this weeks job

[David Humphries]

Luvverly job, was there anything wrong with the tree? (before you started that is)

 

Nice to hear someone else asking 'the' question for a change.

 

In the interest of a balanced report on any posted job, there's a good few of us that would like the background as well as the juicy pictures, plus imo, more of the membership owe it to the industry & themselves to ask why a tree is being removed. How can we keep a dynamic going in the rank & file of Arboriculture if it's always just about the choppy chop. It's a big part of it for sure, but the aspiration to learn about what it is that's putting the food on our table is the very least our profession deserves.

 

Not aimed at you Matty, more a generalisation based on watching posts over the last couple of years or more.

 

Lets get the brethren talking about trees & their place in & out of the Landscape, not just watching the destruction bit.

 

So what was it then, owner want to build a cheese smoker in it's place ?

 

 

Looked like a satisfying mouthfull that one Matty, nice work

 

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Edited November 21, 2009 by Monkey-D

[MattyF]

sorry dave i posted this early in the morning after some drunken **** woke me out side my house so thought id post this after about my fifth attempt for some reason every time i posted arb talk broke the link so i put it down simply and with juicy pics because i got bored of writting out the same essay with the frustration of nothing happening!

 

Like i said to peters reply the tree was just over mature to close to his house full of defects plus its about 20 metres from a lake and under the water table he seems to be losing a lot of trees down to wind throw any way i would not of felled it,but its not my call i just quoted and won so i got on with it.....im glad a stump was left and i hope it regenerates in to some gnarly mess that looks good in a few years and provides some habitat for wild life...

[David Humphries]

Au contraire, mon frère, appologies to your goodself.

I posted before I had seen your reply to Peter.

 

 

 

 

 

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[benwrdn]

looks like a nice job:001_cool:

[White Noise]

Nice work there Matt .

[Mozza]

Nice job, As said before, they come up that big too often

[MattyF]

Au contraire, mon frère, appologies to your goodself.

I posted before I had seen your reply to Peter.

 

 

 

 

 

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nothing to appologise for!!

 

They sure dont come up that often ,not sure if thats a good or bad thing but i was glad when it was over as i was looking forward to it but the weather just put a downer on it and stress with money worries and people hassling us to get stuff done just meant i had to grin and bear the wind wich in the end is not going to make me forget the job but we had a good laugh in the pub friday when it was dusted about it !

[jojam]

Good job,at least you saved a bit of time an effort by leaving a monolith.You prob needed a pint or too right enough,i would after 4 days on the same tree.

[theXman]

started on tues day so 4 days... two days with 3 of us the other two just me and lewi , I spent more time on the ground clearing up than climbing for sure!

 

WOW! I've never been more than two days on a single tree! That's nuts.

 

I was suprized to see someone say they like to spend more than one day on a tree. I hate more than one day on a tree.

 

Seems like the equipment on the ground is a little smaller than here in the states, so maybe that's why a big tree takes so long...

 

But I did notice some of the peices taken seemed to look a bit small for lowering on such a large tree. I hope I'm not being too "macho" here. It's just what I thought when I viewed the pictures.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I was suprized to see someone say they like to spend more than one day on a tree. I hate more than one day on a tree.

 

Seems like the equipment on the ground is a little smaller than here in the states, so maybe that's why a big tree takes so long...

 

 

I'd prefer to stay on a TD all week rather than doing two or three small jobs a day, having to setup and clean up three times a day and most of the time switching between jobs in your lunch or tea breaks to save time.

 

Much better to have a big 2 or 3 day job with one lot of clearing up, equipment can stay on site and have proper tea and lunch breaks, less fuel used, only one customer to deal with.

 

Most jobs over here have tight access where no big machinery can get in so jobs tend to take longer anyway, 8 out 10 of my jobs you wouldn't be able to use a power barrow to take out timber simply because of poor access, sloping, stepped or terraced gardens or they have built an extension to the house where access used to be

 

Nearly all my jobs the timber rings have to be carried out manually.