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  1. Highland Forestry
    That all makes sense to me.. I get the whole point of going through a test centre and understand the reasons behind it, but I still cant help but feel like the whole system is set up to make a monopoly. The fact that you can't book an external assessor privately who then puts your tickets through at NPTC means you have to use middle men, which means somebody is making money for nothing. In an ideal world you could do a course and then book an assessor and that would be job done, but as it is, normally you book a course with a training provider who provide the training through trainer and then they book you an assessment with an assessor through an independent test centre... 4 parties involved in one qualification, all taking their cut.. Sorry.... no..... 5 parties if you add NPTC or LANTRA into the equasion...
  2. Highland Forestry
    paid £750 and asking £1200 for it??? LOL, now that is deffinatley a Yorkshireman!
  3. Highland Forestry
    Now that..... that is a caravan!! yeeha!
  4. Highland Forestry
    Steve - get somebody local from the forum to give you a price for a sympathetic reduction and get rid of all that ivy at the same time..
  5. Highland Forestry
    Watching that video again, I thik the barbers chair occured in the first place because he stopped cutting through... if he had kept cutting i doubt it would have gone at all and I estimate it split to around 21ft!! However, like Steve said.... the lean dosent look that bad, shame we cant see the top in the video, but for all we know it may have had a good lean in the top.
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    Where abouts is that Russell, looks nice mate.
  7. Highland Forestry
    Looks like a good saturday job John! nice one.
  8. Highland Forestry
    This is an old one but still makes me laugh.. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oCDcTxFUkk]YouTube - James the narcoleptic tree cutter[/ame]
  9. Highland Forestry
    Yeah I doubt that is real.... but still pretty sick!
  10. Highland Forestry
    I never get tired of watching all those videos... there's some really stupid thigs up on youtube, but some of the tree ones make you cringe.
  11. Highland Forestry
    And the third... A good fun job on a commercial contract.
  12. Highland Forestry
    Second pic... A sunset view taken from up a big caledonian pine..
  13. Highland Forestry
    I know... whats that all about??
  14. Highland Forestry
    Is this a record?? What a plonker...he runs out of the way pretty quick! hehe [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YAf61zz5VU]YouTube - Falling a tree gone wrong (Barber chair)[/ame]
  15. Highland Forestry
    ''This years AA Show was another roaring success''
  16. Highland Forestry
    Ok, here's my three.. the first two are views taken whilst up trees, the third is a dismantle and take down.
  17. Highland Forestry
    hehe, you could fell that thing and sell it as a security barrier!!
  18. Highland Forestry
    Have a good one mate!
  19. Highland Forestry
    Bob - what do you charge for private assessments?? ie, not through a training company..
  20. Highland Forestry
    lack of water possibly...
  21. Highland Forestry
    Wow - nice shots.. Just goes to show you, you need to know what you're doing with cranes. Any idea how much damage was done to the property?? Will be a nice insurance claim i'm sure. Glad to hear everyone waled away ok, could have been much much worse.
  22. Highland Forestry
    ahhhh
  23. Highland Forestry
    Just wondering, how come you used the landy to pull it over?? I would have wedged it over personally, especially if it had alot of deadwood in the crown, always a favourite for shattering everywhere.
  24. Highland Forestry
    Fair one Kevin! How much does a trainer earn a day?? Seems like most courses are around the £100 per person mark for training
  25. Highland Forestry
    If you want a decent knapsack, that works well and will stand the test of time, with regular usage in a professional capacity you need either a Berthoud, a Solo or a Coupar Pegler - Have used all the cheap ones and they break.. Out of the lot of them I have settled with the Berthoud..... you just won't go wrong with them.

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