Ben Ballard
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in this day and age of health and safety any one contracting out tree work wants contractors with a safe working attitude and working to a standard that doesnt need to be questioned from wreckless goings on
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nice one cracker it a great feeling milling your first log and been the first to see inside the tree when lift that first slab,have fun
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hi i was interested to know,for any jobs that come up in future that need any climbing done near the lines ,and it most likely that we would contract the big climbing jobs out near lines so i take who ever doing if would arrange that them self if they think power company needs to know,thancks again for the help:001_smile:
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Tree of life, a natural spirituality?
Ben Ballard replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
realy great and interesing thread mate glad you put it up:thumbup1: -
:001_smile:sounds good,nice rare bit of wood ,do you have many large elms on your estate?
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silly me dont know wye i said yew mus be going mad:lol:
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realy nice bit of yew david ,what plans do you have for it
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How would you dress for an interview for a job in arb?
Ben Ballard replied to will.morris's topic in General chat
if we had someone come for a job in a suit would think they better pushing a pen round a bit of paper not grafting,you can tell a lot about someone by the way they shake your hand,good firm hand shake and no bull:001_smile: -
CS39 - what exactly does it allow you to do?
Ben Ballard replied to mistahbenn's topic in Climbers talk
good question mate, -
would a wood pecker be up to that kind of thing sounds strange,or maybe something like a stoat or tree rat
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sounds good mate:001_smile:
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thank you everybody very usefull imformation ,arbtalk realy is the best way to find out what you need,
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thancks alot for your help mate:001_smile:
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eg would you still at 5m away or would that be cutting it fine eg more chance of small bits breaking of and comming into contact with wires
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cheers mate:thumbup1:
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something i must of missed when read the afag guide as didnt seem all that clear
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thancks for the replys eg the closest branch tip would be 10m away ,3 wires sheathed ,
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if climbing and dismantaling a tree within the 1 tree length do you still need to inform power company even if it can be done with out it comming near wires,sorry for another dull hse type post, but would like to do things right and get up to date:001_smile:any help would be great thancks
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sounds like the kind of lad we all would like as a trainee good luck to him:001_smile:
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thats cool mate never seen that before, but heard that atype of salamander live up in some of the giant redwoods in america and never leave the trees got all they need to live up there:001_smile:
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or a mummies boy lots of them about:lol:
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sack him bone idle git i would of worked my fingers to the bone to prove iam hard working when that age ,it is hard to find good grafters and people that come in on time and dont mind doing and what they told,it embarrising that foreigners seem to be harder workers
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nice pics david is that a owl box you got on that pollard we had the conservation group put some up here once the rooks loved ours,do youknow when the oak pollard was last done you mush have some interesting ship building history with your oaks:001_smile:
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:001_smile:fair play to him,
