Open top bus highways prunning

[arb culture]

Sounds like a few of you have seen arbs pruning trees from a bus.

 

Unfortunately the bus I saw used in-house guys from the bus company, they weren't arbs at all.

 

I think all the work was done with bowsaws - which I'm thankful for. I dread to think what a mess they would have made if they'd got their hands on chainsaws.

[penfold]

i think leeds city council have one as i've seen it coming out of their depot near me. bright yellow with all the proper signing on it.

[Foord]

Our highways dept. got one for the contractors doing the access roads into the Ryder Cup a few months ago.

[PeteB]

Terry Pope in the Swindon area used to have a contract for that and I believed that the bus was supplied for the job!

[Mark Bolam]

Mate of mine cut through a powerline whilst working on one of these.

 

Luckily he was unharmed. Apparently he was a poor conductor.

 

Boom boom!

[Simon Rotheram]

Never seen it round here, can see the benefits - canteen downstairs, roofed area to shelter from the rain, you could maybe get a couple of fares on the way to the job too!

 

We used a genie which works just as well but requires traffic management - are you sure they dont need TM Rupe? surely they stop at very tree?

 

There is one on fleabay if anyone is thinking of having a go...

 

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[scbk]

I seen one once when I was down in the south of England, last year I think it was. Must've been Sussex or somehwere Brighton direction.

Was a bright yellow open top double decker with all this warning tree cutting sign writing. I think it was a council not a contractor

[MasterBlaster]

Trimming from a bus? I bet they make some pretty cuts!

[Frank]

Council use them near us. The whole point of it is to trim back trees that would get hit by a bus on the route. Bloomin good idea really.

[ben lightfoot]

a company uses them in hampshire, make really good cuts from the top deck especially with top handled saws:thumbdown: