benedmonds

BS 3998 has only been about since 2010..

I need an individual/team to undertake 8-10 chainsaw carvings in the East Midlands. Drop me an email to discuss.. [email protected]

Heavy going is an understatement... Volume 2 is the most boring book I have ever tried to read... As others have said heave is very rare. As I understand it, It will only occur where a house is built on a dry soil with persistent soil moisture deficit. So the tree has to have been there before the house and the house built onto the dried soil. The soil obviously needs to have a high plasticity index. I think that the taking it down slowly over the years has been shown to be a waste of time (for the client) as if there is going to be swelling it will just happen over a longer time. Also Having not suffered from seasonal subsidence is unlikely to have any bearing on the likelihood of heave. I recently spent a considerable amount of time trying to convince a client that his 5m prunus was not going to cause subsidence to his property. We reduced it and he is still concerned.. He now wants us back to remove it and I have spent even longer explaining why heave is equally unlikely... I hate it when a client starts a sentence "I read on the internet"

It is very local to us and I have been, but not for a few years, it was a public rather than trade event. Something to do with the family.

I tend not to bother selling the staff, just wear them out and throw them away..

It will however: Break down, leaving you unable to work, possibly while still having to pay the guys who turned up and didn't moan about the job Depreciate and be expensive while employees should get better over the years It can't rake up or cut hedges or split logs or do a multitude of other jobs needed throughout the year get stolen or set on fire, leaving you buggered.. Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of bigger chippers (we have three 10 inch and a 7 inch for spare). But for most domestic work the brash is handballed at some stage so as long as your chipper can keep up with the brash draggers there is little benefit of a crane fed machine.. Land clearance, motorway stuff mechanical feed is going to win every time but most jobs an extra man is more versatile especially when it comes to raking.. Over the years I have tried lots of different methods, At one park we have removed 30 + big poplars in 3 different occasions. The first 10 we knocked them all over then brought in a whole tree chipper, big 360 with splitter and forwarder, which then "cleared up." It worked well, but we closed of a large area of park, the machines made a BIG mess and we had a lot of raking and ground reinstatement. The second 10 we used our 10 inch chippers had a small 360 to help with handling and logs taken away. Less mess/damage, less machine costs, I think better outcome. Wage bill was obviously higher but then staff are an asset The third 10 were a bit smaller and more spread out and needed a bit more climbing so, we did them in a more piece meal fashion , 1 or 2 a day, clear up after each. I am not sure I have a point, each method worked, I should probably should have worked out which was the most profitable..

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I am away until the 27th but might be able to help. Ben

I can't say I am a fan, I have tried for a while, but I don't like change.... I liked the old unread posts page, I check arbtalk daily but like to see everything on one page and decide if I wanted to read it or not. I now have to scroll down as you can only get 5 threads on the screen at a time.. Can we just have an unread posts with the title?

stereum rameale?

Any ideas? About 5m up a healthy looking lime tree, on a stem showing no signs of dysfunction. My initial thought was Bjerkandera adusta, but now in office not so sure? fungi on lime.bmp

We currently have 2 guys in the process: 7 days total: cost £1,775 (including VAT) including the medicals etc.. But. the wait to get licences back has meant we have been waiting a couple of months now with very little actually happening... So if you are planning a truck start the training in good time..

We came to the conclusion the 6-7.5 tonners were very good value when compared to the 3.5 ton trucks.. And much more suitable for tree work. Our 6.5 ton Iveco has been a really good truck and is difficult to overload... The plan was to get another of those, but saw a low mileage 7.5 tonner built, local and ready to go so thought we would try that. The biggest issue is driver licencing as the guys need to have C1+E. Which assuming they pass first time is costing us about £1700 a driver..

There is a sticker on the side that says 4200kgs, I am assuming that is the empty weight so we should have about 3000kgs for chip which is 10 times as much as a transit crewcab..

Have you weighed it full? We are getting ours in the next week or two and after seeing yours are considering adding some height to the chip box..

I never said it was the right way to do it...

If you turn up on site with big kit, folk rarely question the time spent. You just point at the kit on the drive and say that cost £x.... Most want you gone as soon as possible, a small chipper running all day is way more annoying then a big chipper only running for a few hours IMO.

I take a different view... that may or may not be true. The firm the OP is working for might think he is sailing close to the wind and not paying his taxes. The employer could (should) realise that he should be classed as an employee and therefore if HMRC inspected them, the HMRC would chase the employer for any unpaid tax..

They morph in year 7 to be come horrible by year 8...

That job may have been completed in one trip, it still would have been quicker with a towable chipper and tipper.. The micro chipper has a place but not when you can get decent chipper to it..

It's been around and mainstream a bit longer then that.. 1976 - Plastics in its great variety of forms becomes the most used type of material in the world A History of Plastics

If you have kit, you can use you can demonstrate to an employer your skill level and commitment and many firms take you on on a trial basis so might not want to shell out straight away. It would not be a deal breaker but having your own basic climbing kit (as long as it is kept in good condition) would be an advantage, if you came with kit I would replace it when necessary and if you left you would take the stuff I had replaced with you. If I supply everything from new I would expect you to pay for it if you wanted to take it with you when you left. You are likely to be more comfortable in your own gear and likely to want your own IMO..

Many years ago I spent the summer working as a street sweeper, some of the lads used to drop litter out the work trucks...? The other thing I don't understand is guys chucking their rubbish in the wood chip... But back to the initial thread, whatever you try in my experience the teams will treat the vans like a dump, energy drinks spilled all over the place foot-wells filled with trash.. We have a wheelie bin at the yard and they get emptied and cleaned out with the blower..

I think its around 3 tons..