Mark Bolam
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If a house is cracking after 6 years next to pre-existing trees then it’s down to shite build quality, not the trees. Unfortunately it costs more to fell a house than some trees, so the trees invariably shoulder the blame and get felled. Leaving a shitty house with cracking. Your insurance company will deal with it for you. Developers have deep pockets I’m afraid.
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I’m going to sell my Worky Quad. Imagine how much more I’ll get done with a fleet of 10 of these instead.
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😂 Do you have to get your line angles right with that becket tip to avoid rope on rope?
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Great tip Joe. That’s a really poor anchor point choice though. It could easily slip off that vice handle.
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Sage advice Pete. Another tip is if working in the street always leave a few branches on the ground behind the chipper at all times. Saves coming out the garden to find some moron has parked a foot behind the hopper and buggered off shopping for 3 hours.
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I’d go beech. Or beach as Mick would say. You’ve scored there, cracking firewood. -
Con that’s a different bloke in a different thread mate.
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@daltontrees Jules can you advise? As a contractor I wouldn’t go near the trees without the owners permission.
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I find the whole ‘moving the friction up into the tree’ stuff is bollocks tbh. Yes, I know about force and mass applied to dodgy anchors sometimes benefits up top rather than down below solutions, but it’s rare. Really rare. So is having a situation where you can’t have a friction device at the base of the tree. Just move it somewhere else then. Anyone who has a GRCS doesn’t piss about looking at other stuff. I haven’t got one and can’t afford one. Luckily my mate has and I just pay him when required.
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Deodar thinning, are we getting it wrong?
Mark Bolam replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Tree health care
Spot on Stu, excellent post. -
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It’s mental isn’t it? You sound like a really good (non) risk. If they’d kept the figures the same, or only bumped them up lightly, they’d still have your business, and your money.
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It’s a lottery mate. As I said, next year there’ll be a 4000% increase or something. I’m sure they get their figures from a Rubik’s cube soaked in chicken blood or something.
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Distance to roadside and ground conditions will be massive factors. Many experienced forestry lads on here will be able to help. Hourly or daily rate won’t run, he hasn’t a clue what you can do.
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Estimated completion 2095.
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There’s many a true word said in jest mate. We should green light the project and use it to showcase British talent, technology and graft.
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Pleasant surprise today when my renewal came through and it’s £25 cheaper than last year. I expect they’ll try and bend me over next year, but I’ll take the win for the next 12 months.
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Need a 😂😂 emoji.
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It’s lucky that their leader is totally sane and will take this news philosophically.
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Deodar thinning, are we getting it wrong?
Mark Bolam replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Tree health care
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What would you hope to find in little chainsaw shop?hop?
Mark Bolam replied to peds's topic in General chat
On key rings. -
😂 If it was a 200T he would probably have calmed down by the time you had finished fiddling around with the carb settings.
