Treegeek

Had one of those sucker crawling up my neck last week in Bovington Dorset. Had i know it eats trees I'd have trode on the git

For that money its got to be a line worth carrying .Looks familair the casings Might even buy one for that price tag

watch and listen = learn, john is a very good surgeon

sorry to hear sounds like you beening watched ?? not to kick you when your down but its true watch out for the second visit every time - scum

I agree cool trick. Get your self some where to practise nice private nothing worse than blowing out of your arse when some smart arse wants to know what your up to, take the time to learn the tricks new and old school set your self apart no one else will do it for you

Firstly welcome to this weird world suggest that you go work for at least two firms as a groundie prove yourself learn different styles. As far a my advice goes earn the respect of your seniors. Its was hard for me in the out set being the older newbie on a firm being tought by lads that see you as an upstart but i have earnt respect learnt some of the skils and touch wood working out to be a good surgeon.

freelancing is something ive been thinking of doing as well as being an employee ive got plenty on work has never a shortage so this thread is a intresting one. As far as networking gos i worked self employed subbie carpenter for a few years and never advertised i had a wodge of letters, letter of introduction i called them as i drove around my area id call into building sites and leave them with the builder/ site agent it all ways got me a phone call and stacks of work the beauty of it was that i had an idea of what the firm did or expected also no surpises when you get a call and the job is some cowboy out fit. Worked for me. Further to the insurance issue 5m for public liabilty what sort of cost does that set you back??

Pass on my regards to jo and john is tony still working for them ??

I like trees but ... thay don't look as good as the wife in lingerie, but still seem to spend more time up trees:001_tongue:

Landford is just up the road from me we are pleaged by the scrap collecting "tree topping" scum (rest deleted due to being just a bit close to the bone fo my liking)

Get in and play do what i did with my disco blow the centre diff cos Id thrown it down the road at 90mph and looped the round about one and half times befor the diff had decided to do it clunk clunk BANG found out what a centre lock diff was fast??

I have very little to say on this other than pikes wont be filing for a waste licence:confused1: and there a big part of the problem IMO hunt them down and shoot em

Talking about may time we have a driver sorted and some of the other guys are experianced so not to worried about the skill level. Been building some stamia by going on long bike rides with the 5 year olds tag along behind, son wieghs about 3 stone thats knackering but he thinks its great

Nice wagon:001_cool: seen one converted for tree a truck around southampton.

I like tree but.. when you think the long days dismantle is done, you ache and all you want to do is have a hot shower and sit down in that cosie arm chair there you or standing there at the back door looking like a tramp you take off your boots spilling chip on the door mat and your wife hits the bloody roof that when i realy hate trees

Properly hate using other peoples kit even down to climbing lines when theres a big climb and your sharing the work load. I take great care blar blar and all that. I know what my kit can do and MY KIT is always working sharp DEPENDABLE when i reach for something out of the truck i know it works. Its the only way to work when margins are tight and jobs need to be done.

Any one done it or planning to I'm doing it in may probally for charity would be great to get some advice was thinking of doing the tougth guy challenge if the peaks thing goes well

I have worked in buck p a few times, back when i was a carpenter. Once was left i a room alone with a priceless faberage egg in a open cabinet could have stuffed it in my tool pouch and straight walked out the door. Have been chased round the place by armed gaurds when i got lost in the early hours one morning the gaurds where s**tting it cos was wheeling all my tools round in an old flight case like the one terrorists allways use for bombs in the movies:blushing: dont agree with the money thay cost the tax payer but with out them there'd be alot less tourists spending there doug here.

sorry to rant but if half the blokes on my firm could double bar thay would'nt need bloody great saws to fell

On our trucks we keep two 020T climbing, 361 Groundie saw, 045 for climbing, 650 for felling big choging, but we have one 088 shared by five teams and its sh** i **cking hate that pile of sh** no one looks after it. Its never sharp and the bars are burred badly besides that there's no extra oiling feature its just crap i would prefer a huskie.

We can all have the gear but some prefer to own the know how first. crane jobs are the best IMO

Sounds like someone who you hold admaration these are the one's that are sorly missed in time you will come to accept the lose but never forget the freind. I make a point of never leaving the house or going to bed on an arguement could be the last time you speak.

the boss took some hopefully get them next week

love crane work The job wasnt as big as i hoped but it was still a good test the job went as follows: Our Victim was a wind blown scotts pine on a embankment above a road, part cleared by a callout crew the night before. firstly looked over the tree not that big but i could see that if we cut it at the butt and craned off the whole thing (well with in the cranes scope) the root plate could roll down hill worked out a number of posible routes and out comes once decided discused with team a system/method of how we were doing things with the understanding that the details could change as we progesed l nominated one man on the bank and one on the road relaying to the crane driver who was briefed on the plan. To kick off i attached my self to the hook using my climbing line stuffed in to a bag on my harness in case of the need to bail out fast made sense at the time?? then set about cutting most of the top from the stem making sure that if the stem flicked up or dropped i was able to distance my self this went well and soon found that the limbs where a fair size so i needed to use the 44, any we got to the point where the remaining limbs supported the main stem and the plate at this point we chained the stem and took the weight of the stem aided by man on the bank the wieghts i had estimated using the log chart found in previous threads (courtusy of pete mctree i think) cut these limbs and bailed out allowing the crane to lift the complete stem and plate back to upright at that point step cut and allowed the the crane to lift the stem away and on to the deck to be choged this all took about maximium of two hours so a small job but the buzz of having done it was great and im greatfull the groundies and driver who all work together wit co-ordination. All of this i find sobering as this week last year was the my first week with the firm and prior to that had never climbed:001_smile: i trully have found my nechie and im loving it every day.

Found out the evening that tomorow i will be doing a crane job first one. Boss has asked me to start a 5;30 so hope its a good size, any way please could i have some pointers and advice should have posted this earlier but the tips will be greatly recieved and Im sure this wont be the last one.