josharb87

he might have a chance of understanding us lot . . .

bearing in mind x-mas trees are a sod to chip with a small chipper anyway, its doing alright-just needs the stress relief on the engine sorted out-dropping too many revs before the rollers stop imo. what size chipper is it?

only half hour from me. like the place. used to live with a bloke from thrapston near kettering, 88man on here is from there too, he may be usefull for dropping wood off. which reminds me, got a job there soon, and need a wood dump!

what will its focus be? will it be like the AA or actually focus on standard /quality of work produced? will it be for individuals or companys? (i like the idea of individuals, as an approved company needs to only have one decent climber for the whole company to be approved including dangerous dave and stupid simon)

how far you willing to travel/pay haulage?

mine was whenever i wanted it! was able to pick the day and even the time! (gloat boast gloat)

brilliant

hmmmm. personally i hate working with another climber. prob something to do with the legendary climbers ego, but also differing standards-i.e mine have been higher. would rather have an extra groundie so i dont have to do anything when i get down, rather than shell out for another climber as for having a fully loaded speedline with 10 slings on, i would imagine youre groundies were working overtime clearing, cutting chipping all that whilst you two sat up there with no spare slings to be getting on with attatching??? would rather have a constant rythem, send two or three bits down, as soon as the lines being lowered, use the other slings to attatch the next branches whilst the lines being untied/sent back up to you by one groundie, with the other dealing with the branches-that way everyones got a constant, methodical job to do-1 lowering, one dealing with brash and the climber cutting work in harmony with eachother!

used to work with 7 quads-all semi-auto hondas, two 450 and 5 green 550s with winches, brilliant machines. all road reg'd and on dual fuel-gave a couple of running problems on a few of the bikes, but nothing major got abused but never broke-riding into dykes was a gegular occourance-winch out, drain air box, drive back to yard, and change milky oil! personally, wouldnt want anything under 450 or over 600

Hop-hornbeam? would imagine so as in same family as hazels, hornbeams and alder. try it and find out!

wow, thats awesome mate, some fantastic looking scenery and trees

still fell into a rotten stump though . . .

i like the principle of whats been done there, especially comparing it to youre other work david-fracture pruning, where youre trying to mimic natures decay to create habitat whilst retaining the tree through reduction, this IS natures decay/demise of a tree, retaining itself, keeping and creating habitat, the trees still doing its thing, abeit a bit more horizontal, which will in time look far more natural than say a coronet cutted tree. it may well look at the moment like a windblown tree that needs clearing up, but in the far future, its going to be a point of intrest and far better than 'eco piles' or logs left as habitat-which in that setting would look like a pile o tat

nice daytona british beef beats jap crap

how much!!!! bloody hell, best have ago at making one or two!

aww, you been down south latley dean?? or just softening up??

look at it the other way- future money to be made! if everyone planted trees in perfect spots, away from power lines/buildings/roads/sky dishes we'd have a helluva lot less work to do!

if you go the dumper route, go for a 5ton 4x4 one-anything less isnt really worth it/up to it-we use a 5tonner quite alot for woodland work

Morus nigra or Morus alba I,ll go with nigra beAR In mind i do see 2-3 pictures of it at the moment!

pfft they were only 20footers, 21 at most

145ft

larix... ummm .. kaempferi andy?

if you get short again, i know of a subbie groundie looking for work from youre way, tonns of tickets and experience, real hard worker

1-Pinus sylvestris 2-Fagus sylvatica 3-Fagus grandifolia??