Ty Korrigan

In the last 2 months, I've had 7 clients ask or get back to me to ask that I just get the trees down and leave them to clear up as they percieve an economy. Some want it stacked for them to deal with (Bosch in the shed) so didn't believe me that it would cost more to stack where they wanted it than to chip given the proximity of the chipper and that I needed a clear site to work in for rigging. Clients also wanting to help out to make an economy so I politely tell them I don't operate that way and can't base my price on the unknown and untrained, clueless of what is involved, wandering around the site as though they own it (which they do of course) I'm sure they will find a local lone worker climber to smash it down but I'm not that guy especially after the loss of Ken Hogan last year. Even one of my local authority clients asked if we could cut and drop, leaving the arisings for their own teams to clear. 25% acceptance rate over the last 20 quotes. 80% of clients keeping the wood chip for gardening use and in 2 months I've only removed wood from 3 jobs.

Even here in Brittany I recieved a call from the dealer recently. I drove past the place Wednesday and saw the machine in their yard, thought it looked very Forst.

Engine now replaced. I'll sell it this Summer to finance a new sceptic tank, exchange one shit thing for another...

Rented a Rabaud drum chipper here in the same road I'm working in today during my GM150 crisis. Asked to check the blades before hiring, refused to open it up telling me they were changed one weekend hire previously. On site, nowt but long slow shreds dribbling out. Called the hire shop who sent out a mechanic, opened it up and VOILA! ****************ed blades. Mechanic then accused ME of said blade ****************. They have since then change the drum to one with hammers, more public resistant.

The dark side of Gregor Mendel and his pea breeding...

Bit sober tonight Mick? I guess I should have used a winking smiley...

I'm going to send a soil sample away for analysis which will give me more than just a pH reading. I can then fine tune an area for just for blueberrie. I noticed that during last years drought, the grass that was there browned off late compared to other areas and when I had a soil survey done for my sewage system, the report said the water table was fairly high. However, the soil itself is a sandy loam with no drainage issues and decent water retention, probably from years of sheep and I suspect vegetable cultivation.

I can't put my finger on how to hand pollinate this...

At least as far as France is concerned but those expat outfits in Germany were quite vocal in their insistence that Brexit was no barrier to employment in the Euro Zone. Not heard anything from them for months mind...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R1x4JkZTfPs

I'll lose 32m2 to a polytunnnel plus all those woodchip paths you guys suggested. Honestly no idea how it will develop but as you know my wife is Moroccan and in their culture they prepare most food from scratch so onions and tomatoes are going to figure large in the planning. The kids are mad for soft fruit, strawberries and raspberries and especially myrtilles/blue berries which will take some skill to get right. Chooks in an ark that can be moved around the plot once we are in residence. Fallow area planted with green fertilizer perhaps? Other areas sown with flower mixes. Open to ideas! So far I've had 12 years living in touring caravans before marriage, a year travelling and so far 12 years in tiny social housing. It will take at least 2-3 years to make habitable but this going to be a huge change for us with 5 bedrooms, a 40m2 living room, workshop and all our business affairs in one place rather than spread out at friends properties.

First ever serious veg plot, carte blanche. I laid black plastic over 200m2 of grass last Summer. Broke it up with a sub soiler behind my Solis which struggled a little as it hasn't got ag tyres but managed to rag up a great deal of invading bamboo which screens the neighbours cannabis crop. Installed root barrier to halt said invasion and keep peace with the cartel. Borrowed a mates rotavator and ordered some easy to grow crops. Soil is deep and rich, few stones only the odd boulder... I've been tipping some chip to compost. Applying for permission to erect a decent size of poly tunnel. I'll install a large horticultural rain water tank as we are in drought conditions already. Also, lay traps against voles which are a serious pest of veg garden here. That is Komatsu Clive on the Komatsu, one of my fat groundies.

They almost always do this. Many videos of home owners smashing themselves off ladders or falling to their death have an action shot of the floor at the moment of impact...

To 'Do a Barletts' has entered the arboriculture lexicon and has become a generic phrase for any misfelled tree.

Bolam's redoubt, Bastion Bolam where he'll make his last stand. Or is this for 🥔 taters? Boil 'em, mash 'em, shove 'em up yer bum?

I have a Tricross in Morocco. Was single speed but converted to a 5spd sturmey with bar end shifter. The Brittany treader has a bottle cage that takes a non-halal bottle of wine. As for baguettes, I buy the softest baked ones, this job takes all available energy and chewing a baguette de tradition is just too much for me.

Although it is quieter here in Brittany, I landed enough local authority nibbly jobs to bolster my agenda. Fibre optic cable installation brought in some work too. Looking at the the accepted quotes, few whole tree removals, no multiple tree removals or site clearances, 80% of people are keeping the chip and as for the wood, almost all clients are keeping it except for a load of conifer from a house that heats with pellets and heat pump. I gave that to my work experience lads family. I've enough space in my agenda to take time out this month to work on our renovation, I've my veg plot to get going and drainage to sort out. If this continues, I may have yet another glorious long Summer renovating, relaxing at the beach and maybe a bit of travelling around France or Morocco.

Here: Résultats de recherche pour : 'manchettes' WWW.ELAGAGE-HEVEA.COM HEVEA : le matériel d'élagage des arboristes grimpeurs, travaux et loisirs verticaux. HEVEA élagage concepteur... Considered 'de rigueur' en France for many.

I did a long dead one in 2011, cut and drop. The wood immediately under the bark was mush and my spikes couldn't get a hold so I improvised and took a small axe up with me to cut away the bark and mush so my spikes could grip solid wood. It was one of the few trees I left pegs on for pure relief. It felt solid enough climbing but when I felled the stem it shattered like glass revealing an amazing spalling effect throughout the trunk. Then back in November I had my second D'espoir des singes' This one was in rude health with a very dense crown. I totally underestimated the volume of chip, two truck loads 7m3 in the end. Luckily the farm was only 5km away. 2 disgusted arb students and I dragging, Mr Meth climbing. The students had arm gauntlets ss did the climber, me no. My forearms were a state, bloody like bizzare Christian stigmatas they prickly itched all night. It was on this job I slipped whilst dragging a branch and fell against the wall of the house putting a couple of holes in the exterior polystyrene insulation. Exterior insulation is now on my list of risks...

The air is drawn out and vented from the roof whilst fresh air enters through vents in the top of the windows in our gaff.

VMC units are standard in every French house including renovations. Ventilation Mechanical Controlé If I turn ours off, the temperature rises but the air becomes humid and stale with cooking odours. You can't hear the fan, only a light whisper as air is draw into the ceiling vents. There is a more advanced thus costly version that recuperates the heat from the warm air being drawn out. Well worth installing one but much easier in a renovation if you want to run the ducts to the kitchen and downstairs toilet.

What about those Italian fashion items Mick? Did you ever place an order?

How effective are these? TPO, conservation areas and felling licences. I'm in France, a country with nothing similar. A fellow French arb with experience of working in London is insisting that there are only a tiny minority of trees are protected and the system is useless and unenforceable. What is the opinion of this parish?