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  1. gibbon
    Hi David. We installed a flexible gefa type brace high in the canopy and an additional brace on a 16mm cable lower down. The cable was to back up and ageing static brace that's been in for about 30 years. It was quite a complex brace so Nod came down and helped me come up with a customised brace using the a new system he is working on. Didnt get and good photos in the tree it was raining too much
  2. gibbon
    2 40m plus tulip trees we pruned and braced this week. Massive trees, you can just spot climber in the second picture
  3. gibbon
    Max Bayles has a 55 ft platform. Or try nts platforms in ottery at Mary. He has a 21m lorry mount and is good and familiar with working with tree guys.
  4. gibbon
    I was reading recently that Syria is sitting on one of the largest natural gas reserves known. Certainly enough that if we had access to it we would not be reliant on Russian gas. Maybe that has something to do why we want to bomb it but Russia isn't so keen?
  5. gibbon
    You sure that's not ganoderma resinaceum rob?
  6. gibbon
    Great work Ben, can wait to see more shots. looks like 2013 is turning out to be a good year for you. Be cool to catch up for a beer if your down this way later in the year
  7. gibbon
    Not that I have been involved in. There's an enormous one near me that's had merip for 6 or 7 years i drive past regularly,crown still seems very healthy
  8. gibbon
    Seen it in lucombe oak several times too
  9. gibbon
    Some say they already are; in the form of gm foods and vaccination programmes
  10. gibbon

    Topping dead firs

    gibbon replied to RC0's topic in Video forum

    Thanks for taking the time to make and explain the video. For many of us self employed people we rarely get the opportunity to work with other, more experienced climbers. Your videos give us the opportunity to learn from others and their experiences. Keep em coming. Mat
  11. gibbon
    Good work Ben, tight working space. Maybe you should have called the video "big wood, tight gap"?
  12. gibbon
    I feel your pain, I had the same op earlier this year. The first few days after I was a mess and thought I would be out of action for a while, but you get better pretty fast. I was back on my feet, hiking in the bush and climbing tall trees in Africa ten days afterwards.
  13. gibbon
    We have the odd day out. Normally paid day out go karting or quad bikes followed by meal and beers and bonus at xmas. Not every year but sometimes we go to the trade show as a paid day out. We've also offered paid days off with bowling beers and a meal if we can hit a deadline for an unusually big job. Good staff are an asset and should be rewarded for hard work. If they take the urine they will be down the road swiftly.
  14. gibbon
    Not me then. I don't have a transit
  15. gibbon
    Stick them up! I got the standard go pro, not sure what model
  16. gibbon
    Yes it's a nice place to work with lots of big and veteran trees. There was ganoderma brackets on the tree, didn't see any ustulina. Should have added that this was the third and final phase of a phased reduction. We removed approx 15 tons of material and about 12m from the tree. I'd estimate it was still a bit less than 50% of the overall leaf area. I think without the works, the whole tree would have collapsed in the near future Thanks to everyone else for the positive feedback. I enjoyed the job and felt we did the right thing, but I was expecting some armchair critics
  17. gibbon
    Hi David. I don't know what species of bats. I was working for a consultant who dealt with the environmental side of the job. Bats all in the main stem, but timber is staying beside tree for some time incase any critters were in pieces we removed. It was an old pollard. I have reduced it a couple of times and my predecessor has been working on it for 15 years. We took the decision to take it down hard as it was near collapse and it would have been a shame to loose the tree. Still I think we took less than 50% of the foliage volume off. It's also right in the middle of the beautiful days festival site.
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  19. gibbon
    Hi James, you sure you drove past? It's the last house in a cul de sac. I always hear chainsaws every time I work in west hill, but that's not too often really. We charge the same rate to all of our clients regardless so there's no loading for places like west hill. In fact I find west hill to be a very price conscious area and I don't get too much there apart from repeat clients. You'd probably be surprised how much that tree didnt cost. It was on the deck in 2 hours.
  20. gibbon
    Hey Ian. The consultant who manages the trees on the estate took some, I only got those on my phone. Ill see if I can get some. He estimated that pile of timber to be 12 tons, but with the mass of shoots around the pollard head we still only took about 50% of the foliage off. I got some go pro footage ill edit at some point.
  21. gibbon
    Nice big bits your cutting there. Nice place to work too
  22. gibbon
    Cool tree David. Still planning to work on it again this year?
  23. gibbon
    Veteran lime reduction today. Took 15 tons and 12m of this tree because it was looking close to collapsing
  24. gibbon
    I shouldn't worry about the roots after you've lifted the Tarmac. The chances are nearly all of them will be stuck to the under side of the Tarmac and broken when its lifted. Try to lift from closest to the tree first working out, but its almost impossible to left off the roots, not like block paving
  25. gibbon
    Taking 120 larch out of a botanical garden was my biggest conifer bashing job.

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