Tom D
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Get your saws warmed up in Scotland. Got a storm a brewin'
Tom D replied to Matthew Arnold's topic in The Lounge
certainly blowing hard here now... all the leaves are off the trees and we have already had a couple of good storms her this year, there will probably not be much left to blow down. -
Pictures???
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I remember phoning the job centre about 6 years ago when I was hiring, there was a scheme available, but i can't remember the name of it, problem was you could only take people who had been out of work for 6 months or longer. This means you get loads of applicants none of whom actually want a job, most wanted a written reply, I had asked for people to phone... so they all rang asked for a reply so they could use it to continue to claim dole. There were 2 who actually agreed to turn up to my "interview" day, basically a days work to see how it went, one was the thickest guy I have ever met, barring those with special needs, the other phoned at 10.00 to say he didn't have enough money for the bus.... Total waste of time...
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I got one and it works fine, very well in fact. Thanks for the help... TD Tree & Land Services Ltd.
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That's a fine set of buggers grips you've got there Stevie. TD Tree & Land Services Ltd.
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They probably don't make them anymore Stevie as they all have to be bunded now, plus being electric there is no need to elevate the tank and therefore no room underneath.
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I got a 100 mile round trip to do on monday in the valtra, I' suppose I'll have to pull over a couple of times.
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Do you think Wills left a deposit in the library loo?
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This is an oldie! Still, might as well post now I'm here. I think there are 3 stages to being a climber, 1, you don't trust your gear. 2, you trust your gear and start climbing mainly on your ropes. 3, you climb the tree and your ropes are just a backup.
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Sorry to hear that mate, RIP.
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was a willow that did it to me too.
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The name, website and phone no's are worth a bit if you do a lot of domestic work, It takes a while to get established and get your name out there. I'd value my name etc at about 30k as I have now got a good client base and have not done any advertising this year yet been very busy. Its a hard thing to value though, at least you are part of the setup already, I'd be loathed to spend that kind of cash on a setup I didn't know.
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I have had it happen to me before, not a big bit though and I don't have my strop on my side d's anyway, its on one of my vids but I can't remember which. One thing that you can do is choose where to fell your top... A splits most likely to occur on a clean grained piece of timber (think how easy logs like that are to split with an axe) if you fell your top just above a stub or branch the "cone" of branch wood that extends into the main stem helps to hold it together. Obviously you can't always find a suitable stub but often there will be something. On conifers like spruce I will often remove one whorl of branches, and then fell just above the whorl.
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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.
