benedmonds

I get to sign my Quotes: Ben Edmonds BSc Tech.Arbor.A.. Plus a really borring technical journal that sometimes relates to what we do.. Thats got to be worth the £125 a year. Any one looked into the Trust Mark Scheme?

My post was not ignore EL insurance.. I'd written a post about finding out I needed it and didn't think we had it! Then found out we had it all along. I Couldn't work out how to delete the post but edited it... Deleted it and wrote "ignore" I meant the post not the insurance!

Drinking the urine of reindeer that have been munching them is another 'traditional' way of taking them.....

I am looking over the CV's sent this week so will be in contact soon.. Send a CV ASAP if interested.. 26.10.09

Ignore..

You often pay to do work like that..

Climber wanted, newbie with basic tickets or a couple of years experience, small but professional expanding firm. Based between Derby and Nottingham. Monday-Friday 8.30 - 4.30 (normally) Successful applicant would be engaged in various arboricultural works It is desirable for candidates to hold relevant NPTC qualifications and a full driving licence. All PPE and equipment will be provided, and training where necessary. Salary dependent on candidates’ level of training and experience. [email protected] 01332 875 869

Not without a few more details... That friend of a friend case could have been the firm requesting the full refund after the employee left after working for 23 months.. If the employee left within days or weeks of the training, I can't see where the employer is going to have derived any benifit. I admit it might be difficult to get all the training costs back but not paying them their last pay check could claw back a chunk.

Is this reasonable: TRAINING. CTS will pay for employee training. However if the employee leaves the employment within 2 years from the date of training they must repay a percentage of the training costs as follows. The costs shall be taken from the employees pay check: 75% within 6 months 50% from 6-12 months 25% from 12-24 months

Not my numbers, from the BRE: Pruning trees to reduce water use Summaries of research; conclusions and recommendations IP7/06 Hipps, Atkinson and Griffiths Recommendations ● For consistent soil moisture conservation, severe crown reduction of 70–90% of crown volume would have to be applied. Reduction of up to 50% crown volume is not always effective for decreasing soil drying ● To ensure a continued decrease in canopy leaf area and to maximise the period of soil moisture conservation, crown reductions should be repeated on a regular managed cycle with an interval based on monitoring regrowth ● Crown thinning may be aesthetically desirable but is not an effective method to control soil drying by trees Basically reducing trees to prevent subsidence is not an option..

Hortlink, research sugest 70-90% reduction required to have any impact on tree induced subsidence.. So what you've done is fine for endweighting and looks good but if your doing it to prevent subsidence it's not nearly enough..

Can I legaly do this?

Thinking of changing our tractor and I rekon a telehandler would be more useful. We would need a PTO and a minimum 40 kph, although faster would be better. I've done some searching and found that Landini Powerlift and Merlo multifarmer seem to do what is required.. Any thoughts? I have also got confused about the use of man baskets.. http://www.hse.gov.uk/workplacetransport/pm28.pdf If it's occasional use and LOLER'd, can they be used? Do they need controls in the basket? Stronga, who sell the baskets say "All of our access platforms fully comply with The HSE PM28 giving you a perfect solution to working at height on your farm." But from reading other threads I am not so sure.. STRONGA Direct

Does no one sell by the small bag, like they sell at garages.. All our wood is sold like that. £3.50 a bag. Seasoned hardwood, mostly...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eepAtIXFUIw]YouTube - ActSafe T1-16 Demo at DSEI 2009[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi6kR1AmVSc&feature=related]YouTube - Tree Climbing with a power ascender[/ame]

It's in a church yard/bordering a field so possible that they have been removed. It lost a big limb at 6m in the summer in calm conditions. I didn't do the clear up but it had dark zone lines as you might find with Polyporus squamosus.. No brackets were found at that time however. That was my plan, I thought someone here might confirm my ID and speed the process up.

I remember some discusion in the past about retaining beech with meripilus but can't remember if there was any new data/advice. My books are quite clear... “By the time the fruiting bodies of M. giganteus appear , it is likely that a high chance of windthrow exists. Crown symptoms may be preset by this stage, but by no means always.. M. giganteus is one of the most dangerous decay fungi to be found on Fagus sylvatica (Beech) (2001. Lonsdale, Principles of Tree Hazard Assessment and Management)” "fruit bodies indicate heavily destroyed root system, leaving only little time for trees surviving" (2006. Olaf Schmidt, wood and tree fungi)

I know I posted these pic's on the fungi pic thread but I think they may get lost without me getting an answer.. Are these young Meripilus giganteus..? I've only ever seen big mature fruiting bodies. On beech, not from below ground level as you would normally expect, but just above ground level in the root butress. They're about 5cm long.

Polyporus squamosus Xylaria polymorpha? Any takers for the last pics? On beech

£250 per day! That's cheap... Working roughly from my accounts last year- costs/expenses 230 days on tools a daily costs are: £120 for a climber £70 for the groundie £12 insurance £20 fuel £30 advertising £17 accountants and office supplies, bank charges etc £25 new equipment and plant maintence £16 vehicle maintence £310 per work day it costs me for a truck chipper, climber and groundie. That doesn't include rent cost of waste disposal time spent quoting VAT So yes you were right to tell him to bog off! But you are still too cheap. IMO..

LA want us to have undertaken the stump course. Anyone know who runs it in the East Midlands.. Cheers

I am interested in others opinions. I undertook a climbing inspection and made some recomendations that differ from the LPA's tree officer.. What would you recommend: 17m tall Horse Chestnut The tree foliage was of good colour and density and the tree appears to be growing well, with plenty of new shoot growth. Previous tree works have left numerous (over 10) major wounds (15cm x 15cm) throughout the tree. The tree has been "reduced" twice in the past, in 1991 and 2002. Horse Chestnuts contain a core of largely unresponsive and non-durable wood (Lonsdale, 2001). Many of the wounds therefore have cavities, some extending up to 15cm into the trunk/branch. Re-growth from the previous topping cuts has led to growth of numerous branches with weak attachments. In addition the topped branches are decaying down behind the attachment points of the re-growth increasing the likelihood of failure. There is major (over 75mm) dead wood though out the crown. A root on the south side of the tree shows cambial die back with flaking bark and several cracks in the bark running up the trunk to 2m. There are several areas of sooty black exudates on the trunk and scaffold branches. This is likely to be the early stages of bleeding canker caused by Pseudomonas syringae . Understanding about this disease is limited at present and this makes it difficult to make precise recommendations about the management of the disease and affected trees. Unless there is an immediate concern about safety, trees with light to moderate bleeding and vigorous crowns can be left in place and monitored. Recovery may be possible and removal of trees which are still relatively vigorous (although diseased) may be premature (Forest Research - forestry and tree related research. 2009). A Tree Hazard Rating of 9 was assigned to the tree (from a maximum value of 12 with 12 representing a significant threat). Ratings have only relative meaning but the rating indicates that some management must occur to ensure the tree is safe.

We've got one that I found. I love the idea of it but you need an extra cone so the benifits aren't as good as they first seem. We also seem to have a cone shortage at the moment so don't use it much..

I believe they are trying to change it to a level 4..

If your selling your chip to AHS, make sure it's clean. We sold 3 arctics worth last month, the first had some straw and horse muck in so was rejected, the other two loads then got sent to be sorted and so we were only going to get 2 or 3 quid a ton. After paying out over £200 to load it I guess we'll not do very well out of it! Annoying really, We're very carefull about not contaminating with logs after a log caused several grands worth of damage to a muck spreader. I thought all the mixed stuff had been spread last year.. If we'd told the guy loading to leave the old stuff we'd have made a few quid!