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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?

I saw this video and almost passed out thinking of the fatigue of feeding that machine. Dessouchage d'une haie de Thuya. #paysagiste #plappeville... WWW.FACEBOOK.COM 1,7 K vues, 6 J’aime, 0 commentaires, 1 partages, Facebook Reels de Marconot Paysage: Dessouchage d'une haie de...

Chateaubourg Brittany Tom forgot to lift the 3 point so the draw bar dug in. Towing this out snapped a not inconsiderable rope though it was old and perished stiff. This short clip is merely part of a far greater lesson in why Bandits are best taken off road in drought conditions... VID_20230118_122047.mp4

So... Back before Covid I bought a generic Chinesium chippette for a couple of similar jobs in medieval towns. It ended up being used rather more and on some quite large jobs when my GM150 was having issues. We also used Jérôme's CS100 The machines are really quite different. Chinesium is far louder. Blade life is about half, the guy who sharpened the last pair was surprised just how soft the metal was. Infeed 11cm narrower, makes a vast difference. Bolts, replaced. Body alignment. Ease of feeding, Chinesium has an inconvenient void before the anvil which traps branches. Anvil alignment too is less accurate. Security electrics poor so disabled. Loncin engine has good power, easy electric start and a centrifugal clutch. However it has developed a crank shaft seal leak which is a simple and cheap fix for my mechanical groundy. Value for money, can't beat it if you can live with the D'merits and use it only occasionally but otherwise CS100 is the machine of choice. Needs a swivel chute and a chute extension as options though...

Since you're going to ask about the stumps, plant pot stands...

I wasn't sure if the CS100 would get up the stone steps and around the corners so I brought the Evo as plan B. The idea of dragging everything out down steps, around corners, through narrow snickets into the garage to chip in the street gave me anxiety as I thought I've blown it on this quote. Thanks to the wee chippette, job done by 3pm, loaded by 3:30 cheque in hand. There was a birch removal too.

The quote is for brash removal and digging out of speared ends. You'd need to be on a whole Blitzkrieg of Pervitin to get through that in a day!

Ooooffff! Perhaps they left off a zero, seriously. The client may shortly find several dismayed tree guys cussing in their garden or just walking out of the job. My former business partner left off a zero once which saw 4 of us working 2 days for €250. We were subbing to a landscaper who held us to the quote which in France is a signed contract. Are you going to ruck up and watch from a safe distance as jaws drop and the air turns blue?

Before we know it, Mick Dempsey will be lauding the positives of wee chippers and the world will hold hands as one and sing Hallelujah, blessed be the meek for their 15hp shall inherit the back yard jobs and the devil take your crane and 12". Amen

What is the target turnover for a 3 man team such as the ones you run? You mention 4 admin but what about the maintenance/mechanics side? Are your teams expected to undertake these tasks too? Regards Stuart

@HRG I have a question for you. What in your opinion is a realistic profit in the UK after tax? For running a second independant two man crew equipped with 6" chipper and 3.5t tipper.