Stephen Blair
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Register you company is the Outer Hebrides and your sweet!
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Holy drama pants! The guy slept in, knock the door , get set up, send him a text, fire up the saws and chill out.
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QTS Group.
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I would of thought after loosing 50 pieces of kit it would only encourage you to be patient.
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I only use fast tracking for getting from A-B and knock it out for turning.
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How do I get qualified as a Tree surgeon in Scotland
Stephen Blair replied to Birchwoodmatt91's topic in Employment
Neil will keep you right on your course, lots of work for anyone keen to work hard and learn and being realistic about what they expect to be paid at first. Start of dragging branches for companies and learn how a job works be it a back garden hedge reduction or on a large felling job. If you can drive, be on time, not complain and be polite then you are half way there imo. Apex Tree surgeons in Drumnadrochit is always looking for workers and covers a huge amount of work in the Inverness area and is a really descent guy. David Wakely tree surgeons in Elgin are good too. Drop each of them an email and expect to hit the ground running.- 6 replies
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I’ve never understood wanting to lift the heaviest thing possible at full reach, it’s a digger with tracks, just go closer and tuck it in, wrestle it, drag it or cut it smaller. I’ve rolled 6 tin out the woods and dragged 3 up some serious inclines. Once you get in the way of it you can swing 3-4 times in nice and close and past you compared to what you will ever lift at full tilt. I would only have a zero swing now on a small machine for working close to buildings and trees. I’ve got a 250kg weight on the back of mine that sits snugly around so still zero swing. It’s held on with 3 bolts so if you want it off you can do quickly and stick it in the back bed of your tow tug.
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Felling skills level, Grandmasters!
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Maybe an OCD woodpecker!
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Most of my work over the years has been topping unmanaged self seeded sycamores on steep banks and cliff edges, all for views . 5-10” at the bottom growing like bananas to 40-70’ It’s butchery for a view so spiked it is, trying to throwline amongst 10’ of rhododendrons or carry a ladder is impossible especially since decades of garden rubbish has been tipped over, so spikes it is. I tried to teach myself how to climb like a jungle native with a strop between my feet and shin up but could never manage it.
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5” if it’s fresh lime epicormic or young conifer and you hold onto it. When you start using a Wee chipper you need to change your whole approach to garden tree work, it’s not a miracle worker, it’s a gravity fed 250kg petrol chipper. Keep as much wood as possible for logs and don’t expect 2 groundies to be busy chipping. Most of the time I’m using a pole saw and silky for all the pruning and the customer already has agreed to keep long lengths of wood for them to process and piles of chip spread for mulch, removing chip off site with 1 is not economical although do able.
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Does it have the oiler button! Best saw Stihl made!
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Learn the job before going freelance, simples!
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An 084 with 21” bar!
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You will know if you are too cheap because you will be busy as hell and skint, if you are charging to much you will be bone idle and skint
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I’ve not answered a phone since I became a dad over 12 years ago. Leave a text or email thins out the herd!
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Please identify these three trees?
Stephen Blair replied to dingodoo's topic in Tree Identification pictures
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Looks great John! What controls do you have for the crane?
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Looks like a hedgehog
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I’m not so sure, if you looked from the other side of the tree that would be a rounded shape tying in with the bottom limbs. I would imagine the first tree company, applied for the works, met the TO and got the go ahead then Mr Know it all customer got the cheaper guy and did 1 on over on the good guy! All this is sheer conjecture on my part!
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Jeez that’s a monster! Lucky unlucky guy!
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Very nice! Sharp!
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I’ve met hundreds of people who tell me they used to do my job, their husband or boyfriend does/did my job! Yet I’m the 1 there doing the job! It’s an ego and pride thing! I’ve got a camouflage jacket but if I said to my mate I used to be a marine too he would burst out laughing!
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You don’t get to say you are hanging up your spikes when you only bought them 5 months ago. What you get to say is you have failed at becoming a tree surgeon! Getting a climbing certificate doesn’t qualify you.
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Rigged hundreds of dead trees, it’s all about being gentle! As far as no room to free fall! I’d rather climb slowly, get as much height as I can, use a 46 and light sabre the limbs and chunks off it. Get the saw through before the limb even moves. It’s all about the feel and your bottle on the day. If you are in experienced then avoid a crane.
