benedmonds
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any one have any experience with them? if it is piped for grab would it be delicate enough to grab brash? Feed chipper? i know it is not a forestry crane and would mostly be used for lifting logs etc.. but moving brash to chipper would be useful. Mounted on a tractor
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Not sure what is unladen was but we took ours (crewcab) to the weigh bridge full of chip and came in at 6650kgs.. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/arb-trucks/29792-iveco-6-5-a-3.html
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I don't see a crown reduction being viable.. I am not a fan of cable bracing except to catch suspect limbs if they were to fail. In this case the whole tree would fail and be hung up over the house, hanging on the cable... Not sure I would want to sort out that mess!
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Don't know why it was small?
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Asked to look a beech today and my first thought was that half was dead... On closer inspection turns out it is two trees one coming into leaf later.. What would others recommend. The two trees have not grafted well above ground and failure of the non leafed tree would be pretty catastrophic..
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It's nothing to do with the percentages.... http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/business-management/84816-subcontracting-same-company.html
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I wouldn't normally post such a boring video... Not really for other arbs any way. It helps when explaining to clients what a grinder does. Our dilemma if you can call it that is that the HB20 is so good there was no point getting a slightly bigger machine.. But the BIG grinders are expensive.. Dean at global brought us two machines to try, left them with us for a week and only took one home.. Works great as fits nicely on trailer with HB20!
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We had a couple of grand paid into our bank account a few months ago. Couldn't work out who it was from.. after some detective work i figured out it was from a firm i had done a small survey for. I have to admit to being tempted not to mention it! Turns out they had used another contractor called canopy.. Take care when paying with bacs...
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Would you bother retaining/managing the decline?
benedmonds replied to benedmonds's topic in Tree health care
Well the client wanted to keep the tree if possible, but obviously due to its location we wanted to double check the quantity of sound wood. So got BHA trees ltd to do a picus. We also did a resistograph tests on the large lateral over the road with the mazegill. This limb is knackered.. We will reduce the knackered limb and the tree can continue its slow decline..
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True, but if I always try to give good value and if I have got my pricing right I don't want to be any cheaper, so anyone who wins the work can have it. If I do a job in less time then I thought, then I have over-priced it which is also a mistake and could be just as costly as I am more likely not to have won the work..
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IT doesn't sound like you underpriced it. £1500 for 4 men is a good rate round here. What the others priced is irrelevant..
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Still need it to get in little spaces and they both fit on trailer..
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Don't feel you need to rush to pick up those grinders... Steve is getting quite attached..
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Who operates advanced decay detection in this area? The client of the Oak posted previously about is interested in retaining it and wishes to establish the extent of the decay.. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/86830-would-you-bother-retaining-managing-decline.html email: [email protected] 01332 875 869
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Trying to buy a stump grinder from UK dealer.
benedmonds replied to David Cropper's topic in General chat
We're looking forward to seeing two.. -
We have the lads split ours either when have quiet time or Saturdays. It is very inefficient. Even with a tractor Splitter. Motivation is required. When you do it for yourself you can normally get twice as much done as an employee.. still it pays a wage.. you might not have as many distractions in jodhpurs at your yard..
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A neighbours willow had collapsed on to his garage, and we noticed this fella.. on a nearly tree. Tree looks in good health.. with no die-back in crown.
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Oak tree in the front carpark of a nursery, declining slowly as Oak do. What would you advise?
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As the title really.. Does anyone want or know of sites that will take chip (and logs if any..) Job is on the 22nd of April.. We have 10 inch chippers.. So chip woody but not many logs.. Cheers
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Or if you really want to impress the firms you sub for get magnetic covers with their details on....
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I am not talking about notable champions.. I am talking about old willow pollards and grafted cherries. These can often have artificially large calculated RPA's due to a disproportionate girth. The issue is that there are planning officers (and arbs) out there who can be pedantic and will quote BS5837 and other documents as if they are sacrosanct. The BS should give guidance not be followed blindly. Just as you would ignore the BS and quote the ‘Veteran Trees: A guide to good management’ for notable trees I was after a reference that indicates that root area is proportional to crown area.
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to convince the planners it is nice to have someone else to quote hence the question! I am not talking about veterans here although I can see instances where that might occur. Root zones will die back in relation to the crown. If you had a 5 m tall old hollow stemmed tree with a 1250 diameter stem i can not see it requiring the 707m2 or 15 m radius rpa. digging is a option but tcps are used to help design developments and so digging not normally completed at that stage in the process.
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The answer doesn't lie in BS5837 as far as I am aware. That's why I am asking if there is any other reference.. There are lots of things BS5837 doesn't mention.. The RPA's as calculated in BS 5837 should not be sacrosanct. They offer a start point. But in reality often offer very little relation to the actual rooting area of a tree. I just wondered if there was a publication that I could site that supports the view. There are people out there who follow the BS blindly when in fact it can be BS..
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If you have your stop works signs you can stop the traffic for 2 mins in every 15. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/83873-stop-works-lollipop-3.html
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Is there a reference some-place that allows for the reducing of RPA's on trees with unusually large diameters? Things like grafted cherries for example? Or old trees that have retrenched or been reduced/topped? Or old coppice stools? I know the veteran tree people like increasing the RPA's but there are circumstances where a trunk is just to fat and the 12x diameter RPA just turns out massive.
