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....you can see the arisings flaming on the exhaust of your grinder! And when you pull you visor down and it goes totally dark.
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We had the A frame concrete pillars at the farm I worked at. We managed to move them about with a telehandler. When they were in place they could handle everything thrown at them and they were used as a wall to contain cows over the winter. Well worth it.
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this year due to issues in the gulf stream we are predicted to experience the coldest winter for 1000years, you have been warned! Stock up, on everything! So where did you find that out? Haven't stuck my heating on yet! Will I have too? Just using the stove to heat the house.
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Leeds Council used a bus last year just before The Leeds and Reding Festival on the Bramham to Thorner Rd. This year the Festival got a crew in and as far as I can tell they climbed the trees this time to reduce the over hanging branches.
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Nice stack! How long will that little lot last your friend?
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Looks like there are patches of conifer mites. Needs a spray of Bandu (Deltamethrin) and Susthane (Myclobutinal) at the beginning of the growing season and then at the end. This may need to continue for a couple of years to break the growing and breeding cycle of the mites and aphids. Also cutting the hedge so tightly doesn't help to fight the mites, just like everybody else has said previously. Check out the Bartlettuk web site for more details.
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Well done! How long have you been climbing before you did your CS39?
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Thanks for all of the above. Think I will take my silky along to and show them the scars!
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I have been asked to fill in for an hour and a half next week at the St John Ambulance meetings I go to. My idea was to talk about the inherent dangers of chainsaws and climbing. I am looking for info on suspension trauma and if I can some photos of chainsaw injuries. Part of my 'display' I was thinking of taken in the work saws, 200t, 361, 660 and the 880, I know they are are sthil but I might just put my husky 357xp in to break up the monotiny. Does anybody have ideas how to fill the 1 1/2 hours then?
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Forgot to say wearing trousers under your chainsaw trousers does not go! It doesn't matter how cold the day is you will still sweat from just using the saw.
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If you are just doing cross cutting you might get cold just standing about watching. Your chainsaw trousers, whatever make they are, will keep you warm. Once you start using your saw you will probably find you heat up pretty quick, so wear layers like t-shirt, sweatshirt and a fleece for when you are standing about. Also perhaps a woolly hat for when you take your helmet off when you finish, just so you don't cool down too quickly afterwards.
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I don't want to sound like an old cynic but I have never had the opportunity to work with a woman in this line of work. I think the biggest obstacle you might come across is having to 'prove yourself' to us burly men 'grunt, grunt'! You sound capable of doing the job better than some of the guys I have worked beside. Get experience, join a large company if you can, like BTS, they are in North Lincs, I think or even Bartletts dare I say it. Mind you the closest office is near Wetherby. (Its closer to Wetherby than York)! I was lucky enough to get a job because I had C1+E on my licence, held my chainsaw certs and experience. After 3 years I now have CS38 and CS39 and I am in the position of Plant Health Care Tech for the office. I am an experienced groundsman and do a bit of climbing but to be honest it has been a hard slog. Work at it, and you will really enjoy the job, it becomes more than a job! Best of luck.
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Don't have a link cause it was the boss who bought them. However I recommended them to someone else and they just googled them. They came back with a price of £180 but if you can get them cheaper let me know so that I can pass the info on to them. Cheers.
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We use 'orchard' ladders at work as well and they are brilliant. Great for straddling over the prize flower bed when you have to trim the hedge behind it. They make trimming around individual lawsons soooo much easier.
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What is underneath the tree, what are the ground conditions like? Are those new build houses and is this the same tree from the other thread?
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Been working on a few horse chestnuts lately, and while I have been dragging the brash out I got to wondering if you planted a 'conker' from a tree that has bleeding canker would your new tree have it as well?
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Could somebody i.d this is please. It is on a Horse chestnut monolithe which is slowly rotting away. It produces different fungi through out the year but this one is this most impressive. Thanks
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Hi, I am looking for information or even pointed in the right direction for the make up of chainsaw trousers. What are the made from and what material is used to clog up the saw if you unfortunately decide to put a running saw into your leg?! Are there different ways to stop the saw from going through the trousers, ie, clogging, deflection? What are the protective layers? thanks
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So with your measuring tape do you put it across the tree and this gives you the diameter of the tree?
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My stupid question is and I am quite ashamed of asking to be honest. How do you measure the DBH of a tree and what is a trees 'girth'? This is probably something you learn right at the beginning but the beginning was a long time ago!
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Dean Its Scott, we met at Charlies birthday party on Saturday, been trying to call, could you PM me as soon as. Cheers
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Thanks for allowing the reading of your dissertation. I have being doing some work with Horse chestnuts in York and I have noticed a lot of what you have described in 2.2 Cameraria ohridella and I have found it very interesting and informative. I am going to read it all the way through and I am pretty sure I will find the answers to my questions. Thanks again.
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I also have a 357xp about 2 and half years old and it is doing the same, cutting out running rough. I have had the carb cleaned out just lately and it ran ok but now it is a sod to start sometimes. I will be going to the Husky dealer again and getting a new carb for my saw. Thanks for the info.
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Ok I know how to identify bleeding canker on a horse chestnut, but has anybody came across a horse chestnut when it is in its final thros of live? What does it look like, has it shed limbs that were affected, does the tree simply fall over, has all the bark fallen from the tree and how long does is it take for all this to happen? Thanks
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Being Scottish I would prefer it to be deap fried. Yum Yum!!!
