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If thats Dougie Wells then he's a top chap. Don't knwo much else about his business though. As he's advertisign on arbjobs then you would think that it must be a brit run company.

I've got one Dean, keeps tea hot for a few hours, and will fit in your pocket to take up the tree.

Also the gladiators are from the old style stretch air pattern, like the old red and blue ones, so the pockets are different on the right leg i.e. no cover over the tool/phone pocket so it will fill up with sawdust.

True, i guess.

It doesn't work like that. The beetles infect the trees, then they infect each other through the ground. Putting infected wood near some un affected trees for a while won't be a problem. Not burning the chip wont be a problem. Wearing spikes from one tree to the next?? I don't know about that but I doubt it! He didn't wear spikes cos he didn't need them. YOu only need spikes for chogging stems, nothing else. Seeing as he boshed the limbs off at the trunk he had no need for spikes.

Reg, all this discussion is good for sales and awarness and none if it is meant as critisism. Its a great product. Comparing it as similar to one of your LD's in terms of risk is nonsensicle! Your LD's are fixed to a tree and stay there. The risk, as I see it, of this product is that it moves around the site, so you could walk backwards looking at the reduction your mate is doing only to find the the groundie has left the trolley on the lawn behind you, you fall backwards roll over to save your self and lose an eye on the stake on the far corner of the thing, ouch! Again, I am only saying what I see. If you can get the engineers to roll the ends over then please do so. I look forward to seeing it on friday.

Well thats a first! Actually dean I think the spikes would be removed when movign large rings/logs etc.

Yes, I meant it as a positive comment, just saying what I saw in the video, and I still want one. And I agree, there are many risks to the job. My experience of stupid accidents is that they are just that, stupid. I tripped/slipped recently while pulling a tree over, and I fell back and landed on my trailer which I had moved myself but had forgetton it was there.

Yes, but we need training prior to enganging in those activities and for using the machinery, and we are trained to minimise those risks to a negligable level. Adding pointy metal spikes to a work site is not minimising risk, and there are plenty of total imbecile out there!! I like the trolley, in fact I want one already. I just think they look sharp! A shepherds hook on the end would be good, or a D type loop.

My local stihl dealer has a range of climbing products and no one there has any idea what they are, even though they have had some training apparrently. But in answer to the question, NO, they should not have to have CS38!! Thats rediculous. CS38 is an industry standard of training for tree workers, not for sales! Its up to you to buy what you want from them if they have it. Of course if they knew what was what then they might make more sales but thats up to them.

Looks really good. Is it just a prototype so far? Those extension "stakes" look lethal!! They need a curved over end, or rubber caps of some sort. I can see someone tripping over some brash and then I dont want to speculate on possible injuries. Hopefully this can be looked at?

Don't most leccy ones come with safety chain, so virtually no kickback at all. Some even have a gaurd on the end of the bar!!! I've heard of plenty of deaths from leccy saws though, mostly the start with tripping over the cord!

I have spare crutches if he needs them.

It seems to me that the only way an insurance policy is valid is if the tools are kept in such a secure environment that they never get stolen in the first place. See what kind of locks and stuff they require for that policy.

Depends what the small print says. Your tools will probably have to padlocked to your body at all times for the insurance to be valid!!

From the gaurdian Sluts Hole Lane in Besthorpe, Norfolk, survived a residents' petition for a change last year. Historically unsmutty, it comes from the Dutch word for sluice, used in draining the fens.

Rhystree would be a good bet.

Good for you. DOn't write her off just yet, you might get a chance to re couperate your losses from her, even if its through referals. Peace....

I did one over five years ago so I'm supposed to do another! But who actually runs a good refreshers course? I would want every CS unit refreshed in a few days for not much money. Treevolution did one but not any more. Any suggestions?

I think others put it better me than me! I was a bit harsh, sorry, but I agree with what I was tryign to say, which was to shock you a bit into realising that no one is siding with you, however much of a right on guy you might be. The bit I don't get is this...... In the fisrt instance the tree had been neglected and you trimmed them and put them right, and did a good job, so thats fine. Then a year later they are not goign to need the same amount of work doing as the have only had a years growth. SO how much are you charging the second time round? Have you quoted for that? Has it been accepted? If you you had done the work the second time round at a new rate and then set that rate for each subsequent yearly trimming and that had been agreed then it might be ok, but your talkign about a new contract of work on trees that you don't actually know how much they have grown in a year. So just turning up is not going to work. The hardest bit about tree work is organisng the customers. we are all good at our jobs and I'm sure you do a great job every time. But thats the easy bit!! Learnign to cope with customers is hard, and phonign them up to make appointments is a pain. E mail works really well though and I do nearly all quotes and organising using e-mail. So my best friendly advice is this, drop this one and get e mial address for all customer in the future. The drop them an e-mail 2 weeks before to confirm and don't do the work until they have given the go ahead. Also then, e mails are saved so you have a record of them agreeing to you working for them on such a day.

I say what I think, and so do you, we'd get on fine... Not a single person here has agreed that you have done right, I just said what I thought a bit louder I guess. I didn't say you were arrogant, I said I didn't know which of those characteristics would best describe the situation. It may not by any of those things to book the date 12 months in advance but to just turn up without making contact is at least one of those things, I don't know which because like you say I don't know you well enough, only you know the answer to that. Take the advice given, that you asked for, and walk away from the situation. I decided not to post at first because everyone else had already said everything, and I guessed you had got the message but then you stated you were pursuing the claim, so I added my bit.

Problem contractor more like! I don't know if its arrogance or complacency or just stupidity to turn up to a job 12 months after "booking" it in!! To even think of trying to get them to pay up is just adding to the disgrace and lack of proffessionalism. Man up and take it and apologise and walk away. If you actually go through with the small claims procedure then you don't deserve to have any more customers. No wonder its easy for the rest of us to give good service if this kind of thing is being done everywhere. Thanks though, you gave us a good laugh at work today!

I buy mine in 50 or 60m lengths. 60 is quite a lot though for most days. Do you keep it in a bag? If so the last 10-15 m should stay in there all day long, no need to drag it anywhere round the tree?

What about the heroic things you have done?? Were you in the military or something before tree work? Fireservice maybe? Please tell......

You tell a good story!!