Mr. Bish

I'm guessing it's a non common ash. It leaves later in the year than other trees (Mid June apparently and looses leaves and the stalk holding them early). Tree is in good health but customers nor I have any idea at all. The leaves are apparently ash shaped in compound pinnate but longer and thinner than the usual ash trees. The bark is what has thrown me mostly and the shape that the tree is growing. If someone positively identifies this as a mountain ash I will feel mighty embarrassed:blushing: Looking at the profile now it looks very ash like but the bark is just wrong. Please help

Thanks, I will point her in right direction.

I employ a girl who wants to take her CS training. Has anyone got any idea where she could start looking for waste 26 - 28 trousers and size 5 to 6 boots? This is not a thread on the ethics of having women working

Stupid question but is it possible that they sent the same 36" back to you as it was new? I'm not familiar with ripping chains but have experienced new bar tightness in several saws including severly in the new 201T to teh point where the saw is using almost all it's power just to get the chain started... They do loosen a bit over time but are never as good as a bar that starts loose as most of them do.

Outstanding... Where was the whooping when it all went to plan?

ONly one offer so far and it's a fair jaunt for them from Milton keynes. anyone else want to tender?

None of these seems a quick fix. I will look into getting a licience for grazon 90 Thanks for all the advise. I really dont fancy pulling out 12 acres worth of bramble roots :-)

Yup all agreed.... customer wants them gone because they are too overweight and doddery to make it through their woodland.

Is anyone willing to come to South side of Birmingham for a day with their mill. It is a paid job. all i need to know is the price really. Date needed on site will be Wednesday 31st Aug. Dead beech tree to be milled looks to be metal free and looks to have never been part of a fence. I will have cut to desired lengths and we have use of a tractor for lifting if required. It's about 40 foot of straight trunk under 3 foot max girth. Reply with any questions, price and availability please. or message me through here. Access is very good, it is adjacent to a flat driveway. Cheers:thumbup:

I have been asked to manage a small holding hardwood woodland. It's plagued by brambles. I suggested putting pigs in, in a managed way. client doesnt want the hasstle. Any suggestions on best way or compound to irradicate the brambles? Thanks:thumbup:

It is possible that this in itself will be enough to make them sit up and take notice. Massive Majority feel it's a bit of a gnarley buisness practice. This is to the guilty (as judged by me) company. PM me and ask my company name so that you can stop sending them out to my clients and it will all end happy. :-)

seems like general concensus is that they are not really playing fair and I should talk to the main man. I did meet his team in a snack van lay by but main man wasn't there and the workers just shrugged it off like they had no idea what I was on about. If I do give them a call tomorrow I'll post the responce. My guess is I will get nowhere. they are big users of this site so I need to be a bit careful. My guess is by tomorrow they will be expecting a call :-) At least it seems that it's a local problem to me here, not nationwide.

It's more of an annoyance as they havn't actually managed to get any of my clients that I know of. I have copies of the letters sent to several loyal customers and other tree workers in my local town are haveing the same problem with this one particular company. :-(

Customer poaching that is :-0. Round my way there is a company that writes to every customer that I do conservation forms or TPO forms for stating that if they want the job doing properly without risking giving the job to people who are not enviromentally and practically sound tree companies then give them a call. I feel that it is beyond the bounds of normal business practice and that the company involved should perhaps advertise a bit more rather than trying to steal work after I have done all the paperwork. Not exactly sure where this info comes from and if anyone does know the legitimate way of getting the information then please keep it to yourselves. It is getting to the point now where I feel the need to warn my clients that live in conservation areas that they will get approached after I have submitted the forms. Just throwing this out there to canvass some opinion. Not nameing names because the company involved is a user of this site.

Almost sold out. 115 bulk bags done and 7 going this sat. thats me done for this year so I can start working next years. :-) Almost a relief when it's all gone.

looks like a great job.. The one that shows you cutting's not the easiest beast to do. Enjoyeed the pics. :-)

beautifully shot vid. Looks like a nice job neatly done.

Absolutely spot on. It was about 4 inch shallow of the other side.

This is log pile just before. And soon after (I have chopped about 5 ton from the poplar) I'm logging the lot and selling it cheap to people with stoves to mix in with other wood if they want. Better than throwing it on a fire! but only just.

Yes it was a bit of a scary fell. i had two people with me that wanted to go for a dismantle. the limbs spread about 70 foot including 40% of tree over power lines and a road. the field side had a very slight weight advantage but not enough to make me totally comfortable. the huge hinge is from me sort of bottling out a fraction early and also not getting the front cut exactly even. tree was tied up to a tractor for assistance and as I was finishing back cut it started lifting a touch. It had lifted to about three quarters of an inch and there was a little bit of popping. So to avoid being at the back with goose risk I left the scene and tractor finished with a nice hard pull. If i had stuck to my guns and taken a few more inches I am sure it would have gone on it's own :-) Like I said it was a tough tree and we just did our best. Thanks for not ripping me to shreds *thumbs up* One of the people took a vid of the thump... I'll try and get them to upload it or give it to me at least. Apparently it was great but I don't ever seem to hear them when I cut them.... anyone else get that?

It was 6 foot in it's widest girth and we did it with two 3 foot 660's on site.

Was very chuffed to get this job down smoothly. Probably about 10 Ton bigger than my biggest before.. It all went very smoothly really and I had a lot of help that day. It was a good day about 2 months ago and I just remembered arbtalk :-) Please don't kill my swolen head with technical critisim. It was a tough tree and I did my best. Started at 9 ish and finished by 2 ish. Just a bit of cleaning up left for the day after.

Beautifull mate. never seen that method of narrowing the trunk to fit your bar before but it looks like it works well enough.

Heightwise, last week I took a spruce in log sized lengths, after loosing the top 10 feet I was at 82 feet. Thats the highest I measured. Don't think I have climbed over 100'. Highest measured climb I have done was 96'. I was stood with my head out the top of wellintonia but couldnt get another 4 feet. Fattest was 5'2" at base but it was a very straightforward job, straight fell fat dead field oak. Loads of lovely logs from that beast but it took me 4 months to collect it all from the field.

Something similar happened to my T125 last year. Not a railway sleeper pin but something big, metalic and nasty went in. (couldnt recognise the remain after). It damaged both blades, ripped anvil clean off and put a small dent on the inside fan casing. There were a few small gouges on the fan itself. cost was a new anvil (about £8) some new bolts (about £3) some severe blade sharpening (about £25) and the cost of seeing the face of the bloke who had to sharpen the blades (priceless).