Pauls Spanish Arb Thread

[Albedo]

First retrieval attempt – put in a photo machine and it says – card shagged, so no luck as yet.

 

Thanks for putting some pictures in Yve, that shows what I mean about the olives, and yours is a more spectacular example than any I had anyway.

 

There were also Oranges and Lemons full of their second fruiting in February. Everyone has some fruit trees so you just pick em straight off the tree in the morning’s (orange juice) and the lemons in the evening for the G&T, from the G&T trees

 

To answer your q’s Dave.

Yip orgiva is about an hour south of Granada, in southern Sierra Nevada, known as Alpujarras

 

They were just doing all the quite small street trees while I was there, so step ladder into crown, stand in crown and pollard 360 degrees (no PPE, rope etc). Little red chainsaw possibly an echo. Species, don’t know, only bark and form to go on, Not prunus, poss sorbus ?

 

It was council carrying out the work, so quite like here really. (couldn't resist) They put the trimmings in skips, no local chipper technology available.

 

They were leaving stubs about a foot long, not cut to nodes, and about 3-4 inch diameter, cutting regrowth about 8-9 feet long. The stubs had tears, but where cut right back, they weren’t flush cutting and were doing quite decent pruning cuts.

 

Also used silkie saws, no axes this time but I know the old boys still use small axes for pruning olives, and younger people use silkies.

 

Olives are normally butchered, when being reduced from overgrown to bring em back so to speak. They take any kind of brutal treatment. I did have photos to show this.

 

Some massive euckys we took down about seven years ago when I lived there, (I was told) had vega sized regrowth from stumps. A vega is a roofing beam. Couldn’t go see as track washed out by floods, and had lost the camera by then anyway. Lots of landslides going on, with very big boulders involved, so quite scary at times.

 

 

Treeworld, sounds like you had a good time in spain, I rate the spanish very highly too, very tranquilo folk they are.

[David Humphries]

Cheers Paul

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Yve_Clark]

Paul, just been chatting to our photographer and James (our IT geek) and it may not be the end of the world as far as your SD card is concerned. There are a couple of options that might be of interest to allow you to get the images from the card. One would be specialised software (I can get you the details of this if you are interested) and the other is to send the SD card to a data retrieval company. James has a couple of mates who run www.kingdomit.co.uk. They've been able to retrieve data from a laptop that fell in the sea, so hopefully your SD card should be a piece of cake for them. Hope this is of help

[Stephen Blair]

I have some old mobile phones eve with pics and videos in them, it was before i knew you could put them on a computer maybe, 5 years or so ago. Could you ask your friend if these could be retrieved, i hate losing pics and i love finding old ones:thumbup1:

[Yve_Clark]

I have some old mobile phones eve with pics and videos in them, it was before i knew you could put them on a computer maybe, 5 years or so ago. Could you ask your friend if these could be retrieved, i hate losing pics and i love finding old ones:thumbup1:

 

I'm sure they will be able to extract the data and put it on a storage device for you. Their tel no. is 0131 208 0008, ask for Jason or Aynsley. Good luck

 

(Sorry Paul, your thread is fast becoming a geek's thread......back to the trees....)

[Mark Bolam]

Nice one Yve.

 

Paul - sounds mucho cool mate - any pics?

 

Sounds like the rain in Spain is falling all over the shop at the mo!

[Albedo]

Thanks very much for going to the effort to post the info yve, will chase it up at some point soon. Had to start doin phone calls, quotes, sharpening things etc and get work head on yesterday. Photo's on back burner for now.

 

I only really posted this thread, to say I tried, so to speak, so I'm amazed that thru the arbtalk forum magic, that some usefulness has come out of it, from your contributions, giving us what has to be a very useful contact for data retrieval from trashed cameras computers etc. Tree surgeons are very good at breaking this type of kit, so hopefully lots of people will find it useful:thumbup1:

[White Noise]

Thanks very much for going to the effort to post the info yve, will chase it up at some point soon. Had to start doin phone calls, quotes, sharpening things etc and get work head on yesterday. Photo's on back burner for now.

 

I only really posted this thread, to say I tried, so to speak, so I'm amazed that thru the arbtalk forum magic, that some usefulness has come out of it, from your contributions, giving us what has to be a very useful contact for data retrieval from trashed cameras computers etc. Tree surgeons are very good at breaking this type of kit, so hopefully lots of people will find it useful:thumbup1:

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Photos photos

 

i agree! get them on here pronto!