Unqualified chainsaw users

[Mark Bolam]

Stuff like this used to bother me when I first started up, but I quickly realised that the sort of people who would even think about engaging the services of half-price Harry aren't the sort of people I want as customers.

[Paul in the woods]

Going back to the original posts I've also seen fully trained arb companies make the same mistakes. Dropping trees across an open road, having half a dozen people pull a tree over rather than get the felling cut right etc.

 

I'd also be careful what you wish for with licences. Would you also be happy to take points on yours if you get something wrong? What happens if you get a six month ban?

 

Or perhaps it would work like a FAC, sorry sir you already have one top handle you don't need another. (Oh yes I do, ones for every day use, ones for classic tree topping).

[Paddy1000111]

16 minutes ago, Paul in the woods said:

Going back to the original posts I've also seen fully trained arb companies make the same mistakes. Dropping trees across an open road, having half a dozen people pull a tree over rather than get the felling cut right etc.

 

I'd also be careful what you wish for with licences. Would you also be happy to take points on yours if you get something wrong? What happens if you get a six month ban?

 

Or perhaps it would work like a FAC, sorry sir you already have one top handle you don't need another. (Oh yes I do, ones for every day use, ones for classic tree topping).

I don't know where the licencing thing came in. I just meant that there should be rules about what size of tree you can fell and where without any training or knowledge.  You should be allowed to fell a tree on your own property like an apple tree or something but when you're putting other people at immediate risk by felling a tree on a boundary or into a road its a different kettle of fish. Bit like electrics, you can put a new plug on yourself as its after the protection device but if you want to make a new circuit it has to be a trained professional. How many videos have you seen of someone felling a tree into their or their neighbours house or the ones where someone fells a tree and it just misses some traffic or someone on a bike. Plus if there was a ruling that came in like that, it would mean more work for everyone here... 

[Khriss]

Gone into the realms of 2Rope now,  do recall from my shooting era that yr pretty much have  ' a right to a shotgun'  on yr land, but have to 'demonstrate a need for a Rifle' . (  after seeing the damage my Parker Hale did to two slabs of kitchen worktop with a soft nosed round, i know why  ?) K

[Moose McAlpine]

11 hours ago, Khriss said:

Started already... Wot a suprise  ?  he is in the right thread anyway.  

 

Just to recap, you do not need qualifications to use a chainsaw on your own property ( or wear safety gear ) . If you work on someone elses property and / or for money, Health & Safety @ Work 1974 Act applies, and as it is an Act, a criminal prosecution can apply. K

 

Bloody hell, don't say that. I'll probably get locked up now knowing my luck!

 

8 hours ago, Stubby said:

What about pointed sticks ?

[Kent Arboreal]

People will always have a go. My father in law told me the story of how he connected his consumer unit to the mains by wearing a pair of marigolds as insulation and telling the mother in law to stand behind him with a wooden broom to prise him off if he cocked up and started to cook himself.

Priced a job a few years ago to remove a large limb from a willow, but they turned it down on account of the price. I know a guy who lives by that particular tree, apparently they had a few quotes but weren’t happy with the cost so the guy bought himself a plug in black and decker saw from b and q, climbed it on a ladder and sat on the limb and started cutting it about a foot from the trunk. The limb was about 20 foot long and give or take 24 inch diameter. He didn’t take any compression out the bottom, not that it would have made any difference given where he’d decided to start cutting. He got about halfway through then it split knocked his saw out of his hands broke in the middle then swing round on what was left of the fibres and knocked his ladder over. Then he hopped down, got the ladder and saw and cut the rest off from that. Bark was stripped all the way from where it snapped to the ground about a foot wide strip. Apparently he genuinely thought he’d done a good job of it too.

[David Cropper]

On 29/11/2020 at 19:28, Paddy1000111 said:

I give up. Never came here to upset anyone... 

Why? Every other bugger does!

[David Cropper]

On 30/11/2020 at 18:16, Khriss said:

Gone into the realms of 2Rope now,  do recall from my shooting era that yr pretty much have  ' a right to a shotgun'  on yr land, but have to 'demonstrate a need for a Rifle' . (  after seeing the damage my Parker Hale did to two slabs of kitchen worktop with a soft nosed round, i know why  ?) K

What harm did the worktop slabs do to you? Were you shooting at the wife and missed? 

[Khriss]

22 minutes ago, David Cropper said:

What harm did the worktop slabs do to you? Were you shooting at the wife and missed? 

Dont be silly, couldnt miss a target that big!  Was interested to see exit hole  size..... Abt as big as my head on the rear layer   ? K

[Paddy1000111]

Another one I remember. An ash branch over a driveway. The guy was a close friend and I offered to remove it for free the next weekend and have a beer after (climb up 10ft and cut it off. it was about 14" across) Obviously he wanted to prove he could do it himself so parked the 4x4 next to it, got on the roof and cut it off. Swang into the 4x4 (amazingly not smashing it up) and put a 1" split down the main trunk. The final pruning cut was so flush to the tree it looked like it had been carved in. ? He was very pleased with himself though.