Graham

A little bit of cyanide never hurt anyone:001_smile:

if anyone wants to give me 30k a year to turn up at 8am and finish at 5pm, mon-friday then i will start tomorrow.

Count me in on that too.

Err...what make is it? Probably Chinese. Better off with secondhand Stihl or Husky. At least you'll be able to get spares.

Timber fallers I worked with once sharpened saws like you wouldn't believe. For pop felling it was 100 +cc saw and the depth gauges taken right down.

Full throttle and hold on:001_smile:

Thanks:thumbdown:

Hope you haven't got stew or mince:laugh1:

Started this job in '78 and went self-employed in '87. I have always striven to do the best possible job and juggled college in as well. In '87 there were so few in Yellow pages that I used to get work upto 90 miles away regularly. Flat out wasn't the word!

Now it seems there's a 1001 'tree surgeons' all 'fully qualified'. I'm not knocking the decent guys but there's a lot of dead wood out there.

Anyway....rant over, wine's kicking in and I'm too old and bodily knackered to bother now:001_smile: PS...still ain't made a fortune.

Why post the pics?

Well we finished early and as it's a little while before tea just thought I'd share it:001_smile:

We reported it to client officer but they won't do a thing about it. Just sending another contractor to clean it up.

I'd put it straight back with the shovel but we've already upset loads of residents and as the job's for LA then we got to keep schtum. Dirty $**!**s

Been doing a job for habitat creation ie. laying a mix of field maple, thorn and hazel on the verge bordering a housing estate. After half a mile we reach the last twenty yards and find this: a huge festering pile of dog poo which the householder obviously finds easier to throw over the fence than dispose of properly.

What you can't see is the well-rotted area around the pile. Don't think this job's going any further:001_smile:

i got a large poplar that needs felling. got alot of a lean on it. with a lot of wait. plenty of room to land it, no probs there. no space any where else. just a bit concerned about barber chairing. was just guna bore cut it then severe the holding strap. got any better ideas? to give you an idea, its 85/90ft high and about 3ft across.

That's what I'd do. Sharp saw, keep cutting and be aware.

We also found a few others and my first find/recorded incedent of Ustulina duesta on Acer psuedoplatanus, I was aware it infected Acer platanoides, but have never personaly seen it on Sycamore before.

Couple of pics from last year.

Looks good: clear, concise...does the job.

Looks suspiciously like Kretzshmaria deusta at the base, which would mean that it should come down if its anywhere near buildings or public areas, the die back in the crown could be associated with this.

Not the clearest pics but bracket looks like Ganoderma applanatum and not sure about 'rooms.

Drive links and tie straps are no problem but I've never bought loose cutters. Didn't think they sold them seperately.

I think you al need this;

The Sweets Graveyard

Aztec

We done good work eh guv!

Might be worth considering Dothistroma septosporum although I've never heard of it on Austrian Pine... doesn't mean its not the culprit though!

Red band needle blight. V probably the culprit here. Affects nigra.

Its wood is second only to yew for bow making.

No amount of paperwork will ever stop people trying to do silly things with machinery.

Does anyone remember the 'craze' for losing arms in balers? Seemed at one time there was some guy in the paper every week with the story of how he carried his severed arm across the fields.

You could have a paper with 10k questions and people will always chance their luck. It's what the human race does.

I'll be there, machine porn fantastic, better start saving. Don't think they let you camp on site. Is there any members on here know any local farmers, have arbtalk camp site

Dunston Heath Farm in rural South Staffordshire

Good little site. He buys our firewood and about 10-15 mins drive from APF site.

Get them back out of the skip and sell them.

Had a similar thing happen to me many years ago.

Did a big job for a guy. All very pleasant with coffee, cakes, bacon butties and jokes amongst men. The job was quoted for approx two weeks but he asked for extras with the assurance; 'just add it onto original quote'.

Final bill time and he denies asking for some of the work and states other parts of it weren't carried out to his satisfaction.

He wouldn't even talk about it and said that if I took him to court then he would just counterclaim and 'did I have enough time and money to fight him?'

You live and learn:001_smile: