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My wife was putting together, a parcel of bedding, sleeping bags etc to send to the Polish social club to ship to the Ukraine. They are also after first aid supplies. One of the things that really, really annoys me is that we have use by dates on items in the first aid boxes. Anyway while the Arb association may mind if my bandage is out of date I don't suppose someone who actually needs a bandage will care. It could be a good time to update your first aid kits so they are good for another 5 years and send your old stuff off to where it is needed rather than having it end up in landfill.
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We have not gone down the multiple attachment route with our Avant. I think about it often but find a simple set of pallet forks is fantastic. I have not used so can not be sure but not sure you need to grab often. Maybe an owner operator it would be more productive, but we already find when the Avant is onsite the operator gets stuck to the seat and will often spend longer fannying about then doing it by man power. The thought of loading the chipper and the likely damage if they had a grab and it would likely result in with one man watching the stop bar while another rams it with the grab just frightens me.
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A little more detail would be nice
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We have a few jobs to be undertaken at night for a Network rail shut down. What do people use to light the work site? Just head torches or is it worth hiring in some form of lighting?
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One of my "favorites" is the charity parachute jump. All parachute injuries from two local parachute centres over a 5-year period were analysed. Of 174 patients with injuries of varying severity, 94% were first-time charity-parachutists. The injury rate in charity-parachutists was 11% at an average cost of 3751 Pounds per casualty. Sixty-three percent of casualties who were charity-parachutists required hospital admission, representing a serious injury rate of 7%, at an average cost of 5781 Pounds per patient. The amount raised per person for charity was 30 Pounds. Each pound raised for charity cost the NHS 13.75 Pounds in return. Parachuting for charity costs more money than it raises, carries a high risk of serious personal injury and places a significant burden on health resources. -
He wanted to give his daughter a £150k job running the charity for a start. They sound bent as..
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A chipper that looked very like our stolen chipper came up on eBay after being missing for many years. We had been paid so I guess it belonged to the insurance company, but I called the police local to where it was being sold and they weren't interested. I messaged the seller asking for serial numbers and they pulled it from eBay.
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They are NOT willing to remove FOC... Quite the opposite.. I will look up QTS and Taziker..
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Yes, we did those after jumping through the many hoops including formal tractor training for someone who had been driving tractors for decades... These are same section of track probably less than a km away but definitely need more supervision... Annoyingly the track was closed due to flooding for a number of weeks last year.
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Does anyone know who works track side in the East midlands (Derby way), I have a client with trees next to the track, including a fairly big dead ash. I loath working with Railtrack, not sure I want to jump through the hoops including the £20,000,000 insurance, bird and bat surveys. We have been trying to get an estimate for the supervision since well before Christmas and the chance of getting done before bird nesting is now impossible. It would be 3 days work in the day probably more at night depends how often Railtrack stop the work for trains.. Line blockages are available between: Midweek nights 00:05 – 05:30 or Saturday nights 23:30 – 07:30 I am thinking the client might get a better value from someone who already work for Railtrack as they will be used to their way of working. Railtrack won't tell me who their contractors are..? [email protected]
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Has anyone any experience of courses, training or resources for team leaders. Excellent operatives do not necessarily make excellent team leaders and would like to give some of the team some tools to help them. In the past I have promoted guys to team leader and it has not gone well, some are just ineffective and productivity drops, but some take the chance to sit back and watch others work, resort to shouting and threats to motivate or simply just leave as they can't cope with the responsibility.
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I think we paid £7,500 for our hb20. I was very shocked when I looked into buying a new one a year or so ago.
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Is there any treatment available for these trees?
benedmonds replied to eagles5769's topic in Tree health care
That is a bit harsh. The in house consultant has a different opinion. Why keep a tree 15 years, that will need regular maintenance and expensive annual or biannual reports from consultants (thieving bastards) and then it will still need felling.. Fell it now replant. In 15 years the replacement planted now will look way better then the newly replanted replacement ..😉 -
Is there any treatment available for these trees?
benedmonds replied to eagles5769's topic in Tree health care
That would be challenging in this situation as the buttress roots have been buried... Plus I am not convinced it will show anything useful. What do you do if you find the roots are ok? While you may be able to retain for a few more years ultimately it will have to come out soon. In that location next to a road is it worth the risk? -
It is released in cinemas from Jan 28th
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What can be done with limitless funds...🤯
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Speed limiters on new cars by 2022 - Confused.com WWW.CONFUSED.COM We look at speed limiters and how they won't guarantee that you'll escape a...
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This was the issue I had with the bat awareness course I did way back in 2006. So many trees have potential for roosts. In the 20 years I have been in the tree game only come across bats twice and one of those was in a conifer hedge reduction..
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https://www.batlicence.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CIEEM_IP89_Sept15_Mulholland.pdf
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I was an ecologist before I became a Arborist and it is always something I have wanted to get back involved with.. Always been too busy running the business but we now have employed an arb manager which theoretically will give me more time to upskill.
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When doing the bats in Arb awareness course back in 2006 I remember coming away thinking, "that was pointless, anything can be a roost." BSI pricing makes purchasing the BS8596 rather unaffordable.. The Micro guide can be downloaded: https://cdn.bats.org.uk/uploads/pdf/BSI-Bat-Microguide-UK-EN.pdf?v=1549304693
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Do bats and squirrels ever share roosts? I know squirrels will predate birds nests do they do the same to bats?
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Scoping surveys for Arborists - online - Events - Bat Conservation Trust WWW.BATS.ORG.UK The Bat Conservation Trust was formed in 1990 as an umbrella organisation for the rapidly growing network of bat... Anyone done this training?
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But what can we do if it is a roost? We would presumably need an EPS licence? Then what? If we have a crane we could soft fell/lower the roost to the ground. Then what are the options. Relocate the roost? Give them the option to fly off themselves? I don't see that as an option at this time of year.
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We have a beech with a big cavity, to come out. Obviously there is huge bat potential although there is no staining etc.. It has been a long time since my bats in Arboriculture course, what is best practice now days? It is complicated by the fact that there is a building going up in a month that will mean no crane access and it will be a very different job without a crane. I have jus t ordered: Bat Roosts in Trees A Guide to Identification and Assessment for Tree-Care and Ecology Professionals cavity video.mp4
