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gloucester, stanstead, hmm interesting navigational skills, i know there is a north south thing about but man thats along chalk out. Try bristol airport or brum. I am camping and will be enjoying all festivities especially beer and summer wine, then may take in a few of them there fem fetal luvlies, show them what gortex is all about. How many can u fit in a bivvy
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Has anyone used it, ie ropeman on rope to assist pulling hitch climber up when ascending and pulling in slack, ie can get it to work but only if you pull small amounts of rope through directly in line with fairlead into hitchclimber. New treemagineers shows it but only on dangling branches walking up?
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oh dear oh dear, one minute pigeons problems next minute cats in big shots and stocky blokes with guns. i know i'll climb the tree and take a tayzer. Seriously though it is in the middle of a city centre, guns and that is well out of equation, tree can handle the branch removal only 4 over path, just know the pigeons will relocate. Might take my son's bb gun.
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The reason i took it off my lines is because i couldnt get it to really settle, thats why i gave it to you to play with.
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Got a customer with a large commercial building, 500 employees walking each day along a footpath with trees over the top, problem is pigeon poop, which has caused injuries. a lot of it, i dont need to hear about felling trees because it wont happen and also trees in the urban environment. Target prune will reduce the opportunity for birds to sit over the path, which immediately removes the poop over path problem. i have also suggested along with the target prune that they could also get someone to bring a bird of prey in and target said problem. Someone else has suggested to me that sticking a plastic peregrine falcon in the tree will do the same trick as getting a real one in. Has anyone had a similar problem or how did they deal with it.
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Best Transit tipper to buy?
arnoldbuchsassinger replied to Czlowiek Drzewo's topic in Business Management
girls girls girls, 03 plate crew cab transit, off road rubber for the rear end, helping the adventure fielding stuff, maserati airhornes and off course the ubiquitous serious sound system. -
Sat in all of 'em, had a sliding bridge for ages, now moved onto sequioa non srt because you can customise so much, including put on different length slings across the bridge, which means swivels, and paws go straight on to bridge, have been known to come out of tree walk about and wonder where i put harness, oh yeah still wearing it. I'll attach a picci of the beast.
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An infection by Kreutzmaria Deusta usually happens via entry to injuries to stem or large roots. It prefers mechanical injury to bark, ie impact damage or buidling/construction work which damages the roots. It can spread by root cntact from affected tree to healthy tree. Kreutz D. causes a decay in the central part of the roots and low stem, in the early infection stage, for this reason the physiology of the host is not affected, meaning that evidence maynot be apparent in the canopy. Good VTA required. I have 2 big veteran beech trees which are gonna have to come down on the grounds of safety. The tree can be fine one day, puff of wind and the tree will be laying on sits side next day. Seeing a lot of it when we come up against newly constructed estates, where old tree have been left, yet know one adhered to BS5837, and just chopped through roots. I had a builder work on the principle that the tree would just grow more roots. Its as simple as that when your a 200 year old veteran beech.
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Quoting work for friends (or friends of friends)
arnoldbuchsassinger replied to Hollands's topic in General chat
Never ever do a job at mates rates, come back to bit one on the r s, even family gets the full price, that way you dont end up with each other owing financial favours -
When working with trees, you are dealing with virgin timber, first source. You either keep logs or store the woodchip, selling both. You do not have to carry a waste licence as far as i am aware, i did speak to the Environment agency about this, however, if you also stick someones shed in the back of the truck and take it away with a view to chip, they will probably stop you, reason being the timber in the shed has been processed, ie cut, and then treated with preservatives. The preservatives are causing the agro. If you burn you waste you have to have a licence to do that. Taking a tree down, transporting it away and selling the by product is fine.
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They are all effectively pioneering species, leave a piece of scrub land and the first thing that seeds is the birch, it also the first thing to die, they all will survive where the slow growing stuff wont put a foot, Poplar always at industrial waste sites which have crap contaminated soil etc, Poplar, stick it in bog and it will grow. Just risk assess before you sit on the toilet seat.
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Fantastic read, everyone should have a copy. The other one is the tree climbers guide, has a little bit of science in it. Probably also want Arboriculture by Harris, CLark and Mattheny, isbn 0-13-088882-6, more expensive does not do rigging but hits all the science bells
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Assuming you are qualified to assess trees, are we talking bs5837, regarding trees and construction, ie root plate analysis, protection zones etc. Impact of vehicles, building etc, then on top assume you have professional indemnity insurance to cover assessing trees and charging pro rata, thats not the same pro. idem. if you ruck up and cut the wrong tree down by the way. Once that is sorted, I over £60 per hour, and have the work coming out of my ears, if i then have to come back and VTA( visual tree assessment) a tree i then charge a flat £250 for climbing the tree. Great work on wet days, or on the way home shimmy up a tree, assess and spend the evening documenting. It is and endless topic of debate, it just opens a whole can of worms
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if we have veteran trees, which may be in decline spiral, then you have to assess the tree, the location, remembering that old trees dont put canopy back as vigorously as younger trees, if the tree is stressed topping a tree may put the nail in the coffin. OK if we talk trees and the Urban environment, they look awful when topped, if we trees out in the open environment then, pruning can be done via coronet pruning and limb reduction/strategic target prune. I have taken big veteran beech trees down to a split stem and coronet cut them, which leaves bat flight paths/indicators intact, and cavities for anything, furry,feathery, slimey or creepy to live in. I was talking topping in the sense of removing the apical meristem of any tree, and waiting for the stress response. The stuff you see when a sliver birch/cherry/conifer gets its head chopped off. Wrecks the shape of most trees.
