Mr Ed

That is an awsome picture Paul!

Rush - Tom sawyer [ame]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DFsBcVMDA[/ame]

Ok, I post the first track, then you have to link it by artist or title to another track of your choice... Easy peasy I'll kick it off with Cocteau Twins, Heaven or las vegas- [ame]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dtBr5JKSuks[/ame]

In all honesty, there is'nt a sngle treework task that stresses me out, its the financial & administrative side. My biggest plus is the great guys who work for me, never really give me cause for stress.

Hmm great pictures David. I took down a big Ash with hispidus infection this week. I am convinced that the infection occured through wind damage tears. The timber was still strong, but very brittle. I believe the fruiting bodies will suck all available moisture from the host.

Tree Sturgeon? To joe soap, I'm a tree surgeon. In my head I'm an Arboriculturalist / Logger. Arborist is cool though.

If anyone does know one, ask them if they need any staff:D Welcome Peder. Ive flown into Aarhus a few times, nice little place.

Exactly the same thing happned to me when I was 10 years old. My father fell out of an ash tree, 40 ft onto a rock outcrop. Fractured skull, crushed ribcage, collapsed lungs, burst spleen, broken clavicle, 5 1/2 pints of blood lost internally. Hell of a thing to go through.

Did you write it Leyburn Lad?

Good for another 20 years that....

If you need something that requires 80hp to pull a 3 disc harrow and will manouver in a cold house, your going to struggle. Only the newer 'alpine' style tractors have that kind of power...

The 4th of July 1980 is a date I don’t forget and believe me it has nothing to do with American Independence Day or my friend Charles Fosters Birthday, that date is when my Father and the rest of the Families World changed for good. The morning started off as usual, dropped off at school by my Father who then carried onto a woodland on a local estate where they were carrying out a clear fell of hardwoods mainly consisting of Ash trees, the site itself was nothing out of the ordinary apart from the remoteness and the fact that a considerable amount of the tree's were on a steep bank down to a stream. These sorts of sites were nothing out of the ordinary for Father or any of the men who worked with him, he had been in the forestry industry for over 20yrs starting of with his brother in the sixties until he lost a leg in a winching accident in the Lake District. My Father had taken over the Saw mill and at the time had good a business and enviable reputation of been one of the best fallers in the area. The day it self had started off on site no different to any other, they had started to work on the trees near to the stream some of which leaned out and across the stream, the idea had been to fell the tree's across the stream and then winch them back up the bank ready for extracting later in the week. Father felled the first few tree's then apparently went further down the hill side to take a large ash tree, he went through the scenario as usual, which way it was going to fall, escape route etc, then started to fell the tree. What occurred next is still unclear now all these years later, on starting to put the back cut into the tree it barber chaired (tore straight up the trunk) this in turn caught him in the rib cage and launched him into the air which in turn caught the eye of one of the other workers on site, his description of his landing still makes me cringe now.He estimated that he went up in to the air for about 15 to 20 FT which when considering his weight was 18st the force of that tree must have been horrendous, he landed a distance away from the tree with his legs trapped up his back. The chap who saw the accident went to his aid, but could get no response from him, he shouted for the other guy on site to go and get some help, this person set of over the woodland to the farm which was about 1/4 mile away to raise the alarm and get assistance. On the arrival of the ambulance the next task was to get him out of the woodland and to the ambulance, this was done with a tractor and trailer, the only means of getting access. While all of this is taking place the shock is starting to take it's toll and my Father had by now started to drift in to a coma. To say that time was running out was understatement, the nearest A&E was 30miles away, fortunately there was still an Army A&E in Catterick 10miles away who willing to take in a civilian casualty. Had he had to go to Northalerton 30 miles away he would not of made the journey due to the amount of internal damage. I came out of school as usual at 3.45pm ready to catch the bus up to Gilling West and walk over to the Woodland they were working in, one of the men from the site was waiting for me, he explained there had been an accident and not to worry, he would run me down to the Hospital were my Mother was waiting with my younger Brother and Sister. Walking into the waiting room there was an array of people there with my Brother and Sister, moments later my Mother appeared with a Doctor and we were all taken of to a small room down near the Intensive Care Ward. If you have ever been scared witless by something or someone in you life, you might just get how I felt at this moment, the doctor explained that the injuries my Father had sustained were so severe that he was unlikely to survive the next 24 hours and that if he did the severity of the accident could mean permanent disability including brain damage. Once this had sunk in we were given the option to go on the ward and sit with him for a while. Entering the room where he was being treated is still as clear now as it was all those years ago, a mass of cables and monitors surrounding a body who looked nothing like the man who had dropped me off at school that morning. Picture the scenario a Mother with three young children and the possibility of being a widow in 24hrs. Fortunately he did pull through although he was in and out of a coma for about 6months. On leaving hospital he no longer had the use of his right arm due to the nerves been torn ( this never worked again), internal damage to his organs beyond full repair, he had two punctured lungs on admittance to hospital. It took over a year to be able walk again with out the aid of sticks and even after they went, any great distance was a challenge at times, the arm with the nerve damage was constant pain, he would describe this many times as feeling like your arm or leg has gone to sleep when you have slept in a funny position but 10 times more painful 24 hours a day. After a year he recovered enough to be able to start back in business but never hands on again, the doctors had given him an estimated 10 to 15 years life span due to the severity of the injuries, he actually managed 19 years and passed away in 1999. On being the oldest in the family, it was my job to arrange a large part of the funeral for my mother, the first thing to do is contact all relatives and close friends, a task in it's self. But what really brought home the reality of that day 4th July was the conversation with the two guys who were onsite on the day of the accident, neither would attend the funeral because they still felt they hadn't done enough that day to help and the memories were still to painful to attend his funeral, 20 years on it was still affecting them, well it's 29 years now and still feels like yesterday to me. IT'S NOT JUST YOU WHO SUFFERS WHEN IT ALL GOES WRONG AND IT'S NOT JUST YOU WHO DEALS WITH THE AFTERMATH OF AN ACCIDENT YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS AND WORK COLLEAGUES WILL SUFFER TO

