Pauls Spanish Arb Thread

[Albedo]

I was in Spain the last couple of weeks (Orgiva Alpujarras). And was on a mission to get loads of pics for you all.

 

The town I was in had people pollarding trees up ladders and hanging on with chainsaws etc, which I photographed.

 

Also ancient olives with amazing shapes, and general basic spanish pruning methods.

 

I was building up quite a nice lot of photos when I lost my camera. Went back next day to look for it and it was where I thought I lost it. We'd got the car bogged down in all the mud and rain and I had dropped it when pushing it out.

 

It spent the whole night underwater in one of our tyre ruts. The only positive being that it had clearly provided some traction which aided in getting the car unstuck.

 

So here endeth pauls spanish arb thread, just thought I'd let you know I tried.

[David Humphries]

Cheers paul, I nearly enjoyed it

 

 

 

 

 

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[Albedo]

:001_smile:Sorry Dave, perhaps I should have titled it differently. There's still hope as I have the card from it, which was very wet indeed. Got back late last night so haven't figured out retrieval technology just yet.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

sounds like you would have some good shots, we await the outcome!

[David Humphries]

Orgiva Alpujarras is Granada isn't it Paul?

Don't really know the area too well.

 

What species were they pollarding, do you know if it was for fodder or are you refering to street tree maintenance?

Neatish prunning wounds or tears?

I know you mention csaws, but did you see any Axe or hand saws being used for pollards?

 

 

 

Best of luck retreiving the shots, give 'Q' a call at MI6

 

 

 

Cheers

 

D

 

 

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[T14EES T14UNK]

:001_smile:Sorry Dave, perhaps I should have titled it differently. There's still hope as I have the card from it, which was very wet indeed. Got back late last night so haven't figured out retrieval technology just yet.

 

If its an SD card it should be fine. In the maldives I had a waterproof case for a Canon Ixus. One day I was a bit impatient putting the rubber ring on correctly to seal it and jumped in and started snapping away. Then whilst looking at the screen mid shot I thought 'whats that bubble doing there?' Half full WATERPROOF camera case with a weeks worth of honeymoon pics. And the rest of the week had no idea whether the card would be ok. But it was totally fine and still use it now.

[Treeworld]

I did a season pollarding all the london planes in Plentzia, a stunning fishing village on the Bizkaian coast. We used air powered secatuers, silkys and 200t's for the big stuff. all arisings were stacked in piles and later picked up by truck. I presume it went on to be used for something, after that I got invited to go and help with a gang who had a pear orchard to harvest it for 2 weeks. hard work but repeyed with great banter, black water(vino tinto), wild boar sardines for breakfast etc etc.

 

Very cool, I love the Spanish and in particular the Basques.

[Stephen Blair]

bad luck paul, i hope you get it fixed asap

[Yve_Clark]

Paul, I really hope you can get your SD card to work as it would be wonderful to see your photos. I'm just back from Mallorca and I was intrigued by the contorted shapes of the trees.

 

Hope you don't mind me cheekily posting some of my photos on your thread....it might give everyone a taster of what's, hopefully, to come from you

 

First three are of the ancient gnarled olive tree in Placa Cort, Palma (said to be quite a few centuries old, some are 800 years old).

 

Others are random snaps showing amazing texture and shape (and some little fun guys too).

 

Look forward to seeing your work

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Robert_S]

they are cool