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The powerlines are on the otherside of the street, it just looks like they're close. 'regenerated' is the big clue as to the species. They were de-limbed but not for being too close to the powerlines.

No Tony, but your on the right track - this is not the species typical shape. They are 100-120ft tall. The ability to regenerate is a big clue. Italian Cypress was good guess.

North America and yes they do go all the way to the ground. Not Fake Plastic trees or Telephone masts. These trees are real, but there's a story to them, clue? they are from the same region as Thuja plicata (Western Red Cedar). Anymore guesses?

Anyone want to have a guess at IDing these two? [/img]

Thanks people, very good info all round. Good to hear the Franco Belge Belfort is good, thats at the top of our list at the moment, nice looking little stove and at a decent price as well. We're still looking though, probably gonna be a few weeks yet before we decide.

Arbocop, you should take Reg up on his above offer. It'd be a good test of your abilities and Reg could video it and we could all judge your performance and decide wether or not you need a refresher course, what say you to that idea?

Thats a nice looking stove Tom, your Gran must be well happy. I agree the bigger window is much better for seeing the flames and using longer logs but we have a narrow fireplace. It'd have to sit out from the fireplace and it'd take up too much floorspace which is limited as it is. Gonna have to go for a narrow shaped stove.

I've been warned off buying UK built stoves by a customer who has 3 working stoves in his house - Jotul, Hunter which he doesnt rate (build quality) and a Vermont Castings which is very good apparently.

Yeah, saw a working Morso Squirrel yesterday, nice little stove very warm even with a couple of pine logs.

Thanks for the link, dont like the style though...too industrial looking, they even have a pic on their site of a down and out whose just turned up at their yard trying to get some heat and the stove aint even on!

Going to be buying a new woodburning stove soon, never had one before only open fires/gas fires so need some advice. Thinking of somewhere between 4.5 to 5 kw and it wont have a boiler. Anyone know anything about Jotul, Franco Belge or Morso? Only looked at these three so far. Any other recomendations, general advice or pics of your stoves would be good. Cheers TC

Its been a great success story. All the best for the future.

Very good video, thanks for posting. Just out of interest, why did the guy doing the pine not start by removing the lower limbs first? and.... why not use the cherry picker for the pine?

Thats the most strangest video I have ever seen about anything ever.

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He was tied in round the limb below the cut with his flipline side D to side D which had a micrograb as an adjuster. But he had his main line in above on the main stem which was hanging loose. The main line saved him but he was hanging like a dead dog after the big limb split. He had to be rescued from 40ft. The rescuer was a climber of 15 years experience.

Mester, I worked for a company in the US, their safety guy was an Australian former climber. He had to retire from climbing. He was taking out a large lateral limb about 12 inches diam 35 ft long, he was tied into his side Ds, as he went through with the top cut the huge branch split and pulled him in so severly that he crushed his internal organs and was within minutes of death if it werent for an air ambulance. He has to wear a colostomy bag for the rest of his life.

Always move to your front D or front connection point when taking out a big top or large lateral branch that your tied into. When you are attached to the front D you have moved yourself outside the loop. If the top splits or the large lateral branch splits and your tied into your side Ds your internal organs will be crushed leaving you using a colostomy bag for the rest of your life and your back will more than likely be broken so add a wheelchair to that as well. Someone has made the point about boring a heavily leaning stem and cutting the holding strap to take a top out as a safe method when climbing, this isn't the case. If you make a bore cut on a heavily leaning stem there is a chance the back of the tree will split downwards before you have a chance to cut the holding strap. When the stem splits downwards the top will go over and split part of the top will flip you and your flipline/climbing line off with the stem as well sending you hurtling toward the ground as your life flashes before your eyes. Be very careful when using the boring cut on a leaning stem when climbing - it can go hellishly wrong. .

johnty, When the tides in, it pushes the water table upwards forcing more sap out of the pruning wounds, the nearer you are to the sea the more dramatic the effect. In ancient times all the villagers would run to the trees to hack branches off to collect sap before the tide went out - they were making Birch wine from the sap.

Was the tide in on the Devon coast? cause trees bleed more when the tides in.

Acer pseudoplatanus and Aesculus hippocastanum

Anyone ever thought of advertising on Youtube? or making a short DVD of your treework to give to potential clients? There's hundreds of these types of vids from American treecare companies on YT. You could post a link to the vid from your website. Seem like a good idea? would the great British public go for it? I wonder.... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdA8StMr2pI&feature=related]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdA8StMr2pI&feature=related[/ame]

Get used to it, to the general public, thats what we are and nothing will ever change that. You can try as hard as you want to call yourself an arborist/treeclimber or whatever, even get the Arb Association/ISA involved but 99.9% of the UK public will still recognise someone working in a tree from a rope and harness as a tree surgeon. The industry is just too small to try and change the term tree surgeon to something else. Ask a random bloke or woman in the street in any town in the UK what an arborist is and they wont have clue and if you tell them they will care even less. Its just the way it is. Deal with it.

Alistair, When branch walking you have to stay low, lower your centre of gravity, crouch if you need to on the way out, keep the rope under tension, bend your knees, use displacement for your feet(dont cross them over each other), grab any lateral branch or branch above the one your walking on with your free hand for stability. If you have a high anchor point one rope should be fine for walking out(this is the secret to branch walking well). If its wet two ropes with the anchor points spread apart is a very good idea, particulary when you get way up in the canopy say 60ft. Its also a good idea to learn how to re-direct your main line so that your anchor point is almost directly above the branch your walking on if possible(depends on strength of branch/stem above). Wear good boots and try and learn to use a harness which has a sliding D, this way your not fighting against the rope trying to twist your round as you walk out when using a regular fixed front D. When walking back in stay low again, keep shortening your line, learn to use a slack tender. If you climb off two ends of the rope (not good) keep the other end of the line attached to the tip end of the branch if your worried of taking a swing. It may be a good idea to use a longer secondary rope for this purpose, just make sure you put a stopper knot in the tail end. Practice is the only way to get good at branch walking.

Are you saying a LOLER inspector should be able to splice in order to understand and identify what a faulty eye-splice looks like?