Albedo
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My thought exactly:thumbup1: judging by the first 2 minutes which is all I watched:001_smile: -
I've always thought there's a widespread misconception with regard to shaping trees to even shapes. To my mind the tree will tell you what shape it wants to be, which may not be even. I combine techniques using growth points, individually 'pollarded' branches, preferably to a fork....two small wounds being better than one large one and RVT (reduction via thinning). Depends on the size of the tree but I Iend to work it by quarters. This is an art which will gain you more time than any mechanical prussic. The art being finding your shortest route round the tree...I'm still crap at it:001_smile: Edit: limes are a bit of a law unto themselves...some folk only lightly thin them...but this depends on how much wonga the client has. Some butcher them and turn them into lollypop trees.
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Just a question. If the greys weren't here and the reds were as populous. Would they not carry out similar squirrel type behaviour, such as eating birds eggs etc? Then you lot would condemn them as pests and shoot them all.
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I guess the thing with an introduced species is whether or not there is a native predator to keep the numbers down. The possum is protected in Oz where it is native and has control factors which I think may be environmental ones...and it's hunted in NZ where it is out of control. It has a price per kilo on its fur in NZ. Our own (meaning my garden) grey squirrel population is quite high at the moment. I guess availability of food, harshness of winter, birds of prey could limit their numbers. Without some kind of natural control they could become quite a problem.
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Whilst this is true, I don't see why we should hate the Greys for ever for it. We most likely introduced them, so why not learn to live with them. Rather than treat them like unwanted leaves on the lawn, from another non native that we introduced...the Syc, or copper beech.
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I like squirrels grey or red...there is a campaign somewhere to appreciate them...I googled it once. I love watching their tree skills. Wev'e done more damage to trees as tree surgeons than all the squirrels put together so some irony there. We are also a bigger pest than them, by far, by any ecological standard you care to name. Just write "Birds only" on your bird feeder:001_smile:
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Very good advice so far. The wording of your one line intro, and some other bits of carelessness have created a bit of a bad impression for me. This is epitomised by your email address ....Girlfriends name 4 your name.... I'd set up a new, more serious one, for job applications...it's easy to do. That's the kind of thing people carve on trees with a penknife. Good luck in these hard times and hope you get a start somewhere.
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That's ok then as you might come down shaken not stirred:001_smile:
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Have you got CS 007 though
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It's a real crap shoot, but the key is to minimise recoil. Along with not being able to get your boot through anything that you've gone higher than:001_smile: Helps to get all the dead bark out the way so your spikes don't slip:001_smile:
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In your situation you've definately made the right decision. My answer to your question is yes. I've climbed and dimantled trees that were totally dead with no sound wood:001_smile: Come down still shaking though:001_smile:
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It would be interesting to see a real honest write up from the builder saying how he's done it for that price as in what he's compromised on if anything. Also information of how it holds up over time. He does recommend that you try it in service so that you get a realistic expectation of it. He also has a UK address and contact details so he's not hiding and is contactable. If it works and it lasts, and keeps a bit of value, then why not?
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Good idea Rob.... wish it could be so...but you can't beat the lowest common denominator:001_smile: Edit: Sorry...Rich:001_smile:
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In NZ they call you an arborist rather than a tree surgeon.....but for some reason they say arbitrist like Taupoman says. An arbitrist to me is somone who arbitrates disputes so there's some mileage in this one... I haven't bothered to pursue it though as they don't always get our humour so I just say yeah mate:001_smile:
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Cheers Taupoman and Silky.....you were up late last night too Mr Fox and up early:001_smile: My pint list is growing... love to take you up on that pint Silky if I have to go to London again before I go.....it's usually something to do with NZ these days...I think I've done four or five trips to the NZ consul in Haymarket.
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I've woken up in the morning a few times and thought oops... what did I say on Arbtalk last night. Sometimes it's not too bad and sometimes it's quite catastrophic.
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No prob's:001_smile: I agree with Andy that George is a cool name for a cat.... It was the first thing I could think of to start a drunken argument:thumbup1:
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He's named after a book on the shelf of the bar I was in in Spain when he was adopted:001_smile: That is however blatant boatism, I'm a caravan dweller.
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George is a crap name for a cat:001_smile:
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It's too cold out there for Orca. All the mods are asleep by the way....we could have a drunken argument:sneaky2:
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Good on ya mate:thumbup1: Just practising my antipodean they'll think I'm a stuck up pom otherwise:001_smile:
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Cheers Adam. I kinda only just noticed when I thought it was getting late. I like your optimism and you seem quite a well informed chap...you must read a lot. It's the Achilles heel of environmental stuff that it tends to be a tad doom and gloom....but the aim is a sunny world with no pain, stupidly high wages and free lager for all:thumbup1:
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I'm gonna pay for this...I have a strong feminine side....I'm multitasking
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Fair enough Adam ...over a geological time scale we have been quite busy...but I'm sat on the sofa right now watching the telly.. Pharmaceutical companies are amongst the bad boys by the way. Smith Klein Beecham was a major lobbyist in the patenting of the human genome..don't you know:001_smile: This is quite late for Arbtalk by the way...oh yeah it's Friday and I just turned 53 ...bollocks:001_smile:
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True that we are greedy Adam, but also lazy. The most simple thing we could do is to stop the big global companies poisoning the food chain. There is little chance of this happening as it hasn't really been on the telly yet. It takes being on the telly to get people to believe things. TV journalists are just now getting up to speed with the arguments around climate change but still don't really get it. So there is about a twenty year lag time for TV journalists to come anywhere near getting up to speed on these things. The poisoning of food hasn't really begun on the telly, so it isn't happening is it.
