happy 🙄🤷‍♂️💲💲

Yes I bought the kaaz pro for €1850. I like it but I've only used it for 2 hrs.

Tradition here is whatever is cheapest and fastest

I found some cool mushrooms.

Finally bit the bullet and boight a new mower. I'm sick of fixing the one I have and it only ever being half right. Plus it's 25 years old now. This new mower is pretty much the same but with a metal deck instead of plastic. I was going to buy a Honda 536 HRH but apparently these are more...

Big time. There's a spruce beetle in Scotland. No new timber lorries are allowed into the country from the UK in case they have this beetle on them.

It's common practice here unfortunately. Really, really frustrates me. Big time. Everyone has massive spruce, cedar, leyland cypress, lawson cypress and monterrey cypress trees planted around houses and yards and on boundary fences. They all want trees for "shelter" and privacy but they...

I agree, it looks god awful. Either I do the job and get paid or someone else does the exact same job and they get paid instead. Its a straight forward, easy, hazard free job compared to most of the work we do. The customer is easy to work for and loaded so it was easy to say yes to this job.

End of day one. 13 trees topped and processed. Before chipping. After chipping 14 inch bar was a bit small. More like it. View from the second last tree.