Tom D
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generally speaking goodwill is worth very little unless there is some significant contracted future work, which is unlikely in tree work. Speak to a good accountant.
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Nice work Mike, interesting to see a conifer stand with mixed aged trees in it, just plantations here.
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I've done fells like that, to me that was one of your more sane videos.
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how much are they Dean?
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its wood... it will burn. better if you dry it first.
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look up the locked brummel splice.
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Those branches look small but they are actually petty big, many of them were well over both verges of a 2 lane road in width, and between 6-10m long. You're right though any bigger and they would have been very difficult to deal with. Plus there is always the risk that a bit breaks off and hits something as you pull it out, we were lifting over houses, you can see a wee but of deadwood hitting the roof if you look closely. At the end of the day we started climbing about 9.30 had an hour for lunch and were finished by 3, no need to go quicker than that.
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True, Todays job was a pretty massive black pine dismantle, I rigged it all down in pretty quick time and we were able to fell the stick, but we were pushing the wee tractor to the limit skidding the wood out. Just couldn't get a crane near it unfortunately. Still, I have another big crane job to do before christmas, road closure and everything, it will be the most expensive takedown I have ever done, the road closure alone is costing £1600!
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you can watch it in high def on you tube. I made it on iMovie, so much quicker than windows movie maker. I may even blow the dust off the pod and do a few more.
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Sorry, should be working now.
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this is the one from the picture thread. just thrown together, no video of the last 2 pics unfortunately. [ame] [/ame]
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Arborist Vacancy - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Tom D replied to Will Hinchliffe's topic in Employment
its a great opportunity for someone, I think a lot of people have a poor attitude to work and money. Many people work for months or even years as unpaid interns just to get a foothold in the career of their choice. I started in tree work on 8k, and that was after earning £40k in the city. As an employer I would much rather take someone who had spent a year at the botanics than a bolshy college leaver who thinks he's worth 30k. -
What the enquiry also found was that they were also unaware of other organisations that could help, such as mountain rescue , cave rescue, and dare I say the local tree surgeon.
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I'll try and get some up, I am on n=my new mac now and haven't loaded any pics i=on it yet, haven't quite "got" the keyboard yet either..lol They are about 2 - 2.5m long, if you are doing small trees and the limb being rigged is close to the pulley then a smaller one would be better. I don't use them often when rigging as with the hobbs you can tip rope limbs and winch them upright, but for the crane stuff they have been really handy.
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just looked at the crane thread again and realised that its not really visible in any of the pics. you can see it in the wee video on page 3. I will try and get some better pics of it.
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just make up a spider, its a length of rope with a loop at either end, one loop s tied large enough to tie a 6 wrap prussic on your rigging line. so you have 2 loops to clip the krabs from the rigging slings in to. You can slide the prussic yp and down to grt the tension right.. we used it on this crane dismantle to keep some of the bigger bits level.http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/35999-beech-crane-dismantle.html Mine are made from 13mm climbing line with fig8 loops but you could splice some if you want.
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I got my fingers burned by ufindus a few years ago, nothing underhand or wrong with their service I might add, just doesn't really work. a good website is all you need, all these companies promisig you leads and page views etc are just trying to take more money off your job. the rating system seems easy to abuse and could be pretty useless in real terms. It may be useful if you are a cowboy with no genuine references. I can also see it may be handy if you are just starting out.... not for me though
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True enough, we are all very snobish about our saws, and yet buy the cheapest when it comes to the stuff that we climb with. Stein are the mcculloch of the arb gear world. TD Tree & Land Services Ltd.
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Looked very good. Nice and smooth. TD Tree & Land Services Ltd.
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I do find it odd that so many members seem to slag off companies simply for doing well. I was very impressed with the certainly setup. It's something to aspire to rather than fear. TD Tree & Land Services Ltd.
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Since maple is historically pretty scarce beech was probably the traditional choice. Maple is probably the American first choice. TD Tree & Land Services Ltd.
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If that's the case Daniel, why have you never commented on any thread on here other than your own. Seems like a bit of pot and kettle here. TD Tree & Land Services Ltd.
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Think you're right Dave, just had a look online and it seems the really expensive ones are maple. I have seen some beech ones though. Reckon beech would be better than Syc. TD Tree & Land Services Ltd.
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First time for everything, small claim's court...
Tom D replied to samthescam's topic in General chat
Just forget about it and move on. In the last 7 years since I started on my own I have had to write off about £1400, that's out of about £650k. It's not worth wasting money and time chasing any bill under 2.5 k. Go see them face to face and ask for the cash. And don't get personal. Are you going to court because you want the money or because you want to get back at someone who has hurt your feelings, and insulted your work ethics. TD Tree & Land Services Ltd. -
Most of the ones I have seen are beech. It's more close grained than acers and therefore more hygenic. TD Tree & Land Services Ltd.
