Tom D

Well done mate, dr strangelove.

This ought to test you, name tha actor and the film.

I remember chatting to Paul via email a few years ago about this issue. I ended up not joinig the scheme for various issues, many of which have been mentioned in this thread. Whilst not wishing to go over old ground I congratulate the AA on this new initiative however one issue that I raised with Paul back then was the poor ranking of the aa website. I think for thai scheme to be a success it needs to raise the public awareness of the AA, given that at least 50% of my business comes fron the web the ranking of the AA site is crucial to the sucess of this scheme. Type "tree surgeon" into gogle and the AA don't even come up on the first page! Given that most searches will be "tree surgeon XXXtown" this is hopeless. If you can guarentee that any search with "tree surgeon" in the title will bring your site up, and that site has a description of why you should choose an AA approved contractor and then a list of contractors in the area, then you will have my business.

What is the difference with the silver ones??

I'll give it a go,, if I can persuade the missus. A weekend in perthshire would be nice How many times do we have to climb it?

A few more... andrew in a poplar and cleaning hangers out of some bigish limes,

was there a lack of grease too dean? looks excessive for just 300hrs? Nice mod btw. When was working for my dad some of the sprayers used stuff called oilion or something like that, it was a hard nylon block impregnated with oil, designed for that job I think.

of course!!! you of all people shoud get that from the bark:001_smile:

You can see the story with this one, historic entry point, fungus and failure. Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

A few more... Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

Looked big enough to me.. Nice one reg, looking forward to the vid.

carb, i'd say. My 357 did somethig similar, it got worse untill it would stall and then be a bugger to start. New carb sorted it.... until that went the same way..

Yes monkey, it did but the gardeners had cut a path through when we got there. You'll like this one, wonder why it failed???

For the smaller saws its probably not worth it due to the price of parts, but an 88 or3120 maybe. I know that in many busnesses spare parts are marked up 500 - 1000%. This is why so many decent cars are written off simply due to the cost of a few parts. Maybe Jonsie will tell us the cost of an ms200 in spare parts, every last nut and bolt, I'll bet its over a grand. Not Jonsies fault... thats just how these things are priced.

A few of the storm damage that we have been doing this week...I didn't have time to take that many, we have done loads of stuff.

And very good it is too. Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

Great vid mike, what sort of cash will they make on a carcass? Must be hard to make the heli pay? Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

This is my 11th year in tree work, I grew up on a farm and I had had loads of outdoor jobs during school and uni holidays but when I left uni I thought I should get a "propper" job and so I worked in an office as a recruitment cosultant. I did that in the city for a while, the money was great but I hated london and so came back to edinburgh and did the same thing there. In truth it was the office that I hated and one day I sat at my desk and watched a guy out of the window dismantle a willow that was quite close to the building, I didn't know it then but that was my calling. Shortly after that I left and after doing up our new flat got a job as a groundie with a local firm, I was promised training and climbing experience but it never really came. I left in 03 and started out in pertnership with another climber, when he left after a couple of years I was on my own and have done ok since. I now have two guys working for me and others as and when, After going from job to job and never really being happy I now know that I will do this till I retire.

AP is pretty bomb proof Tony, you'll let go of the hitch way before it melts, lol. I am still playing around with the ring, I am currently trying ity through the rope as pictured but lower down between the braids, I have also gone to a standard vt..... its still not perfect though.. the search continues...

I wonder if it is weather related, I have never seen fistulina here in Scotland, on oak or chestnut. I have seen plenty laetiporus though. Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

I thoughty this would get people going, that's why I posted it. as I said earlier, the tree was knackered and it could easily have been argued that it was unsafe and needed to come down as a priority. It had not fallen on its own as there was no room , it could have been, and probably was hung up on an oak tree. It would have been fairly upright though and tbh there were several other options open to the contractor. He could have climbed the oak and temporarily secured the birch before removing most of the brash leaving the stem for later. He could have left it alone and re- routed or closed the footpath temporarily (its just a woodland walk). or he could have done nothing, this tree didnt suddenly become diseased, it had been standing in this condition for some time, another few weeks wouldn't have hurt. Just my thoughts, I am pleased to see that hardly anyone would "grass" on another conmtractor, and surprised at the honesty of some others who have admitted taking out nests. FTR I left a mock orange 4' higher than the client wanted due to a black bird nest on monday.

Which engine is on that? It seems a little steep at £7k, I have the same machine, no turntable, I had no Idea it was worth that much. Good news if it is as I am thinking of upgrading soon. I bet the turntable is handy.

Which is why I won't be reporting them to anyone. Still a little careless though, the tree was felled into a large oak and then ripped out with a winch takeing the bark off some other trees and limbs off the oak. I think this is a very short sighted approach as the damage will mean that in a few yeaers other trees will need felling due to cavities and infections caused by the careless felling. Further more a more cautious approach may well have found the nest as well as causing less damage.

Chirping frantically, I suspect that the tree has not been down long, maybe only days, it is possible that the parents are still feeding them of course, though I didn't have time to wait and see.

I was working on a science park south of Edinburgh today, they have just had a load of tree work done by another contractor. I found this birch felled and dragged into the wood a little. Full of Piptoporus, definately needed felling, in fact looked like the root plate may have heaved at some point too.... But... there was a nest in the stem with wood pecker chicks in it! Tut Tut.