Pete Mctree
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John and Greenworx in Darlington
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There is a roto in Richmond, a sennebogan and a jekko in Darlington and plenty of 14ton tracked machines with grapple saws all over
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Rotos are much faster than a conventional stick boom, especially when slewing- they are a material handler primarily. There lift chart is often significantly better too.
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My Hobbs has been a great investment. It’s paid for many times over, so I am not worried when it lies idle for weeks at a time. I would like a harken winch like the one on the GRCS to lift limbs - this is possible with the Hobbs, but painfully slow and with no fairleed requires an extra man. I find it difficult to compare the devices as they excel in fundamentally different rigging tasks
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222kg
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It’s always been an issue - never better, never worse. One tip I will share for stopping pedestrians is the magic branch. Put up a barrier, string some tape across and they will snap it, however if you put a reasonable sized branch or two in front of said barrier 9 times out of 10 it will stop them in there tracks. The simple fact is that the lazy retards do not like lifting there feet and stepping over stuff - just try it, you will see what I mean
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I have heard some positive things about that device, although I have never seen one in person - it was developed jointly by the inventors of the unicender and the akimbo, quite a pedigree
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Great story and how treework was done . I am not ashamed to say I still melt a couple of hundred metres of polyprop every year.
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The safe bloc is a great tool to have in the box. Really shines when you have difficulty accessing the base of the tree to attach a device. Rigging, like most things in tree work, is often limited by our imagination/common sense or lack of.
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Washing line for the win 👍
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Gloves are a massive help - reduce blisters and fatigue. As is a foot ascender Your hands get used to the abuse after a while, or learn to climb Srt
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If you want a greater freedom of expression and speech I suggest a move to China. Starmer is not a positive for either. I am in no doubt that he will shut anything down that he cannot control
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Poor security on the machines and built in obsolescence all work for the manufacturers. Piss poor border controls mean that they disappear sharpish too. Without a fundamental change in policy towards theft and border security nothing is going to change.
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Deodar thinning, are we getting it wrong?
Pete Mctree replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Tree health care
I have seen quite a few branch failures due to pruning - mainly heavy thinning or lions tailing. It does change how a branch moves and dissipates energy which leads to all sorts of issues. Never really associated deadwooding with failure, thats a good piece of observation -
Clearance not appearance as the utility boys used to say. He actually explains/justifies the retention of the rest of the tree at the end. When I work in the woods we often are asked to leave or create stems for habitat. It’s good practice here in the UK
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Pricing standing Ash some with Ash die back.
Pete Mctree replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
It is definitely not for beginners. I have spent today felling ash on quite a steep site and it’s not fun. A few big limbs came flying back at me and the first of these two trees split up to 20ft - real barbers chair. About 18 inches at the stump and cut with a dogs tooth, I could have done nothing different. In contrast, the next tree behaved perfectly
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Good day at the office. Brought a Merlo-roto in to make things much easier.
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You are showing your complete lack of experience. No one puts one in the truck every day, however when you do, they earn some good money. There is a,world beyond polyprop and a prussic
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SafeContractor and other SSIP nonsense in general??
Pete Mctree replied to Domino's topic in General chat
Do you have to cut a sleeve off your hi-vis hoody and put a couple of eye holes in it, to make a balaclava before you go pricing ? 😂 -
Terminology will not help. I talk about stump grinding, not removal. Go to site, have a dig about and see if there is anything left. If not present the option of small claims or payment. Don’t take it personally and explain that they should not if you take them to court - it’s just business
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There was something to be said for it. Simpler times
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This is worrying- I run 2 pickups, both double cabs. One dedicated to the business, the other probably used 3 days a week at work and also doubles as our car. Due to where I live, I don’t really have an option other than running 4x4’s. In tandem with all the other cost increases, I am not sure how long running small businesses will be viable
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I am not a fan - ideology above common sense. The sooner they get booted out the better - not that there is a viable alternative. The Tory model was seriously flawed and there reckless unfounded spending and wastage is going to hurt whoever is in power. The current UK annual debt interest repayment alone is expected to be 89 billion for the year 24-25. We are fecked and will be a poor country for many, many years, thanks to the overspending of the last 20 years
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Is it worth running a 12inch + chipper for large domestic / Commercial
Pete Mctree replied to Clutchy's topic in General chat
Chip more volume in a fraction of the time- does not get any better ! -
I had just finished renovating my old house when this place started. Very different crowd now and few of the old members are still here, which is sad in some ways.
