Mark Bolam
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You’ve got a good point, as long as you are honest about what the implications of a stupid spec would be you can’t do a lot more. There are limits, though. I won’t work on trees that will immediately die, or leave them in a dangerous state. -
Have you contacted Timberwolf direct?
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Decent future and existing clients. No one else matters.
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I hear you Mick, and sometimes you’ve just got to shrug, mutter ‘It’s your funeral’, fire up the saws and take the money. I have refused plenty of jobs where the spec was utterly ridiculous locally though. I don’t want to be known as a clueless twat who doesn’t understand trees and leaves them looking really awful or dead. Well, not better known than I already am, anyway.
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It seems they have done enough to indicate that the oaks are the problem, and removal is probably the only long term solution. It begs the question though, why build a shitty bungalow so near to a couple of oak trees, on shrinkable clay? It’s pretty shameful really.
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You’re stuck between a rock and a hard place with a customer like that then. Hope you get some help whatever.
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Snob. I’ll be on a cardboardeaux later, likely.
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Proper pollards can look great. Cutting mature trees in half isn’t pollarding though. There’s a difference.
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If they won’t take my advice they won’t be my customer. ’If I do that to your beech it will die.’ ’I don’t care what you think, just do it anyway. It will be really good for your professional reputation.’
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Pollarding large beech down to 6m. Sounds like a really well thought out spec.
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The heartless bastards eh?
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Hope your recovery goes well mate. Will regular stretching help stop it happening to the rest of us? I worked with one old boy who would regularly bend down to put his saw down at bait time but when he stood up his saw would come with him again. His hands are basically like permanent fists now. Years on big saws with no AV at all.
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Absolutely Mick. But leaving 30” dia poplar poles with basal rot at 40’ isn’t pollarding, it’s idiocy.
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It’s shit work when the leaders are 40’ on rotten sockets though Joe. Ever had one pop the whole socket out when rigging? I’ve had a few, with damage. You’ve been there. The last one that was really bad we priced a heli in flying from Oxford. No crane access. £13k. ’Way too much!’ OK, we’ll just leave these 90’ shit repollared at 25’ trees hanging over your £1.2m property then. Still there if any hero fancies a climb?
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He was young, dumb and literally full of cum Mick, he was a teenager in an Alaskan logging camp! I’ve had an 880 hanging off me a few times with a 4’ bar. Never fun. The bar flexes when horizontal so the cuts aren’t straight. Used to make the cuts with a 440, then go to the big saw into the cuts, but this is time consuming and energy sapping. Like everything about an 88. I’ve been doing arb in the UK for 22 years and have got by without one. Joe and Alex have summed it up pretty well. I have a normal size penis as well, which may be a factor.
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Well you are looking downhill!
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Looks great from my house Don!
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Why not just put a massive blade on a 261? All boxes ticked. That’s what I used to use in the Sahara forest.
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‘It’s future work isn’t it?’ This idiotic attitude can be witnessed all over the place. Always specced by someone who isn’t the unlucky bastard who will have to climb them next time.
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Lapsed pollard heads aren’t much fun for sure. Don’t be scared to price a MEWP in if you need one, you didn’t let the tree get in this state. I did some crack willows for a mate a few years back over a fibre board roof of a commercial garage next door. It was seriously risky stuff. I told him to never let them get like that again. One was so bad we had to fell it. Guess what? They’re even worse now. He’s cost himself £500 extra for a MEWP next time he wants them done.
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They shouldn’t be given a choice. And housebuilders definitely shouldn’t.
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I bet I could steer it no problem.
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That tree is always going to cause bother to any fence, same as any tree planted right on the boundary. I’d be brave, fell it, then plant another 1m further in to your plot. Laurels grow pretty quickly, and you wouldn’t have to spend a fortune.
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Not yet mate, got to have a sort out in the workshop first.
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No, I meant the pop, in jest. I milled a bit once when I was practicing with my Alaskan years ago. It moved, twisted and warped so badly I could have sold it to Wickes for their 4x2 section.
