Big 'Ammer

No one managed to get 'Bob' then.

Here's another.

Another.

too easy!

Who's this?

Who's this?

Mog!

In the dark, when Plod's gone to bed, presumably?

Round our way the Brown bin gets collected regularly all year, as you can put cardboard and food scraps in it as well as lawn clippings and twigs and branches. It all gets composted.

If its a domestic site and there's no compost heap or whatever, the last rakings up go in the customer's green waste bin. In our area, these are the brown bins. The council are already providing the removal service and the customer is already paying for it anyway.

Here's a beech with meripilus I felled a fortnight since. Similar patterns. The decay in the centre is from a cavity on the trunk higher up.

Tree in a hedge line, fell it four feet high. Bloody farmers. You'll learn. Right decision on the T.M., good job.

Could somebody tell me the front and rear axle weights of a 110 3500kg chassis please? And also for a 130. For a TD5 engine and TDCi as well, if they are different, please. Much obliged, cheers.

Good stuff John. Is the branch on the right in the second picture a nod to health & safety? Keep the tree propped up while the bloke gets down from setting the cable.

Enjoyed that.

Neatly done.

Go for a two lane closure and keep one lane open on traffic lights. Stop both sides periodically and knock the top off in a half a dozen big chunks. Each big bit, shove it back into your side of the roadworks sharpish with a telehandler and have a couple of lads with rakes to clear the fragments. Open up the traffic again. This gives you a safe work area and plenty of time to deal with the material. Stop both sides again briefly while you fell the trunk into the field. Jobs a good 'un.

Depends on your work. If you need to be in tight access situations a lot, stick with the 530. Its remarkable where you can get a 530T with the hopper off. Otherwise, go with the bigger one.

Sorry to hear that Ian.

Confident in felling direction, 80/20 confident about the wall.

Felling a tree over a garden wall lunge.

Three years ago we did some reduction work on a very large horse chestnut that had had some storm damage. The idea being to reduce end weight etc.. It is a very large tree that was cut back over 30 years ago, again in response to storm damage, much in the fashion of Pete's Hotel tree. The suggestion at the time was to cut it hard back again and let it come back. Veterenise, pollard, top, butcher, however you wish to call it. This summer a large limb failed again and we were called back to further reduce it. Again the suggestion from ourselves and management was to pollard it right back to the heavy wood and let it come back, there is plenty of hairy growth on the tree. There's no targets and the owners wish to try and retain the tree as a large tree, so again, we reduced back as much as we dare to some suitable points. In my opinion it will fail again, and we will be back to take it down within the next five years and a big old tree will be lost. How many years could it be retained with say a 15 year repollarding cycle? At the end of the day, its always down to the clients, its their tree and their money. Imo, Pete's tree will still be here in 20 years time and my tree won't. Buzzsurgeon make's a very valid point about old churchyard horse chestnuts.

Enjoyed that.

At least she didn't catch you in the shed with the Cobra bracing shock absorber and the lubricant... That might have taken some explaining. "I'm just seeing how it all goes together for tomorrow's job, dear."