josharb87

i got "the wollemi pine" by james woodford and "Wildwood, a journey through trees" by roger deakin the story of the wollemi pine sounds extrodanary

and speaking to a dealer who reckons he sells stihls to huskys at a rate of 30-1 must speak volumes too

could well be Ardkinglas Chris, all i know was it was west coast of scotland, and a larch need to ask shreks wee brother for the true location!

thats just disturbing dan!! good effort!

ive seen his work, both steves banners, and a friend whos recently started a landscaping buisness, certainly a high quality!

happy birthday stewy!

haha! well, the other option was firewood, which would really have upset you tom! still yet to get a ripping chain, just been using normal chains on nearly new 36"880. think the quality of normal chains is pretty good, so will look foward to when i do eventually get some rip chains!

and the tree in full

2 more for you liam mr hancocks photos, but my favorite

whyd he knock his bowl of coke over? if he had the rest of the bowl, im sure he could have gone over his head

in the forks of a giant

may i ask what youre getting paid per day hamadryad?

out of intrest hamadryad, what do you do with youre tree waste? i think swb was on the right track at cutting where easiest, but if i were to expand on his comment, i think that cutting large amounts of the tree off in times gone by, hard financial times i may add, 1, gave the (compared to todays times) un educated in tree bioliogy customer more satisfaction than having a tip end reduction, 2, it made more firewood, or PRODUCE, and 3, 100 years ago, we diddnt have the 020! the history of urban tree work imo as i see it was 100 years ago they diddnt have the knowledge of tree bioliogy, or tools to fanny about on the ends of branches, so gave nice hard pollards, high pollards, and fells (and dont those pollards still look lovely?) and as machinery and kit progressed, and as people wanted to keep their favorite tree out front of their hoouse, we as tree cutters tryed to give the customer what they want, so started taking less and less off, charging more to do so, so the cutters could afford to waste the waste, rather than sell it to make ends meet, inner city stuff couldnt be shifted, so was distroyed, becomming a new practice. then the brainy ones came allong, and started applying science to our work, science started to take over, and all of a sudden, pollards were evil, big wounds, trees in shock, wont recover ect. science takes over, and the art of pollarding and big reductions is lost and is seen as a bit of a taboo (to some) you say london and surrounding counties waste alot? well may i ask what the tree surgeons are to do with the arisings? is there a more cost effictive, ecological benificial way of removing large ammounts of branches and cord from the middle of a busy city than to chip, and dump? maybe its not the tree gangs you should be targeting youre opinions at, but the places they dump their 100% natural, biodegradeable, re-useable produce?

jesus! wow

pollards are a great tbh i have only read a few pages of this thread, but heres my opinions. i would like to see a scheme where a goverment body/charity like EN, FC or simmilar pay for privatly owned woodlands that have been previously managed for produce, to continue to be managed in their traditional way, coppice inside, layed hedges, pollards on boundarys ect. imo, the native woodland produce stuff, inc charcoal, firewood, and woodland furniture could be sold to help contribute towards the cost of the management, and being labled FC, EN, EH, RSPB ect, you could put an aditional premium on the product, just because its been labled/endorsed by these type of orginations the ecological benifits of a managed woodland could be a great asset to the english countryside, habitat piles out of the unusable brush, gaping big holes in old pollards, thick dense native hedges oozing with berries yes you do have to be imaginative with re using wood, it can even be done in the urban enviroment. took down a small POLLARDED! contorted willow yesterday, kept the brash, took it to a florists, pocketed 50 quid, theyll re-use it for decorations. a modern twist on pollard produce perhaps? as for a band of self certified high calibre arbs doing free tree work. . . . . .

theres an alaskan mill sub forum, Alaskan Mill - Arbtalk.co.uk | Discussion Forum for Arborists fantastic tools, great satisfaction in using them, and very easy to use from this to this

intresting point that huck

thanks, only nptc, no decent arb qualifications! is this the one where shows count towards credits? thanks andy, cross acreditation between ISA cert arb and Euro treeworker? if i can amalgamate what with what? whats the diffrence between ISA cert arb and ISA cert tree worker? whats the EAC?

what are they? whats involved? what do you learn? how longs the course? what do they enable you to do? why do them? thanks:001_smile:

still here too

i'll stick to my perfumed gin then

isnt that what the barman said too?

it was drifting and dohnutting round tescos car park on the way home! usless pulling out of junctions or just getting going though. went out in the landy today, she diddnt realise there was ice and snow!

drove to work, despite a lorry overtaking a car through the snow towards me:thumbdown: got there, told to go home on full pay as we made the effort, those that rang in wont get paid! bathroom window this morning! landrover the dark blue car on the side of the road is my merc, couldnt get it up into my yard area, so parked it there, and its stuck out the window tree in village (off to get bacon n eggs ) morning fire still blazing

quality pics tom