Tom D

there's loads of apps on android, not sure about sewdish tho. go into your menu and look for the "market" ikon if its there, its a kind of app finder.

Thanks, do you know if the gomtaro or any of the other saws can be sharpened, or is it just the sugoi?

Nice, I'd like to try that. Where did you get the files? are they a silky product?

These are the ones my Dad sells, If you want a price let me know. Gambetti Sprayers Edit. The link will only go to the home page, click mowers under turfcare, the one that I have used is the C30 it is well put together and tough.

Bryant kesek the brokers are worth a try, mine is 3 - 400. Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk.

I've often thought that. But imagine if best practise becomes only pruning in the spring! Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

So you count them every time?!!! Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

In that case its probably set up for a front pto, when I had mine apart to change the height of the pto input shaft there appeared to be a bracket for mounting the chain tensioners on the opposite side. Wether there are other changes that you would need to make I don't know. Try calling jas Wilson. Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

I have a 4201, The drum rotates clockwise when winching in and therefore the rope goes up the lhs of the drum( when wiewed from the rear) there are brackets for the chain tensioner on both sides, presumably for front pto configuration. Have you had it working yet?

Tony, you do realise that you could easily begin work as a consultant right away. There is no requirement for any qualifications whatsoever, I was surprised when my PI insurer was not interested in any of my quals, in fact having a degree and the tech cert didn't lower the premium either. Your arboricultural knowledge exceeds mine and I see no reason why you are still climbing if your heart lies elsewhere. If you really want to be a consultant then go for it, no point waiting till you are a proffessor, you can train on the job, and being your own boss you will have the time to do so.

Just out of interest, has anyone heard of anyone fitting the 6 speed box out of a tdci defender to an older model?

Are you really interested in doing planning reports for developers hama? Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

While I agree that from the pics Stevies tree wasn't that bad, it was not taken down, I beleive, on his advice. The client had decided to remove it before he got there. Had I been asked to remove that tree I would have told the client honestly what my assesment of its condition was. If that was enough to change their minds I would have happily reduced it, I would not however, have spent ages trying to persuade them to go against their original wishes only for them to get someone else in to fell it. For the record I correctly predicted the state of the interior of that tree from stevies pics and my advice would have also been thinning / reduction, however given its costal location on the west coast of scotland, an area renowned for its high winds it would be a close call. I also feel that due to the lack of dormant buds beeches don't lend themselves to heavy "veteran" style pruning as well as many other species do. This should also be considered when prescribing this sort of work as in an auxin depleted specimen, which a tree of this age and size would definately be, (yes I understand auxin levels could have been a lot lower) Lumbering a client with a financial millstone may be a real issue here; how is the client to know how the tree is performing post reduction? they have no option but to get professional advice, which costs money. Let us then suppose that the tree does not perform well, its costal location could contribute to this, and further work is necessary, more expense. Then let us suppose that another tree surgeon sees the tree in a few years time and is told by the client that Steven Blair recommended its retention 5 years ago, he advises the client that the tree is in decline and needs to be felled, how does that make Stevie look then? not looking very good for future work in a small island community where everyone knows everyone. In short all these cases are subjective and in many ways either decision could have been the right one.

Its interesting haow this has panned out, although I think there are a few misconceptions regarding my original intent. This is NOT about cutters versus consultants. My point is that if you are an arboricultural consultant then you have a DUTY to represent your client as best as you can, failiure to do so is negligent and could, in theory, lead to a claim against you. You may be a consultant working as a TO in which case your loyalty should lie with the council and the local planning strategy. Or perhaps an ecological consultant working for a conservation body such as the woodland trust or the RSPB. Or like me a general consultant who's duty lies with his clients and who's job is to represent them. I honestly beleive that what ever type of consultant you are you MUST act impassionately and represent whoever is employing you to the best of your abilities. Allowing your own views to come in to things could easily lead to either you or your employer facing legal action. If as a layman I employ a consultant to help me with a problem and that consultant fails to achieve my desired result then that is fine. However if it turns out that other consultants could have acheived a more desireable result for me then I would be within my rights to sue the first consultant for professional negligence. This is true for all professions from medicine to law to surveying. There is nothing wrong with what I will crudely call a "tree hugging" attitude but if you are trading as a consultant and allow that attitude to affect your work than you are potentially negligent.

