josharb87
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Nice truck Steve!
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Make sure you carry your National health insurance card as it costs to visit doctor or hospital. NHIC card means uk pays for you
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So back in 2009 I milled a yew i felled in a cambridge university. I made a rustic table for mums birthday present, she wrote an award winning poem about the yew covering a long forgotten clue to the uni's nazi connections, and the rest of the planks got stored, along with a walnut plank RobD milled out of a few of my walnut stems at a frjones show. My old carpentry teacher recently took the wood to turn into this table, and 2 stools...
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And milled the stem (2 oaks felled and milled hence 2 mills)
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An oak fell on an island in the archipelago this morning
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Its not about chancing it to avoid getting caught by "red tape" though is it? It's about being safe. It would be heart wrenching if a loved one got hit by a serverly overloaded transit, be it tree surgeon, builder etc who perhaps could have stopped in time had they had a legal load on
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Could just be that any deviation from the uk taught felling technique with a photographically perfect hinge is "wrong" and will be slated by armchair arbs so not worth the bother of posting any such deviation and the ball ache of trying to explain to brick walls isn't worth the hassle
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You see here, the top cut, although good thicknes in hinge has no complete fibers. The bottem cut has the most complete fibers Something to think about
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There are times (flared buttresses) when back cut lower is safer. Back cut above with flared roots and even with an ideal hinge you can risk severing the fibers
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Thanks Ian and Mark
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Annoying ain't it! Quick reduction this morning
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Having a rotating grapple is far better than a muck grab ime. You can drag whole trees out, stack better, load better etc Only thing it cans do is "rake" up
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Used a few Ferrari loaders, Good quality machines.
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New generation all the way. Once the manufactures have ironed out the faults! The new m-tronic 201t is ace. The first 201 not so The 150t is great The 461 Stihl got right first time, and an improvement on the 460 Husky 560 is great I panic brought one of the last of the 660's. Shouldn't have done that! Likewise a 460, but got a 461 anyway
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Swedish, 20-21 May in Uppsala
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You live in the fens!!!
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Because they're not forest machines, they're for paddocks, yard duties etc, our industry just adapts them to do what we want. Ive been on a job where 3 of us tipped a small Giant loader 4 times in one day! And seen the big avant fall on its side after dismounting a curb at the wrong angle/bit of speed. Saw a video today infact, on faceboox of a Norcar (i think) rolling on flat asfalt by simply turning sharply with empty forks raised.
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FWIW I was unimpressed at the 640 running a stump grinder attachment. A grinder attachment with its own engine would be better.
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Thats fantastic help Ian, Thanks!
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Training employees.. Fair and reasonable?
josharb87 replied to benedmonds's topic in Training & education
If YOU need him to have the tickets, then its all on you IMO If HE wants to do extra tickets which you don't really require him to have, but are relevant, then sounds very fair of you to pay for the tickets and a good compromise for him to take the time off as holiday -
Training employees.. Fair and reasonable?
josharb87 replied to benedmonds's topic in Training & education
Sorry ben, I don't think its fair or reasonable for them to be out of pocket in any way. time, holiday, or financially Even the stay away from home needs to be compensated in some way. If not an "away" course, then the guys who can't drive, shouldn't be expected to make their way elsewhere other than to your yard for their normal start/finish times as per a normal working day. Assuming they meet at your yard every day- Thats assuming they're employed, not subbies too. -
Hi all. Ive got a job to price, planting a 100ft long Thuja hedge, which i wouldn't normally do but its a regular customer. Just now its a manky spruce hedge, they want it to be replaced with 2meter+ Thuja, its right next to a small road, first risk is snow being ploughed into the new plants, second is, when its just a risk of frost, salt is sometimes applied to the road.... How sensitive are Thuja to road salt? thanks
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Try the request a price tab at the bottom http://www.upstone.eu/en/contact.htm
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Closed
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Secure enough to stop the opportunist. locking mechanism locks on both sides, so you can't lift a corner like the older mountaintops (i don't know about the newer ones) Also got (although I've not fitted), 2 latches that stop you being able to open the tailgate without opening the top first. its a bit bulkier than the mountain top, feels more robust, and also (according to my mate) greater opening angle
