arbogrunt
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Things look like they are going to be a bit lean this summer. I know a lot of companies were 'biting the bullet' last year, but I'm finding this year a lot harder. Good luck and keep going mate, something will turn up:thumbup1:
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If he was worth his salt, he'd offer to pay for it himself mate! I know of a few situations where the Boss of a firm has asked freelance climbers to dismantle and they've clear-felled and broken stuff - they paid for it.
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no luck mate?, you'll have to sell your body on Southend sea front!..
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pay my tax bill next month!....
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Interesting thread, I'm freelance and work for 4 different AA approved contractors. Obviously, its only when the companies are being assessed or re-assessed that the subbie climbers details are checked by the AA. All the companies I work for (AAAC or not), have all asked for copies of my tickets/insurance etc, so its up to them who they hire of course. Personally, I don't see any advantage of any 'sole trader' becoming AAAC, it would be expensive and I wouldn't gain anything out of it whatsoever. Its always the same in this line of work...your only as good as your best climber, and he's only as good as his last job!
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of course copper can kill a tree - but only if its the size and shape of a good felling axe...!
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ha ha!, I found its cheaper to headbutt your chipper! (of course these days I watch other people headbutt THEIR chippers - much less stressful - and painfull!)
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wow, that was lucky!. The best thing to have done would be, as has already been said, tack a disc of wood on top of the hollow trunk and come back later on in the year when the bird has flown the nest. The reality of the situation is we have to lose money to facilitate such things...its always a compromise between earning a crust and caring for the wildlife in the trees we work in daily. Good job mate:congrats:
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Blimey, doesn't it give you pins and needles mate?
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great reply, thanks for the up to date info mate. I always carry a combat application tourniquet in my kit. just about to go on a FAW refresher course, it sounds like quite a few things have changed. The other thing I was told to carry are Israeli shell dressings, the are elasticated and you can get good pressure on a wound. Still carry a British one in my chainsaw trouser pocket though..they are very hard wearing!.
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when I did my 'remote areas first responder' course, they got a plastic cup and filled it with blood' then tipped a packet of 'quikclot' in. It melted the cup and the coagulated blood fell in a bit squishy lump of the floor!. I take it that was the hot one then...apparently the US Marines get a personal issue of it and there have been plenty of burns cases getting casevac'd with the wounded bloke they were tending...its fantastic stuff, if you use it after trying direct pressure and pressure points..and then with extreme care.
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Don't tell everyone Pete!...I can't deny it...but, sadly, sometimes I have to go to work and shin up bloody trees!
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.....on another note, did anyone else notice the Guard at Buckingham Palace...they stayed stood 'at ease' when Brown drove in, but 'presented arms' to Cameron....the British Army's way of say 'thanks for everything Gordon'??!
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Well whoever we ended up with, were in for a rough ride.....I'm glad Labour are out and lets hope the this lot keep at least some of their promises...
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well thanks for tips fellas, theres 3 more:thumbup1: things I've learnt on here again!. Yes Moley they finally let us out of Hatfield forest...just as the sun came out..what a bummer!
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I think its worth trying, but not until the climber is experienced and confident on prussik/blakes hitch/klemheist etc. These days a lot of newer climbers I meet are learning to run before they can walk. I personally wouldn't use a VT on an everyday basis...but we're all different. I know a bloke who had 6 - 8 foot fall on rope when his prussik slipped on him working in the rain. His back was badly injured and he was in hospital for weeks, he now works as a foreman and rarely climbs, so the prussik isn't bomb-proof. Keep safe out there fellas!
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Had a nasty Willow with a lot of decay in the lower stem to fell next to a pond, so we shot a line into the top and got a winch on on it. As I started the first cut of the felling cut, it started going back over...good job we had the winch on it or I would have been up to my nuts in pond-water:001_smile:. Only got 3 inches of the back cut in before it went over!
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nice job Tel!. I haven't done a conifer hedge for ages, but did one with Dan the other day...forgot how much I hate the bloody things!. I thought I'd give my lockjack a whirl in them to see how it would go...uh oh!...about as much use as wing mirrors on a submarine in conifers...gimme a blakes hitch anyday!
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I've used the VT for a while, I found it very easy to use but had an unpleasant experience with it whilst ascending with a pantine. It failed to bite and I found I instantly lost confidence in it!. I got a split tail sent up and got straight back on a blakes hitch for the rest of the job!. I then moved on to a Knut, which has never let me down and self-tends nicely with a bit of rope-weight under it:thumbup1:. I tend to use a lock-jack and rope guide alot these days due to a old wrist break giving me gip - very ergonomic in the right tree:thumbup: (and a pain in the arris in the wrong one!)
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Always an interesting debate!. I think it depends of a number of factors, species of tree, habit of tree, location, objective of pruning, previous history of pruning to tree and most importantly of all....how the work is carried out!. A tree that has been 'thinned to reduce' that has been done sensitively and achieves balance through the crown will look pretty good for a couple of years after the work has been carried out. A tree that has had a crown reduction with heading cuts applied (and usually with too much of the crown removed), will look pretty awful by the end of the next growing season. As a rule of thumb, I like to thin a tree a couple of years after reducing it and vice versa, its better than an endless cycle of crown reductions 'back to the old cuts'.
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Hmmm, Winston was a man of his generation, you have to wonder what we would have done without him during WW2. I think the British Govt would have thrown the towel in at Dunkirk (as many MP's were advocating at the time). I can't quite see Neville Chamberlin leading our hard pressed country out of that one....... Sadly, the hard learnt lessons of not too distant history seem to need to be re-learnt over again.
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...not only but also, how about any surrounding trees, reducing. thinning or felling them could stimulate a bit of inner crown growth in your veteran?...
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Obviously dependant on the tree...but I would go for a long term management regime of gradual crown reductions...maybe over the next 15-20 years. By the time its done, you'll have a long white flowing beard
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do it mate, I lost my oil cap over a pond of big Koi and was sweating for the rest of the week! (turned out ok in the end, but been using bio ever since!)
