John Shutler

thankfully my dad is a lawer and is dealing with the whole situation. my instinct was to phone him up and tell him what i thought of the little worm, but the old man assured me that was not the way to go.

notes i made on the trees Job 1 Fell x3 Silver Birch (Betula pendula) T1) Silver Birch (Betula pendula). Large cavity with extensive decay at the base of the tree. Large amounts of dieback within the crown T2) Silver Birch (Betula pendula). Heavy lean towards car parking, with exposed roots and deep erosion of soil around root plate. Large sail area could lead to failure at root plate T3) Silver Birch (Betula pendula). Growing alongside Swedish Whitebeam (Sorbus intermedia). 2 co dominant stems with serious included bark at union. Leaning over driveway. Pronounced lean to 1 stem due to competition for light and dominancy with the Swedish Whitebeam. Job 2 Fell x1 Sessile Oak (Quercus petrea), x1 Beech (Fagus sylvatica), fell x1 small Common Holly (Ilex aquifolium). Clear various small Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) and self seeded Sessile oaks (Quercus petrea) ready for replanting by gardeners T1) Sessile Oak (Quercus petrea). Poor vigour due to competition from other trees for light, also possible root damage by earthworks and new fence within drip line. T2) Beech (Fagus sylvatica). Serious dieback with large spurs of deadwood. Obvious signs of damage to bark and Cambium layer. T3) Common Holly (Ilex aquifolium). Poor specimen. Obvious signs of “topping”

a couple of months ago i felled some trees for a local well known lady at her house in the forest, half way into the job a man turned up claiming that he had been the owner for 5 years and i should stop work, which i did. she is a well known local lady andher name and the name of her buisness(collecting mushrooms from the new forest) is displayed at the end of her drive. when i phoned the tree helpline they knew it as her house to. how far should you go to find out if the person asking you to do the work is the owner.she paid me for the work. all the trees came out because of their poor condition

bit of a derail, but how do you find having the swivel instead of just using the supplied ring

no its samson arbormaster. the hitchcord is liros herkules. it is a satisfying combo. i have since gone back to using armor-prus though

i quite like the idea of one of the orange ones ed mentioned on another thread. bet many people will cry out when i say i bought it over the 441

hehe hoping it might catch on. running a 28in bar with no problems though

the but sections went to robert dyer who has the alaskan mills at the arb shows, the main section had quite extensive decay though, all the rest is fire wood. i started climbing at 8 and was finished by 3 with a tea break and lunchbreak and went back the next day to fell the stem and sort it out for collection by farwells with the timber lorry all done by lunch. so a day and a half total. the guys on the ground were brilliant,having the digger and grain trailers sped things up as stuff could be dropped big and handled with the machinery.there was a fair bit of rigging, didnt want to damage the hedging below and the main gas pipeline that ran down one side

yep, it was a shame. but as mentioned on an earlier thread there were many reasons why it came down, unfortunately i can only point out the defects in the tree and the associated risks. the decision to remove was not mine. but better i have the work than someone else

doh. no i didnt.

cheers for putting the link up

yes these are the pics from the job about a month ago, it was felled, i did try to persuade the farmer to retain it as a monolith, it was by far the biggest oak on the farm and it was really sad to see it go. id previously deadwooded as it grew over the track to his neighbours house, and it had shed one large limb over the track

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some pics from a job a couple of weeks ago

thought so

never thought of that

and power cables

who was it

its probably a work placement, ive subbyed to firms with work placement lads, and they are actually not obliged to pay them anything

to be honest id probably stick with the tm stuff

the armour prus is brilliant on arbormaster i nearly cried when my armour prus was ruined by a giant fir takedown

yep tickets bought, lets make it a good one this year guys