Graham
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More likely. I was looking for some basty bark on the twigs.
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If he can keep up that pace then that's impressive.
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The bigger English axes are superb felling axes but a bit long in the head I feel. They take a good edge but the Oschenkopf keeps a better edge and are much more manageable in the bottom of a hedge.
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He has a nutter to follow him up snedding!
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Billhook? Yes for smaller stuff but an axe for big stems and for cutting off heels/stools. Also for twisting a chainsaw cut pleacher but any axe will do for that.
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He's got to sned them yet. If he's got someone else snedding then he's a genius.
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Norway maple.
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Ah but I'm talking axes for hedge laying:001_smile:
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Small diameter Scots pine.....rubbish.
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Never tried Gransfors. Seem like a nice axe when I've picked them up at shows.
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Don't know what you all use but for all my axe work I use Oschenkopf axes. The area where I am has produced five supreme national champs and these were recommended a long time ago. I wouldn't use anything else. Still got Elwells, Gilpins etc but they lag in performance. The Oschenkopf take a fantastic edge and I usually re-helve them with shorter ash. The steel really rings and at 1250g are just right.
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It will survive but won't stay upright for too long.
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Definitely. Although I feel knackered when I get up:001_smile:
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Similar here. Had body building fitness freaks struggle doing this job and I wouldn't be able to do what they do. You just reach the level of fitness your job requires. If I lay off enduro riding for a while then my 'bike fitness' drops and the little fat bloke who rides every week will show me up.
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If you cross the Severn via the new bridge by the Robin Hood pub and turn left to follow the river downstream you'll come to a big clearfell area. All nice stuff by the looks of it.
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Looks like Pleurotus.
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Nip up to Jackfield and ask the lads there. Tons coming out.
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Another tree identification please
Graham replied to TimOwen's topic in Tree Identification pictures
Think this one's correct. -
Another tree identification please
Graham replied to TimOwen's topic in Tree Identification pictures
As above. Delonix regia -
Old magpie nests will nearly always contain bits of wire and brick ties and all corvid nests have dried mud.
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I've always been of the opinion that if a client offers you alcohol then it's rude not to drink it:biggrin:
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Continuing the alcohol theme. We were taking a Lombardy down for a chap. He was very impressed and brought us a bottle of his birch wine at breakfast. We drank it with our snap:001_smile: Needless to say the job went a little awry with much laughing and swinging about with the 020! This was the Levi's for climbing era though. Another time we were pruning trees for a private school. They overhung a fence and the other side of the fence was a huge rambling veg plot. There was a shed where a chap who looked like Wurzel Gummidge lived. A lovely recluse who made his own cider and wanted the logs. Swaps were done and as it was a hot summer's day we drank it. Like the above it went awry and I don't think the fence ever looked the same. Wurzel didn't mind and we made it home.
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A job for a couple who'd had a protracted court case to get eighty 60' Leylandii removed. Cost them 20k in costs. My mate and I did them after finishing our contract work at 6pm one summer evening. I felled the middle one out onto their neighbour's lawn and then we both felled moving out to each end. Ended up with the most enormous, tangled pile ever:001_smile: We then sat in the client's garden admiring the new view over the gorge popping champagne corks. Straight to my head it went and ran the truck into the back of a car on the way home.
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I had two 076s end up like that once.
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If I paid for a service like that I'd expect true idents. If the person was unsure of idents then they should have asked another professional to confirm.
