the 'todays job' thread

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

22 minutes ago, tree-fancier123 said:

do you think there is anything to the seasonality of pruning, where if at all possible hard pruning in autumn is to be avoided due to all the fungal spores being released? People have to fill their diaries and earn money, but it strikes me that September, early October would be the absolute worst time of year if given a  choice. I suppose if the customer is unaware it doesn't matter, if the wounds do attract gano etc, it may be decade or more before it caves in, by which time the 'arborist' may have paid off his/her mortgage and retired

The customer wanted it done now apparantley it was done 5 years ago same time of year so I made a gap to fit him in and get it rattled off 

 

Jack 

[Rich Rule]

15 minutes ago, Jwoodgardenmaintenance said:

I've got to go back in a month or so anyway as once I was nearly finished I found a nest with chicks in so cut around it and said I'll come back when there gone so ill tidy it up then tbf I thought it looked fair tidy compared to what it was it was a quick job for a good wage started a 8: 30 was gone by 11:50 and only 1/2 load of waste it was all to the customers request he didn't want any more taken off that was perfect in his own words so I left it as he wanted it he pays at the end of the day so I can only do what they request 

 

Jack 

To an extent I hear you but on the other hand...  you are meant to be a professional.  

 

Meet the customers requirements with correct work.

 

Pruning cuts and target pruning and not just wanging a saw through the regrowth and leaving a two inch stub with an angle.

[Paul Cleaver]

17 hours ago, tree-fancier123 said:

do you think there is anything to the seasonality of pruning, where if at all possible hard pruning in autumn is to be avoided due to all the fungal spores being released? People have to fill their diaries and earn money, but it strikes me that September, early October would be the absolute worst time of year if given a  choice. I suppose if the customer is unaware it doesn't matter, if the wounds do attract gano etc, it may be decade or more before it caves in, by which time the 'arborist' may have paid off his/her mortgage and retired

Are the wounds not open to fungal infection for up to 2 yrs? If so then perhaps not so important . The thinking on this may have changed now as this info was dredged from the vaults of my aging temporal lobes.  

Edited October 6, 2019 by Paul Cleaver
spelt vaults wrong - dam it

[Joe Newton]

1 hour ago, Rich Rule said:

To an extent I hear you but on the other hand...  you are meant to be a professional.  

 

Meet the customers requirements with correct work.

 

Pruning cuts and target pruning and not just wanging a saw through the regrowth and leaving a two inch stub with an angle.

To be fair if you're that bothered about the wellbeing of your trees you probably won't ask the local driveway guy to quote for the work. 

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

19 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

To be fair if you're that bothered about the wellbeing of your trees you probably won't ask the local driveway guy to quote for the work. 

I do all aspects of groundworks construction demolition landscaping and property maintenance as well as general garden maintenance 

 

Jack 

[tree-fancier123]

1 hour ago, Paul Cleaver said:

Are the wounds not open to fungal infection for up to 2 yrs? If so then perhaps not so important . The thinking on this may have changed now as this info was dredged from the volts of my aging temporal lobes.  

I haven't read all the latest research  - so I don't know. Back in 1993(AA research note) Lonsdale was a bit anti autumn pruning

'Despite the complexity of the seasonal changes, it can be predicted that, contrary to tradition,

autumn is a bad time to prune trees. Components of the tree’s defences that depend on cell growth

are clearly less effective than in the growing season. Also, wood moisture is at its lowest in many

species in autumn. A high moisture content in wood equates with low oxygen content which limits

the activity of decay fungi, even though some can survive such conditions. Finally, autumn is the

time when a high proportion of decay fungi are releasing their spores'

Interested in the latest, if anyone can recommend an article or review @EdwardC

@Gary Prentice

[Mick Dempsey]

Something a bit meatier than usual, a few days clearing some red oaks and hornbeam in readiness for a house build by a lake.

[AJStrees]

16 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Something a bit meatier than usual, a few days clearing some red oaks and hornbeam in readiness for a house build by a lake.

Nice job! What model of multione are you using and what attachments?

[Mick Dempsey]

9 minutes ago, AJStrees said:

Nice job! What model of multione are you using and what attachments?

8.4s with a grapple (knockabout not powered rotator) plus I have a silage grab, log splitter, flail and bucket.

[Rich Rule]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Something a bit meatier than usual, a few days clearing some red oaks and hornbeam in readiness for a house build by a lake.

Nice Mick.  What’s the chipper you got going on there?