Mark Bolam
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I’ll be up there at some point Beau, and will come and find you. Be good to meet up at last!
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It will be a standard situation all the time you agree to do shit work for idiots.
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Felling license required yes or no ?
Mark Bolam replied to Tom Richards's topic in Trees and the Law
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Just because you had to climb on 14mm doesn’t mean I have to, fatty!
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Because I hadn’t thought of it! Good shout Will, I will do next time.
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Towball just quicker to chuck a butterfly on. Only a little limb, not a lot of pressure on the knot, so easy to untie. Capstan would be better if it really needed some grunt.
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Taking two pops down today on the local sports field. Had to take the kids. Connie using the loader to good effect ripping out a limb that was wedged in some hawthorns. IMG_6938.MOV
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It’s working for clueless tightarses who can’t be arsed to maintain their hedges properly is what it is.
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Yep, that’s why I stopped doing them.
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Truth. When I used to do conny ‘hedge’ reductions (with a 200), I’d always wear work clothes to price them, so I could have a clamber up and see what I was up against. I refuse to do them now. Hedges that are just beyond hedgecutter capability are a bloody nightmare. As Steve says, height isn’t the issue, width is. Price high and hope someone else gets it is the way forward.
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OCS are cracking live. I reckon Tubeway Army’s ‘Are Friends Electric?’ would make a good protest song these days.
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Exactly that Alex.
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I have the Klou grab on mine and can’t fault it. Went for the hitch and capstan as well, as demo’d in this vid. The free rotation is great for dragging brash. They are pricey, and I do need to get a bucket as well at some point. IMG_6293.MOV
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Maybe free was the wrong word, but a pittance on to the cost of a £500k investment. With the benefit of then not having a £3k leccy bill every year.
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The cost/profit thing is a non argument if it was compulsory though, it would be a level playing field. Also it wouldn’t cost much in the grand scheme of things, not anywhere near the cost of retro fitting. You’re spot on about the regs J, it’s a disgrace.
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The choice not to have free, renewable energy?
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There is no genuine reason for it not to be law.
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Why aren’t panels compulsory on new builds?
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You should consider yourself lucky Mick. I wake up for a piss at 3am every morning, but I have a piss at 2.55am.
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He can’t be arsed mowing it.
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Problems and issues this industry faces and how to deal with them.
Mark Bolam replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in General chat
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Never heard of 4. Will you be able to keep checking on them? That will be a busy nest with 4 squabs in it!
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Exactly that Dan, it’s not my original idea, saw it in Noosa in Queensland years ago. That one said ‘THESE TREES WERE POISONED TO GET A SEA VIEW. IT DIDN’T WORK’.
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For what it’s worth Nell, I totally sympathise with your situation, especially so with the age of the trees. Poisoning them was a bastards trick of the highest order.
