mikecotterill

Right here goes the numpty question of the year. Not sure if its been covered before or not, but I was thinking the other day, how does a tree know its got a wound and how does it know to grow over it. There's probably something really obvious here that I've missed

I'm on it though I don't think it's as good as the first one add me spidetreekiller on Xbox

great vid as everyone has said. Dont know if it is obvious to everyone else but how did you do the folding tree stunt?

Yeah I'd like to know too. I can think of a couple of ways none of which I'd think were too safe

I'm looking at buying a small grinder from down there and was thinking either someone could have a nosey at it or pick it up and keep hold of it for me for a while, but I'm thinking I might just have to drive down for it as its looking difficult to get a courier for it because it has an engine!

Yeah lewes Nr brighton

mine was dragged out of the workshop today its been in there for over a year ( fired third pull with the old petrol in it ) the only reason i took it was i could not be bothered to hook the chipper on and reverse it up the drive to the job. performed faultless as always

Great minds think alike

As above anyone in the lewes area could you pm me. Thanks mike

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Just finished uploading this video from last week, not sure why the cameraman chopped the footage where he did. It had the last piece fine.

 

Also that is being made to look like hard work as I am short at 5'6. It is 10x easier to load on the floor.

Was gonna say why not have it on the floor, but then saw the last part of your post

That's a bugger as it's a great saving on them:thumbdown: pity they never do anything like that up here

Yep same here. I think there was/is a similar scheme in wales,

Cheers for the info guys, the link above for Cumbria isn't available to "outsiders"!

Wire rope for tree work. The first lot we had on our chipper was synthetic and it lasted less than three hours working time. It got roughed up really bad just winching limbs up a bank to the chipper. The whole lot snapped in half on the third job. Turns out it hadn't been wrapped on the drum under tension and the last 15m that HAD been spooled on under tension(because we were using that 15m) bit in and melted to the loose stuff. When we unwrapped the lot the last two wraps had melted themselves on to the drum. I'm sure it's good stuff but I doubt it'll last with the rigours of tree work.

Were you winching out with it rather than free spooling? Some winches have an internal brake inside the drum, this comes on when winching out hence the heat from the friction

I did his last course a few months back, I would highly recommend him.

 

I think you are talking £600 for 5 days training and the assesment.

Was that for both? Or just medium? His site says 370 or so then 100 for windblown, but doesn't include notc assessment I don't think

I think Phil Dunford has one place left on his medium and individual windblown course in December.

He's based near Corwen, not sure if thats too far for you?

 

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Are you on that? If so any idea on prices?

Will the outfit you work for allow that?

 

Makes sense if they do and makes you more marketable.

 

Good luck with the search for a course.

I think it says in the afag guide its ok, or at least suggests it. Found a post on here for one next week so ill see tomos

I'm thinking of doing medium/large trees instead of doing a small tree refresher, anyone on one soon and have room? Cheers mike

To be honest I only saw the last 5 minutes, I think they ended up wrapping the rope round the pig and driving off to half the pig.

You don't have to have it perfectly straight on to the winch to get it something like just "near enough". Like I said its never going to happen as people won't take the time, me included, but it is the fault of the operator

I'm the same with wire, don't think it's OCD but I do feel a little embarrassed if its not on straight and I think it does look unprofessional too especially on the front of your truck

I don't think there's any situation where you couldn't get a straight pull, but like I said its down to laziness, it takes time and effort to set up a redirect but it would solve the problem. I'm not saying anyone's going to do it, but its also not a problem with the rope itself just the user, synthetic rope just allows people to cut corners.

If it bunches up on one side just unwind it and spool it on straight

Funnily enough the myth busters episode was on tonight where they try to cut a pig in half

Sytnthetic reels on better as it doesn't matter if it crisscrosses over on the drum whereas steel rope will flatten and kink etc.

That's more down to operator laziness

Yeah I'd recommend steel, I think the dangers of steel are hyped up massively, only downside is weight.

You do not need to do refresher training, as far as I'm aware its only recommended.

 

If you employ people its probably a good idea to have them do some form of refresher training to cover your back.

 

You may find that some clients ask about the dates on your tickets, I had a council that questioned my tickets, as I took mine in 1996, I pointed out that if they wanted a novice with limited experience I was not the man for them. They saw my point and I won the contract.

Well the problem is when something goes wrong, in my area of work if a mistakes made if your lucky it could cost the company huge amounts of money, at worst there could be a major incident. It's just a way for the company to cover itself. For the average Arab company it probably won't ever come into play.

How on earth does someone who is self employed not "leave within a year"?

A lot of us here have been here for two years now, like I said in my first post, its not exactly self employed as such, but I don't really want to go into it that much.

Thanks Alvin, Went to look at them today and could only see one sign that said SEEBOARD- So im guessing now EDF however there was nothing else giving power, contact numbers etc.

 

It has 3 strands off a single wooden post (like a BT pole), I forgot to take any pictures but can anyone hazard a guess at the power of them?

If the wires are above each other it's probably lv, up to 1kv if there side by side hv above 1kv

I'm just going to jump in here, this line here I assume is a BT line? There's no sort of conductors that I can see. Plus it's resting in a few trees.

Utility poles should have two yellow warning signs just above head height, although obviously they could be removed.

Hi Mike

Latest version of AFAG 805 was May 2011.

 

Time spent refresher training depends on what specific subject is to be covered for example Maintenance,Crosscutting, Felling(up to 380mm), Felling (over 380mm) Chainsaw use in tree, Dismantling etc etc.

Have they told you exactly what you need to refresh?

Cheers Mark

So before 805 did afag mention refresher training? I'm guessing that's why it's just coming to light as its fairly recent??

Yeah it's a day for 30/31 and a day for 38/39.

Also found out that the agency may pay for it, if we sign something to say that if we leave within a certain period we have to repay so much back.

Well the update to this is, as mentioned above is that afag recommend 5 years refresher, although at our place at least there's some uncertainty if its retraining or assesment that's needed? The company has found two places to do it, one for a three day course the other only one day, both are 250 pp. I think this shows up the major problem here, in that there isn't a set syllabus/course for this.

The employees of the company we agency to, have done their refresher training and got a lantra certificate of attendance after it.

Anyone know when afag 805 was produced? If it was fairly recently, hopefully it's just a matter of lantra/nptc sorting out a specific syllabus.