Billy Goat Gruff

The longer it has to dry on the leaf before rain the better, the general time is 3 hours drying for the products with the higher active ingredient, and 6 hours for the products with less active ingredient. Also don't spray it onto a wet leaf as depending on what water volumnes you are using you will get run off, i. e. the chemical comes into contact with the water on the leaf instead of the actual leaf area, and this increases the water volumne on the leaf area and so run off occurs. Also Chemicals in general have gone up around 200-300 % over the past two years due to the high cost of production.

Have been following this thread with some interest, as a member of NOROSO ( NAtional Register of Sprayer Operators). I will try and put every thing into perspective, as some of the posts are incorrect and some what mis leading. Glyphosphate is a non selective weedkiller, this means that whatever you spray it onto will be effected. It consists of Glyphosphate which is the active ingredient,. There are a number of products on the market, but the most commom are 1. Gallop: contains 360 grams Glyphoshate per Litre 2. Glyphos Supreme : contains 450 grams per litre Application rates are generally about 1.25 litres per hectare, costs are Gallop £95.00 per 20lt, Glyphos Supreme £130.00 per 20 litres, but these will vary depending on where you source it. Best place is to locate your local agricultural merchants and ask for prices, all these are plus VAT. Glyphoshate hasn't changed it has always contained isopropaline salt, but some products have pottasium salt in them, that's probably where you are getting confused. The reason why it doesn't last long in the soil is that it is a contact herbicide only, this means that it kills what it comes into contact with, it is not residual, meaning that it is contained actively working in the soil. Glysphoshate is translocating so once the active ingredient is absorbed into the leaf it moves up and down in the plant thus killing the green tissue and root system as well. In fact when Glyphoshate touches the soil it becomes locked up in the particles and becomes neutralised i.e. inactive. Paraquat is Gramoxone, it is a poison with no known antidote, it is no longer available. If you want to treat brambles, the most effective product is Grazon 90, this contains Triclopyr, which is a pyridine Carboxylic acid. Hope this is of some help to you all. and yes we do have to keep all our records, and dispose of the cans correctly as they are classed as hazardous waste.

Struth M8 £550.00 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I.m going to gaffer tape me Hitachi HDC-646E 3x super zoom F=5.8- 17.4mm to me Petzl, and see how I go:001_smile:

If youi have been smacking into it with a 13 ton digger, you don't want to be putting it through a chipper, as all the roots and crap will take the edge of your blades for sure. Option One: Small hazel, willow and such will make hurdles, but all this sort of work is very time consuming, and it sounds like you want a chewap appproach, so either stack and leave as natural habitat, or burn brash, or put through a shredder/chipper, one that has drum discs not blades. I would hire in as well to reduce capitol expenditure. Hope this is of some help?

It's not about bigging yourself up Dave, and I agree totally, I also don't comment or critise other peoples work, I don't see the point.There is no point in putting others down, but I find some times members of the public need guidance, and it's not rocket science to understand that a company that offers, paving, tarmacing, fencing, pressure washing, oh and tree work are possibly not going to work to the same standard that trained arborists will.

Can you GO LARGE for 30p more?

Cannot see the point of saying this to customers Steve, as straight away you have distanced yourself from them with out seeing the job. Personally I go round see the job, then discuss it with the customer, and point out the costings etc, and the service we offer, in comparison to some other not so reputable contractors. It's all about how you present yourself

I'll be there sat, you can't miss me I'll have horns and a beard

....and they went home with a done in chain No wonder they left with a done in chain, they cut through the metal Pole number tag !! Shows what idiots they are, as they don't carry any spare chains, or a file for resharpening. Although in today's economic climate you are not going to get it stripped clean to the pole, as everybody seems to be cutting corners; unfortunately

Literally speaking, I believe it is curried Goat, either way it's shocking to think of eating such a fine feela, why one only has to see my advatar to acknowledge what a fine specimen we are purveying.

Are you wanting to pay for it?

Sorry Steve, can't come as I will be manning our stand at The Essex Young Farmers County Show, besides some of your members were discussing the merits of Goat Curry in a thread last time I was logged on, quite worrying I thought.

