John Hancock

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You think thats bad.........Every year we have to put 300 hanging baskets up around the city! Been trying to make the connection for years the only thing I can think of is ladders....... as if we are the only buggers who can climb ladders!

Alice would like to thank Uncle Steve for the lovely T-Shirt and cap. She loves the picture of the wolf on the front! Daddy would also like to thank Steve and Timberwolf for the knife - Top quality!! Excellent bit of kit!! THANKYOU,

Bugger-all Matt ! I keep offering to take them out on site to see how we work....No takers yet

.....Anyway, what are you doing on here at this time ? Shouldn't you be stump grinding by moon-light !?

Had the investigation into the ‘Accident’ today. There was the health and safety officer, the parks manager and myself. I stood-up and took the rap, I'm such a nice chap!...

Nice job mate, well done ! Went to price up a private job today in Worcester. A sh*t load of conifers to reduce, some multi-stemmed Ash, a beech hedge and a eucalyptus to section-fell…Poor access too! I thought of you, so passed on your details..:001_tongue:

Nice job....Well done !!

They always seem to last Dean, they go through the chipper 2nd week in Jan and they're still look good then !

Always from Elveden mate.....Free lunch at the farm shop every time I visit!

Some pics...

Its Christmas tree week here in Worcester. One on New Road (crane) One at Cathedral Island.(crane) Two 18 foot trees by the Guild Hall (by hand) One 25 foot tree at St Andrews Spire (also by hand) There are now four Arbs in Worcester with very poorly backs... Roll on Christmas!!

....Ron Smiths (if your feeling flush)

Depends which lake we're talking about lol. It's close by the lake which is in the formal part of the gardens (not far from the grotto) Walk round the lake, anti-clockwise and its set back on the right-hand-side. lovely looking old tree that’s clinging onto life.

Very impressive mate! Have you seen the Ginkgo by the lake? It’s reputed to be one of the oldest living specimens in the country…

Its known as 'Porters Ash Beds' in the village where I live - Defford. I coppice a section of the Ash every Christmas, never ask for any money...just love working in such a wonderful place....good for the spirit!

Know the feeling mate....

Worcestershire Wildlife Trust mate, I dont know which contractors they use though....Just lifted this from their site..... Also known as Hanbury Woods this is a very well known and popular reserve. It consists of two old commons covering 39 acres (15.5 hectares) which were, in previous centuries, maintained as wood pasture - an almost parkland type landscape. The Trust acquired the site to protect the old trees and their associated wildlife. Woodlands have been grazed to create wood pasture since at least the Middle Ages a practice that is often associated with old commons, where the owner granted rights to commoners that allowed grazing by cattle, sheep, and pigs. Often trees were planted and protected to grow large timber as few self-set saplings were able to survive the grazing, giving rise to old, widely spaced trees with a grassy woodland floor with few shrubs – something between woodland and parkland. The trees were often pollarded (branches harvested for small timber, cut at head height or above, out of the reach of grazing animals), and allowed to re-grow. The oldest trees on the common are several hundred years old, and many bear the signs of pollarding. This helped them to survive because they were of little timber value, and pollards are among the oldest trees we have in this country. Many are ancient beech and sweet chestnut pollards together with big oaks, believed to be 300-400 years old, with spreading crowns typical of trees which have grown in open conditions.

They've been doing that down at Hanbury, couldn't believe how much they've opened it up (a little too much for my liking) http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=4106 The thought was to fell a lot of the young Beech in order to allow light onto the Chestnuts and the Oaks. Went over there this morning and it looks to me that the old pollards and veteran Oaks are continuing to die-off, at a faster than natural rate.

Thanks Steve, I'm chuffed !

Is that where she put the flowers Dean..... :laugh1: