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Hey john nice photos. Was that one of the black pines on the hill as your leaving honiton?
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I've worked on those things in Costa Rica amn Argentina. We nick named then cucumber trees because of the feel of spiking and sawing the wood. You can also get the tops to bend over like fishing rods if you rig off them. The story I heard was that these trees developed spines to guard themselves from giant sloths. They sometimes called spiny cedar because the wood is durable and used to make boats A similar but much nastier tree is a sand box. They are bigger with tougher spines, but on a sandbox if you knock the spines of the sap squirts out and can blind you if it gets in your eyes.
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I'm fully prepared. I plan to order a water bottle and resort to canabalism. Sod storing food when I can feast on my neighbours.
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Nice photos. So good i had to look at them twice!
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My mate is clearing it now and timber is being taken to my yard. It was a Monterey cypress
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No way in or out of exmouth tonight
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Not necessarily bling, but 3 things I couldn't live without. Back pack blower. Land rover. Grcs.
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No i employed him with no experience and trained him. He has been running jobs for around a year now. My piont was its the level of experince which is key rather than age. In the first five years he was with me he worked on a variety of complex jobs including large scale pruning and removal contracts as far from home as south america. I know guys who have worked in the industry far longer with less experience. I believe attitute, experienc and people skills all go hand in hand, lenght of time in the industry is less important. If the firm is running several jobs a day its still down to the boss to ensure the guy running each site is sorking within his limits.
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Come on you grumpy old git:001_tt2:. Im 32 and still wearing my short trousers and im sure i can run most jobs without much issue. My main team leader/ foreman has worked for me for 5 or 6 years and it was his first job in the industry and he can happily run 90% of jobs. Its all about the type of work you do, who you work with and how you build your experience.
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It's a party trick really as its odviously a bit dicey cutting at the base with the top set, you need a winch so you leave a big hinge and tied off to secure the top. Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using Tapatalk 2
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Yes silky its peter tosh, reggaemylytis. I love reggae music I do
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Thanks alot. Here is a version in HD. Took 20 hours to upload to youtube
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Fun job
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I'll get a photo of the mill on Monday.
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This week was the 2nd and final week of removing 130 Larcdh from a botanical garden and extracting all the timber. Its being milled on site and they are building a cricket pavilion. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys8EbgX7PsY&feature=plcp]Large Tree Felling, Devon - YouTube[/ame]
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We did an advanced rigging course with Richard Almond earlier in the year. Couldnt reccomend him highly enough
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What winch?
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Lost count, but lots, maybe 15.At least 8 big open grown to rig down, about 30 of the tallest to section down, and loads more easy ones in a wild area still to go. Then we need to shift all the timber out of the garden
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More of the same. Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using Tapatalk 2
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I've hired one for a while to see if I think I need it
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Ive got a 125, its great for a back up chipper or taking off road but its nothing compared to the jensen 530i, that chips 3 times the speed
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Good work Adam. Best present you could ever give your daughter is a brother or sister.
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3 days in and 30 down, only 100 to go
