conkers
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You can run the electrics for a beacon fron the back lights, but you would have to ask someone more electricly minded than me exactly how. I just know the mechanic I use did it for me. Nice truck. I was thinking about doing the same on a Isuzu Grafter but there are wieght issues.
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Fracture Pruning Retrenchment on Fulham Oak
conkers replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
For or against, if only we could ask our grandchildren. If the answer to this method is clear in a couple of years, I guess the tree is a gonner. We are still trying to undo bad practice from thirty years ago. Topped trees can have a healthy looking full crown to the public but we know they are in decline, it just takes time and the public do not see the results of our mistakes in our life time. Sounds like I an preaching to the converted but surely we should up our tree planting by 90% away from human habitat and plant suitable trees in the urban environment. The mass will win in the end, the mass live in the sprawl and they usually don't like large trees. The method used in this thread seems crazy to me and is maybe tokenism. The money spent on four days tree climbing could plant quite a few new trees. -
There is about thirty tree companies in cumbria who advertise as such but the world and their kids have a pick up and a saw willing to do the job for favours and beer money. Can't complain to much because that is the nature of rural life. Most of our tree work comes from time and again customers and so called "offcomers" :alien:who will go to the yellow pages for an Arborist bacause they have not known generations of local families who will turn a hand to anything. Especially if it is made of wood!
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Cheers Jpbeaver. They are based near you are they not. Funny how we rarely work in each others areas isnt it. We get bits in Grange but nothing further east of that. A few new companies setting up around here though!
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Dean You seem to have it fairly sussed but I it is feast or famine around here. If I edge my prices up then work just stops, simply because most people around here get 2 or 3 prices and go cheap every time! We have cut our overheads instead and am still doing so. Less pennies going out=Less stress. Catsfalk If you are doing what you say you are doing then that can't be sustainable ie burnout. Keeping quotes to one day in the week saves a lot of hassle but not every one can oblige.
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For those who are sole traiders. Do you find that to keep up with work you are working 10,12 or even 14 hr days- working weekends, including admin, pricing and maintenance. Is it a life style choice or is it not the way you would wish to work? Thought I'd post this while completing tpo consent forms at 11.50pm:thumbsdown:
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Does that also mean that if you stay in the job long enough you are bound to have an accident? As I would say most people who have been in the job a while like to push the boundaries, ie lower bigger sections. Get that bit quicker. Not me tho. I like my comfort zone- and a nice cup o tea when I get down.
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Yep. Count me in. Know nowt about the ugly little beggers but would not like to blunder into and damage a habitat through ignorance.
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Pay rate would be discussed via e-mail or private message. Digs no problem. Where abouts on earth are you from?
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stitching around the front belt attachments.
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Got Petzl variobelt- navaho. good colour, and it hurts but Keep forgetting how much every time I leave the tree. Used to have a Butterfly belt but failed Loler after one year. Anyone remember the backerliner with leather and two sliding Ds?
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You only have to think about those litres of oil being chucked about the country. Just because we can't see it on the ground. We would all switch if they coloured it hi viz...
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Underpricing is an issue if your trying to compete with tree teams working for very little just to keep going. I worked for a reputable company in Kent straight after getting my tickets and I didnt know much. I was slow, over cautious and could not dismantle, ie use rigging. I was soon arriving at jobs finding large dismantles to work on and turning them down. New climbers need to be guided by the experienced not thrown in at the deep end, under pressure with no knowledge of timber weights, etc. So if you are new to the industry and your not sure about the work, under pressure- just refuse to do it until you have seen and worked with others who have a few years under their belts.
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Long way for the odd day. Cheers all the same:icon14:
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No just when we have big fells. We handle most but would be happier using somebody more specialist as we generally spend most of our time climbing. I had someone from the Midlands a couple of years ago and he is badly missed on large drops where the direction felling has to be precise. We currently dismantle everything just to be sure even when I know he would have felled.
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Looking for self employed person who is willing to carry out contract felling work. Large stem diameter NPTC- Proof of experience and own insurance essential. No climbing tickets required. All dismantling work would be taken care of.
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mmm.Continental are really good at amenity hort but cutting from a ladder? They must have tight regs! Hope they are ok.
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As far as I can see there are more and more DIYers willing to do there own chainsaw work. Ballsy and stupid! I think underpricing and other commercial pressures play a big part in accidents. Also wanting to finish a job when the weather turns nasty! This is not meant in bad taste but did an arborist have a saw accident in Cumbria last week? If so, is he/she ok? A friend said it was mentioned on local radio.
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Don't worry if you loose your Landy keys in the mud. Just start with the shallow end of a small spoon. In the interest of getting home :wave:
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I thought most people had switched to bio or other! See what you are saying about summer in theory, but really never had a problem so far in practice. Perhaps I am causing wear to the saw without realising the damage, but my chain and bar bills have not gone up. Trad chain oil does look nasty when sitting on still water, otherwise I don't think people notice. We do make a point of informing customers with wildlife gardens.
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Gomtaro. Tried the zubat. Too big Tried the Natonoko. Great but not for small branches, they just rip! Chap I work with has a big Silky saw yellow thing but is always borrowing my Gomtaro. Nuff said. All the above great for catchin yr brand new Sips ansd shreading them. Good for the red stuff too:bawling:
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I was told some years ago when working on the shore of Coniston Lake that using traditional chain oil damages the environment and stays in the locality for some time. With this in mind I went to my local saw dealer and bought Bio chain oil. After crying into my brew about the cost I was told that sunflower oil or Veg oil will do. That was in 2001 and have been using asdas own brand since then. [Cheap as chips] Saw dealers have told me the error of my ways but the ms200t or the 066 don't seem to mind. Not a hitch! Is it a con or Have all the above oils got environment drawbacks?
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Thanks for that Treediver. :icon14:
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When chipping trees with diseased branches or with wood decaying fungi, is there a chance of transfering the problem to other sites when tipping. I realise the same could be said for timber but as woodchip usually is sourced from higher in the crown- unless you have a massive chipper- I wondered if we may be spreading problems further. Anyone in the Know?
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I used to employ a chap who did all my felling as he was so excelent. Forest worker not a climber. I would concentrate on the dismantles and he would drop the sticks but sometimes he would suprise me and the dismantle I had priced for two days he would turn around in a day by dropping it perfectly. The felling cuts he would use would baffle me andthe control of the fell was always bob on. Now he works down south I dismantle everything where there is the risk of loosing control. Even so, dropped a 20 ft 3ft diameter stick I could of guarranteed was an easy fell and it sat there for three quarts of an hour while we applied numerous wedges and a land rover! Centre of hinge not cut through enough. Simple but would would have been quicker to chog it down.
