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Where colleges focused on training top tree surgeons, rather than focusing on pass rates.

Where only 10% of students(if that) made the grade and found themselves out in the workplace doing tree work, whilst the other 90% eventually found themselves in a job more suited to them.

Your turn!

On 24/12/2019 at 19:31, Ty Korrigan said:

Just got back from the UK with

24 blocks of cheddar, 12 tins of beans, 34 x 200g bars of Dairy milk and 2 large jars of marmite.

A man has needs you know...

 Stuart

 

The dairy milk and marmite I can understand, but the cheese and beans? Do they not have baked beans in France? And the cheese? I thought France was supposed to be the mecca of cheese

Tree surgeons prices vary drastically, but even so I'd say £4500 is a bit OTT for that tree. You'll be able to get that done by a reputable company for half that price easily.

Yep, the only winners out of this are the rope manufacturers and dealers. You have to wonder if one of them was even instrumental in getting this pushed through.

Fantastic thread TVI!

I like that hes getting out of the house, an hopefully getting a good work ethic into him, its just now what I want for him for the rest of his working career

My lad has just turned 16 and has recently starting coming out to work with me on his days off from college. I never really thought tree work would be the thing for him but he seems to really be enjoying it (and the regular money), and has even hinted that he might want to do it as a career rather than the engineering course he's on. Personally I want better things for him than working in this industry and have tried to explain to him that theres easier ways to make money without destroying your body. He's got a better head on his shoulders than me and I want him to be more successful than me. But he's his own person and as much as i'd like to try and steer him in a different direction with my wisdom on the matter, ultimately it will be his choice. I was wondering if anyone else has their children working for them, and if so would this have been your chosen career path for them?

16 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

There have been 1617 registered members log into the forum in the past 30 days (85,000 visitors in total including registered members). Imagine what the results would be if every member committed themselves to post just 1 new topic each per month?

I don't post much but I have learnt an absolute stack from this site and have spent many hours reading its archives. I think I can commit to at least one new thread per month. In fact i've put it in my diary!

Had the Stein and had the same thoughts as Joe. Ended up selling it for pennies and upgrading to the Jameson.

I used to work with this jumped up know it all. Not a particularly good climber but seemed to think he was an expert on anything. Had done a million different jobs, you know the sort.

One day we were talking about Latin names and he said theres no wrong way to pronounce Latin as its a written language and not a spoken language. Although that didn't seem to stop him from correcting my pronounciation pretty much every single time I mentioned a tree or fungus in Latin.

This is a bad day for justice. Whether you like him or not you'd have to be an idiot to not see that he talks sense about certain things. He's just the wrong person to be speaking those things, thats the problem.

Not before time

On 05/07/2019 at 07:19, Vespasian said:

 I mean they might argue that to avoid paying out, but they couldn't argue that it was a contributing factor in an accident.

Are you seriously suggesting that being overweight would have no bearing on the braking times? I've heard it all now ??

If you are going to Invent something for the sake of inventing at least come up with something useable and practical.  Looks nothing but a massive ball ache to me.  

Well eggs went strangely quiet on the plus side

Did your wife run off with a serviceman by any chance vespasian?

7 hours ago, ABA Northern division said:

Have you thought about joing DART, your skills may be really useful, myself and my work colleague have recently applied after working alongside the DART team lads on the Makita stall at the APF, as they said, your sat on your sofa watching this stuff on the news, it always seems to happen to the people in the world with nothing, they need your help...get off your sofa!

David ABA Northern Division

 

http://www.dartinternationaluk.org/become-a-dart-volunteer/

I may be wrong but i'm pretty sure it was paid work he was after ?

I'd be surprised if it doesn't come back with a flourish.  However it does look to be a bit stressed so perhaps you'll have the 1/1000 that dies after a pollard.  Regardless it looks like you have to do something

9 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

work this out if you can ? as i cant,,, we export chip to europe but we import round wood to chip for power stations from the USA canada sweden and finland and they say its carbon nuetral HOW can this be ?? the carbon foot print must be massive, boat loads of logs from sweden and finland coming to uk and then boat loads of chip going to holland passing and waving to each other in the north sea ? have they not got chippers in scandinavia ? or if you was involved in running the country and was trying to reduce the total carbon foot print for the uk would this practice tick any boxes ??? but you would of probably been to oxford or cambridge for your education !!!!!!!! thick f- - - - - s..

I really can't work this one out either.  One things for sure though, some people are making a huge stack of cash out of the biomass bubble(?)

Really enjoyable watch, thanks

phone started ringing after the early frosts last week

Not a miller personally, but have cut down plenty of Hawthorns in my time.  Can't see you'll find many that will provide you with any useful sized planks.  The bigger ones are generally heavily ridged and cracked in my experience.  As I said though im not a miller so probably talking out of my backside

I can't see how any legitimate company with an actual interest in growing could possibly consider not being vat registered.

The thing that put me off more than anything was the extra paperwork involved, but a good accounting software takes care of it all for you.

That second video is ludicrous.  Surely you don't even need to be an experienced climber to look at that situation and see all the dynamics involved.  The weight of the lump being rigged, the size of the anchor point and the angle its at.  Some idiots even suggested it was the groundies fault for not letting it run! 

Anyone know anything about this?  Other than it looks ugly and fragile, any thoughts?