Patchwork
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thats pretty raw
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Just wondering if any one has worked or works for the company Arbor-Tek in Christchurch NZ?
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so far iv passed my chainsaw maintance, cross cutting, tree felling, ariel rescue, climbing NPTC's and taking chainsaw from a rope tomorrow, wish me luck
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is he the man when it comes to rigging systems? or dose he sell?
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Seeing as I TPO'd a tree the other day for just this very reason - the neighbour wants to take the half of the mature copper beech that overhangs his garden off back to the boundary line - maybe the high court is beckoning Why do people want to take half trees off just cos its in their garden,surley the final result would look worse than a tree overhanging? is it me or are people greedy selfish fools?
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Ok, im building up my own personal kit, and i now have to do a job that 100% requires every thing i take off to be lowered. honeybros is offering a compleate kit for £400 + VAT http://www.honeybros.com/gbu0-prodshow/HB91G.html. i get a 20% merrist wood discount on that is it worth getting a compleat kit like this or buying seprate parts my self, and is this a good price for what im getting?
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oh yeah i wasnt contradicting the work you did, obviously best to try and save it, saw the ring bark on it i think, looks pretty bad. but considering what you had to work with i think its a very good job. looks liek its on private grounds away from foot pathes ect, could it not be left how it was but fenced off?
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will that tree survive now? or just slowly die without causing problems?
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Crazy lady and co-dominent/storm damaged European Lime
Patchwork replied to Patchwork's topic in General chat
ok, but will that be a good way of deciding where to take it back to? i also studyed a fair bit about CODIT for a college assignment i did, one of the most intresting thing we looked at all year. -
some awful awful cuts in the top pic, how do they think that just cutting back to mid branch and not a croch will do any thing.
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Crazy lady and co-dominent/storm damaged European Lime
Patchwork replied to Patchwork's topic in General chat
dont have any pics, camera was dead. when i go and climb it next week to check what is going on at the regrowth points i will take alot. yeah i was thinking aout recucing the stem to a suitable lateral, cos at the moment its just a mass of really thin but very leafy regrowth. would be seriously bad news if any thing fell onto the birds of prey underneath. their is alot alot of dead wood and die back on the stormdamage stem, would it be a suitable method to take a rubber hammer up with my when i climb and just check for decay on the way up? may need to set up some sort of rigging or a zip line as their is no drop zone below at all. -
I went to see a woman in Feltham yesterday about some tree work. She has a beutiful garden, with one of the biggest Beech in somthing or other (which may just be crazy lady talk). She wanted me to origionaly top a Pice abies, which i refused to do as it would be no benifit to her or the tree, when looking around in her garden, which was amazing to see in an area so close to london. i noticed a large 80-90ft co-dominent lime, on the left stem about 3m from the top their was a mass of regrowth, which looks like its from a snapped out stem, the lime is growing up from about 8 rare bird averies with things like falcons and eagle owls in. basically i would just like to know how lime deals with decay. am climbing it in about a weeks time to see if it would be best to totally take the co-dominent stem out that has the storm damage.
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ill be going, intrested in those camo ballistics. what stall?
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we had to do a tree report on that at merrist wood a few months back. cant remember much about it tho, is the life belt due to the fact that the stem very straight with alot of weight in the crown and the tree had put on reactive growth to fiber buckling?
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hahaha
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sorry cant get the pics up, haha no cornet cuts, just took the top down to a sutiablble growth points, looks quie nice now, instead of conical it has a rounded top, will try and resize pictures
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yes i do, 1.8 diesel ford fiesta. what a beast
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Today i topped my first conifer out, did it as a private job. the tree was a red western cedar, and the client wanted the height of it taken down. tell me what u think. no pics of the tree befor i stripped the top down, but im sure u get the idea.
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oh yeah fo sho, but some people seem to hate having all that movement in it, proably not the best harness to climb in then
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if the bridge is to long undo the overhand knows holding it on to the green work position side D's and retie, i personaly prefer the long bridge but this is what many of my freinds and my tutor has done. also make sure its set perfectly for you, i spent about an hour trying out maby diffrent setups hanging from my banisters till i found the right one. try ajusting the leg loops so they are as close to ur arse as possible. i find my harness extreamly comfortably now and the weight feels perfectly distrubuted between my legs and back with no points of pressure or pinching in any position i sit in it. but this was after an intense set up session.
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ganoderms reinaceum had a 2 year lifecycle, with annual fruiding bodies, they enter through wounds (natural and unnatural) and cracks in the stem. all ganoderma species caused white rot, which basically reduces the mechanical strength of the tree, but some may argue makeing it more ductile in heavy winds
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thats been savaged, dosent eaven look liek they crotch cut it at all, just randomly picked points to take it back to
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reasonable surf hitting cornwall this weekend, between 5-6 foot with offshore wind. pity its not firing down in devon, means i gotta drive an extra 2-3hours
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treeMOTION all the way!!
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that is very true. as they say over the pond (and now here) "where their is a blame their is a claim"