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I use a hitch climbers pulley on a VT, works superbly, when branch walking then get the other end of the rope, and fit another hitch climber and VT, bit of double ropping, or V rigging, OOOOHHH suits me sir
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As John says, topping is exceptionally bad practice, on Lombardy's which are are rapid growing anyway, they self destruct, ie the dead wood they permanently create, to top them creates epicormic branching, which is accelerated growth anyway, a weak union no a asynchronous union, perfect entry point for pathogenic attack, storage bowl for water etc. All you do is create a weakbranch higher up, then the next bunch of cowboys turn up to top then they top higher, so now you have a weak union, on top of a weak union on an already weaker than normal tree. Would go down the route of looking at appropriate replanting schema, right tree right place, in my experience they are always in the wrong place, take them down, and replace with better, more appropriate stock. You then get the fee for replanting. Its the same for any tree, topping is the worst thing that can be done to any tree.
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put climbing rope in an old pillow case, with a little detergent or weak wash powder, dont put conditioner in, then medium cool wash the same can be done to slings etc. For the lowering ropes, i borrowed one of them big cemex platic baths that builders use on site to make cement in, fill it with cold water and put my lowering ropes, pulleys, capstans, carabiners etc.
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I did not quote 10 * as the rating, if you read the Petzl website, it says EN362, 15Kn on the PPE inspection, a factor of 10 on 1500Kg is 150Kg. I only joked that if you have a safety margin on climbing and lifting you are well with those margins. However for work we must go with the standard recommendations. If people take for granted everything they read on a website, we'd be doing treecare by wikipedia. Perhaps you do!!
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According to Petzl PPE, personal protective equipment ie working at height protection has a minimum of 15Kn across it's major axis, now hopefully someone who subscribes must be loler certified and may clarify. Thats equate to 1500kg across the long axis of the average karabiner, now if you work on a factor of * 10 for margin, that equates to a bloke of 150kg lobbing himself out of the tree and seeing if the karabiner will stretch open. So 22kn I think you'll find suffiecient
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Thats a bleeding canker, thats also a big point of failure at the included bark. What is the rest of the tree like, if throughout other stems then i think it is probably best to remove, cambium and phloem affected, along with weak union and prevailing winds, the sheer loading aint going to be that great. one puff of wind and it could fail. Go on man assert your authority. You know you need to
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Bleeding canker does affect the cambium and phloem, obviosly this is live tissue, if you read MAttheck, there is a few hints about integrity, have a good look throughout the tree, it starts in one place and then pops up up all over. If there are issues with rights of way, pedestrians, mums and buggies, well dads and buggies for that, think about implications, the tree may start limb dropping. NOthing guaranteed but if you have rucked up and seen it and put an opinion on it, you have a sense of duty, responsibility and saftey for public, etc
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i reckon there is something seeded or germinated above that cavity, that or the alien is in there waiting for you
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it is a dream to put on, to get off, you can actually walk about and forget you have it on. Normally you hit the ground have a moan and recover then drop the harness, this fella you are quite happy to start cross cutting or something. Best harness so far, loads of areas to adjust and make even better. may put a second swivel onto bridge, just to get that oh so sexy clanging noise. Then you know your goin somewhere
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Bleeding canker, Phytophthora cactorum and p.citricola, fungus grows through tree killing the phloem and cambium, the exudate bleeding out does not contain the fungus. Your best control is to cut out all dead wood, sterilise your swas afterwards or you will move it around with ya. Get a digi photo of the tree and the limbs which look fine, then take a photo at other end of summer, give you an indication of rate of transfer. it will probably be the demise of the tree. If you have severe bark necrosis then you may be at the point where little else can help, quite often the tree becomes victim of other pathogenic attack due to tree being stressed, enzymes produced as a response to stressed are detected in and around the soil by other dormant pathogens. As for structural integrity, me reading up right now, right now judgement call on VTA'ing the tree .i have a tree in fairly poor state in Hessle, that fella is coming down in the next couple of weeks, just awaiting council say so
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check this bad boy out, one swivel and a rigging paw, can use it for a v rig, or to hang the saw, or lunchbox
