Tom D
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I wish I was, went for the first time last year and loved it. Kid on the way though so maybe next year.
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How do you do that mate? BTW I will be interested to see how this camera reacts to light and dark, because looking down from a tree then up at the sky can cause problems with the exposure. The POV takes a second or so to react but its not bad.
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These leaves are about 10 cm long.
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Allowing for moisture loss of 20% your 60 ton will be 50 ton by the time you sell it, assuming you make £200 a ton thats 10k, less operating costs... You need a lot more wood mate.
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Keep trying:001_smile:
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Not that hard, but you don't see many round here... Monkey D you are required to name the leaf miner visible on the underside.
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A few the client took of the pop dismantle yesterday.
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Impressive.. good find Tim
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Thats cos we're in the East and you're in the West and the east is just better.
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In the old days when technical caluculations and building regs didn,t exist they used really massive oversized beams just to be on the safe side. Beams have got steadily thinner over the years to the point now where they are certified C16 or whatever it is, and are really thin because they have been carefully calculated to be exactly strong enough and no more. All you need to do is ask an engineer to spec the design in regular C16 wood and then double the thickness just to be sure, that should keep the building regs happy:001_smile:
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I've started getting those silent calls on my mobile now as well, If the number is unknown and no one speaks for a couple of seconds after you answer just hang up quick. I had a chat with the gut from YP a few months ago, he was saying how he could guarentee a certain number of calls a month, I had to point out that 90% of them would be cold callers trying to sell stuff.
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Taking down a storm damaged poplar today and a couple from last week. Nice pics High scale BTW
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I was doing an insurance job today, a client who owns a section of a small river had a flood which brought loads of crap down and left it lying everywhere, whole trees and stuff. several other trees were left totally under-mined and will soon fall.. onto neighbours house. All the insurer will pay for is the removal of the stuff from the drive. And they had to haggle hard to get that. We renewed our house cover recenty, many policies are really cheap, but I guess you get what you pay for.
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If the managment knew what their employees were doing they'd go mental. Imagine the lawsuit "yes milud, i did have a qualified and insured tree surgeon lined up but the insurer recommended I use a local teacher instead!" Send a letter to the managment, saying how un profesional you think it is, copy in the press officer too. You're right... unbelievable.
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It is quite easy to make a drt system with harness out of a single piece of rope. Chuck one end over a branch then tie a triple bowline in the other end, make two of the loops the right size for your legs and the third for your waist, you now have a rudimentay harness. leave a 4' tail when you tie the bowline and use this to tie blakes or tautline hitch around the other end of the rope. Now climb... change overs will require you to untie the hitch of course... and you will be free climbing at that point.
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Good luck. and remember: manouver, signal, mirror. and as you pull onto a dual carrige way / motor way its your right of way.... at least thats what they seem to teach these days.
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Picked 7.5Lb of sloes the other day from a 20m strech of blackthorn, best year for sloes I can remember. I have 1 demijohn of sloe gin and one of vodka and I'm burning the same mixture of everything that I sell, mostly beech though.
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There's another one who tell you that your domain is expiring and want to charge you to renew it... also a con. Nearly fell for that one too.
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It was only meant to be a bit of fun.... next you'll be wanting "official regulation brand" scales:001_tongue:
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Many clients wouldn't even dream of letting some amateur cut their trees just for the wood, and if some do, like huck says, let them. Imagine getting a plummer who worked for the scrap value of the radiators and copper pipes he replaced, would you let him work in your house???
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I have a 15year old bateson, its battered and bruised but still does the job, well made IME.
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Oak is nice but the epicormicky ones are a pain and the timber is heavy. Birches are too small and so are cherries, beech is good; smooth and strong. Syc is nice to climb but you can't do much with it.. I'll go for aspen, you dont get many but they're nice to climb, stringy and predictable and not too heavy.
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I should add that I actually got that job since that post and best of all I saw it again in daylight (it was getting dark the first time) and the big fir is not quite as big as it looked. Just goes to show there's work out there for the right contractor for the job at the right price.
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will amateurs accidents reflect on our insurance
Tom D replied to Stephen Blair's topic in General chat
Hit the nail on the head there, if you sent a lad out who didn't have tickets and he had an accident maybe you'd be in trouble. If you can prove you have years of experience and have an accident yourself you should be fine, tickets or no tickets. Tickets are not a legal requirement in the same way as a driving liscence is, they are a cheap way for the employer to protect himself from litigation. Its far cheaper to put someone on a course for a week than to train them properly for 2-3 years, yet in court they would probably count for the same thing. -
Duckodile gets my vote:thumbup:
