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I've given up with the clear visor, scratched and smudged, unuseable after a couple of weeks. Still a good hat.

Fair enough PM or Email me..

You will learn stuff on the PTI, and the way they like reports to be layed out makes sense. It is worth doing if you have the relevant experience, but I think there is a place in the market to be taught tree inspection, the PTI course does not set out to do this. The fungi ident bit, is IMO difficult. Dried up upside down crusty fungi you've not come across in the real world are almost impossible to ID from the pictures in books. If you get the fungi wrong you also lose all the marks for the type of decay, hosts etc. In the real world if you found a fungi you couldn't identify you could get help (arbtalk) or act as the worst case so I'm not sure the weighting of fungi ident is realistic..

I am checking ebay, but if you see someone selling a number of saws which correspond to a load that have been nicked why can't we not have a link saying saws for sale....? There is loads of stuff on ebay much of it stolen and I don't have time to search it all, if someone sees something they feel might have been nicked from a member it would be good to let them know, so they can check it out. Also an email to the seller requesting serial numbers might scare some of the crooks of using ebay...?

Have you got a link?

Stick with NZ, visit Aus, but go stay in NZ.

Not when compared to depreciation of new cars and nearly new cars.

I reckon people get way to interested in MPG's. If you do a high milage it will make a difference but for 10,000 miles a year or less its peanuts compared to depreciation etc.. I worked out I was going to save a few 100 quid a year when changing from my 1.8 diesel berlingo (45mpg) to my 2l petrol (30mpg) honda FR-V. Assuming 10,000 miles a year, petrol at 90p a litre: A car doing 30 MPG's would cost £1,363 A car doing 45 MPG's would cost £909 Only £450 a year.. When you go using more expensive diesel it's even less. Then you add in the extra servicing most diesels need and the additional cost. I got the figures from this site: http://www.torquecars.com/tools/uk-mpg-calculator.php

You could leave the stump as the young growth is.. different.. Some folk like it. just make sure it gets cut every few years.

You can get cycle helmets that go really small.

I got a 441W last year, as my fingers were giving me grief, just got another. Go with the W/heated handles. We've also the 660W. I've not had any probles since. I used shrek's 084 last week, I didn't have much choice as it was one of the two saws that wasn't nicked, but that can shake........

My boys 3 and 5 love climbing the small apple trees and magnolia in my garden. They each have a chainsaw to use (a top handled btb) and a stihl for the groundie. they're not doing the trees much good... I guess I'm teaching them bad habits because they always free climb and I've seen them using the saw in the tree wihout a rope and harness and one handed!

Looks like we might just get a full sized container as you can pick them up for £800. We could get the chippers in then too. Bolt it to the floor and have a laminated steel box, a GSM alarm, cctv, one of those alarms that are so loud you can't go near and trip wires setting off blank rounds! And a flock of geese.. Have I missed anything?

I don't think it's meant to be a "training" it is an overview of stuff you should know and an exam which you need to 75% (I think) to pass. I think it is split: 20% of the marks from 4 fungi 40% from some short answer questions and 40% from two tree inspections, with an automatic fail if you miss something obvious. Like I said before it is not a training course. You will learn something but don't expect to be taught how to inspect trees. If you do that already do a bit of reading, study the fungi threads and go for it.

I love mine.. seach for previous helmet posts..

Putting the chipper as a trailer was to save you money. We had the chipper with NFU as a seperate item but the rep worked out if it was insured as a trailer with the vehicle insurance it was cheaper.

I thought are tool box on the truck was pretty bomb proof..... till last week. Can any on one recomend a decent store for 10 or 12 saws and several hedgecutters? I've found these: http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/site-store/path/safes-site-van-storage and thinking about locking it in one of these: http://www.mrbox.co.uk/gallery39-chemical-store-6ft.html Do ya think the bstards would get through then both

The following are the numbers from my stolen saws: Would it be possible for someone to come up with a spread sheet which us unfortunates could add to with our numbers so that any one buying a second hand saw can check it ain't be nicked? Could it be added as a sticky at the top of stolen equipment? STIHL MS200T CHAIN SAW 164246414 STIHL MS200T CHAIN SAW STIHL MS200T CHAIN SAW 167822352 STIHL MS 441W CHAIN SAW STIHL MS039 CHAIN SAW STILHL MS 230 CHAIN SAW STILHL MS 660W CHAIN SAW 167595284 STIHL HS85 HEDGE CUTTER 16333276 STIHL HL 75 POLE HEDGE CUTTER ROBIN HT 250 HEDGE CUTTER 165857

