Steve Bullman

Tip reduction on an oak tree..wasn't much fun at my age! [ATTACH]190831[/ATTACH]

Takedowns, big take downs with no targets, where you can experiment with cuts, attempting to make massive sections go places where they aren't meant to. Anything else is just the same old tedious job these days

The guy who came on our site did say that he had no issues at all with the traffic management we had set out

e-cig ponce

roll on startvember!

you will be. I plan on living till at least 50

quite!

Lets wait 10 years shall we and see what the researchers say then?

well he did invite me, im considering it

void, im never in the mewp, always the shmuck in the tree

and i'm just a freelance climber, nothing to do with me this sort of stuff

Mine generally involve ladies, not trees. Am I missing out?

what? i pay £16 for my packs, where do you get these bumper packs nicotinell from?

mince off down to tescos and buy some more

Deforestation and climate change contribute to child deaths in the African drylands, TREE AID charity warns A child dies every two minutes from hunger and malnutrition in the isolated African drylands , an international development charity warns today, as it launches an appeal to help 32,000 families. Climate change & deforestation, has left vast swathes of the region lacking the right conditions to grow food for local communities – leaving many to go hungry. For several months each year in the drylands, known as the “hungry months”, food is so scarce that people eat only once a day, or sometimes not at all. Globally hunger and malnutrition has been identified as the number one risk to health – a greater risk than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined . Now, respected international development charity TREE AID has calculated that tragically hunger and malnutrition kills a child every two minutes in the drylands. The charity is launching an urgent campaign to help 32,000 people get the skills they need to grow trees in the region. The trees can be harvested by the local people for food, such as nuts, fruit and seeds, to eat and to take to market in order to earn extra income for their families. In the drylands “weather extremes” such as drought and flooding make harvests unpredictable and there are few opportunities to earn extra income for the family. Native tree species are perfectly adapted to these extremes and carry on producing food, even when other crops fail. Jamila Mustafa, mother of six from Northern Ghana says: “There are days that I cannot eat at all, because I want to be able to give my children something. I work hard but I can’t ever be sure of having enough food to feed my children. I am keen to learn new skills, make money and save so that I will have something to fall back on next time the hungry months come.” The charity is urging people from around the UK to donate money, and help ‘grow hope’ for 32,000 families in the drylands – giving them the tools they need to lift themselves out of extreme poverty. TREE AID CEO John Moffett comments: “Trees are vital to local communities, providing nutritious food, improved soil fertility and valuable produce on which the whole family can rely. They are a sustainable solution to lifting families out of hunger and extreme poverty. “We are urging people from around the UK to help us ‘grow hope’ for families and permanently build a better future for their communities.” To help families like Jamila’s please donate now to the Grow Hope appeal. http://www.treeaid.org.uk

i'm in, downloaded the app. I'm a bit of an on off smoker but really need to get off them for good. Outright refuse to use one of those poncy e cigarettes

ouch indeed, looks sore

Must have been a dream!

well as the guy explained it, its more of a notification than anything else.

hmmm I didn't read that bit. The guy who pulled up yesterday said there was no charge unless I heard wrong

This may not be news to some of you, but it was to me. Today we were reducing an Oak tree, I was in the tree doing one side and someone else was doing the other side from a mewp which was parked on the roadside. This was a typical town side road, not very busy, and the whole area was coned and signed as it should be. About 2pm a guy wearing an orange high vis turned up on site from the highways department and informed us that you need to apply for a license to use a mewp on the highways, comes under the same regulation as scaffolding etc. He let us carry on working regardless but informed us how to go about getting the license for future works. It doesn't cost anything and takes just 2 days to come through, the link below is for suffolk highways but I assume this is a nationwide rule. Apply for a crane licence | Suffolk County Council Just a heads up!

Not much hope with attitudes out there like that is there

Well done Andy

The only fault i see with the Zillon is that its only availabl as a complete unit along with the line that petzl supply, which is just too think to the get most out of it

Please clarify OP...im curious too