My TR 190 occasionally suffers from this problem,on the control lever for one of the tracks, but not the other. I give it a good clean and WD40 and it works again, it's periodic.

I register my two vehicles that are agricultural class, at the post office,I just take along a current valid insurance document for them, and they don't require a MOT, and the tax disc is issued. They are also tax exempt, but although yuo don't have to pay excise, you do have to display the tax disc in the window of the vehicle.

I got the phone hung up on me this winter. An old lady phones and asked do we supply logs? I reply yes, quality seasoned hardwood, cut and split, delivered to your door. She says how much? I say £80.00 per load, she says £8.00? I reply no it's £80.00 per load. She slams the phone down!!!!!!!!!!

Lastly, As a great believer in self rescue techniques, I always carry in my personal first aid kit on my harness: A Whistle, to attract attention from groundstaff if they are, say using the chipper, although in a real emergency situation if I am honest, I probably would not be thinking about blowing a whistle, that would be the last thing on my mind. One packet of cellox to chuck on the wound. One large wound dressing to chuck on the cellox Two sets of cas straps, ( velcro staps), these are ultra quick to use for securing a wound dressing nice and tight to stem blood flow, forget bandages too much mucking around. then bale out of the tree, ASAP. this as always depends on the severity of the wound, How you as a person will function under pressure and in Shock and what type of set up you have in the tree.

A few other points, If we are climbing big trees, we will put up a secondary line into the tree, its easy to do and have a harness attatched at the bottom of the tree, the only problem we have encountered with doing this is when dragging brash away from the tree base, sometimes you find that yuo are dragging away the rescue gear as well. I also thought that you have to have another person trained in aerial rescue on site if the climber is in the tree? ie a groundsperson.

Firstly, gents don't rely on the Fire Service, as their response times will almost definetly be too late, and some Brigades have rope access teams that are only based at one or two stations in the county, and if you are in a rural location with difficult terrain forget it. I always brief my team prior to the days work, on the risk assesment, and that involves the most important question, where can the air ambulance land? We will always ask for a priority response using the air ambulance if there is adequate landing space. Also make sure every body on site knows the address to give emergency services, or knows where the risk assesment is kept with all the info on!!

Oh, by the way the trees were thousands of years old, they hadn't recently fallen into Farmers fields, hope this makes sense.

Hi Drew, Great shots, I have travelled in NZ lovely country. Recently I read an article about Kauri trees that were thousands of years old, that were being lifted from farmers fields in NZ. The trees fell into swamps/bogs, and because there was no oxygen, they were perfectly preserved, now they are being exhumed by an American company,(I think) and sold for vast amounts of money. Some of the trees weighed in at over 100 tons !!

I have IPAF, which I did with a local company, it was a one day course with a minimum of two students, and cost about £250.00 per student. The instructer was extremely arrogant, with no man management skills what so ever, and read the whole sylabus out of a book. We then had to do the practical, i.e. show that we could operate the mewp, and extend the booms in correct order, and go up and down etc. It's very worth while noting that you have to have a full arrest body harness,to clip onto the cradle to comply with construction HSE, and IPAF, we didn't, just had our climbing harnesses, and they then said to carry on we would have to buy a full arrest harness off them at £75.00. luckily they didn't have any, in our size, so had to loan us one for free. We felt that when we hire one of these machines then we at least have the certificate to operate it, so comply with HSE and our insurance.

That is a generalisation, with out knowing any of the full facts, you obviously, jump to conclusions. Be carefull that is when accidents do happen

Personally IMO you are lacking upstairs, in making statements about others with out knowing the full facts.

I have just renewed both my ads in y/pages and yell, but with a smaller ad, the prob is you have to be in it to win it, and if you have no advertising you won't get the phone call. I ask every customer where they got our number from, and I do get jobs from yellow pages, you just have to go with what works for you.

Looks like you did the best of a bad job, John. The tree is lax in it's growth, and doesn't have alot of growth points to cut back to judging by the finished photo, I thought that it was more than 30% by the photo. A 25% reduction is not removing 1 in 4 branches, that's thinning. IMO