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Big old red cedar. I counted 100 growth rings. I got to keep the timber, might make a table.

Spruce reductions, if you can call it that.

Can't kill a 1.9 octavia

Bought this 2015 vw transporter for €12,000 on thursday. The 08 skoda octavia was starting to look a bit beaten up after being used as a work van since November. I was regularly pulling a 1350kg tracked wood chipper with it. Not ideal for a 1.9 litre car. My old work "van". The back...

There was a lot of timber in this one tree.

Ash removal. Who needs a tractor or a winch when you've got a beaten up 08 octavia?

Cedar reduction. Now they want us to come back and reduce it even more. Tree won't survive but they dont mind because they just want an ivy pole for their bees and the house left safe.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/405634075501 Is this still genuine oem 661 full wrap handle. My friend wants to buy it for his saw and noticed there's no white piece where the handle connects to the side of the saw. I looked at pics of 661s with full wrap handles and they all had the white...

Okay, heres a story for you. We did those two jobs on the same day. One for some American blow-ins good half hour down the road and the other for some locals right beside me. We only finished off the job for the Americans today. The priority was to get the trees on the ground, not to cut...

Beech

Sycamore

Before and after. We just used the chipper as a tractor to pull big pieces down

We have been working through some big macrocarpas this week. I hate them. Dog ignorant trees, very heavy timber and the branches are covered in little round cones that catch onto each other. Nothing ever hits the ground. These trees were planted in 1967. 70 feet tall and a good 4 foot...

Yeah, I should have told him that but I thought he knew 🤷‍♂️

Not easily. There's a UK website that sells Oregon skip chain per drive link. However, if you use this website you have to order from the country you want the product shipped to. This doesn't work for me. If I order from my address here in Ireland it means I have to have it shipped here to...