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I dont think it could be described (technically) as a Navara, its looks more like a Nissan D22 Kingcab Pickup - it seems to have the original steel wheels which were stock on the D22 Pickups. These wheels have narrower tyres than the stock tyres fitted to the alloys of Navaras of the same time.

Salix, From looking at the pics and your description of the work area that tree is worth somewhere between £2000 and £3000. Although the pics make the tree look relatively small for a big Beech so can't guarantee my price range is realistic which is the main problem with your type of questions on a web forum. Unless your getting a crane and log truck/tractor trailer in - its worth remembering big removals done using normal rigging (especially Beech) are hard on the staff (manual lifting), the saws (hitting nails etc), the ropes (heavy weights), vehicles (big loads) and any other piece of equipment you bring to the job. Remember things like clean up and removal of saw shavings. When I made my first post I was really implying that you could easily make more money doing 3 to 4 smaller tree jobs in a shorter time than it would take to complete the Beech. With a tree like that growing over the houses there is the risk of serious damage to property during the removal if something goes wrong. You said you may bring in someone with rigging experience, you should very sure they have good experience on this type of job before hiring them for the work. .

to be frank, if your asking these kind of questions maybe you should leave the job to a professional tree surgery company.

still..... the cat's well happy now eh..... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaA_cs4WZHM]The Kitty Cat Dance. - YouTube[/ame]

Excellent work again by the McMahons

No cause its junk No

I'm not a creationist. The story about the cow-like creatures becoming whales is derived from an ancient Inuit legend. The funny thing is, its very close to the truth of how whales are believed to have evolved.....from cow-like ancestors. To understand evolution you have to understand that modern humans are all descended from a now extinct species of ape. This one species was forced out of the forest about 5 million years ago and eventually learned to walk upright. We humans are a very recent species. If the history of life on earth was compressed into a single year, humans would only make their appearance a few minutes before midnight on 31st of December. .

whales are descended from cow-like ancestors that gave up their land dwelling existence and went back to the sea, some say that what actually happened was that one of these cow-like creatures slipped off a rock next to the sea, fell in to the water and became a whale.

no its true, the reason behind the story is that elephants are evolved from whales. One day a whale looked onto the vast plains of Africa and thought, 'I want to explore that area'. So he concentrated really hard and forced his body into the shape of an elephant and lo and behold he became an elephant.

Really? Why do cats look for a quiet place to die? Ravens have been observed pretending to hide caches of food, elephants seem to mourn their dead for days and weeks after the death. These are forms of communication.

Maybe the primates had already done the hardwork before humans had evolved - In his book The Soul of the Ape, Eugene Marais - himself a morphine addict - showed that wild Chacma baboons used intoxicants to disrupt the tedium of ordinary consciousness. In times of plenty when many other fruits were easily available, they went out of their way to eat a rare plumlike fruit, after which they showed all the signs of intoxication. Summarising his findings, which are supported in later research, Marais wrote: 'The habitual use of poisons for the purpose of inducing euphoria - a feeling of mental well being and happiness - is a universal remedy for the pain of consciousness'

Atheism is a condition defined by what it denies, its a move in a game whose rules are set by believers, by denying the existence of God you are accepting the categories of monotheism. As Christianity declines it would stand to reason that atheism declines as well.

The funny thing is Christianity and Atheism are both in decline.

silkys are like chainsaws.......they dont cut, they remove material, its good to keep this in mind when using either

Even if God did exist we'd still have to choose wether to obey him or not, out of principle.

Its happened a lot Mark. A well respected and popular climber from Scotland was climbing and working on a tree in Australia about 2005 when it failed beneath him, he died from his injuries. Another tragic accident.

there's a lot of people posting in this thread who need a major reality check. that tree is a straight fell from ground level - the Pete Donzelli accident - he was natural crotch rigging a previously lightning struck pine with 3 wraps round the trunk of an adjacent tree. No blocks, no lowering device. It was said at the time the stem failed beneath him because A - there were too many wraps meaning the groundsman couldn't let the top run to absorbed the shock load, add to that the sideways loading caused by the wraps being taken on another tree. B - or when the top started to go over.....the butt end of the top piece pushed back the main stem causing the stem to fail before the rigging had even activated so to speak. Alex Shigo carried out an investigation of the Pine sections/stem and said it was an internal weakness that caused the trunk to fail. A sad story indeed.

not that often but its a good technique to know for dangerous trees. Its known as a highline. These pics are from a recent dead elm removal. The elm was long gone and the roots were almost non existent so set up a highline between the two Limes either side of the elm, no rigging just hand held sections, tree came down without incident -

any Piptoporous brackets present?

Tragic story for all involved. Hopefully this case will serve to sharpen the minds of people who are responsible for the management of trees.

The Arboricultural Association recently forced DEFRA to instigated trials of the effectiveness of Allicin against this pathogen.......worked a treat apparently.

you do a nice line in moral piety Tony but your off target this time. Shigo, Londsdale, Mattheck, Strouts and Winter to name a few wrote some interesting books that help me with the job. There'll no doubt be more books in the future that'll do the same. To infer I idolise Shigo cause I find his books relevant to my work in comparison to Hama's half baked theories shows very poor judgement on your behalf or at the very least a minimal grasp of reality.

I'll stick to Shigo thanks

you like page 27.... check out page 338, An intermission - one of my favourite pieces by Shigo