benedmonds
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Alex you need to lighten up about the cut and hold thing. I don't klnow how long you have been climbing, but I cut and hold on many/most jobs. I honestly don't think you can be competative if you don't. Anything you cut and hold is going to be too small to bother rigging down, you can do step cuts but sometimes you just need to get on with it and cutting and holding is the easiest and safest way. You have to be aware.. and the 2 inches in the original post sounds a bit on the close side to me.
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Not the best pics, but interesting variation on the normal form. Growing on roots with the underside having to move round to the sides.
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We had a large oak 200 odd meters from the road. with only just enough room to get a bobcat in. The skid steer is great very manoeuvrable but harsh on the ground. It trashed the grass, a drain cover , pond electrics, underground phone/internet cable and a patio area. It was great fun could lift logs into our 8 ton grain trailer and the perfect tool for the job but not much use everyday.
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Have I missed a sudden change in arb practices..? A local council has asked me to quote to pollard to 6m- 5 mature ash trees (18m - 20m), 4 similar sized horse chestnuts, 6 slightly smaller limes and 25% reductions on several large horse chestnuts.
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The transits are the perfect for most of the work we do except they are not legal... SBTC, have you taken your transit to a weighbridge? Aren't the crew cabs really heavy. As to only half filling it.. Honestly if you've got the space you'll fill it..
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2700... I knew there was an issue with 3.5 tonners being overloaded... but I did'nt think a big breakfast would send us overweight. There were two climbing kits, lowering kit, 6 saws, 2 hedge trimmers, ladders, rakes etc and 1/2 a tank of fuel, so I guess we could save some weight by not taking all the kit.. How much weight can you save with an ali or steel body? We looked into it and just hefting the raw materials about it didn't seem that much lighter. How much chip can you get in the back of a transit? I thought using two transits we'd get away with being legal most (some) of the time, but if wood chip weighs 500 -750kg cu.m we are probably over weight every day. Are 3.5 tonners just a waste of time if you want to be legal?
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Chris P - Have you ever been over a weight bridge with your tansit? I did mine today.. Full of tools and me but empty of chip.. Any guesses on a postcard.
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I've got a couple of consultants in in the past to do reports and they have been pants! If your going to get some one, get someone who knows what they are doing as anyone can claim to be a "consultant" just like anyone can claim to be a tree surgeon. I think we pay about £500 a year for PI insurance.
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Have any of you been to go ape? I got given a go for a birthday pressie as if I don't get enough swinging about in trees... Any way my point is, that for most of the course you are attached to a petzel tandem speed with a two way locking krab with a second krab which just gets clipped on and dragged around for backup. These secondary krabs were massively worn as they slide along steel core all day. I asked if they passed LOLER and the lad told me they get retired at 7mm. I just measured one of my old krabs and its 12mm. I wish I'd got some photo's as it made that nick look like nothing. I guess the damage is caused i a different way but I bet go ape have done some serious testing..?
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I have clients complaing about the noise from the chipper dunno what they'd say if you turned up wth a chopper!
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Don't be so fusy, the biggest issue in my mind excluding the dodgy saw was that it took him 4 mins 21.
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Cheers..
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Our original transit we knocked together as a temporary thing with angle iron and ply and it's still going strong 4 years later. When we got a new truck we looked into ali and steel bodies but they were very expensive and I don't know for sure but I bet they’re not much lighter than ply. I don't know what our transits weigh probably better not to. The advantage of doing it in ply was we could do it ourselves, get it just as we want and still use the truck during the build. We cut the original drop sides to fit a tool box which we made with angle iron and sheet steel. The chip box is angle iron and ply attached to the top of the drop sides. The tool box is big, in an attempt to stop us from massively overloading it (I doubt it works)! It is too small a lot of the time but we still have the old transit. Its great having space for all your tools and I like to be able to keep logs and chip separate.
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It's a tree! Draw that line on the first uncut pic.. Trees are not perfect or uniform and you can't make a tree perfect and cut to growth points. When I reduce a tree at first glance you should not notice it's been done, i have NEVER seen an oak that looks like a mushroom. They have bits sticking out. It is lifted higher on one side due to phone lines and street light views but cutting to make it perfect would have left big holes and over exposed areas.
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What's your problem with it?
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That's it, job done.
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In the end I decided that I would tender for the work and put in a fair price to do a propper job. I didn't get the job and this is the was the result of a "reduction." It is one of many trees these "professionals" mutilated. It's a good example of how using price as the method for chosing arb contractor sucks.. It is also why reductions get a bad press as this is a world away to what I would have done. Not that it needed doing anyway..
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This is a tree owned by a housing association. My advice on two seperate occasions was to leave well alone, but after 4 years of complaing the residents got the tree reduced! Was it worth it? Can you call it topped?
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Bring back the fungi! The 3D text looks naff, like someone messing around with word art..
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I guess they don't teach spear cuts at college! Works great on lombardies! Just spike up taking the low stuff as you pass. Keeps the brash in a very small target area and your groundies have to stay awake. If your felling.. obviously.
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Our local dealer kept writing off our saws. We were having a right mission finding someone we could trust. I asked the good people of Arbtalk and got a number for some competent mechanics. I sent them two dead MS200's which my dealer had written off hoping they'd make one but they got them both running! Cheers: DM Chainsaws Loughborough!
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Mattheck has apparently got or had two conifers (pines of some sort I think) which have been "topped" in his garden. IMO If the customer understands what is the "best practice" and what are the issues of "bad practice" it's their tree and should be able to do as they wish. You do the best you can when your in the tree. If the customer wants standing dead wood, Great! If he wants his lombardy poplars reducing by 50%, tell him what's going to happen in 10 years but it's his problem if he ignors your advice.
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To be honest I'd love an old truck or Landy to muck about with, but I'd have to stop work and get someone to look after the kids first!
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Apart from a new one you don't have too...
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
benedmonds replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Laetiporus sulphureus. Would have been worth collecting to eat but in a park at dog pee level!
