Billy

Roots cause subsidence of strcutures built on reactive clays as when the tree and weather remove a substantial amount of moisture fromthe soil it causes shrinakge leaving voids beneath the foundations, casuing them to sink and crack.

ebay would be th efirst place i'd look.

if the climber is just in to suppliment your team they are covered under your EL/PL. If they go off and do price work with their set up then they need to be insured as they would be a bona fide sub contractor.

1500, strip and start on stem first day, finish the heavy styuff and clear up next day.... Thats assuming you have someone to come and take all that heavy stuff away foc or possibly to someone who buys it and collects.

ear plugs and some shades or safety glasses etc, no need for ahelmet if your only doing forwood with no extra risk of falling objects.

Is the one of th etree gorwing out of/through the ,ilitary vewhicle taken at slab common near Bordon?

Very true, i have all the kit but still spend most of my time climbing for others. but still when the work comes I am ready

I've known the tree for about 8 years, prob been paying attention to it for half of that time. there is a 6ft high by about 20 by 10 pile of a dirt (a jump) next to it and a road onthe other side which is mostly travelled by light vehicles an dpesestrians but occasionally it's used by heavy plant. Th crown looks less green than it used to i think and maybe a bit less dense (a lighter shade) I'll get some pictures next time i'm up there its twin stemmed forma v shape union about 30ft up. total height around 30M.

...Please, and what does it do? its on a Mature beach on a very sandy soil. Have not seen it before this year.

tell us more peckerwoo...i'm currently deciding weather or not to keep the 4x4...its all on you, I was gonna look up some long range forcasts but i trust a ofrum meber more

well, looks like we're gonna have to start looting the petrol too!

did you expect any better from 'the average working man' on the transit forum? sounds ike an awesome challenge i wonder how far inthe novelty will wear off hehehe, fair play to them.

No worries:001_smile:

Thanks, was kind of half expecting to get flamed for that! Nice that it makes me sound experienced too:laugh1:. Time to find some books on decay and fungus i keep getting asked to climb right dody dead tree's with brackets on and i'd quite like to know how they've affected the tree's strength to adapt my working style to be as safe as possible, at th emoment i just try to be sensible and light footed.

Mog with trailer, 4x4 truck. if your good on the hi ab, which probably isn't hard, no one will care if you got a ticket, you'll be self employed so no one to answer to, other than insurers if something goes badly wrong. I reckon if your not climbing and pricing will be tricky with no experience getting te kit and working the waste removal/conversion to manufactured product and firewood is a good angle to go at.

I mentioned in my first post getting some useful/big kit. if you do a bit of research around your area on here and going through the yellow pages & gauge interest on a service involving bulk removal of timber or chips with a hi ab equiped truck or such like. ou'd get an idea of what required volunteering with local firms or labouring/grounding for them onthe big jobs getting rid of the sheer volume of waste eats up alot fo the time. I'm guessing your gonna free up a bit of cash that would make the investment doable in downsizing your house. obviously if you did that and got some land you could then process the timber and sell it as firewood fencing etc. and also take on your own tree jobs using subby climbers and extra ground help if needed. Its deffinatley doable you've just got to find your way.

they look quite similar to the stein GTX boots.

use your side strop or just unclip and advance if you fancy it.

if you can tip it somewhere dry you could sell it to a biomass firm. i've only burnt it by accident and th ehuge pile didn;t really burn that well the top layer flashed over then it just smouldered in very slowly. you'd probably be best to rake it out on a hot da to let it dry well then use a bit of diesel to get it going.

I bought this book las tweek and have read it a few times. To be brutally honest i was alittle disappointed with it, with the exception of a few little bits i'd seen and done all of it before and it wasn't hard to work out on my own. the fishing rod technique could be very useful inthe right situation though. However nearly all of the really complex compound rigging shown in it is all but useless for commercial tree work except in extremely unusual circumstances, theres almost always a faster way which is why we never see it. I might have been expecting a bit much from it but i thought there might be some real good techniques inthere for everyday stuff which i might have overlooked but there were not. the phsyics section going over moments and setting up mechaniical advantage systems was a good read helping the understanding of where the loads are spread through the system and such, and the bending moments vectors etc etc. thats good to know when planning work in tree's of suspect stability. Overall not a bad book but not quite what i was expecting, if you've already done a fair bit of rigging it's mostly revision with the odd usful bit of info, but for a brand new climber it would be an invaluable resource.

if you can get the xtra on it to chip do that, less heat and smoke makes happier working, otherwise burn it.

They weren't.

Well i did those for someone else with no shutdown or shrouding, as you can see, cut and chuked everything. I wasn't too happy about it but did it anyway to save any grief. The job i originally got intot his thread about was a waste of time, ythe UKPN guy rang me yesterday to ask why i'd done the job already...I hadn't gotta love it when the customer just gets some cowboy in to smash something down whilst fully aware that your in the process of contacting UKPN and there were two sets of line son that one muchb closer than on the pictured tree's, touching them was inevitable.

fair enough bob but no one can honestly say my facts aren't straight there. and i wasn;t hauling the 5 tonner behind an L200 btw, that was the guy i was hiring it off, you can eithe rlaugh or cry i choose the former.

I took deliovery of a 5 ton mini digger about a month ago squeezed onto a big ifor plant trailer towed behind an L200! Thats a 6 ton train without the truck! and ignoring a few buckets and the barrels of diesel! its probably quite bad but why get upset, this stuff goes on everyday, and eveyrone of us has driven a 3.5t several tons over weight a least once. It rarely goes wrong, Women trying to use phones and drive are probably more of a worry...Enteraining thread though:thumbup1: