educated arborist

what college is it?

solid volume would be the way foward to sell firewood IMO for example 90x90x90cm (0.73m2) of split 'thrown in' firewood is (for arguments sake) 0.5m2 of solid wood. Weight is a rubbish unit to say the least. If customers are buying a volume they can get to grips with under & over seasoning them selves. Would be a simple thing to draw up & there'd be a limit as to how far under you could sell. I'm tempted to go and make me a displacement rig!

took a broken halfords pro ratchet spanner back today, they said that ratchets arnt covered as i could use it as a fixed spanner, said it was the same on socket renches. I went prety mental, what a load of BS! if my snap on ratchets wear out or seaze, even when they start to be less smooth the snap on man slaps a new mechanisim in FOC. I just rang halfords head office thinking the herbet in the shop didn't know what they were doing only to be told that i have a perfectly functional spanner even though the ratchet is broken so im off with a scafold bar a 12.9 end cap bolt & a nut to snap this spanner head in 2!!! & in future i'm only buying more snap on/blue point!

You are typically dealing with brokers when you get your insurance & they won't speak on the underwriters behalf. It's a case by case basis, if it's a big pay-out expect them to have a harder look at things. If you have a car accident, for which you are liable, and you didn't have an MOT then your insurers must pay any third parties but are entitled to come back to you for the cost of the payout/s. The crux of this argument is "what are the stat obligations of a tree surgeon." This will be tested case by case but a judge did clarify that chainsaw operations (on some1 elses land) must be carried out by operators with the relevent CS units or be working towards them & is directly supervised by some-one holding the relevent unit, there are various other bits of law & BP that are as good as black & white and some that aint. As for the EL & subbies jaz this has been tested 100's of times by the construction industry & as a rule of thumb must ALLWAYS be had. There are very, very few exceptions. The contractor must be a limited company for starters & much, much more. Thats not to say that when employing a contractor who holds their own PL/EL that yours will be claimed against it depends on the nature of the claim as to who is liable etc.

get meindl, simples!

your probably just as well looking into getting an air locker, the results will blow your mind

I'm not saying it's right but it's the way it is, same with any insurance, buildings, contense, motor all sorts, if you arn't forfilling stat obligations then they must pay any 3rd party, don't have to pay you & can come back to you for the cost of paying the 3rd party/s. Stinks but that's the way it is. For the sake of payin for a couple of NPTC's just get them done

have found trust spot on TBH especially when it goes wrong, had a car nicked & got a cheque for more than i expected within a couple of weeks. That said i'm qualified so wouldn't have a problem with sending my NPTC's in & whoever you go with if u havent got 38&39 on site when it goes wrong they'll be taking u 2 the cleaners who-ever insures you!

its the OCA subsidance journal u'll need 2006 i think, a local consultant should do you a verbal apprasial for about £75-£100.

Get a toughbook & you wont look back, someone said that a macbook is bomb-proof??? get a second hand cf19 & it'll do everything & most importantly it won't break! Designed to be used in the toughest locations around the world, after going through at least 1 laptop per year loler inspecting i got my 1st & havent looked back, completely servicable not one of these the mouse is broken so it's a write off rubbish! 7 hours battery life & u can quickly slide in a fresh one when on site for long periods of time.

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when we've had imori in the wet it soaks up about 4x its weight in water, it practically showers you as you descend but it is easy to grip

not a good idea to fix the oposite end of the veihcle to an anchor as you may rip the truck apart, but you can anchor the winch / winch bumper (design permiting). To start talking about weakest links & stalling strains you must first understand that a 9000lb pull rating is not the same as a 9000lb lift rating. pull ratings are based on pulling a wheeled veihcle up a set incline with a set resistance to simulate mud. Replace your steel cable with a synthetic one it wont cut you in half if it breaks, it weighs less & feys wont slice your hand open.

eat like a king at breakfast, a duke at lunch & a poorper at dinner only eat carbs at breaky & maby limited carbs at lunch none with dinner.

imori is good if you've got crap grip but if your grip is good then tey tachyon, velocity or Aeris

use a thimble, too sharp to splice straight to, designed to be linked to a hard conector inbetween it & any soft-ware have been through this with ISC before, hope it helps

wow what an iteresting thread, i love some peoples insistance (such as the rspca's) that vermin such as fox & greys should be shot by a skiled marksman. I've been shooting since i can remember and strive for the humane kill every time but alot of the prople shooting vermin ain't doing it humanley i have shot 10's of wounded foxes, some peppered with shot, some with three legs and have seen plenty of greys run off after that hollow thwack sound. For some one without the nesisery know how drowning may be the lesser of evils, I watched my brother in law try to dispatch a mixy'd rabbit once, assuring me he knew what he was doing, after what seemed like an eternity of skweeking i took it off him & dispatched it my self, drowning would have been a far better way to go for that bugger. My fox terrier makes short work of rats, greys, foxes, badgers (not intentionally), cats, birds, rabbits & one of my bloody chickens! perhaps there is a call for primary school kids to be tought how to hunt, trap & dispatch animals humainley i'd vote for that, people are soo far detached from their food now it's a joke, a girl said to me the other day, "oh no you don't shoot animals do you?" "oh i didn't think you were a vegiterian" "i'm not she said" & as for the RSPCA bunch of complete twits! un-stuned halal meat is produced in this country, a government report stated that un-stunned cows injured up to 90seconds of severe suffering before dieing, but the RSPCA has no beef with that. Some pesky kids let my dogs out of my garden in preston, when i went to get them of the rspca they stank of piss & they were clearly distressed "that'll be £90 per dog then" not even a please if i kept dogs in the same conditions they'd take them off me only to house them in the same, don't get me started!!

£65 per kit for an initial inspection £40 for a repeat, give me a ring on 07835 02 99 23 if your'e not one of the people that left me one last week whilst i was on me holl's was it me you missed whilst i was at dave & eddies by chance?

if your touch is light enough could you not just squeeze without looping the rope over the top, preventing the botom bar from wearing so bad? The AB is a great device, superior to the stop but i had asumed the rope weight would impeed it, you'll love the alp, far better, far deerer & no panic desent function, you can adjust it as you get lower down to acount for the reducing rope weight

unicender!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF??????? there are plenty of regs regarding competancy of groundies when lowering, LAW in fact.

both:ohmy: you can make her change direction, a productive use of my time:001_huh:

it depends on what the client wants to acheeve. Pruning in dormancy is 'best' for the tree but not nesesary but may be preferable if a tree is diaplaying very poor vigor etc but if they are after the trees display of flower or fruit then it needs to be done just as the bloom is finishing. Phenology is just one small factor when deciding pruning operations there's no definative best time to prune & bleeding is not a bad thing, just a little unsightly.

use a short length of dynaline or tennex spliced both ends (one end big eye & one end little) & tie a klemheist, have pulled this to over 10ton on the rig & still un-ties easy peasy, putting a thimble in the small eye makes it super quick to take your hok out without snagging.

Thats a new 1 to me. Where did you learn this? sounds very interesting. A tight eye splice holds the karabiner captive preventing it from sloping around & un-doing the gate. A little care may be needed when attaching but i have not yet seen some1 manage to snag the rope doing so and i must have inspected a tight eye over 1000 time's. If this Yale splice really is too tight then take it up with the retailer.