Mark Bolam
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Where are they from John? Some of my Manchester mates have been raving on about them.
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I have had a quote for £250 to repollard a Willow accepted if that helps anyone.
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Close one! Get yourself a Transit mate. They never get stuck. Cos mine stalls if it even sees a puddle. Well done for getting out without rolling. SWB - what happened to that crane that went off the road in the end?
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Work climb? Did you swiftly dismember it with a 66 then off to the pub for multiple cold Guinesses by 2 o'clock then? Oh the happy memories!
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Cut the end off and bin it, mate. The few quid it's worth aren't worth any potential risk, and you wouldn't have any confidence in it anyway.
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Interesting stuff! Priced a job for the EA about 3 years ago cutting stuff like that out of streams! Be good if you can post some follow up pics in the autumn.
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Get that visor down groundie! Top job Mick. Nice looking pulley set-up and a cracking day in the garden of England!
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Looks ok to me. Typical work rope. IME 50m is too long for most jobs (ok I'm old and prefer smaller trees). How often do you realistically climb above 25m? Your idea about buying a new 50m and turning your old one into 2 more usable ropes sounds like a good 'un to me. 35m and 15m I reckon.
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That boy is quick! What kind of tree / format was it ? Throwbag to start? Regards to Gump.
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Right. I'm off to buy a time-lapse camera. Did you see how quick it made those blokes work? Brilliant! Reckon I can charge £15000 a day when I get one...
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Transit double cab tipper here. Would like a 4x4 as well for soft access jobs, but Mogs apart I haven't seen anything with decent capacity. Most of my jobs seem to involve getting rid of vast amounts of s***e at the end!
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Brother and sister in law live in Brissie. Nice place, but I agree about Sydney and would prefer to travel more. I have taken out a second mortgage for my impending Byron visit! Been before, nice place. Saw a gang taking down a Moreton Bay Fig (?) yesterday. Pro job, in a school field, but left a 5' stump with some tears in it. Just wondered if this was some eco-arb thing?
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Yes fellas, here in Brissie till the 26th. Off to Byron at the weekend. YP - I know what you mean mate, I've got groin rash already and I'm on holiday! Would like to have a crack working out here for a month or two, but I think the heat would do me in. I'm from Northumberland!
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Few months ago I was suggesting trying to take it easy all the time you could. Skyhuck disagreed, saying 'use it or lose it'. With hindsight, and starting to 'use it' a bit more again, I ultimately started feeling looser, fitter and stronger and have to agree he was spot on. Know your limits. Take joint capsules. Work around niggling injuries. It's like a pensioner getting a stairlift. Within a month they couldn't climb the stairs if they tried. I'm off now to try out my new Stannah treelift....
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I think a lot of them are under pressure to please everyone. Mr. Bloggs worried about light/encroachment/size? Instead of saying no, leave it alone, end of argument, they approve a 10% thin or 15% reduction. Over the years I've come to realise the best thing you can do to a tree is leave it alone in most cases. However, that doesn't take people and their wishes into account. What to allow / not allow must be a tough call sometimes.
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Spending some of this joyful winter in Oz, mainly Brisbane. They seem to have a lot more respect for the trees out here. The only reductions I have seen are line clearance work. Palms etc. growing literally through porches, right next to structures everywhere. Heaving pavements retarmacced (rather than trees removed), even saw a main road split today going either side of a big gum. Thing is, there are loads of arb companies in the book (yes, I am that sad), and I just wonder what kind of jobs they do with their 18'' chippers. Is it mainly just felling stuff that has had it and utility work? Mainly some of you who have worked out here can enlighten me. Awesome place. And the way everyone has pulled together for the Victoria fire victims is something else.
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Monkton in Thanet, mate. They layout looks very similar. They have literally hundreds there. I swore I wouldn't do another one. They were failing all over the place 'cos they havn't been repollarded since '88. Ross Smith did a few as well and enjoyed it about as much as I did. If they are similar, they are probably a fair bit bigger than they appear in the pics?
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Mick, if those Pops are at Foxhunter be careful. Loads down there have had joint failures at the old pollard points. Not nice trees to be snatching heads off themselves, for sure. Good luck with the job wherever it is. I'm off down to the pool with a couple of cold Tooheys. 31deg in Brissie. Ahhhhh........
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I'd be up for it, Mick, but I'm in Oz till the end of Feb. Good pics of Ross. Our loss is NZ's gain.
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Er, partial success? Clearly size isn't everything... Is it because I have got a small phone?
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Just trying to see if I can work out how to attach a bloody picture at last!
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Thanks for posting Liam, and for explaining about the Oak. Get your Grandad a pint in for me!
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The lads in Sweden seem to think that burning untreated timber is ultimately carbon neutral, certainly no more impact than natural decay. Albeit quicker. I'm with Skyhuck and SWB on this one. When the situation allows, you can't beat a good burn up at the end of the day. Especially if it's hot enough to melt cider cans down to 10p sized blobs of molten alloy! Only thing is, missus never believes you have been working so late when it gets dark at 4.30!
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Jonesie give me a chance to put on about 6 stone and I'll get back to you...
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Lets have it then. What was your scariest moment? Tree related. Mine was early days, dismantling 100+ Lombardy. Stripped it out on the way up, left with 25' top, blowing a hooly. S**t myself, came down, had nightmares all night, went back and launched the top into neighbouring garden (severe cavities prevented slinging top off itself). Success! Plenty of "disco leg" on that job I can assure you....
