ScottF
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How come when the bin men don't show up you're allowed to take your rubbish to the tip, but when the police can't be bothered to follow up theft/breakins etc, you're not allowed to take the law into your own hands? You should be allowed to get tooled up and sort this sort of scum out and get a rebate on your council tax for doing it! My monday morning rant over.
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Is there an expensive licensing and registration system which accompanies this innovative technology? Could I have my specs in outrageous Dame Edna pink, please?
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Looks pretty firmly saproxolylic. Unless it's just finished eating the whole heart of the tree. Burp! Maybe Tremella mesenterica? Lovely colour.
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Bit of extreme turfing there, ukminch. Hell of a nice-looking spot, too. Have never been able to figure why Bobcats aren't used more over here. Really handy things. Where in Canada was it?
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me too
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All sounds sensible to me, Luke. By all means dig out some pictures if you've got them and best of luck to you.
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Oops indeed. Saying that, I learned plenty and will never make the same mistakes again. Tuition fees in the university of life are sometimes mighty high.
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Sounds good, Luke. Where are you based? What's made you want to get back into the big tree niche?
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The slate garden came up at around £175k to the client including the stone cladding. Unfortunately it cost slightly more to build....
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Do love the fastigiate quercs. Were those 'fastigiata' of 'Koster'? Lots of variation in their fastigiate-ness, I find. I love visiting trees I've planted. It's particularly fine when they're big enough to climb. Unfortunately I left most of my climbable-sized ones in Canada.
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In fairness to the tree, it has been winter since 2006. I'm sure I've got mildew developing on my crown in various places. Whinge.
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He was a hell of a nice lad and probably the best climber there. Typical. Needless to say, it was a very bad day at the office. Anyway, let's not derail ourselves.... Ed, I can translate the site for you if you like, you espece de poitrine poilu. Ce sont que des epinards ennuiees.. (can't find the accents on this foutu de bordel d'ordinateur!)
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'96 TWTS yes the one when that lad got killed
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Ty, I'd echo what Marc said above- you do get an idealised view of how the industry should be from college. I had almost exactly the same experiences when I left Merrist Wood in the mid-nineties and started for an English firm- terrible PPE, crap saws, climbing kits falling apart, and I almost walked away. But what I learned is that not all firms are the same, and you also do need to earn the right to complain by doing the job for a while. From what you're saying about the quality or standard of work out there, you're sitting on a massive opportunity rather than a crap situation. Just stick it out for a while (even if it's just to learn how NOT to do it) and see how things progress. I'd like to hear more about the industry in France, too. I'd quite like to work out there some time, so the more knowledge/experiences we get the better. Best of luck.
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This loader has clearly been turned to the dark side, bwa ha ha ha ha!! Does it have a radio to play the "Imperial March" on at full volume?
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Here's "before" shot of the garden with the curvy slate walls (second shot on my original post). We got so wet that winter we all had advanced cases of "trench gusset". Very nasty.. Anyone else got some landscraping or tree planting pics?
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There's no danger of me hedging in on your patch, mate. The commute would kill me... Cheers!
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Hey, cheers chaps! Yeah, lots of work getting them from piles of rubble to something you'd want to hang out in. Haven't done a major project this year, but hopeful something interesting will come along. The scheme with the timber planters is a leisure site down the Llyn Peninsula near Nefyn. The one with the mature olive tree planted into the round bed is, as Ed says, on Anglesey. The one with the curving slate walls (which are over a metre thick underneath all that slate), is overlooking the bay towards Portmeirion. Only took a year and £140k. Almost finished me off that one... Thanks again, guys. Glad you're feelin' the gardens.
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Here's a few pictures of gardens I've designed and built since 2007 when not looking at trees and scratching my head. These are all new builds, from scratch (usually a big pile of rubble and builder's crap). Hope you like 'em.
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Excellent resource. Cheers, Bundle 2.
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Is anyone else terrified by this thread?
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Really tricky work done with professionalism and skill. Well done!
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I'm happy to offer up a weaver leather harness (no loler) as part of an emergency kit if needed....
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I know Duncan who wrote that summary and can say that it's pretty concise. That said, there are myriad permutation of understanding and interpretation... it's a minefield! be aware
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I thought that we'd established in an earlier thread that the best take down a palm was with a gatling gun at full auto from 100 yards away? Safety first, chaps.
