benedmonds
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I have some trees to fell which have had a bat survey and the trees have been classed as having a high potential for bats.. I've yet to see the report but how would I cover myself if I was to get the job to take the trees out. I'm guessing it was just a ground survey, should I insist that a climbing survey is performed before the works are undertaken..? The client (a developer) suggested that leaving the logs on site for a day to let the bats fly off might be required... I'm sure that's not enough..
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Looks familiar..... I remember it driving around being used by Dershire County Council, we copied the spout on ours, unfortunately its been sat in a shed for the last two years waiting for a new engine.. There can't be that many 222's out there will keep an eye out.
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I had a work with the client who has given some further advice: "I would say that there should remain 1.5 – 2m between each same age tree with the felling of the poorer trees to ground level. Understorey species should be retained where it is not interfering with the growth of a retained tree." Still a wild guess at how long it's going to take? I'm going with 4 men 10 days... sound reasonable??
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Could it not be: Rigidoporus ulmarius?? Not good for the tree either way..
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I've walked the site, but never commercially done this sort of work before. The trees are all very closely packed together, you can’t easily walk through it. They are all suppressed by each other to some degree. I’m sure they don’t want to remove 80% of the trees which you would need to do to “allow a ring of daylight around the retained trees.” Should I be creating space round the trees to give them space for the next 5 years, 10 years.... or the life of the tree? Is it just a what feels right sort of thing? The conifers are not nursery trees just a big old random mix. What is the rational for it? It's a nature reserve so not for timber. Natural succession will weed out the suppressed trees why am I there to help? As to “pricing accordingly,” like all tree work quoting it’s an educated guess, I was hoping that someone with experience might help making it more educated- i.e. a 3 man team should be able to do x hundred sq m a day.
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I've a quote to thin two areas of mixed broadleaf and coniferous woodland planting, about 15 years on an old old gravel pit. It covers about 20,000 sq m. Access is good and it's easy flat terrain. How much should I be taking out? Do all the self set saplings need to come out? How long do you think it would take? The brief is simply "selective thinning to remove suppressed trees and allow ring of daylight around retained trees"
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Well what.... heavy, small.. Discussed it in a previous thread: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2831 The chip box is made of ply/angle iron with big tool box. Cheap and easy to build. The tool box is great. It is a bit small for most 3 man days/takedowns, but we thought we'd be less likely to overload it....and we have another transit. We'll normaly fill it with chip and put logs in the other. The weight is on the high side, but I don't think doing it in aly would save enough weight to make it worth while.. The signs make it look tidy.
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What standing on the roof of the truck to put ladders away?
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Explain?
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Madness, you win some you lose some... I might feel a bit of guilt when I walk away with two days cash for one days work but I'm not going to give the client cash back. Give a quote before the job, the client knows what he's getting and you know what your doing. If the job changes the price changes.. otherwise live with it.
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Do you need a BIG 4X4, our 1.8 petrol Mitzy Pinin will tow the TW180 fine, 30-35mpg. Room for kit if you don't have pasengers.. High and low ratio's and center dif lock. Great fun to drive.
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I hope they get that chipped started soon........
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Fungi picture competition sponsored by Timberwolf
benedmonds replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Past Competitions
Pholiota squarrosa - shaggy pholiota -
Not the best photo's, found on Salix. My Guess: Pholiota squarrosa - shaggy pholiota
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The mess..
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I think this was number 4
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Three men a tractor and a few chainsaws can make one hell of a mess. We started monday and had 11 down by the end of play wednesday. It would have been much easier is they hadn't planted trees under them and if it had't been blowing a gale the last two days. We also felled one that was supposed to be pollarded due to an error on the map ohps... Could do with a bigger saw really! AHS (Buzz) are there tommorow to clear up! so I'll add some more photos later
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Can't beat the HH IMO, Merino, especially Icebreaker is great but too hot and won't last like your HH. If you call the commercial side of HH you can get the classic long lifa for £17. Unfortunately they don't do the orange anymore which they did last season.
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We've hired a tractor mounted post knocker from: Mick Dutton & Son Ltd The Workshop, Flawforth Lane, Ruddington, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG11 6NG Tel: 0115 921 6492 Not a million miles from you, they also sell them.
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I would never advise (and I think most of "us guys" are the same) bad practice and would explain the likely outcomes it is the clients tree. I would state that the tree will likely become dangerous in the future. I do often convince clients not to reduce their trees and lose work because of it. Some folk won't listen and in the end we earn a living cutting trees and if they pay us to do work which we don't like that's something we have to cope with. Unless you've work coming out your ears and don't need the cash. There are some trees that I would not mutilate but they'd have to be special not just some silver birch.
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Looks just like the Rigidporous ulmaris I incorrectly ID'd on my PTI course.
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I've got standards but it's their tree and it's only a silver birch, it would make a nice habitat, topped and you could come back and fell it in a year or two and get paid twice. If you can afford to turn away work, good for you. I make recommendations but it's still only a tree..
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I've failed it at least once, waiting to hear how I did on my second attempt. I'm not to hopefull as I know I got two of the four fungi wrong and you need 70% to pass. I had them upside down, confused the hell out of me! As I've said in previous threads it is not a course to teach you anything it is an examination with a couple of days previous preparation. You shouldn't worry about spelling however as you are allowed books for the ID and Inspection part. What you need is a dried up old fungi ident book however as that's what you get, not the nice fresh specimens displayed in all my fungi books.
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To be honest I meant to have a better look but forgot. I saw what I thought were the bootlace rhizamorphs on the lower trunk under the bark as you often get with horse chestnuts. It was pretty covered in Ivy and like I say I meant to have a good look later. No photo's..