I've put flying on hold for the next few years/decades, till the little uns are bigger. It is not a hobby you can go do for a week or two a year. IMO... I guess you could if you got your tickets and went abroad, but even then there's no guarantee. I once spent ten days in Austrailia at one of the best most reliable sites in the world and only got a couple of crappy flights in! A couple of mates did manage to fly 100Km but they were pretty good. They have HG flight parks in Florida where you get towed up which is a pretty reliable way of geting into the air and the weather is normally OK, but to me the running off a mountain is half of it!

Before being self employed and having children hang gliding and paragliding was what I lived for.. I have two wings ( one of each) sitting round slowly deteriotating. There is nothing like it in the world, the feeling of climbing wing tip to wing tip with a buzzard or red kite as you thermal up is unbeatable. The little beeb, beeb sound of a vario as you go up still fills me with excitment.. The memory of not being able to get down in rough conditions is still the scariest thing I've endured.. HG's are faster and as you lie prone you feel like superman, when conditions get bad you can just pull in the bar a fly fast. They are bit and not much fun to carry up a hill, so generally restricted to sites with roads. Towing up to height is however viable from trucks, winches, boats, or micro lights. This opens up flying in different wind directions and conditions etc.. PG's are slower and you fly in a sitting position, as you can't go as fast as a HG they have a smaller wind window and will get blown out before the HG's. The wing can also colapse in rough conditions which is not great if close to the ground. You can carry them to the top of a hill and in a car and plane however. I would say PG's are slightly easier to lean to fly and a bit cheaper. 7 to 10 days good weather should get you the pilot rating. Go to the BHGPA. As to the dangers, both HG and PG have potential. Both will fly on their own but you would hurt lots on either if you were to try to land like without imput. PG pilots get more spinal injuries as you can land on your bum, HG pilots face and arms are more common as you have a control frame to hit. The biggest issue is however it becomes all consuming. You sit on the top of hills waiting for the wind to, change direction, drop, pick up, etc, etc.. If you bomb out and your mates fly off, you hate them. If the weather looks good you have to go fly as you can't miss a chance. Weekends with nice sunny days can be spoilt as too windy, or not windy enough and you just sit around on a hill. If you've got the time do it... But go learn somewhere sunny. I learnt HG while in Florida and PG in New Zealand. Green Dragons do trips to spain I think.

Happy New Year... Saws nicked: 3 x MS200's ms 660 ms 440 ms 240 039 Hedge trimmers: HS 85 HL 75 Robin HT491WV I'll post some serial numbers. The bstards didn't get the 084 I picked up last week so if you knicked it and want to come back I'll leave it out.. If some one comes offering you a load of used saws let me know...

I do reports for my local housing association. They call me up to go and look at a tree and I charge £25 for advice, recomendations and a work priority. If it needs work I give a quote which they then except or don't. It worked well, I could recomend proper works and plan the job. Unfortunatley the manager changed now I get "can you go here and reduce the tree 50%" They can however bring in alot of work so don't get huffy over a wasted trip.

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I don't want to start the whole debate again, I just searched though the old links and it's done my head in.... Can anyone give me a link as to where I can download the application forms. I've searched here and the EA's web site, I can't find them and got borred looking..! I need a chip storage exception form too.. Cheers Sorry Skyhuck, we carry root balls and waste sometimes.....

First off I'm not posting this to brag.. We've been ticking over Ok for the last 6 months, not overworked and we've not been giving our subbies as much as we were at the start of the year. If it wasn't for a few big jobs we'd have been struggling in the summer. We have been slowly expanding from a 3 man team and have two transits which we have been working together for the last year. We're getting our dead chipper fixed so will potentially have the ability to run two teams and so get through work much quicker. Work has been steady up till last week when I got a number of big jobs accepted. In the current economic climate would people just book in work into the next couple of months and therefore risk losing jobs that won't wait 8 weeks, or should I bring in the subbies and get the work done quicker? I don't normally like having more than months work booked in and am happier at 2-3 weeks, I hate it when people say "how long?" I know its a good position to be in. I am thinking of just plodding through it which has not been my business stratergy up till now.... If your one of our subbies your views might be biased:001_tongue: