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Maximum possible reduction of large Oak
MattyF replied to George01's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Title of the thread ? If you have thinned a tree you have limited its pruning targets for a future reduction.. another thing is the only trees you see in nature that are thinning are dying ones so it’s not like you are mimicking a retrenched crown.. Thinning in my view has very limited applications in Arb work and most of what you see when specked is done badly .... Trees already been hat racked any way and survived and put on a lot of growth... the second lighter reduction has still hasn’t resulted in desirable regrowth my guess is if you thinned that particular tree it would sprout even more epicormic. -
Maximum possible reduction of large Oak
MattyF replied to George01's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I agree but Trees already been topped though.... and it’s recovered from it very vigorously too! You could remove 35-40% of the trees leaf area and still leave a decent crown shape, drop out the larger stuff to it’s knuckles of where it’s been topped before and leave shape the smaller branches.. you could arguably have reason to do it as it had been butchered in the past and all the regrowth is not natural branch formations, attachments -
Maximum possible reduction of large Oak
MattyF replied to George01's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Just goes to show why pruning is not good and a waste of time and money.. we now have a heavier denser crown on possibly week unions than if the tree had been left alone in the first place... it’s heavier prune being the main culprit. Saying that a 35-40% reduction if done now and by some one who new what they where doing i suppose could hit decent targets and leave a good shape because of it so it’s not all bad! -
I know when I fitted a new anvil last year I got a new set of blades and anvil I’m not sure possibly from Saturn ... had to grind down a bit of the anvil so there was not a lip as where the metal had worn on the infeed it was not going to foul brash ... it’s possible I fitted the wrong anvil if there is two as it does not have that many hours !
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I’ve always put copper grease on blade bolts ... never used loctite or owt.
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If you order direct from overland they should get it right Marc.
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Overland are the dealers , I’ve not had any problems with spares on my older machine when I’ve rang and spoke to them the have diagnosed issues over the phone and sent the parts next day.
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In feed should be variable like the 220 we use ,can’t fault the speed or the machine really.
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I’ve a 101 , it’s fine with an 8t trailer but struggles on big Northumbrian hills loaded ... would be fine on the flat though. Valtra dealer said it would benefit from a remap , just some thing I’ve not got round too.
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I thought Feild maple was native ... this is why it’s hard to exactly work out when it did come to the U.K. as the pollens indistinguishable between the two so they can’t actually verify its arrival or origins... I’ve heard it’s possible that it may have always been native to the north although they seem to think it spread through Europe and stopped at the channel.. so well after the doggerland land bridge disappeared.. Either way with ash fast disappearing from our landscape we will need all the tree cover we can get and oak can be very fussy in what soil it grows in.. beech is even more frowned on than sycamore for shade and I don’t think it will tolerate the dryness of the south anymore... I got an hour lecture about not planting them in my wood... bollox !! I like them and will continue to plant them , going to stick some sycamore in too!
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Aye sycamore gap... or the Robin Hood tree as it was in the film with Kevin Costner and Morgan freeman talking under it.
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Really hate views like this ... currently working in a forest school trying to sort out ash with die back .. the only tree that is here because some bright spark has felled all the sycamore planted at the same time I guess because they carried this view... there won’t be a forest school here in two years time because of this blind view that sycamore is invasive and non native.. I can think of so many plantations that I have worked in and been instructed to fell all sycamore over the last 20 years and they now they will have nothing.. sycamore in my view is an amazing and beautiful tree! Makes great fire wood and seasons fast. I don’t agree with it being non native either...if it’s been here since 1500’s Probably the most iconic tree locally to me too
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That’s the trade off for not going deaf I’m afraid , I’ve got the 3x and even they won’t go back in, I can’t think of any time when I did slide them back up with the standard muffs any way so can’t say it’s bothered me..
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I have got to be honest I usually go around two wrist sizes or maybe the size of a right handed person forearm who’s climbed on a Prussic for years ....unless it’s a redirect ,I’ve always had a massive fear of my anchor point braking and that’s not helped since getting over 40 with a few more pounds ... I’m hardly the 9stone little whippet I was when I started climbing at 16.
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I would trust your gut feeling... and that’s having had a lot of gear nicked over the years from odd chippers to complete clean outs ... the twice I was cleaned out completely I had a gut feeling after having to unfortunately deal with the kind of folk you are describing but I believe the other three chippers and a few saws where opportunity thefts.. there are folk out there who make a living from professional thievery and some are bloody good at it... Shame they can’t put there good efforts in to doing legit work that won’t cause severe financial and mental pain to there victims..
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Would be fine if you stacked crates in [emoji1303]
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On a quick note , screw and don’t nail on the boarding ...We learnt that on the first shed !
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It was slightly modified since to support the weight of logs.. There are boards over the wall but with 3” gaps for air flow.
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It dries wood ok as long as you have filled them for June! , The only problem we have has been having water coming through the floor on on that particular barn and turning some logs black. The other is for hard wood and a lot more open fronted... a lot more light getting in and drying wood is quicker in summer. To be honest I’m thinking of using IBCs as we store wood for two years before processing in to the barns so have just brought 50 to see if I can get green wood from tree surgery waste down in a year as an experiment.
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We built two like this, the main beams old telegraph poles and all the roof beams and cladding milled from larch and Douglas .. main beams held together with hangers. 1” gaps on the cladding... was pretty easy and satisfying. About a week on each with three of us , I was milling whilst the others did the beams and then kept the cladding coming and caught up and helped them finish to put that on.
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Christ your a clever babe aren’t you?? With your years of experience and health and safety expert Khris who last time I checked was climbing on a non CE marked device and lowering rope I’m pretty sure between you two that you could run and dictate to hse where we are all going wrong... I’m at the end of my patience with you to so I’m off this thread and forum for the future.. good bye and **************** off.
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It’s more likely to tear you in ****************ing half....
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True , I don’t really care any more for climbing though.. this whole two rope crap has taken the last bit of enjoyment out of it for me on commercial sites, gone are the days you can take an aimed dive and a swing to get to your target area of the crown from the the other side of the tree , now it’s just some royal fuck on to traipse 80ms of rope through a canopy getting caught up on every thing and worrying about what it’s going to get caught on or leave you in a vulnerable non escapable position ....and really I have nothing to prove to myself or anyone else so if I’m honest a mewp makes the majority of jobs safer and easier so why not. It just saddens me now most sites and life in general is ran by idiots with risk assessments trying to justify there positions in life by making up and justifying what ever stupid idea that pops in to there head because they have a degree.
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Can’t do polls from the app Marc you have to go through the normal site.
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Don’t grind on any slope or bank with out them... they have a habit of going over without them! Good machines though and with an impact wrench a few minutes to take off the wheels they still fit through a standard gate.
