Dean Lofthouse
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I like how the weeds have grown through the brash pile barrier.
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I think with the week I've had, I should of slit my wrists two days ago A bit of sarcasm from butchs response to one of davids posts in general tree pics
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I wonder if the flanges will interchange, I could swap my studded flanges for the others?? It's an 02 discovery the replacement axle would be from, not sure what series that would be.
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Do you really need so many words to get your point across David ??
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Well done Rowan, very brave to post your piccies on here. Sometimes hands are tied and as you say, money is the motivator. Last year I was asked to cut up a fallen oak on the edge of some woodland. I noticed some of the root plate still intact in the soil so asked if I could leave the trunk and explained my reasoning. It is now flourishing with new growth. Yes it may to some look untidy, but in my veiw it's a new lease of life and creates a small habitat. The problem half the time is people have to live and pay a mortgage, sometimes the tree comes second to that. Fair play to you for your post though.
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Cheers for that Guys
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I hold the same opinion Butch, I would hope it is not representative of the British way of doing things, but there's many different train of thoughts on the subject. I have carried out "light" reductions sticking to branches of 2" or so and taking back to a suitable pruning point. I was taught to take back to a side shoot which was a minimum of a 1/4 the diameter of the branch being cut. I noticed an Ash being done near me last year. The reduction looked good, really good work, proper pruning cuts the lot. But ow looking at the tree, there is a mass of new growth, epicormic on the branch and cut ends though, so now it doesn't look right. It looks awful Obviously too much had been taken away. Reducing a tree to the extent that the one above has been done must have a valid reason for it, ie to extend the life of the tree rather than taking it down. But to do it to a perfectly healthy tree for no other reason than it's too big, should cause a few raised eyebrows.
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One of the problems is I don't know whether there will also be play in the other half shafts from the diff to the UJ. There's two half shafts with splines, then the UJ's with splines, so to be sure I wouldd have to buy: Two inner shafts Two outer UJ's Ball swivel gasket seal kit. Two hub caps I was thinking parts would come to around £200 ?? Plus my time stripping it and there could be a lot of backlash in the diff, the propshaft flange seal is also leaking, could turn into a nightmare
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I have to agree to some extent, it's rather like having an ambulance following you incase you have a car crash. It is a risky job yes, but thankfully, serious life threatening injuries are not too common.
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I have found that the drive splines on my defender front axle hubs are badly worn. Theres loads of play when taking up drive. As the spline is part of the uJ in the swivel housing and taking into account all the parts and time needed to do it I thought it would be better to find a low mileage complete axle off tbay and just fit that. I have found an 02 complete front axle from a td5 disco that's supposedly done 15k, does anyone know if it will go straight onto my P reg defender. ..and has anyone had dealings with the seller Direct Auto Salvage at Silloth, cumbria. I'm just wondering if it's going to be worth the trip all the way up there from Huddersfield.
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Mighty fine if you have a flood of qualified climbers willing to work for £50 -60 a day on small domestic jobs. There aren't many on here that have that luxury I wonder how many never climb without qualified rescue climbers
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When we go to the AA trade fair we stay in the Townhouse Hotel, Cheltenham. Round the back in the next hotel along was a 50ft Ginkgo, like I said WAS. It wasn't there this year, so I enquired at our hotel what had happened to it. Apparently it had been taken down because the owners didn't like it. I told them it was a massive shame as they were unusual and that I had photographed it the previous year. They said they had been onto them to try and save the tree but to no avail. 50ft Tree been there how long?? ...and some ignoramous comes along, hmmm, don't like that, lets have it down.
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Tulley, that's a spoon mate!!
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So it's not heatstroke I'm getting Laurel and Cherry (at certain time of the year) smell of essence of Almond not Marzipan. It's the stuff your Gran used to put in the bun mixture. There's one smell that I absolutely love, nothing to do with trees. Puppy breathe, the smell of puppy breathe upto about 6 weeks is lovely.
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Advise for best company to carry out 130 tipper conversion
Dean Lofthouse replied to mph's topic in Large equipment
I would avoid steel bodied tippers, I got mine from a bradford firm and after just 4 or 5 years it is rusty as hell. -
Mine isn't. Another good reason to hang onto decent staff. Mine started 3 weeks ago and is making good progress, but I reckon it's going to be about 12 month before he is ready for sending on courses. The good thing about Huddersfield is the Tree Surgeons round here have a good working relationship with each other. We don't shun each other, we stop and chat when we can etc. As a result we can call on each other when we get a big or complex takedown in order to have the correct qualified staff on the ground and in the tree. This monday I had me and my groundy and another tree surgeon and his groundy, I just price him in with the job. There is about six or seven locally that I could call on and that can call on me to help. Once my groundy is qualified then the problem isn't as bad, but this is one of the problems of finding someone that is ken enough to stay long enough to get qualified and then not bogg of once you have paid for all his qualifications.
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I remember about 6 months ago you got undercut by about three different people on a storm damage job:001_tongue:
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Be careful, I still owe you money Seriously though, I added up my insurances, including household and vehicle and including a one man + groundy setup who doesn't do commercial work and turns over just under VAT a year. I'm paying out over 6K in insurances.
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You recon wrong
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These little "incidents" are designed to remind us to think every now and again. Funny afterwards, but deffo not at the time. If I remember right, they did mention the insurance had expressed concerns and wanted me to have a look to see if the trees were safe and in good health. Insurance eh, we'll have no trees left if insurance companies carry on the way they are at present.
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Why did they take them all out Leyburn?? I went to look at that job (Bout 3 mile away from me) and can recall two of the Poplars needed taking down because of cambium damage due to fire, but the rest were fine. I priced for taking the two or three damaged ones out and deadwooding the rest, no mention was made of wanting them all down. Big trees though eh??
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Less overheads like: No PL Insurance No EL Insurance Staff with no qualifications who are drawing dole. No qualified rescue climber. "Sour Grapes" ??? Give us a break
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I've just thought of an anagram for you Jamie: Fine Arb Rope Technical Splicing