Can't promise anything, but give us a ring when you get here, I have quoted a fair bit of contract work recently and if it all comes off I may need an extra climber. Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

I would deffo had one of them teeth as a souvenir.

I think the gymnosperms have been around a lot long than that Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

Like the bmx shot. Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

So how big was the heart? Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

Did your saw cut bone mick? Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

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To be fair hama, I have never and will never told someone a tree is unsafe when it isn't / wasn't. I try to explain as best as I can what they can expect in terms of future life expectancy and make recommendations, the final decision will be theirs, hopefully informed by my input. That is my job as I see it. I see our cities as an urban forest, there are trees being taken down all the time, and a steady stream of people bringing saplings back from the garden centre. In Edinburgh where I do most of my work a climb to the top of one of its seven hills will reveal just how green the city is, its hard to appreciate from ground level but when looking down its almost a forest with buildings in it. I beleive in the case of edinburgh it is a sustainable forest and also that it is being well managed. I cant speak for other cities though.

To continue my analogy you are merely the law student who feels that he can not represent the criminals and becomes a prosecutor. I salute your moral fibre and wish you luck in your future career. I hope you're not tired of arbtalk though. You have a passion for which you need to find a constructive outlet, I hope you find something soon. FWIW I get far more satisfaction from "good" tree work, environmental work etc. I just have a business to grow and a living to make.

With the tree? or its owner? After recent discussions on another thread I am wondering how most of us feel on this issue. As a Consulting Arborist, I cut and climb as well as providing reports and surveys, I have to say that whatever "hat" I am wearing my first priority has to be with my customer. This has to be the basis for any serious professional relationship. I will not break the law or lie to keep my client happy but I will fight his corner as best I can, this means that if he wants to take a tree down against the wishes of the LA then my job (for which he is paying) is to justify this according to my knowledge of the tree and its situation. This means that I will attempt to find cause for its removal either by citing other neighbouring trees as cover, ie it won't be missed, or by finding fault with the tree itself either disease or structural defects. In my view this is neither unethical or un professional, on the contrary it is in fact the reality of the job, it would be un professional to do anything other than represent your clients as best you can. I have good working relationships with the TO's that I deal with regularly and I beleive that they respect my dedication to my clients, we may not always agree but that is all part of the process, I'm doing my job and they are doing theirs. My job, the way I see it, is to give advice according to the principles of good tree management, and then to (hopefully) carry out the work advised. I have done a lot of conservation work over the years, veteranisation, habitat creation etc, because this was what the clients wanted, I am not simply a lop em and chop em merchant. In cases where I feel the clients wishes are not the best thing for the tree then I will advise them as to the correct path, whatever that may be, however if they really want that tree topped and if I don't do it someone else will..... all I can do is explain the reasons for not doing it and if that isn't enough to disuade them then I will top it (I always use reduction cuts though, even if they are way beyond "acceptable") I don't feel like a cowboy, in fact I think I offer a very good service, I am certainly doing well so I must be doing something right. To give you a couple of analogies, take a planning consultant employed to ease through a planning app for a house that he beleives is hideous and in appropriate for the site. He may advise his client that the house is inappropriate, but if the client wants that house then he has to bite his tongue and do his job. Or how about a solicitor representiong a client whom he knows to be guilty, the professional approach is to do his best to get his client off the hook, its that simple. So who's approach is un-professional?

Big beeches might be a rare thing down your way, but here in scotland they are ten a penny. For every one that comes down due to its proximity to housing there are loads out in the countryside happily growing away, warts n' all.