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  1. Andy Collins
    Absolutely gutting!
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  3. Andy Collins
    Personally, a brief, to the point CV would be enough, I dont want to trawl through 100 CVs which are full life stories.
  4. Andy Collins
    The tenant has to agree to you having access to carry out the work, and he could refuse as its his home, but as i said, its down to the landlord (council) to carry out the negotiations. I'd be annoyed to find someone in my garden without prior arrangement, and I would ask them to pre-book with me for a more convenient time.
  5. Andy Collins
    In my tenancy agreement, all trees on council property land belong to the council, as owners they have Duty of care to other properties/people, and to the structure/safety of their houses. So I would say its up to the Council landlords to negotiate with the tenant
  6. Andy Collins
    Tongs would be fine to start, though not essential all the time. I'd build up a comprehensive toolkit, dearer than it sounds, for in the woods. Files of all sizes you need, flat file, bar grove cleaner, spare plug, sprocket, starter cord and other quick fix essentials. One of those combi tools that Jones do is handy too. A whistle (pea-less), personal 1st Aid kit, safety glasses.
  7. Andy Collins
    Not too shabby, and the 500,000 poster was..................?
  8. Andy Collins
    Reminds me of someone i heard of doing similar, he was told to tie himself and the ladder, so he tied himself to the ladder
  9. Andy Collins
    So cool its sub-zero!
  10. Andy Collins
    Oh I'm always popping over to check on things, keep on eye on all the plantings, check up on the vet Oaks and Chestnuts around the park and so on, and I should be getting another load of Rhodies to plant sometime soon, more of the Yamazukikawasaki strain (well I cant remember the name at this time of night). There is always something to do there, I'll have to pop in and brief the gardener on watering on Thursday, so he shares the load, the client waters at weekends.
  11. Andy Collins
    Today....the final assault. Rotovate the bed, dig in the dwarf pines, transplant the viburnum, top dress with soil improver. Then re-locate the Cornus kousa to its new home. Many thanks to the digger driver Glenn for all his help and assistance over the last couple of days, I may have struggled a little without him I'm happy with the result, these have been the biggest trees to date I've had to handle, now we just have to keep them alive somehow!
  12. Andy Collins
    The other plants look good, bar a touch of mildew here and there. Yhey have put on new growth well, flowered nicely (although they were in flower anyway) The large Cornus kousa suffered with the hot winds, but has started to re-hydrate well, but thats one plant that needs re-locating tomorrow, so I'll probably kill it now:001_rolleyes: All in all, things looking well considering the heat when they were shipped in and hoofed about.
  13. Andy Collins
    Isnt finished yet, 5 Dwarf P syvestris to put in tomorrow, then tidy and top dress the plot, then a couple of other large plants to re-locate elsewhere.
  14. Andy Collins
    The quad came into its own back-filling while the Volvo held the trees in place, and moving soil around to make it easier for Glenn on the digger to get it around the trees without further scuffing.
  15. Andy Collins
    Ok, the hays been cut, the bales are outta there, so onwards and upwards transplanting the trees to their final resting place. If you remember, the idea is to create an island in the field, partly to obscure a building across the way. got in my regular digger driving demon to give me a hand. Today, prepared and moved in the 3 pines, moved all the dwarf pines across the "estate" in preparation for tomorrow.
  16. Andy Collins
    FFS James so annoying
  17. Andy Collins
    Excellent idea Justin, you sir, are a genius!
  18. Andy Collins
    Ours was reg as a recovery crane on purchase, but the restrictions on that are so prohibitive its a waste of time. Re-reg was simple and straight forward, as you can see from the pics its does do timber work!!
  19. Andy Collins
    I reckon we should have a stack of beers behind each team, if you pull back to the stack you win it, losing team gets none
  20. Andy Collins
    Our MJ is on Ag, limited mileage, no O licence.
  21. Andy Collins
    Its always useful to go on a training course, I was rigging for years before we went on a rigging course with Treevolution. It really opened my eyes to better techniques, safe working practices, understanding the physics of what you are doing. The fist thing we did when we got back from the course was binned all the ropes and old stuff we'd been using and seriously upgraded everything.
  22. Andy Collins
    hadnt considered him having those afflictions.....poor Dean
  23. Andy Collins
    Nice one Tommer
  24. Andy Collins
    Poor Old Dean, its downhill now, bless
  25. Andy Collins
    perhaps you guys could car share one day and make a trip to Clarks?

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