Will Hinchliffe
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Loads of fire wood! What was the decay fungi?
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The colour is great on those photos. I would love to be able to ID the Lichens we find on trees.
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My First Arbtalk Mushroom!
Will Hinchliffe replied to John Hancock's topic in Chainsaw Carving Forum
I quite fancy having a go at one of those, looks really nice John. I really like pear its fantastic wood. -
Sorry got to excited and forgot the photo.
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Everything was cut to hand in small pieces to avoid damaging the headstones. Some was thrown outside the crown and some posted inside. Here is a close up of some of the fruiting bodies, they were coming out of the other side of the tree as well, but they were dessicated and smaller than these. Top left you can see a New fruiting body emerging above a dessicated bracket, the lower two brackets are fresh. The markings on the bark on the right are areas of dead flaky bark. I have not been made aware of any decay detection that has been done on this tree, I will ask the boss tomorrow. I would love to see a thermal image of the tree. As always it was a team effort so I will tell the others that the reduction was well received.
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Are Your Back lights facing the ground now Dean? Sometimes its the most excited I get all day when I reverse the landy up onto the chip pile.
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About 1.5 ton
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Nasty, nasty, nasty.
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For sake of completeness here is the holm Oak reduction from the cemetery carried out today. The job spec asked for a 50% reduction on the two left hand limbs (as viewed in the first picture) and a 30% reduction on the rest of the tree. The tree has been reduced in the past and had some good growth inside the crown. John worked the left hand side of the tree and I worked the right. I think the Fungi is G. Applanatum. Gave it a thumbing and the crust gave way. There are some really large growth increments on the buttresses suggesting good reaction growth. The final picture is of some people paragliding above the white horse.
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I just flip the whole thing up at once from both sides on small trees and from each side on bigger trees but with no where near as much finesse as that guy (and no where near as large trunk) . When the tree gets to big we have used a mailon to join two fliplines but this makes it difficult to work. I would love to get enough practice in on massive tunks like that to be as good as that guy but its unlikly I ever will unless I move out of the UK.
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The way he advances that flipline is awesome. Great video cheers.
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We use Sampson zingit. it seems to be pretty good.
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When does a person become a "tree surgeon"?
Will Hinchliffe replied to Perkins's topic in Training & education
Interesting document Pete From AFAG805 3 Employers must provide training during working hours and employees should not have to pay for it. 21 Arborists operating a chainsaw during tree-climbing operations need to have the additional Certificates of Competence, CS40 ‘Carry out pruning operations’ and/or CS41 ‘Undertake sectional felling’, as relevant. Groundsmen should hold the industry recognised NPTC Certificate of Competence CS45. Does everyone have these tickets ? -
I have a fiesta:001_cool:
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Lay a ladder on top of the log first and run the jig on that to get the first cut nice and straight. keep the saw at the same angle all the way down and when you get to the end of the plank try and keep the saw nice and straight as the jig goes of the end of the log (it helps having the handle on the gig positioned in the centre of the log). Dont push the saw to much or you will cane your back and might knacker the saw. The planking gig killed our 880 but that was a good thing because it got replaced with a 3120 which is a much nicer saw. Have fun:001_smile:
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Why not just put a proper access line in for rescue ?
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Were the climbers Norwegians? How many days and people did it take? Looks like a nice job but a bit cold and slippery.
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I saw that in the paper. If I remember the tree had a TPO and the council had refused an application to reduce it.
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Yea there great trees, I want to go up the big multi stemmed deodar. Were back there again to reduce one of the holm Oaks.
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Looks tidy Mark. Is it a council tree ?
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Thats a cool tree! Maybe you could just reduce the width in a little and shorten any long dead limbs. The fungi looks like its lliving on the dead wood, buts its hard to tell from the photo. The tree might benifit from not mowing under the drip line, you could make a small wildlife oasis. Unmown grass and brambles are in vouge:001_smile:
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I took my camera to work today and took some shots of what we have been up to. Some great trees to work with. Enjoy:001_smile: 1.Monday. Reduction of weight on major limbs and removal of major dead wood - Beech with Ganoderma. 2.Monday. Johns Cedar Monolith. 3.This morning. Matt Chogging down the last of a Cedar that had extensive die back. We lowered everything on Tuesday and took the wood away in a grain trailer. 4.Today's Cedar, more lowering but enough room to fell the butt. 5.Stopped for an early lunch while a funeral is held. 6.The butt on the ground at the end of the day.
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Exellent.
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I hijacked it to put something stupid on
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Have you looked at the Poll vs Bartholomew case ? There is some info on it here: http://www.aie.org.uk/
