John Shutler

it couldnt be closer(to me). come and play in the new forest everybody

One of those bad boy racers where you:sneaky2:[/QUOTe

 

i was thinking about filling the back full of speakers and an amp and getting go faster stripes to finish it off

good link, cheers

cheers dean

im after a lightbar/beacon for my pickup, any recomendations

What happend next John? The guys were about to pull the top off and.....

some silly neighbour started shouting and screaming about us taking the tree down, stupid really as it had really started to lean towards there garden, oh well.

yeah john it is a lovely place to live, im very lucky that ive spent my whole life in the area, these pictures were taken in sway, the next village along to mine tiptoe

subbying to mates firm special branch tree services. i love easy mondays

il be there then staright accross to the cutters and climbers

click on the very top link on the box

went to watch elbow this evening at the bic

deserve every award theyve been given recently and the album the seldon seen kid is a masterpiece

check them out

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enjoy

i live down in the new forest and find o2 pretty good,been with them for 5 years and never thought about changing because of lack of signal

i have a soft link between the krab and ropegrab on my flipline

an old pic of a monteray pine stem i felled, you can see where it snapped in half on impact

and 2 pics of a twisted fir a found walking yesterday. any ideas on what caused it, my guess it was caused by honeysuckle early on in life as there seems to be an abundance of it in these woods

Someone has made the point about boring a heavily leaning stem and cutting the holding strap to take a top out as a safe method when climbing, this isn't the case.

If you make a bore cut on a heavily leaning stem there is a chance the back of the tree will split downwards before you have a chance to cut the holding strap. When the stem splits downwards the top will go over and split part of the top will flip you and your flipline/climbing line off with the stem as well sending you hurtling toward the ground as your life flashes before your eyes.

Be very careful when using the boring cut on a leaning stem when climbing - it can go hellishly wrong.

i have never come accross a situation where i have had to use this method, as i said i guess this method could be used but thanks for the heads up

obviously there are the horror stories, but as everything in this job its situation dependant. i very rarely do anything apart from use my side ds spiking, and if i thought there was an issue with a leavily leaning stem id probably use a bore and release cut.

nice little job to finish off monday, crown reduction on a badly topped beech. dont really enjoy reductions that much, and dont really do that many either. but this was small and easy and provided some beer tokens for the weekend

ive got a mazda b2500, its my sole vehicle, im doing more subbying than my own work at the moment so dont need anything bigger, ive got a truckman top addapted to chip into when needed, and i can usually bring a load of logs back from my subbying jobs which gives me a few beer tokens

ashley tree surgeons have got a mitsubishi that ive driven a few times, i would highly recomend it, fully loaded and towing a chipper it performs very well, but is a bit bouncy without weight in the back

tree slag

i love rigging

you have the longest chainsaw strop in the world!

or maybe he is very very small:001_tongue:

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awesome song

yep, il be up there for the weekend again

im currently studying a fdsc arb and tree care course. out of 8 people im the only one with any real industry experience. im not saying that some of the people on the course wont make good tree officers but im unsure of why some people are on the course, why they have decided to become a part of this very small industry, im also concerned about the "professional" status they will hold on completion of the course(although the course includes a years work 'experience').im not doing the course to become a TO, im doing it to to expand my professional ability and to further my own buissness.. i know why im doing the course but struggle to understand the motives of of some other people

isnt that what tree surgeons paint is for

just realised 666 the number of the beast