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For kjames. Re age limits, not sure if you are asking what's the max age Paton is looking for, or whats the age limit for considering moving to OZ. If its the former, then only the original poster can answer that for you. If its the latter, then I can't find any max upper limit on the Australian Govs website. What is important is that Arborists are on the AusGovs skilled occupation list, which means that if you have either the quals, skills or experience and you are sponsered by an employer then you are likely to be granted a work visa subject to certain other criteria. IE: not be suffering from any ongoing illnesses or diseases, having a criminal record for interfferring with wombats or any other illegal activity. Basically, you have to have a sponsor, an actual job to go to filling a skills shortage and your not going to be a drain on the their resources, then you should be ok. If you are between 18-30 then your other alternative is to apply for a 12 month young persons working holiday visa. You don't have to have a sponsor or any work set up in advance, and your free to work where ever you can get it. Hope this helps. Of course you would have to do a bit more in depth research, this is just bare bones as far as I can make out.

Aye, he's not wrong. Why would any dealer/retailer go to the trouble of setting themselves up to sell a certain manfacturers goods or services if that manufacturer or service provider then undercut his dealership/retail network by selling cheaper directly to joe public. Simple economics really.

Is it No. 27.............? "The Larch" broadleaf vs conifers: If I have to choose, then broadleaf gets my vote. Have I won owt?

Hey Damo, Hows life treating you in Vienna, you keeping busy? Have'nt used one myself mate, but heres a link to a review of a GM Quad Chip 150 at Horticulture Week. Cost in UK is about £14,850 'bout €18,222. Hope this helps. GreenMech Quad Chip 150 | Greenmech Ltd | Woodchippers & shredders | What Kit? Give us a call or send a PM if you have any work coming up, I'd always be up for another visit. All the best, Rick

Of course it does'nt look appetising..... who'd want to eat a dead peadophile!

Big fat fail to everyone here, you've all missed the bloody point. How on earth is using a machine that uses fossil fuel generated electricity and oceans of water to wash a few bloomin pots "eco" friendly in the first place irrespective of what bloody cycle its on!! Hang your heads in shame.......

Stick them all on Tom. I've got them all on mine plus a fifth, "Tree Surgeon", sorry don't know which ref no. it is. If you put all the relevant ref nos. on the one application form, it won't cost any more or need any more form filling. And should cover all the bases should you get some pedantic site manager scrutinising your card.

Originally Posted by bob would you like it to be full side A4 and emailing over Brilliant! When you finally get round to lookin up answers for yourself, don't forget to look up the meaning of "sarcasm" in the dictionary.

Nice clip and tale. Maybe he'd just come out of hibernation & was proper "hank marvin" for some scran forcing him out in the daytime? And.... doh, my summation beaten by Hama's wise words.

Saw a sign in a shop window the other day which read :- "I would rather serve 1000 Islamic fundamentalist's than 1 British serviceman" Pretty outrageous and ballsy I thought, but then you've got to admire the fact that even................ Funeral Directors have a sense of humour.

Yep, keep seeing one that is responsible for shitting in me allottment. And if I ever catch him I'll skin the blighter with a broken bottle........... varmint!!!!!!

My parents appear to have a rather poorly Bay tree, which appears to be rapidly declining towards death! Can anyone ID possible causes for sudden dieback and recommend any potential remedy to save it? Tree is 10+ yrs old. Sits in predominantly sunny position. In NW England, so drought not an issue! After two hard winters, last year leaves showed signs of some distress, with new growth leaves curling at the tips and browning at the edges. This winter has been very mild by comparison to last two. Now approx 40% the canopy appears to be dying back, this has occured very quickly over last 5/6 weeks.

Yeah, but once they've been plucked and prepped, it takes a lots of wrens to fill a pie though.....

Wood pidgeon in conifer sat on two eggs 2nd week of Feb. Squirrel drey with young and another wood pidgeon sat on two eggs in large conifer hedge last week. Phew, so far only vermin! Seen magpies and wrens building.

