Air spade

[sawman]

Hi all,does anyone know of any training available for using the Air spade? I'm interested in buying one as ive been approached by a client asking for soil decompaction and some root collar inspections.Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Colin

[David Humphries]

Hello Colin,

 

I've never really come across any specific training as yet.

 

Have come across occasional demonstrations at the trade fairs & seminars.

Which are what has informed my/our usage of the Airspade as a tool.

 

Where are you based, do you have access to the trade fairs & seminars ?

 

Andrew Cowan at Rhizoecology has been a very useful guide for us, may be worth a call

 

 

 

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[treesnakey]

BTS Group: Utility Arb ? DPL ? Fleet ? ART ? Training they do it

[sawman]

Thanks David and Treesnakey. David we are based near Taunton in Somerset and yes i can attend seminars but have only recently thought of moving into this area of work so have not being paying attention to past ones. I had a look at Andrews website and found it very interesting although he talks of using a Airknife is this a different tool? It appears as if this area of work is still in its infancy and probably a lot would be learnt from careful experimental work. Colin

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thanks David and Treesnakey. David we are based near Taunton in Somerset and yes i can attend seminars but have only recently thought of moving into this area of work so have not being paying attention to past ones. I had a look at Andrews website and found it very interesting although he talks of using a Airknife is this a different tool? It appears as if this area of work is still in its infancy and probably a lot would be learnt from careful experimental work. Colin

 

 

well done for being open minded and enterprising enough to see the potential, the future will see this a bog standard tool, also look at glynn percivals work on armillaria control using the airspade and a 50/50 sand perlite mix at the root collar.

[Arbocop]

Hi saw man

 

Hope this finds you well, we import the air spade and as part of that we do offer a very basic one day cource that covers a little marketing, a little science and a little supervised use.

 

in august the scotish branch of the AA are having an event that is looking at plant health in the morning and in the afternoon glyn and i are doing some air spade stuff, as its an aa thing we wi also be doing som imbarisingly good deals on air spade kits!!!

 

but why not jump on a plane and have an excuse to come to the fc scotland!!

 

paul hanson scotish branch will be able to give you loads of info.

 

failing that give me a call

 

cheers

 

kev

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Bartlett Tree Experts: Resource Library PDFs

 

looking through this for other reasons but sure youll find some of the relevent stuff to airspade here too

[sawman]

Thanks Hamadryad plenty of info there. I think being able to work with the roots of trees is is one of the most interesting developments of moderd arb, due to the fact that they are the hardest parts to access. Kev, Scotlands def a bit of a stretch from here. Ive just dicovered there is another firm not too far from me so i think i'll contact them and see what info i might beable to gain.

Cheers Colin:thumbup1: