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Everything posted by gibbon
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Not a big job by any means, but was a bit of fun and and excuse to get the rigging winch out. A large piece of the river bank got washed away and this Ash, Hawthorn and Hazel dropped about 10feet into the brook. We put a couple of pulley blocks up nearby trees and lifted it all clear. All done by lunch.
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A higher water content means a more anearobic environment which is less that ideal for most fungi which require oxygen.
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Do you have a different hourly rate for hedge cutting to tree work? I find we don' do too many hedges as we are pricing against gardenrs and landscapers for the work these days.
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"Your going off surfing - does it deal with the stress or merely escape it for a while? The cause is surely still there when you come back?" I am sorry if over posting I think it is a bit of both. I find escape, even if temporary helps put things back into perspective. I have been very stressed recently and did bail for a week. I spent a week cos thats all I could afford off work and surfed in a remote part of Africa. On coming back I felt a lot more settled. I was offered hospitality and kindness from people who had much greater hardships than me. Makes you realise whats important and whats not.
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We have a daughter and another little one on the way. Life is tough financially for us too. My partner and I have already said that if it ever looked like we would lose the house and the business we would just go away, indefinatley in the van. Thats our solution and it helps mentally, just knowing that our worst case senario is an extended holiday.
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I didn't mean that quite how it sounded. I understand it is better to talk about it. What I meant really was that I would run from troubles that serious, nothing could be so bad that I would consider giving up on life. And for those that do, its a terrible shame
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This thread is a little heavy. I can't see how people get suicidal. My impulse reaction to megga stress has always been to pack my surf board and disappear for a bit. Travel has always been my therapy. As for money, a wise man once told me "turnover is vanity, profit is reality".
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Do you think that a lot of the stress comes from the fact that 95% of all domestic work is in out, do it in a day or less jobs? The amount of jobs you need to turn over just to keep busy means you are always chasing work. If the phone goes quiet you stress cos its not coming in. Add to this high cost of machinary, training, insurance and advertising in our industry its no wonder it gets the better of us sometimes. I had nothing when I went self employed, no savings and from a family with out a penny to bail me out. I now have my own family, bills, mortgage employees still no savings and seem to just roll from one cheque to the next bill. How can this not stress you out? I have friends who build or are in landscaping and a job often takes weeks or months. You can afford for the phone to go dead for a few weeks on a job like that. We on the other hand don't seem to have that luxury.
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Have you bought the AA heath and safety folder? Loads of templates in there £45 well spent
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I have seen and climbed an 80ft Strangler Fig growing in a union 100ft up a Camaron tree. I often see Elders and Hollies, sometimes Ash growing in trees in the UK. Gotta love Epyphytes. That photos a fake mind
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Meripilus I think. This was discussed on UKTC last week for a full low down.
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Me too, super painfull. An Ant stung my eyeball! Had to see a Costa Rican doctor who glued my eye shut for a week.
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I was working at Killerton House yesterday and they have a large multi stemmed Ostrya in the Chapel. All them stems are growing in a ring just like an old coppice stool. It certainly looks like that one has been coppiced at some piont, long ago.
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I was told by someones elses calcutation that 1cubic meter of fresh chip is about 500kg. Composted 1.5cubic meteres is nearly a ton. My transit has a 1400kg payload but is well overload with 3-4 cube of chip. I would love to know what it does weigh though
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Tree's failing?.....So move the target.
gibbon replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
I don't think Skyhuck is being serious with these posts rather he's just getting a rise. I can't imagine any true proffesional could be so ignorant as to have no idea of mature trees ecological importance and habitat management these days. -
Sorry, been busy will call you now
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Tree's failing?.....So move the target.
gibbon replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
This a picture of the champion Lucombe Oak which fell over down the road in Phear Park this winter. All though it is unlikely to continue growing it has been left for the time being by the LA. I should piont out that the public's response to leaving the tree has been almost entirely positive and is drawing crowds dayly with people driving some distance to see it. The fact that it has fallen now seems to make the tree even more interesting and if left will be a great feature in the park for many years to come. So if it was up too you would you clear this? -
Our domestic work has fallen by 50% but overall turnover is up by about 20%. As Big Boss said it seems to come in fits and starts. Have had from 2.5 weeks to 2.5 months work in the order book this year. No consistency. Summer is always quiet in Devon though. On the whole private work is going to shonky outfits and there is poor pruning seen all over at the moment. Our LA is being a lot more frugal with spending too which has a knock on to all their contractors.
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Tree's failing?.....So move the target.
gibbon replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
Were measures were taken to prevent root damage when relaying the path? I won't say those trees were lost causes. I know of lots of trees in similar states on our estates which are thriving in partially fallen states. The lifting root plate naturally decompacts the soil and often improves vigour in following years. -
Jameson are a lot heavier than the AUS. We have AUS with saw, hook and loppers and a big shot on the Jameson. I seem to remember that Jameson are not tested for use around LV lines in the UK. Is this right?
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Iteresting piont about meristems Tony. I have seen masses of ariea roots exploiting build up of soil underneath well established epiphytes on tropical trees. When groups of orchids and bromeliads have been present for some time and have begun to build up soil from their own debris, there is often a fiborous mass of tree roots as well as epiphyte roots present. I guess, if you were a growing bud and found yourself in a dark inch thick layer of rottening plant matter, it would make more sense to become a root than to reach for the stars and become a shoot even if you are quite some distance from the ground.
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best chipper to buy for £6000approx under??
gibbon replied to Czlowiek Drzewo's topic in Business Management
I got a tw125 and a tw150. If you are running a 2/3 man team the tw125 chips plenty fast enough and is a cracking machine. You would get one new for around 7k plus vat -
I wandered about whether to do the tech cert or FdSc. I decided that if I did a tech cert the next step would be an FdSc so I decided to save myself a year and go straight for the FdSc. It depends on what you want out of it and if you have 1 or 3 years of evenings to sacrafice.
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If you want to keep cost down you could rivet 1/2mm ali sheets to the outside and live with the build up of chip between the sheet and the cage. Or remove the mesh and use thicker Ali, 3mm perhaps. I think I paid about £25 for each 3mm 8x4 sheet a few months back. You have got the frame to work with and ali sheets are cheap and last. I dont use ply any more as it looks rough after 6 months and costs a fortune to keep replacing.
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I have a 02 transit and like it. Not to keen on those sides as you will still have to adapt them to retain chip.