Ha, except the English rugby players! As the recent world cup showed, most of them were just in it for the money, that is when they were'nt pissed up in a bar making tits of themselves, or abusing the staff at the hotels thay were staying at. Pride for the tournament, the game and their country well and truly out the window thus leading to a wave of apologies, resignations and sackings once they came home! As for the footy, yep bunch of overpaid prima dona's that could'nt give a toss wether they were playing for their country or the local pubs sunday league team so long as they are paid an obscene amount of dosh just for turning up! The team may not have had a particularly bad average under Capello, but they have surely be a tedious embarressment to watch at times. As for the new manager, who'd want that job. Bit of a poisoned chalace, constantly slagged off by the whole world and his wife, whilst under microscopic scrutiny of the British gutter press media.

Hawthorn - tuff tuff tuff, you can smash it half to death and it will just grow back stronger. Mashing it with hedgecutters should be absolutely fine, especially at this time of year, by the autumn it will be back stronger and thicker than ever. But I agree with Kev, just man up and have at it in yer shorts with yer secateurs....

Not directly a Stihl fault, blame the human race, blame global warming, blame pollution, blame the Kyoto climate change agreement, blame the EU; Germany and the UK government for commiting us to a 40% carbon emissions cut. End of the day all of the above have forced every new hydro carbon using device to have to be changed and refined to use less fuel and produce less emissions. To do this our machines have to have their guts tweaked out of them until they only produce fairy farts.

Sorry mate, 'fraid Hama's right. Safety helmets were never designed for people with "lots of dreadlocks". Short of designing and manufacturing your own the only way you will find a helmet to fit is to have a head with a short back and sides!

Given that this customer is already stalling on paying what he already owes, I would take his word that he's got permission to fell the "large ash" on someone else's property with a large pinch of salt. I would'nt be touching that tree until I had permission in writing from the other party who actually own the tree. Furthermore you stated that you did not know that he had already sought permission to fell this tree, that would suggest that he did not inform that he had obtained the same. If he did'nt tell you then how can he be expecting you to have included the cost for its removal in your original quote. Sounds to me like he is trying to pull a fast one. I would get everything written down now and send him a letter outlining exactly the work that you quoted for and then attach an invoice for the works that you have carried out. I would not consider for a moment to do any further works until the outstanding amount has been settled. In your shoes I would be prepared to take the matter through the small claims courts.

Cheers chaps, for your speedy replies. Yes Hama, your wise words make sense, but the real question is will my sieve like brain retain this information!

Attached pics taken today on a very dead Horse Chestnut :- Can any one assist with a definate id please.

Don't let the name fool you, OCS is'nt a bunch of old women in pinny's carrying mops and buckets, come to empty your office bin and sluice down the urinals! OCS is a multinational Facilities Management, with over 50,000 staff operating across five continents. Reading the press release on the Fountains website, it would appear that the part of the business they have bought does include some of the staff that was working for Fountains. So presumably it will be the same Fountains people as OCS people undertaking the utility contract and not Mrs' Miggins's mop & bucket brigade.

Many thanks to all who replied and for the advice given.

Ahh, but even the program made the point that the indigenous Amozonian peoples could only support a limited sized community. Once the community became too large, the patch of jungle in which they lived was no longer able to sustain them. the earth became exhausted, and bush meat became scare. Once this became the case, these communities could of course move on and set up camp in a new area of forest and start afresh, in the knowledge that their old site would over a period of time recover from the stress placed on it by their former habitation. With the encroachment of "industrial civilisation" and the clearance of the rainforests this is becoming harder and harder for the few remaining tribes that eschew the modern world in favour of their traditional lifestyle to be able to do this. But of course sustainability of the environment is not the only issue, living without all mod cons, a large dietry option and the lack of health care, means that the indigenous people generally have a shorter lifespan, and have a much higher infant mortality rate which mean that are more able to live within the means that their environment provides. Modern humans are over populating at an exponential rate that is intensively raping the earth of its limited resources faster than it can recover. Sooner or later there will be a tipping point, the ramification of which would probably be felt globally on a biblical scale. Perhaps nuclear armageddon as we fight over the last glass of drinkable water and last slice of edible bread!

Yes, but, as the program went on to show that parts of the "virgin" rainforest had previously been cleared felled by ancient civilisations for thousands of years. Evidence of their previous occupation only coming to light once the regrown forests were clear felled again. If we want more and bigger forests all we have to do is get rid of the people and natures balance will be restored naturally. Over population will destroy the earth not deforestation!