Big dog
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I aint saying nothin'!!!
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Good move fella, sooo many people are busting a gut to get on the "property ladder". I wonder how many will cope. A couple of different friends of mine are now desperatly seeking housemates to help with the mortgage. All those programs on the telly in the last few years about making money on renovation and second property will have been very little help to many. Only time will tell how bad it will get.
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Your blessed steve that you have a very good reputation ( i think!) which will do you no end of favours if work slows. Its the better than average guys who'll find that regular employers will see a cheaper climber as a more viable financial option just to save £20 or £30 or maybe a little more a day when in reality a slower climber may end up being more expensive through extended job duration, possible client property damage and in general just the slower, more basic techniques and thought processes that only experience teaches.
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Unfortunatly even being prudent can have it downside, bad credit rating can come working from the theory of only buying when you can afford. Its ridiculous! Dammed of you do and dammed if you don't.
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Flippin goverment, the only downturn to this glorious nation is our lack of ability to dig our heels in and stand up for ourselves. I admit, if we did, we'd be as bad as the french. Just the british way i suppose, stiff upper lip and all... Whatever happened to the nation that ruled the world? A bit of anarchy and a big fat road block around london might help. I mean, can you ever see fuel prices dropping to below a pound a litre again?
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Tree care?!
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Reg, i do accept what your saying, i guess we are seeing things from different angles. I kinda figure that our main objective through out our careers remains the same.
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Your absolutely right Mb, i am. Sometimes because of the "keyboard experts" we get on here!
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Well, stick it in a rear garden of macclesfield and what would you say then? Are you suggesting that all of our proffesional efforts are in fact unrequired and all we are doing is merrily ripping off little old ladies? Is structured tree management not required? Is all you do felling or storm damage clear up?
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At the end of the day it has a structural defect, so you have to decide to either do what rowan did or pretty much leave it. If the client is happy for it to be left then fine or if he wants it making safe and you say no then your client is likely to look for another contractor when(or if) the tree collapses. And while i accept what pete has said i think that increasing mass and wind loading through regrowth depends very much on the future program of works that might have been arranged for the tree. Future management would counter act that and enable the survival of the tree for countless years. yes/no? P.s Mb, What is arborculture my man?
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P.s Mb, seeing as your 5000 miles away i doubt if you knew weather or not the tree was going to split either. And looking at the pics of your trims, maybe you should wear hooks, might help you get a little further out on those branches.
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worked in your beautiful country for a while mb, thats why i know. I also know there are many differences in the way our industry is practised to yours. Mainly through the fact that your country has considerably more trees than ours and our sense of retention is much greater than yours. We also don't employ salesmen on comission to sell clients tree work.
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How ironic that a yank should be so dead set against topping when they're more than happy to wear spikes (spurs) to "thin" (trim). I personaly think that what rowan has done is acceptable if the clients alternative was to remove the tree. Would you rather leave the tree, which the client obviously values, let it fall apart and then firewood the rest, or try and retain it for as long as possible. Sometimes leaving it alone is not possible.
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Lionstail?
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I've worked with the guy that bought that mog and he told me about the grant he got to set a green waste recycling centre. That was a couple of years ago, and as far as i'm aware he's had that rig only about 8 months. His grant was disgustingly big and easily paid for those machines. And this info came straight from the horses mouth, so to speak...
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Got to be a test. On one hand it would serve to inconvienience the inocent but hopefuuly it would remove all of those mickey mouse trailers old people build in their sheds out of old caravans and the like. i always have a giggle when i see one of those! Funnily enough, going down the m6 last night and saw a speed boat trailer, with boat, on the hard shoulder missing a wheel. How a test may have saved him some ball ache last night! Plus, nasty little missile that that wheel becomes at 60mph on a busy road.
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Hey wizard, looks like you missed a bit! Bottom right of the pic, looks like it sticks up a bit to me, wouldn't want you to be labelled a gypo!
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Spikes and stubs? Bit greedy isn't it?
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A) Thats what happens when you work indoors. B) God i wish i'd been there, i don't care what anyone says, that would have been funny as hell!
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Thank god for that!
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I once saw the smaller version of the bus. A double cab tranny with a couple of good old boys (you know the sort, tree cutters for about a gazillion years) one drives while the other one stands on the roof with a power pruner doing a slow drive by. Their company was contracted by the LA for all the landscaping and unfortunatly that includes trees.
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Hey monkeyd, is that van alright towing that?
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What happens when the target pruning point is either too high or too far off to the side? Stub it maybe?
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Sounds good in principle and i'm sure that it is effective but i doubt that its practical when it comes to good practice. Probably not much chance of getting good pruning cuts, it would look like stub city, and you know how we all hate stubs!!
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You gotta love those bandits at global!
