Mark Bolam
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Everything posted by Mark Bolam
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If it seems too good to be true Dan….
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You could always go down the crazy route of planting your own trees.
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Your ariel rescue turns up with no climbing kit
Mark Bolam replied to thebeardeddove's topic in Picture Forum
Bailed, obviously. It WOULD HAVE required a lot of rigging in the OP. I can’t say I blame you Dove. He should at least have gone back and got his kit. -
Your ariel rescue turns up with no climbing kit
Mark Bolam replied to thebeardeddove's topic in Picture Forum
Probably not any more if I’m honest. -
Enough for a kid or two! Twisting is the problem.
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It was certainly a bold move!
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Your ariel rescue turns up with no climbing kit
Mark Bolam replied to thebeardeddove's topic in Picture Forum
I’ve climbed without any aerial rescue on site hundreds of times over the years. It would only bother me on big stuff tbh. If anyone is climbing for me I’ve always got my kit with me, but they would likely die of old age before I reached them. I’ve always realistically thought you’re either getting yourself down or you’re not getting down. -
Don’t get another one Doug, it won’t be the same.
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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.
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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
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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.
