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Nairn is a long way from North Wales! Are you on holiday?

There are still some typos in your text. Have another read though.

No worries! Glad I could help. Sorry to hear about your neighbour. What are you using to build your website?

lol:001_rolleyes:

Hang on a minuet! Who is fighting? Certainly not me. As I have said, I agree with Johnny's sentiment, I was just pointing out that this is an open forum, and as such, people should be able to express their opinions (as long as it falls within forum rules) whether you or I like it or not. I am sorry if my post came across as abrupt or aggressive, that is certainly not my intention (and I don't feel that it does). Perhaps I should have littered it with emoticons to get my point across without offence. But I think they are overused by many and I don't particularly like using them myself. However, I reserve the right for others to use them as little or often as they wish!

Thanks

Jonny. I agree with the sentiment of your post, but this is a forum and people seeking free advice cannot expect the clarity of advice they would anticipate receiving from a paid service. to coin a phrase "beggars can't be choosers". I will be interested to see if the op has the courtesy to write an equally erudite post on the action that has been taken and the outcome of any advice followed.

Were my postings of any help at all? I hope I haven't caused offence?

Do you consider this method will work on shaded stems i.e. would the wounding alone work as a trigger rather than increased light levels? If you have access/permission to carry out these trials on several species of trees it would certainly make for a very interesting study. I too will be following this with interest. Thanks for posting.

I have had a few Sitka over the years but the tops of Norway spruce are excellent as they usually have free decorations already attached!

Do you baste it in whiskey or something?

Interesting theory! I presume the aim here is to make the wounds small enough so that they callus quickly but large enough to trigger adventitious growth. I would have anticipated adventitious growth from around the pruning wounds i.e. at the points the tree has been reduced to in the second picture(initial post). Are you finding that this is not the case? Who else has researched this i.e. who's example was Ted trying to emulate?

Pit saw - Chain saw "I friend has made his own pit saw and needed to test it, the testing was planned to take place during a woodworking weekend, and what a great weekend it was". How about something like: A friend of mine made his own pit saw which we tested at a "woodworking weekend". The whole weekend was a great success and to top it all, the saw worked a treat" The block of wood (bottom left) is the lower handle for the pit saw. I was intrigued to see how the two "sawyers" would get a huge, very heavy, log onto the scaffold. The plan was to roll the log up poles and onto the scaffold. I had my doubts as to whether this would be achievable as the log was very heavy. I was fully prepared to hear a lot of grunting and see no movement from the log. But in fact the log rolled up so easily and so fast that I only managed to grab one quick photograph. When I mentioned my surprise the words "mechanical advantage" were sagely quoted. Very impressive. Having positioned the log, the sawing began. The saw undoubtedly works, which is wonderful, but seeing the effort involved I now have a huge respect for the sawyers of old and their sawing of thousands of oak trees. To harness all this cutting power it was connected to a two man chainsaw mill. One person controls the chainsaw and the other helps guide "the mill" along the log to produce a planks. (That's me on the left). The two images below show a sawn plank being cut to size. Again I would put the explanations under each photo (but that's just my preference). Cheers

Had a quick look at the coppicing page. Apart from those changes already mentioned, I would mention which species are traditionally coppiced and point out that only broadleaved species will regenerate. The photos are nice but I would prefer to see the descriptive text below rather than above. Hope this helps a little.

No need to apologise David. I think it is admirable that you put so much time and effort into producing quality instruction/advice. I look forward to seeing your Aerial rescue vids when available and will start to check back more regularly. As far as facebook is concerned, I don't use it. I use linkedIn a little and have dabbled in twitter but that's it. I am sure there are a lot of Arbtalkers that do use Facebook, but then they are probably younger than me and like that kind of forum for sharing info. Anyway, keep on doing what you are doing (as and when you can fit it in) its appreciated! Cheers

I was giving an example of the bare minimum that could easily be understood by the client. Of course the instructions to the tree surgeon would e more detailed .....but for the client KISS.

Hmm....I guess!

Its an excellent site which I keep referring back to, if only to be disappointed by the lack of new material. Any chance of an aerial rescue video?

Nope! I would usually assume that it referred to a 25% reduction in the crown height and spread unless otherwise stated. The confusion that arose over the use of percentages is why the Standard is now different. You can still use percentages but have to be more specific e.g. reduce crown by 25% to give a final tree height of 12m and crown spread of 8m.

Don't do this on your assessment day [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8bVPZe_2cM]Fire Crew Felling Large Tree - YouTube[/ame]

I have to agree with Taupotreeman. It's a lot of cash for something that has to be replaced every 5 years. Plus I would get sick of clients asking "where's the fire?" if I turned up on site with one of these on.

Yes, seeing the dot in bright sun can be difficult. You can buy some red tinted safety specs that are supposed to overcome this but I have never tried them. I use the D8 so don't have a problem with not seeing the dot. The accuracy is potentially very good but is still reliant on the operator (watch out for parallax error on large crowned broadleaves).

Good to see the decay at this level. Nice pictures. Will you be taking the stump any lower? If so could you post some more pictures of the decay further down? Would be good to see some pictures of the wall repair too!