MattyF
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To encourage or force epicormic growth typical of oaks naturally retrenching them selves ? In most cases it’s pretty obvious to see where they are or will naturally retrench themselves but I’ve seen some shocking stuff lately on social media.. but it’s not my place to make a comment !
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Was working at a school and after break we watched two care takers come out and clear up bags of rubbish , I was in disbelief that the kids where allowed to do that in the first place and that any one caught or needed punishing wasn’t picking it up, but apparently the parents come in to the school complaining about human rights if there kids are on detention for dropping litter and are forced to clean it up.
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Which do you use... Base Anchor or Canopy Anchor
MattyF replied to Treespasser's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
Rarely base anchor, and if so it will usually be until I can isolate a better anchor ... to work off a base anchor is very rare as it’s easy to manipulate a decent route with a throw bag to set a retrievable system up.. Mostly I’m still using a pinto rig with dmm duralock despite all the bollox about the pinto not being suitable for this application. Rarely will I set a ring or unless we have to perform to best practices that day , much easier to retrieve the pinto. Some times for spar work I’ve found it is a lot easier just to set a long tailed bowline for setting rigging and face cuts on bigger wood then just pull out the tail to set for the final cut. -
Have been using two ropes over the last week , only one tree warranted two ropes in my view and would of used two ropes on it regardless ... have already had one near miss thanks to the positioning and obstruction of no escape route two ropes has placed me... another thing I’ve noticed is two ropes causes the perfect position for riding up your leg loops and giving them enough gap for your balls to swing in and get crushed when one rope takes the tension ... just saying. Due to the near miss though I’m out...
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My old man ran a couple of 261’s that he used for Sitka regen clearance contracts , if your gonna kill a saw it’s the environment to do it... one of the lads 261’s dropped its crank after 1 week from new but for some reason my fathers kept going , one was is still going and never had a bearing grease ! I’ve found with stihl in typical true German arrogance though they won’t admit there is a problem even if there is one , I had a lot of bother with some machines and stopped buying any of there products until recently.. I don’t know if they have changed but they are making some good saws now !
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After doing a lot of research for finding the right one for timber I got a c scope...I’ve used it about 2 times. I have been asked to go out and detect some old settlements in the border myres where they found a lot of silver digging forestry ditches in the 70’s so waiting for decent weather... apparently there is the forerunner to haidrians wall nearby that is disputed but could be worth a look.
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That I do mate , posting saws isn’t quite the same.
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In my opinion it’s unethical, there are no guarantees about its sources and with vast swathes of Eastern Europe’s last primeval forests disappearing to meet our demands for timber I would not support any one selling it unless they could one hundred percent guarantee it came from renewable sources.
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In my opinion it’s unethical, there are no guarantees about its sources and with vast swathes of Eastern Europe’s last primeval forests disappearing to meet our demands for timber I would not support any one selling it unless they could one hundred percent guarantee it came from renewable sources.
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Wish I was Pete Townsend me see... that saw had tested me and ended up with the fate of being more a basil fawtly tantrum than rock and roll suicide... il be trying nicotine patches next time.
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If it was mine I’d try and retrench the crown heavily and keep it going.
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I’d rod brace the two stems then cable brace the canopy. This beech I did 3 years ago and you can’t tell you had to winch the stems back together and brace with three rods and cable brace , all bracing seems to be enveloping in to the stem and the top cables look good.... had to visit the site last Friday due to another kretz beech failing but I was watching this one in the gail’s and it seems fine... problem is we are arborists or claim to be ! And if the tree fails in a court of law we are not structural engineers so if there is high risks targets most choose to fell. Your tree is a completely different species and has different faults but I would not rule out those options.
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My ported 576 is up for grabs if any one is interested. Ported husqvarna 576xp ROVER.EBAY.COM The saw had at around 30 hours a full rebuild including new genuine crank and piston after an auto tune failure. the auto tune was removed and replaced with a standard carb as the Husqvarna generation one auto tune fittted to these saws was a bit of a failure.
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Mine ended up in bits after a tantrum whilst trying to give up smoking , dealing with two ropes so had to order another from sky lands on Friday. My practise with climbing saws always has been if its is over a year old and won’t stay In tune for more than a tank of fuel they should be replaced as it’s probably leaking air from crank seals and on climbing saws that are bread and butter they are better as spares. I had given this one three carb rebuilds over two years so it had its time. One thing worth checking as I’ve found to be a problem on the 2511 is split fuel lines.. if it’s not that and the carbs all good bin it.
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Don’t forget to give the clutch and flywheel crank ends a couple of wraps with a copper malet whilst it’s still stripped !
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After seeing yours I want old slabs!! May have a look around but I think for cost it’s going to be dpm and concrete then might mill some more Douglas or ash would be nicer , have dug most of it out now the worse was finding the old reinforced concrete generator plinth I thought I had mostly got out with a jack hammer went down another two ft, winched it out and must of been over a ton as the avant back wheels where off the ground when we finally got in out the door. Should of been on it today but keep finding other things to do! On days off After feeding animals and trying to catch moles and trying to get the veg garden in order the days over, usually it gets real quiet in February so should crack on then.
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Looks proper nice bill better condition than I thought, I would hate to cover those slabs ... Seriously made me rethink about what I need to do with my downstairs floor.
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If it’s decent fire wood processor size and nice and straight £60 a tonne or more... there will be a few tonne off two acres.
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Did have a play with a kong double ascender and left and right foot Pantins , system would of been smoother if both wrenches had the same tethers and hitch cord lengths.. and your still fucked if you have not managed to route both lines so they can run parallel or the slightest bit of epicormic.
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Spud should have an idea as he did mine..
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Good points but I would still take a minor reduction of those limbs in the left over thinning. I have seen the wind tunnel effect a few times I’ll try and get you pictures of the remaining trees.
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I’d would reduce / pull in the top left side a few metres and the bottom limb,pull in the right side a bit ...that part of the crown looks like it’s thinning a bit itself anyway. As a rule for myself I would sway away from thinning mature beech because if you have to reduce it in the future you have taken a lot of the better targets out for doing, I also believe thinning creates wind tunnels and can weaken other parts of the crown and I’m all for leaving crossing branches , nature’s way of bracing. only thinning tree you see naturally is a dying one. That would be my spec anyway...
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In a lot of cases maybe but rubbishing formative pruning of young trees to eliminate problems that will cost hundreds to fix in the future for pounds when they are younger and leaving them more stable ,stronger and without huge wounds blah blah blah ... could go on..... Out of all the pointless pruning I’ve done over the years I can honestly say the formative pruning of thousands of young street trees was probably the only real necessary pruning I’ve done and I am proud to look at these trees 20 years on with there good form for the future.
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Which pest caused this & what protection would you recommend?
MattyF replied to LionelMandrake's topic in Tree health care
Rabbits I would of thought , muntjac damage I’ve seen is usually higher up and and a lot more aggressive.
