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I suggest you read the uktc archeive hama. I was makes a good read

Thanks

I know. I can pull it up on the screen but for some reason I cant save a copy?

I've recently changed laptops and lost some documents. Can some one please put up a copy of njug 10 as I can't seem to down load it

I have a vision of you waving a sword above your head as you wrote that last post

3 years online

I did it, finished it in 2008. How hard it is to fit in around everyday life will depend on you current work situation and your current understanding of the subject areas. When I started it I had been out of education for 10 years and just been reading up on things as I learnt skills on the tools. It was the Tech Cert then the FdSc or straight into the FdSc so I just went for it. I thought Myerscough's learning system was good, you could choose an interactive format or PDF for most material. Some lectures better than others but that's to be expected. I think I spent 2-3 hours monday to thursday evenings and most of the day Sunday working on it for 3 years (during term times), but I had 0 experinence in some areas. I learnt a lot and gained the confidence that I was able to back up my work with a qualification as well as experince Its doable. I was employed when I registered and ended up self employed, had a child, moved house, worked in Panama and Romania for short contracts and got our business through AA approval during it and I'm no genious, so go for it.

Efficiency is the way forward. No-one wants to reduce there prices so we have to be more productive in a competative market. I always feel much more relaxed over xmas when I have a few weeks off and tell myself I wouldn't get stressed out and do paper work till late next year but I always will. The one thing I learned this year is to have faith that work will come in. If your used to a 6 week order book and your down to 1 week the temptation is to reduce rates to win work. Hold firm, execpt that there is less work around but there still seems to be enough to get by. Don't cut your rates so you can seek comform in having lots of work.

Some insurance companies will "mirror" you no claims on to a second vehicle so you can fast track you no claims onto your work truck. Allen and Allen broakers did it for my 1st truck

I have had fig sap ruin clothes and burn my skin. Not sure what you would need to clean it off rope, I've heard butter is good for pine sap. Local people in Central america swear by breast milk or honey to get poisonous sap from your eyes. The story was the enzymes help to break it down.

that about sums it up I recon

If you are a student you will have an athens code. You will have to ask the college for it. You can access all sorts of stuff from scientific papers and journals to maps and all the bs standards for free

Glad to see the lad has finally got some credit. I doubt I would have had the brass to question head on the spec of either boss or TO in my formative years. Some times when the man says cut we cut

Regardless of why it still has an ok shape. Were you not tied in twice though?

Why would you want to pay for those documents? If you are studying an FdSc just enter your athens code and download it for free. In fact, would you be so kind as to pm me your athens code please?

looks like the perfect opportunity to practice/experiment you got there

What differentials?

Sounds like an expensive fortnight

CTS i'll send you a pm

How do you plan to get into consultancy? this is also a competative market for which you will need to gain experience.

Sorry to jump in. I did a similar route to cts a few years earlier. I subbed with all my kit(poles, range of saws, rigging. chipper was extra), started at £140 and ended up charging £175-£250. The going rate 4/5 years ago was £110-120 for a ticketed, experienced climber and its the same now. I had to fight to get £140 to begin with until I was known. I doubt you will get £200 plus as a freelance climber, without putting in the work and showing a firm what you can do. I even expect you would have to work for much less to get yourself known. I found most firms already had a good climber on the books or called one in and were happy working that way. The firms you could pick up easy work with were generally ones that the other subbies were avoiding for a reason. The best route is to find work with your own kit and sumpliment it with high paying freelance work on big jobs. The trouble is you will need to show your self to be better and quicker than all your freelance competetion to be called in for this work

Not sure if I'm with you there. If a tree put all its energy into structural streghnth and not shoot extention it would likely end up being outcompete by its faster growing neighbours. There must be a balance between stregnth and growth rate which means that there is always a risk a limb could fail.

Interesting reading.I'm also not to sure what your piont is. I struggle with writing not thinking so it can be diffeicult to get my thoughts accross on paper at times. I think that the ecological benifits of old pollards are a result of an old practice rather than the reason for doing it in the 1st place. Veteran trees are a declining resource now, but in years gone by old and standing dead wood habitats would have been more common and not always a result of mans pruning styles. I've met tribes people in tropical Africa and the Americas and have seen 1st hand evidence of the collection of materials from trees. In both regions the trend was to collect a usuable amount of material (bark is what springs to mind) without killing the whole tree, so that the resource can be re-used. I suspect that this is how pollards were developed, use what you need without killing the tree. Idea and pruning methods will always change and evolve. I don't think that pruning styles from 20 years ago or more were all bad, but we are hopefully moving forward. As our stocks of old trees decline, it becomes more important that we understand how we can best retain them and secure the next generation of veterans. I do doubt that our ancestors pre-empted the results of their pruning in terms of habitat value and thats why it was done.

Good time of year for it. Ours works do was a heavy session too. At least you made it home we had one in the cells!

I normally can't see by that time let alone speak or type