Mr. Bish

I have started making my chains for all saws from 201 to 660 so I have a little understanding but am struggling to find a reliable spec for the MS150T

Can anyone confirm that I should get a reel of .043 1/4 chain or will I get away with .043 3/8

Struggling to find oregon reel .043 1/4

#confused

Thanks both. I can now answer and start remedial work much better informed XX

And yes, when I did it they used to keep bees...

I'm guessing it should be assumed that I did cut all the fruit bearing branches off. I was pretty brutal.

Do you think the fruit will return?

If thats the case then perhaps a 2 in 5 new growth reduction would make sense?

How much fruit did they produce before your work?

Ud be my first question.

Barrow loads I know becaise I had to cart them off. Tree was done in October 2010

I had more dead cedars in the past year than 10 yrs previous, might just b coincidence though

I sort of need to give an educated answer and come up with a treatment of sorts as there are two fine mature cedars just over the road from this one that died.

I'm looking at a semi mature cedar that to mee has no good reason for dieing but is practically gone.

Has anyone ever come across sudden oak death effecting Cedars?

(Yes there is a Rhodi bush underneath)

Thanks,

Chris

I cut back some apples for a client pretty hard four years ago.

It grew back well as I had expected.

Went back to her garden for more work and was asked a question I couldnt answer... "My apple trees have had no fruit now for three years, this year there are about three apples between the four trees.... why?"

All I could do is mumble a bit about single sex trees... then apoligise and said I'd get back to her.

Anyone have any idea as to why?

also any cutting based treatment as they are now massive and bushy again.

Thanks.

"Softwood roadside"

Erm... what does that mean?

Unseasoned softwood lengths?

Thanks for advise. so should I just shift entire pile at £3 a ton and try chipping less in future, is that the consensus of opinion?

Its because of this we chip the absolute minimum. All the crap from 70-500mm gets cut into 2.7 - 3 meter lengths and stacked, at least you get paid a decent return on it.Its much better than £60 for 30 ton of chip and you have to load it. A bit more work but worth it.

 

Bob

I agree with that principal but I have no crane on my lorry so if it doesn't fit in chipper it goes to logs

What were they paying before it dropped to £3 per ton ?

£7 per

My last load taken by Stobbard Biomass was contaminated. Every other load they have taken in the last four years has been good but unfortunately the loader got a bit carried away in the last load.

They have now dropped ALL future loads down to £3 per ton which makes it not cost effective for me to dispose of chip through them.

Anyone know any other biomass buyers? I produce around 250 Ton a year so enough but not a massive amount.

My opinion... because you asked.

Sycamore reduction is a horrible thing to do. It would need doing every few years after.

Removal and replanting is better or even big crown raise :-)

Why buy a house underneath massive TPO trees? They have been there longer than the house is my guess.

I have so got to try that :-)

I saw you guys hurling axes at the woodland. Looked like fun :-)

I had an old yew to deal with once in almost the same condition. Cleared all the (railway sleepers in that instance) and builders sand put in 10 years previously. Overdosed the soil with fish blood and bone Then left a hose pipe on it foe an unreasonable amount of time. That was four years ago.

The tree started showing marked improvement after about 2.5 years. As everyone has said The tree should survive but you will have to be very patient and it may not look better straight away.

Then in abouut 4 or five years come back and pay one of us to go through and clear out the deadwood and you should once again have an absolute beauty of a tree there :-) Nice to see someone who is actually trying to help the tree for a change :-) *thumbs up*

The usual customer we would speak to about that tree would be something more like "I love trees but I just cant handle the needles, nothing will grow underneath and we get no light in our kitchen. It's got to go."

Speedlineing sucks in myopinion. That looks like a hand held desmantle to me. Looks like a half day nice clean job. If not takeing anything away it could be less. So price it at whateve a big half day rate is for you and then spend all day doing it if thats what you want.

Finger in the air. £320

looks like an interesting job.

I'd have used an axe and a unimog.

My prices vary massivly.

Decideing factors.

TEA!

Thorns!

Access

Do I actually want to do job.

Are they shopping around.

Get priceing wrong sometimes, usually in large connifer toppings.

Prices seem to vary for three man team for me from about £280 (very bad day) to £1,000 (nice beer after work day).

So If it's a nice big job, not thorny, we can park chipper under tree, customer promises copious quantities of tea, they are phoneing around and the tree looks hastle free they mighy get me for £300 for the day.

If it's back garden hawthorn and ivy covered crud. Their garden is a maze of twisty archways and they are clearly pedantic about their herbacious borders, they clearly only drink vanilla smoothies. Its a grand!

Quoteing day or hourly rate is something that should be avoided at all costs.

Price the job, not the time. (anyone work in a similar way?)

oops remove my medium vote if taking this poll seriously... (fingers worked faster than my reading ability)

Same again no problems for me but my mate get's a rash if touches ivy.

Whenever we had ivy to deal with I'd warn him the day before and he'd come covered from head to toe. Never effected his lungs but his rash was pretty horrendious.

I thaught it was like connifer rash and he'd become immune to it but after repeating it got worse and worse for him.

If you are suseptable to it then cover up coz your vunerability seems to increase not dectease.

Me and everyone else is fine with it tho :-)

does it have spikes on? black locust possibly?

No spikes (not climbed it yet tho)

Not convinced with the caucasion wingnut either. Pictures I can find have similar bark but the general spread of the tree is much heavier crown.

I should find out if it's a form of ash when cutting it.:-)

I cant believe how many trees you guys have come up with that I havn't heard of *a little embarrassed*

Including paperwork, quotes and log shed stuff I would guess I manage to keep it below 60 :-)

Im going to go back tomorrow and see if I can any old leaves, seeds. None of these ideas seem quite right. Close but no cigar just yet :-)

Fraxinus Americana. Xshakes headX no massive coulour changes. Apparently leaves are a mid green and lighten before dropping.

White ash is the best bet I think. I have never worked on a white ash if thats the case. Previous cuts only resulted in light reshooting unlike every other ash I have come across. It's bark does look spot on tho.

looked up tree of heaven and can only find a smooth bark. The rest of the tree looks spot on tho

Hickory, crown looks wrong and no evidence of nuts