shabz1978
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Just in case anyone important reads this, I didn't work with Eden Woodlands in those days, we were like ****** trawling the country in a knackered transit with people sitting on the floor. Some people find god, I found arboriculture!!
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I know! That was back in the day. Piece rates were low and beer took priority! I could take you back to most of them now though, still alive and thriving. We planted hundreds of thousands of them. Millions of saplings and forestry plants. All growing well. We never fertilised either. It usually got sold to garden centres. Maybe that's why?? Professionalism personified nowadays.
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Even in an employed position, there is no legal requirement for you to have cs 30 and 31 to do anything with a chainsaw. NPTC units are designed to show that you can use a chainsaw to a (minimal) safe standard. The man in the shop can show you how to use a chainsaw. After that, you've received training. Whether or not it is considered adequate is down to the courts to decide. -
I got a cold shiver reading this thread! Planted thousands of standards at pretty much that spec. We used to just dig a hole big enough for the root ball and scatter some mulch about so that it looked like we had done it to spec! I'm not so sure about fertilising trees either. Summat to do with rhizomes??
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80 stumps to grind out costings advice??
shabz1978 replied to wrekin tree care's topic in General chat
I did a couple of hundred last week in two days with a predator 75 hp radio control machine. It's a beast. Cost about a grand to hire for a week or £300 a day though. It'll do the job though. Give Alan at beaver plant a ring. Tell him Craig from Eden Woodlands reccomended it. I'd like to hire it and enter robot wars! -
i never wear gloves at all! maybe occasionally if its cold or im working with thorn. but never chainsaw protective gloves. I dont relly like being told i have to wear all round protective trousers for climbing either. i'm very particular about my working position and cant remember a single occasion where the back of my legs were at risk. MEWPS too. why wear chainsaw protective trousers in a mewp? surely a jacket would make more sense.
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Any other losers like me?CS31 not going too well ):
shabz1978 replied to odd_bird's topic in General chat
Well done! Ready for some abuse newbie? -
Phone up and say you didn't get it! That's what I would do.
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Any other losers like me?CS31 not going too well ):
shabz1978 replied to odd_bird's topic in General chat
Don't be too scared of the bigger trees, they just take longer to cut, giving you more time to make sure your hinge is parallel. Smaller trees are easy to cut straight through!!! I had trouble keeping my saw level until I started putting my elbows on my knees and sticking my arse out!! That might help. It's hard not to, but don't worry about it. It's like driving, you only really learn once you've passed. Have a crack with the assessor too, when you're on your test, they're just people. Usually they're quite interesting. It'll make the whole thing less daunting. -
I had one, check the boot floor, inner arches and diff lock. Good motors though. I had mine for a year and sold it for the same money I bought it for. You can get a haynes manual for modifying them, it tells you about lining and other stuff your talking about.
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is there a forum on here for milling? i just had a look but couldn't find it but i'm sure i've seen one somewhere???
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ooooh.... i'd forgotten about the lovely ladies. you need to go there to do the course, even if they run one next door to your house. i think LANTRA must be run by women.
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what machine do you use and what do you charge?
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did some big lime trees from one of these MEWPs, it was a bit windy and i felt really sea sick because the trees were moving and the MEWP wasn't!!! awesome machine though, you can do a lot very quickly!
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it's as above. hard to find though, i was there in october. just ask tom tom. he knows where everything is.
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i might be poking a hornets nest here but, i don't get QTRA at all? i know how it works, with targets and risks given values and after all the sums you end up with a figure that tells you how great the risk is, but why not just give it marks out of ten? if you're that bothered you could times it by 1000? you can call me stupid if you like but i don't understand the value in it at all?
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i pulled it up the other day, flipped it over myself and lowered it back down again!! didn't even try to start it!!
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i know where you're coming from. i came from there! hopefully your confidence will grow with experience! if i can give you some advice... choose your battles. don't refuse to use a blower "cos it's vibrating a bit" plan what you're going to say and have good valid arguments don't try and use health and safety as an excuse not to work, think of an alternative method of work that might better suit the situation or at least ask if anyone else can think of alternatives i don't just mean on motorways, just for anything that you think looks dodgy if i had an employer that i didn't think could live with that, i'd re-assess my situation
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that's the problem. it doesn't cost anything to ask the question. all you need to say is "i'm not trying to be funny but........" i would think of you as a safety concious worker
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nice one!! just don't go round looking for strays with the big shot!!!
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cost isn't an issue. there are lane one closures on all the time. it wouldn't take much to organise the tree works at the same time. at least a lane one closure would give a bit more time and bring the risk down to a more acceptable level
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i find this rather insulting. i put this on here hoping some of the less experienced lads on here might think about what they're being asked to do. maybe they might ask the question one day and they might not be killed by a drunk or a sleeping lorry driver. they might not be hit by a scaffold pole that fell off a lorry like one of my mates was a few years ago i'd rather you didn't post than just insinuate that i'm being nosey or jealous that someone else is doing the work. if you have a valid opinion, then please, let's hear it. it might help someone one day.
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i'm on a grillion, i tried a knut on a micro pulley recently but it didn't seem to want to bite? that kept me checking it!!
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we've been working down in manchester recently and i've noticed while passing on the motorway lads cutting on the bankings and chipping on the hard shoulder with up to 20 cones around them (at most a hard shoulder closure) there was one squad with a crash cushion and nothing else and another squad today with absolutely nothing. it strikes me as not at all very safe with the obvious dangers of the motorway, i've worked on motorways for 15 years and i'm sure i've not worked like that for at least ten years. does anyone know what TM is supposed to be used when working on the side of a busy motorway?? surely this can't be right?
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i think it would be more beneficial for arborists to go through the ISA process or similar, rather than the company meeting standards, it could include more health and safety training/knowledge in addition to quality standards that it already promotes. I've done a lot of shifts on railways etc where i was amazed that lads wouldn't refuse to do stuff that was clearly very dangerous Our company is not AAAC but we would meet and probably surpass all of thier health and safety requirements.