Maybe, but the customers love it I remember as a kid all Dads little pots of wound paint tar... It used to be the greenhorns job to paint the big wounds, good training for them.

Really? We are being totally overrun with wasps here this year. I have killed hundreds in the house in the last few weeks. Been stung a few times too - the other night one crawled up my trouser leg and stung me on the thigh:mad1:

How much HP do you need, and what implements do you need to power? And most importantly, whats your budget?

Bebel Gilberto Remix [ame]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_EJc5Qb9018&feature=related[/ame]

Bebel Gilberto [ame]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rmifP3cqljw[/ame]

45 Dip [ame]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n_F5NZiy460[/ame]

Arkestra one [ame]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6M5zgvBe3g[/ame]

Poor little thread, getting forgotten... Anyone like / noticed the music for the Bold 2in1 infusions ad? Heres the original version. Cocteau's ROCK. [ame]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh83z5vIP0w[/ame]

Marc, your customer would get away with a small barrel or shaker screen. Google Jimmy Riddle, Baughns or Mccloskey.

Jeez, you have the skills of an aircraft technician and you want to go into treework? Seriously mate, this is a totally crap industry to be going into at the moment, I would stay in till the recession is over or go into the private aero industry. Anything but treework!

No, its not Daldinea, Its the innonotus. I have seen Innonotus go much darker though as it ages.

I have exactly the same on a big Ash, the fruiting body has appeared about 30ft up. Again, its on an estate, but overhangs the main road, so its coming down tomorrow. I think as Innonotus ages, it drys and goes black.

Well I would, but the North / South wales devide is too far. I can be in Hull on the east coast quicker than I can to swansea. If anyone fancies a climbing meet in Beautiful anglesey, I can arrange it on the estate, where we have giant Beech, Oak, Cedar, Pine and even some gigantic Wellingtonia.