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I have been dealing with more trees than I can count since boxingday.... We were hit by the worst storm in 30 years... In Sweden a total of around 5 million m2 trees were felled by high winds. In my town we have had 3 forestry machines dealing with the towns forests and I have been busy dealing with the tricky ones, hungup on powerlines, overhanging houses, close to playgrounds, in parks, community forests and so on. I have been climbing, winching and used about every trick of the trade and emptied the bag of "save that one for the future" to deal with all sorts of windblown, cracked, failed, top splits and hung ups for about 3 weeks. Dangerous? YES!!! Potentially... I´m very happy I updated all my tickets last year including dealing with stormdamaged and windblown trees!! The trickiest one was a pine of roughly 1 meter diameter leaning 45 degrees into another Pine that was partially windblown (both 150+ years) Unfortunatly there is no photos as I understandingly (?) have been busy... So if youre unexperienced, BE CAREFULL and don´t do anything stupid!!!!

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But that was my prize... pretty sure my name is on that stuff.... CONGRATULATIONS!

Arb Gear Competition Any news on his? I'm feeling lucky tonite... "THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW ENDED We will announce the winner on 9th January 2012 Thank you to all that entered"

Well done everyone, yet again the power of Arbtalk....

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For Pain or Glory! I'm in... I love these things; I win even if I loose! The nice thing is that you never know when a helping hand to next of kin will reach out for you and ask if you need help!

So I feel left out again! Argh, I think I enter anyway cause I newer win anything ever... I´ll pay P&P if i win something, please Mr Bullman please...!

Just found this ;-) Its been a long process, but well worth the wait! Well done Steve the look really good!!!! http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/134-arbtalk-t-shirts.html:thumbup:

Sweet stuff!

Not great for direction but safe way of felling windblown trees, they fall slowly giving you plenty of time to move away.

Seriously, I havent heard that song for 19 years!!!! Still know the lyrics though... Thank you for sharing.

You nutter! Now thats some skill!!!

LOL! Yeah ...oups! nearly used a word there... sick of this condemning with no inspection cause there is a fungus or dead branch or... mentality!

No need to shout at me... So its been thrown out and the new Riskassesment stuff is here instead?

Red tape: The wood for the trees | The Economist Interesting thoughts on new standard... 3 years down the road.... what happened?

You wanna be carefull with revving the saw onehanded when it´s in the backcut, esp as youre pushing the chog. Kickback disaster around the corner! Shake hands with danger! Play it safe and keep 'em on the saw, or drop saw and use both hands for pushing chog, it´s easier on your back too.

Any updates on this? Would be nice to se how the installment has worked!

I always liked this thread... search you know... http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/1479-propping-yew-3.html

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This sounds like a very good one... well tempted! I might fight you for that sofa Rob! Do I fit into the #Family? (Thank you Hama for all the resent support!)

I need a few photos to show how a healthy oak looks like... I need a photo of a non decayed oak stump, clean and tidied up so you can see sapwood and heartwood. A healthy trunk works as well. It would also be good with one that shows early stages of Fistulina... Just post away! Need them asap as they will be used at a pressconference today to illustrate the difference between non decayed wood and decayed. Thank you!