Mark Bolam
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You should give him a smack Mark![emoji23] I can't work the bloke out at all. I hear you on the trouser bit Kevin, tonight's offerings to the back door god were conny clippings, sawdust from a dead willow and something that may once have been half a yellow Smartie. He may well be cleverer than us, but I doubt he's more sensibler.
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That's a good point Gary, connies are pretty light in general limb-wise. I've never side-stripped an 80' tree though, and would refuse if asked. Unless my kids were starving. They're not, I've just checked, all three are asleep.
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Shut it Bill or I'll tell MarkJ on you.
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Caveat to above - unless you are working on a bonafide subcontractor basis, then you will need PL and EL insurance.
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You don't need to check Bill, you won't be paying anyway.... Always makes me laugh when I see freelance climbers advertising saying they have their own insurance. If I'm laughing the insurance company who have taken their money must be absolutely pissing themselves. I use freelancers a lot. Id be thinking 'Get in! Bill Pierce has his own insurance. I'll get him in for that nasty 180' dead leaner without an anchor point overhanging the Ferrari garage'.
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I run both. I have noticed that people who don't like Huskys are usually shite at reading simple set-up instructions, use the manual to light a fire with and are generally piss-poor at anything resembling a maintenance regime. Or maybe they're just unlucky a lot.
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The trees are 25m tall. 'Cutting back to boundary' would need the owners permission to climb the trees, or a large MEWP. I stand by post 2 on this thread.
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Well thought out and executed Dan.
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People like you are ruining this industry.
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That's just greedy.
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It's alright for kebabs, mind.
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As much as possible.
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Some cracking stuff there David, and great stories of survival. In Northumberland we just had a windy night, nothing more. I can remember watching the telly next morning in shock.- 17 replies
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It's not good advice. If you do that you just end up with loads of customers wanting everything done cheap.
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That seems to be the consensus.
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I like them as standalone trees, just not as scruffy monstrous hedges. We've all been sat in the middle of the dead tops looking 20' to each side at the regrowth wanting to plunge a topper into our heart and end it all....
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Life is also far too short to be re-reducing 80' connies.
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Don't let your trees grow over other peoples land and there won't be a problem in the first place.
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Click on link, don't press play, hit the box with the arrow pointing upwards in it at the bottom of the screen, then scroll options and select desktop site. Should play then.
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Mmmmmmm, won't play for me on iPhone either Timon. Fine on PC.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6hEfav9ZwI Here you go Marc.
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100 in Arb years! Me and you both on the accidents....
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Good shout Marc, but even Tungsten Nuts wasn't rigging off his own tree! I've rigged small off plenty of dead trees in the past, I wouldn't bother now though. I'm worth more....
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Sure, you could use a MEWP to avoid rigging. What I was getting at is that anyone letting a tree get in that state doesn't deserve to have their shrubs intact.
