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Deadwooding an Oak, Spring 2009, West coast of Scotland.
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Surprised the AA are associating themselves with this seminar, what with them being a registered charity concerned with improving tree knowledge to both arborists and the general public, 99% of whom would find it impossible paying over £1600 for a four day seminar. You can say what you want about the ISA and it's American roots, but at least they're all about sharing as much information with the arborist and general public as possible. Seems to me the AA is becoming more concerned with a small elite group of consultants who are unwilling to share information with their fellow arborists.
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Rogue Traders - Monday 16 March - Rogue Tree Surgeons
scotspine1 replied to Honey Bros's topic in General chat
Just watched it on Beeb Scotland, those guys werent that offensive, what is offensive is people with a full hand of NPTCs that havent got an ounce of common sense. Also, that cavity looked bad I put a magnifying glass up to the screen and saw Ustilina deusta, Ivor even picked some out and crumbled it between his fingers. At least Ivor and his sidekick hung around to talk it out. Good old Ivor, deserves a medal for having to go through life with a name like that. As for the presenters they should be investigated for poor delivery and a sh*t sense of humour. -
They could stick little day-glo orange flags on the Schleising that come out wider than the truck.
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Very professional looking rig.
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So, its basically a cheap rip-off of the Faltheimer? Seems to be getting more common these days with tree equipment, ISC's junk Buckingham Portawrap rip off, Sherrill's junk Harrison Rocket throwbag rip offs. Whats next?
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Claus Mattheck is doing an Elite VTA 4 day seminar in June that costs over £1600.00!! http://www.symbiosis.gb.com/claus_page_new.htm I guess it really is an Elite course as they're the only people going to be able to afford the price. So much for wanting to share information with other tree people.
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It is, found this pic of the BFG ATs on the Warrior's 18 inch alloys -
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Mitsubishi Shogun Warrior swb 55 plate came with 285 55 r 18 Pirelli Scorpions, seems BF Goodrich dont do a tyre this size, does anyone know what size alloy wheel is needed to find the closest available BFGoodrich AT tyres to the original Scorpions? Cheers TC
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Whats the mileage? do you do a lot of off-roading in it? Have you ever driven the 3.0 litre engine version, its a huge improvement on the 2.8.
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'to sign a disclaimer (rested on the coffin lid)' Britain has come a long way in the last 30 years, shame all of it has been downhill.
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I would say definately capable of the former. . and the zone lines? whats your take on that?
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Do you reckon the fungi wall off areas for themselves and put up barriers to stop other fungi attacking their patch or is it much more random than that? Can you explain the black zone lines you see with Kretzchmaria/Ustilina?
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I find a 60 degree notch gives more accuracy especially if the tree's fibres hold and there's a slight lean or its weighted to one side, pretty much use a 60 notch for all my felling on the ground.
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Cheers Reg, The 'lifting question' was about lifting tip tied limbs over conservatories, house-roofs, green houses, ponds, rivers, walls, cars, roads, paths.......sounds like your LD would handle most stuff. Looking forward to putting it to the test. Can see it being excellent for hanging a tree from a bigger tree or storm damage hung-up trees where you have to climb into the supporting tree.
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SBTC is right - Tulip Poplar - Liriodendron tulipifera
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This one, took a tape measure up attached the end to a pole saw, held it to the tip and dropped it to the ground, 117ft, the base of the tree sits in a dip. the idea of measuring it was to see if it could be felled between the two houses onto the street but it was too tall (would've hit a fire hydrant - so had to be dismantled.
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Cheers Reg, quality pics, nice weather for treework. Saw the footage at treebuzz of the lever in action, looks really well built and easy to use. Like the idea of removing all the slack from the sytem, that was always the problem with the Porty. Do you need to cut into tree like Hobbs/GRCS to fix it to the stem? Looks like you can remove the lever when taking out big pieces without too much trouble? Is it possible to lift decent sized timber/branches with the lever? I guess its fair to say you've tested this device to the max!! nice pic
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Reg, any more pics of the LD? any idea when it'll be available?
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Blakes, if your asking questions like this and the tree is as big as you made it sound, its probably not gonna be a good idea to attempt the removal using a crane without an experienced climber and crane operator who has done treework.
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I blame the 130:001_tongue: if you'd owned a Transit, Cabstar or a Jap pick-up you probably wouldn't have ventured out into the blizzards. Probably not the best thing to say Dean, especially when you've just trashed his wall. .
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Nice tree, nice work.
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On removals that require rigging, you don't need to go as high as you would for deadwooding or crown reduction. This pic was from a Beech removal, my anchor point for the whole tree was the union below the red X. When rigging you can take the branches above you out in long lengths so no need to climb up so high.
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Arbtalk is the closest thing the UK arb industry has to a think tank. Hundreds of professional tree surgeons from all over the UK and beyond discussing all aspects of treework, if there are no representatives on here from your 'interested parties' then their credibilty will be reduced over time until no-one will take any notice of them whatsoever. At least Colin Bashford is representing the ISA, whose representing the AA, AFAG, NPTC and LANTRA?
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Tom d was right, they're coastal Redwoods - Sequoia sempervirens. The owner had all the branches cut off the trees because he was concerned that they would shed big limbs onto the houses/gardens below. The tree regenerated sprouts along the entire length. Redwoods have amazing regenerative qualities - take a small cutting of sempervirens and plant it in wet sand and it'll grow. .
