Lee Winger
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Unfortunatly 5 years isn't that much time in the life of a tree Gimmer as you know, some rather extensive root damage there mate, fingers crossed for the future...
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Organic matter rules.....
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Giles I use the Air-spade to create holes for vertical mulchiing, we can achieve holes of up to 18'' depending on compaction and soil type.......
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Sorry no scientific proof mate, but the trees I and others have aerated seem to have produced some very noticable benefitual changes............ Like I said in my last post , radial trenching or vertical mulching is my preferred method, but some wont have it and so out comes the deep root aerator, we can fill the holes up with sand, calcified seawed used to be good , but unfortunatly its not a sustainable commodity......
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I have the Soil-pick, Air-spade and deep root aerator. The soil-pick and Air-spade are great tools for removing top layers of compacted soil away from tree roots for IE root inspections , root pruning etc etc. IMO they aren't that good at general de-compacting, as you can't remove soil much more than 12'' deep because gravity sends the soil back into your hole, and the only soil vac I've found costs over 20k and the only ones for hire are in the West country and charge a 1k a day.. If I could talk people into it i'd go with vertical mulching everytime and general soil de-compaction using the deep root aerator,and let the bugs and worms do the rest, but the trouble is some people don't like the look of mulch so you can't win lol, saying that I did find a client last week , who cared more about the tree than the lawns appearance.. Here are a few pics from a recent job
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Bad choice of music too imo
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You need some guards mate, the ones on the machine aren't near enough, pea shingle a stump grinders worst nightmare, my first machne was an RG20 You might want to show you use a CAT scanner too, prime spot for a cable TV and telephone cable, BT cable etc etc .. I've ground stumps for over 13 years, I could write a book soley on stump grinding.......
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Air spades aren't suited to this kind of work, they are designed for excavation work, and most Terravents are on there last legs, and damn hard work to use.. We have a purpose built machine designed for this kind of work, it works off of a road going compressor, we can de-compact in layers up to 1 m deep, though 500 is usualy more than adequate..
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Dealing With Learning Difficulties In Training...
Lee Winger replied to DriveLink's topic in Training & education
Well done mate, there are lots of dyslexics in this game for some reason or another some very good arbo's!! They say there is no such thing as a bad learner only a bad teacher, well it goes something like that.. Thanks for going that extra step to help your students, I'm sure if they don't now in time they will greatly appreciate it... -
newer machines have built in filters so they tell me
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You tell me, you're [and the others] the man with the plan...:confused1: I had the idea 5 years ago, but kept the idea shelved waiting for a few others to get around to helping me launch the idea, seems I got bypassed, no skin off my nose, like I said best of luck with the idea, lets hope it takes off...
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Tree Guild sounds like a load of rubbish to me, far better imo to be called the Tree Contractors Association. But then who am I, what do I know, I'm only the bloke who came up with the idea a few years ago! as we all know!...best of luck with the whole thing...
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Sounds like another grey area mine field...
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or me
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Wrong
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Well done Cerne here's your second tip, spend your first tip wisely as you won't get many in this thankless proffesion....
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The world is stuffed mate bro-inlaw moved to Oz hes had a license since late 80's had to take a test to drive a 3.5 ton truck............
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Correct
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Its EU directive, they have this CPC BS in France already, spoke to a froggy a few days ago, trailers chippers anything over 750kg has to be registerd and insured too
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In the coffin Driver CPC for bus, coach and lorry drivers Please Note: Any lorry of 3.5 tons and upwards and minibuses with 9 seats or more are covered by Driver CPC.
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total waste of money...........
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I'll stick to compost tea and mulch..
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Yeah I know all that, I listern and learn from the leaders in this field, you ''cannot'' inocculate mature trees with Mychorrhiza succesfully, ask Andy Cowan, Ted Green and any knowledgable mycologists...cultivate what you have, thats the trick... I havent seen one recent paper that praises mychorriza innoculation...
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13 ton, removable table for small logs, independant pump and oil reservoir touch of flakey paint but otherwise very good condition.. Reduced price for quick sale £600+vat for pics look in the classifieds Also for sale reconditioned wessex pto finishing mower, 3 rotors, needs paint, has new blades, [never used] and has been fully serviced by WJ Greens Hadleigh Suffolk £400 plus vat
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Why isn't the college supplying a template? surely the reason you're at college is to learn from the tutors?
