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I take it the client owns a lot of hats? :lol:

Can't call them Nipples, that has sexual connotations and might cause repressed males to break the bounds of decency and start engaging in rampant intercourse with your machinery.

I like to keep the stumpy clean of excess grease, it just attracts dust otherwise. Not really a problem on the bearings, as the new grease pushes out the dirt, but on the nipples the dirt gets pushed in with the new grease.

More reinforcing is just moving the failure point up the boom. Must have been a major overload to cause that?!

Great for milling and turning, but has to be winter felled. Traditionally used for butchers blocks, it has natural anti bacterial properties.

Different species Ray. Your sycamore is Platanus occidentalis, ours is Acer psuedoplatanus

Yup, wheel nut indicators. If you dont have them the early warning sign is usually a little spray of rust around the loosened nut. Shortly followed by the wheel falling off.

Because you can't move as fast from a kneeling start. I've been clobbered by a big hanger while felling, they can come at you like an express train. Seconds or fractions of a second can make the difference between being hit and avoiding it. Think like a boxer, on your toes, moving like a butterfly.

I was hoping for something to mill out of that, but 'twas not to be. No evidence of any fungus in terms of fruiting bodies etc.

Dropped a fat old oak this morning.

Took one big limb off the Sycamore (left of the group), reduced the height by about 2 metres and spread about the same. Thinned the limes a little, they get very congested, and lifted the a little too. Wouldn't call 2 metres off an 18 metre tree a hard reduction personally? I guess with the...

I'll add it to the list of woes.

A rare day I remembered to take before and afters.

I loves me a Leyland! 50 cube of chip off site so far, and he's keeping all the timber! About 15 ton in the main stack, hope he's got a big wood burner!

Flopped some uglies in close quarters today, nasty bark inclusions and splits, mostly heavily back/side weighted. Last pic is some dirty hinge porn for Jed, but it might be just too nasty! :lol:

Damn straight, especially if they are walking round the tree and you can follow them with the bar. I like to do it while chogging down stems.

Ideally blue polyprop.

Not had a 90 tonner, the biggest I've used is 75, that was about £1k for 8 hours.

Repairing the broken lines. :lol:

Time lapse my brother made with his phone. https://youtu.be/4AbZo9-8F1s <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4AbZo9-8F1s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>