Billy
-
Posts
1,722 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Classifieds
Tip Site Directory
Blogs
Articles
News
Arborist Reviews
Arbtalk Knot Guide
Gallery
Store
Calendar
Freelancers directory
Everything posted by Billy
-
Balls, wish i'd seen this earlier i was hedge cutting:thumbdown:
-
Most of those degree's don;t lead to jobs with typical 'graduate salries' i know people with simlar degree's who still work onthe tools because its better money. However Hadlow college in Kent do Countryside and Landscape management courses the Landscape Managment is a BSC degree countryside management is a more practical course and is a ND or something not as academic, and missed alot ofthe arboriculture, soil science plant idents and focussed more on teaching you to be some sort of estate gardener/farm labourer/game keeper
-
good shout, but he's inliekly to find any ona raised bank, probably man made, but BT cables are the worst i have found them inches below the surface. water and gas you can repair yourself:blushing:
-
moving all that dirt will use alot of skips, thats way under priced if you want to make some profit, and it'll take a while to get it out if you restricted to a alleyway for access that means you'll only get a variable track base 1.5ton digger in with a 750kg skip loading dumper, that wont move the soil quick. you'd be better off grabbing the soil over a fence or piling it somewhere near a road for a grab if posible, they are far better value. I'd say its worth doing some homework and trying to get the job, sitting pulling some levers all day is a nice break from tree work every now and then.
-
From wha ti rmember of taking mine apart the choke.throttle locking on mechanicsm was relativley simple so examine it a bit closer and see if something is missing or not set in its default position, shouldn't be a major problem if it wokred before, unless you broke it whilst dismantling it.
-
quoting for foundations is a risky business involving a lot of hardcore if your caught out:laugh1: until you put bucket to dirt you never know what you'll find. today in a major sandstone area i dug 7ft and only found a bit of broken stone and endless wealden clay whilst trying to dig a foundation for a wall , 10m from there on a seperate floor slab excavation i went down 18" and was on a solid bed of virgin sand stone! You can found a house on almost anything the soil just determines how it will be done. you never know whats gone on below the surface and what corners have been cut, the possiblities are endless, i'd stick to cutting tree's as giving advice on this sort of thing could get messy unless your correctly qualified and insured.
-
way too many variable for this to work easily, unless the hous ein question is known to have relativley shallow trip foundations, in which case it probably will be on rock, otherwise could be doing alot of digging. If it were me i'd make no comment officially and advise them to seek the advice of a building surveyor, either way the tree will damage the building eventually.
-
awesome trick if you can't afford a decent tractor
-
Ah, well thats the real world use, i was expecting some instructor style tales of logs shattering and brutally dismebering'dangerous untrained chainsaw operators' and such like.
-
Is this similar to the thing they call a 'Yarder' in Ax men?
-
Just out of interest, how is this tehcnique better than a straightundercut or top cut or a combination of these?
-
Chill out, i'm not employing them, and never would! I just have to work with them:thumbdown:
-
i like that, very true.
-
I've recently been having the misfortune to work with very low common sense/intelligence ground staff can't use saws but they are expected to do most other tasks, but every time you need them to do something it has to be explained, in detail, several times even the simplest tasks like re fuelling or sending up a saw and anything else you can imagine, also rope and krab dragging:cursing: . This makes my day considerably more stressful than needs be, I know these sorts are incredibly cheap but are they really cheaper with the extra hassel and having to look out for them and yourself constantly etc etc?
-
thats a good idea, 8ft long 3ft wide bits of wood could be useful for more than just firewood as well.
-
whats this corral? big brash matt's are good because you don;t have to be too accurate, like onte beach i was doing today i couldn't lift the chunks and was just sliding them off, no fancy throwing. I would have rigged it if it were up to me as it started off a good 40ft high, all 660 size:thumbdown:
-
When you have a large stem to bring down that cannot be felled with a small ish drop zone (expendable bed in a driveway) how do you guys do it? We always chog it down in pieces as large as we can handle which on big stuff is never more than a foot even when sliding them off. I can't help but thinking it would be far easier and more efficient to stick the block on the stem and use the kapstan and knock off 3ft or so at a time and ring it up on the ground. So, hows everyone do it, and why?
-
who would be stupid enough to test a firework they made inside their house? I got some ammonium nitrate here could make a cool firework, inspiring video
-
any suggestions for all the kit +3.5T tipper ona regular basis, taking on any tree.
-
the building is being built on piles so there not alot of deep compaction going on for big strip foundations and all the tanking and drainage to go with them so its not bad all round.
-
if you must do it, be careful, your probaly better off climbing it properly rather than using a ladder imo. Or better still get some pro's in and have it done properly it will be much easier and you wont have to drive tot he tip 30 times iny our car to get rid of it!
-
is that a dead mouse top right of the last picture? is it included in the sale?
-
just cange the fuel filter, fuel lines seldom get blocked its always the filter.
-
woud graphite spray do the job? i use it for chain lube on my bike sommetimes.
-
I used to use Aluminum Bashlins which wee alright, but i just got some steel Buckinghams with velcro pads and they feel much more comfortable and i don't notice the extra weight at all.
