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I am actually really busy...

One of our guys lost his head watering trees last year..

We have used and still use Simon regularly. Competent, reliable and trustworthy..

I spent several hours yesterday making and playing with one for the kids in the garden. It worked OK, but I only had dynamic rope with to much bounce... We replaced the wire winch cable off the landrover so I might try that. I have also just brought a Petzl Trac of ebay as the single fixed pully I was using didn't seem to run very well.

Cheers, thats what I am after..

I planted a difficult site last year on an ash heap from a power station. There was a thread about it. Amazingly the wet summer last year was in our favour and the trees are doing OK. We basically heaped a load of soil ontop of the thin layer already over the ash and planted the trees into that. There was a big issue with broadleaf weeds growing up between the trees. The client wants grass. We strimmed/mowed them down last autumn but want a selective contact herbicide that will knock out the broadleaf weeds but let the grasses survive. Is there something that fits the bill or do we kill everything and reseed. Or just recommend regular mowing..

I am interested that people are recommending Picus. I admit to never having used one but thought that in this root/butt rot scenario your not going to get clear results.

Anyone in the East midlands with a resistorgraph? If so PM/email me with prices.. Cheers [email protected]

Big fat TPO'd beech in a nursery playground with ganoderma brackets in root buttresses. What would you do/what additional tests would you recommend.

LARGE JAPANESE LARCH TREE felled firewood use | eBay He has sold a felled one for over £100!

Previous discussion when we did a job a few years back. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/utility-arboriculture/34654-work-next-railway-line-4.html

Hobbits have got big feet

I was surprised to see separate clips of two of my kids in a 3 min film, voiced by Clive Anderson.. Celebrate Queen Elizabeth's historic Diamond Jubilee during 2012 with the Woodland Trust

Unlikely... If he is on a shrinkable clay soil he could potentially suffer from the opposite, heave.

My boys 7 and 9 love the wii, there are some good family type games where 4 can play and have a laugh. Gran can even play.. It might not be suitable for hard core gamers but do you want your kid to be a hard core gamer?? The only downside is kids constant asking to go on it. Plus some very clever marketing for skylander giants which mean you have to buy extra figures. You need at least two controlers and the nunchucks.

https://www.gov.uk/specialist-tests-for-lorries/change-the-weight-you-can-carry

I asked VOSA, and that is the advice they gave. It made no sense to me and we have yet to get round to it... I reckon we'll just try filling in the VTG10 and sending the £28

We have not found it that simple. VOSA told me to contact Iveco, who passed us onto a company who responded: Downplate – Iveco Daily 65C @ 6500kgs to 6000kgs for a GTW of 8250kgs Thank you for your enquiry concerning the downrating of your vehicle. Downplating requires that a physical alteration is made to the vehicle and the most cost effective method is to reposition the suspension bump stop to reduce the operating travel of the suspension both front and rear. This involves a calculation in which the deflection of the roadsprings determines the reduction in travel required. The calculation, a justification and a Dtp form, numbered VTG10 are submitted by us to VOSA at Swansea. On clearance by the Technical Dept at VOSA, instructions are sent to your local Goods Vehicle Test station to call the vehicle in for examination. In the meantime, we consign to you, on receipt of payment, a conversion kit and fitting instructions designed specifically for the particular vehicle. The kit is despatched to you by UPS Next Day services. You should allow approximately 1½ - 2 Hours for fitment. The cost to your company is £312.00 (£260 + VAT) To allow me to De-rate your truck I need some details from the vehicles :- • Copy of plating certificate VTG7T - with tyre sizes (or Type Approval) • How many leaves you have front and rear (main & helpers ) • Shape of the Bump Stops front & rear • Which Goods Vehicle Testing Station you would like the vehicle tested at • Covering letter with Company Name & Address • The laden weight of the trailer to be towed (weigh ticket required) or a copy of the plate on the trailer • The overall unladen weight of the vehicle (weigh ticket required)

I thought they were the same trucks with different ratings, so the 5.2 would carry 1450kgs.

We took our 6.5 tonner with tail lift which I guess is the same over a weigh bridge rammed with poplar chip 3 climbing kits, lowering kit, 8 saws, tool kit etc.. 6,650 Kgs - I though you had a 6 ton one? http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/arb-trucks/29792-iveco-6-5-a.html Weighed it empty will and have the figure someplace.

I have 23 big poplars to fell, last time we cracked and chipped the lot. Well Edd and Buzz/AHS did: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/3628-11-poplars-fell.html I don't think AHS do the cracker and chipper any more, who does? or who wants a lot of poplar wood.

I brought 3 petzel Alveo Vents (orange), all have cracked within 5 months use. Rubbish! Vertex Vents would last 5 years and still be serviceable.

Cheers, That looks like it will work.

It's not complicated if the buildings are outside of the RPA and the Method statement would be: erect fence.. but you would need the AIA to confirm the RPA. You could do the AIA yourself, its not rocket science, but you would have to have a copy of the (massively overpriced) BS.. The arborist, arboriculturalist comment was a bit flippant. As to practising tree surgeons being able to write an arb method statement to protect a tree I would disagree. Many tree surgeons no very little about trees, hence the regular tree mutilation threads...

We have employees on the books and use the occasional freelancer. It just looks like a lot of paper work.. Even if you are not doing CIS works you have to fill in a monthly nil return.. HM Revenue & Customs: Contractor registration and obligations Submitting monthly returns Each month you'll need to send a monthly return to HMRC. This tells HMRC about the payments you've made to all your subcontractors - and any deductions you've made from them. If you haven't made any payments, you'll have to make a 'nil return' to let HMRC know.