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Good idea though. If it was close to their yard or on way to.another job you would only need it for an hour. Could just do the job with 2 guys for same price

I would just rig most of it then just cut lumps off at the end and chuck them off. Would be awkward work on spikes and a load of wood to carry out. 2 or 3 gardens to clear saw dust from. Late payment from park home land lord. Average 3 man day

My mates going to give you a call in November. His names Chris and he's a cool guy

I think I would charge 750 to 850 plus vat for that depending on how busy I was at the time

I, just been asked to section down a roof. He's an experienced builder but theres some reason why he seems think it has to be done this way.

Nice work. I like nice quick video's, I have a short attention span. So you tensioned the line before you cut the branches off? Bet that top was wobbly.

Is there anyway you could make these so they connected.to my phones blue tooth so.I can take.calls when I'm climbing. If you can I think your on to a winner.

How's it to climb on? I'm going to get one of those soon. Looks like it might take some sweat out of a big climb

Cool. He's going because his missis is a kiwi but has been living here for a few years. Her family is from chistchurch so he knows the score there. He's on the books with me and we provide all his ppe and climbing stuff. From what you say I will suggest to him that he takes his kit with him. I got to admit that I wish it was me moving over there, I'm a bit jealous.

Thanks guys, i will pass that on. Is it worth him taking his ppe and climbing kit, or will most of those firms sort him out over there?

1 or my full time staff is moving out to christchurch in novemeber. He doesn't use this forum so I said I would put up a post on his behalf. Chris has worked for me for 3 or 4 years, started as a trainee and is now undertaking a lot of our day to day climbing. He is ultra reliable, very good on the ground and in the tree. He's quiet, gets on well with everyone and is one of the few guys who is much better at the job than he gives himself credit for. I couldn't have asked for a better employee over the last few years and I will be sorry to see him go. If there are any opportunities in the next few months on the Christchurch area, you could do a lot worse than to give this lad a go. Thanks, Mat.

Anyone think its good timing that this happens at the exact time of the latest banking catastpohe?

I guess they are scared to get too heavy with them because of the Olympics

It's shocking and I am sure there are organisied groups exploiting this. But the other side is that we are witnessing the result of rearing another generation in deprived cities. Most of those kids have no money, no jobs, a rubbish education, no role models, no prospects. Combine that with a media which tells them daily we are all screwed and things are gonna get worse. These people never learnt right or wrong in the 1st place.

I've made a few, both from and too ground and trees. Best to use low stretch steel cable rather than rope. Are you on flat ground or a slope? How far do you want to zip Get the tension right and you don't need a brake.

It's a doddle if you already have good paperwork systems.

Top class work there, can't beat the years of experience you obviously have. Respect.

Can anyone direct me to any litterature which would help me estimate the weight of a tree. I'm trying to estimate the weight of a defective Monterey Pine stem. Its 30m with a dbh of 98cm. I could estimate the weight of the canopy/side branches but could do with a refference to estimating the weight of the stem. Many thanks

Thanks tom. Got it covered now anyway

I could do with another set of hands at short notice for Friday 22nd July. Roadside tree clearence in North Devon, leaving from our yard in East Devon. Must hold cs38 Contact Mat on 07968741251

A decades strimmer damage?

Sorry Rob. I went back to that site a few weeks ago. The tree had tons of epicormic growth, but much more above rather than below where we had partially ring barked it. I was expecting that by ring barking part of the stem, hormone patterns might be disrupted and new shoots would form lower down. I would suggest that perhaps it didnt work on this tree due to the diameter of the limbs we tried it on. The stems were 12 to 18inch diameter. Perhaps with stems at this size it easy enough for trees to divert energy and hormones around the damaged area. Maybe it might work better on older larger diamater stems where the flow of resources follows more distinct channels through the tree? I really don't know, just trying to guess whats going on. Those lumps under the bark are the the start of epicormic shoots. I've often wandered if the older, thicker bark lower down the stem becomes just too thick for these shoots to penetrate. Have you ever seen them when they become big horrible spines but still do not manage to get out? Could be why some vigourous trees (Eucs,Pops) never manage to recover from a hard, low pollard. With a true pollard the bark above the knuckle is much younger and thinner. All this is just thinking out loud, I just dont think anyone knows enough about this or the answer would already be out there for all of us.

Nicely done