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NFU would even quote us as we had not had insurance with them before. Try Adrian Flux, all our vehichles are with them and they will except modifications, ie, winches, chip boxes
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checking to see if a house is council owned or not
gibbon replied to mikecotterill's topic in General chat
You just need in you t and c that the tree the clients wants work on is their own. -
Thanks, every jsut laughs normally, even clients I has had to swap jobs for. I had dengue fever once and I recon this ones worse
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She said I had just 2 spots when I was a sprog. She's come good now though and picked up some sedatives for me as I'm on the edge at the moment. You wound't beleive where the eveil little welts turn up!
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Anyone else had chicken pox in adulthood? I'm 4 days into it and having a bit of a bad time, in agony and bored out my mind.
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I have a rough estimate for costs and restrictions if anyone incase anyone is curious. Travel to and from site is £1000 each way and £1000 and hour to fly. They will only fly over the property you are woring in but can drop the timber onto the road if its closed. Maximum lift is 800kg. The down draft from a larger chopper will damage roof tiles apparantly. Shame as it would have been fun.
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Some cool Beech trees we worked on this morning. Last 2 are before and after thinning the heavy limb above the road.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I have heard figures of £2-3k in the past and that would be doable, but I don't know anyone who has actually used on at that price. I'll call PDG later this week and have a chat.
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Has anyone on the forum had any 1st hand experience of helicopter dismanaling in the UK? Will they work in residential areas? What sort of rates per day (I'm expecting it to be thousands)? Where do you begin to find a helicopter and operator who are willing and experienced to take on the job?
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Replacing Leylandii with a 6ft Close Boarded Fence
gibbon replied to wilfster's topic in General chat
Just winch em out with a tirfor. Quicker than grinding and you get them out a treat with less mess. We clear hedges for my mate who fences and he prefers us to winch rather than grind -
Very busy time of year for us. Probably 1 or 2 new surveys/inspections coming in each week and the contracting side flat out. Probably down to time of year and the vat rise on the way. Sorry, not what you wanted to hear.
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That has a round pupil, adders are vipers and have a vertilce slit for a pupil. Are you sure thats not a grass snake?
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Cool. No wonder they'll all fat over there with kit like that!
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So you can "manage" the tree for less than the cost of removing it?? Depends on how much it would cost to remove it. Not all tree owners are driven primarily be cost. If the tree is highly valued then they may want to take steps to investigate the extent of a problem before taking extreme action which may be premature in the least if not un necessary. Do you accept responsibility for the tree once you begin the management?? In a sense you have to be prepared too. The piont is that just because the fungus is there does not mean that the tree is so rotton it is about to fall down. If you investigate the decay and it is shot the the management option would be to fell. If there are a few dead roots which are infected but the rest of the root system is intact, then felling might be an over reaction. By that single photo we know nothing of the extent of decay health of the tree or what could be damaged if it fell.
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Yes its entirely possible that this fungus wasn't seen on the tree in the last few years. Doesn't mean to say that it hasn't been there or that it didn't fruit 10 years agos. In my experinence the majority of contractors see tree fungi as a cash cow because its easy to lead the client towards an expensive tree removal job. How does your client feel about the tree? If they want it down for other reasons then then fell it. Do they want it felled because now the fungi has fruited they are terrified it will fall down? (often because of fears installed into then by contractors which have been called to offer "advice") If your client values the tree as is willing to explore the options of assessing the extent of decay then PM me. I may be able to help and if not a colleague of mine also in Devon has been managing trees with Meripilus for 15 years.
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crown reductions on beech with merrip, whats peoples thoughts
gibbon replied to John Shutler's topic in Tree health care
Depends on whether you want repeat work from the developer -
Bees aint my bag, but I think the theory was that the bees would return to the old location of the hive unless they were moved far enough away. Thinking about that job gives me funny memories of driving through Yoevil town center in the middle of summer, with a huge cloud of bees buzzing about the truck. People were crossing the road to avoid us.
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We have dealt with bees a few times. From my experience bee keepers were unable to remove a nest from a cavity within a tree. We have used a crane to remove the whole section with the nests inside. Advice at the time was to move the nest less thean 3 feet or more than 3 miles. We relocated the section of trunk to a safe place and left it. On another job the bees were in a cavity close to ground level. We sectioned the tree down normally. When were got close to the nest we borrowed a couple of bee suits from the bee keeper who came to site. Smoked the bees then chogged the stem down untill we had exposed the top of the cavity. The bee keeper placed a hive ontop of the stem, apparantly bees will move up a cavity and move into the hive. The hive can then be relocated. Both times the cavity was sealed using hessian the night before. Both times hundreds of bees which had apparantly been out for the night returned and were all around. No one got stung on either job, even when sawing inches from the nest.
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Just gotta find another 49 now
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For big rigging the bollard offers more control. Greg Good who made the system claims he never uses the bollard and is still using the original winch. We use both. With a good groundsman I don't think we've come close to pushing the limits of the winch. Thats why I'd like to know the swl of this bollard cos it looks less robust
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Buy a bollard then. Seriously, if you can borrow one for a big take down you should just to try it. I struggled to justify getting one over the alternatives, but its an incredibaly diverse and usefull tool and I'd get another tomorrow.
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No need to swap....you can rig of the winch!
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You can do that with the grcs. By pulling the rigging line you can retain the tension whilst wrapping onto the winch drum. You can even remove the slack that enters the system while snatching with some practice
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Maybe. but only if the bollard is as strong as the seperate bollard on the grcs. With the change you could buy a porta wrap, extra rigging rope and a few beers. Whats the swl?
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Thats more than a grcs. Why's it worth more?
