Highland Forestry

No it's frost damage caused by ....... Frost. Euc's don't like cold weather and the frost kills them. Not surprised with the last couple of winters.

Are you sure you're not just crap at sharpening ??

I guess it's getting a wee bit late in the season now but if you get it cut sharpish and then wait two or three weeks for the re-emergence and then spray. It will at least make a good job of killing off the bracken for the coming year. You might get away with spraying the fronds with round up too if they're nice and small and succulent. Where is the site?? I wonder if we could be of any assistance... Let me know if you need a hand.

I'd seriously recommend brush cutting before spraying then mate, it will make your latter planting plans so much smoother if you cut and then spray the re-emergence.. Good luck!!!!!

Interestingly enough I was thinking the same thing.. Did the 200T really need updating or re-designed?? A timeless masterpiece of a chainsaw and they have to mess about with it!! Just like Husquvarna discontinuing the 254! I wonder if the manufacturers dont really want people to have really really good quality kit, as they sell less spares/replacements??

Sounds like possible frost damage....

Refresher training could be used as a positive thing instead of a negative cost.. For example it could be an in-house training day with all the qualified chainsaw operatives, which would give a good opportunity for the communication of new industry best practice, like a toolbox talk which would then be a tick box excersise for everybody's CPD Surely it wouldnt have to be an NPTC refresher??

You'd think that... but you'd be wrong !! :

We regularly travel up to two and a half hours each way for individual day jobs, but for longer jobs; we go up to two hours drive and then look for digs. If we limited ourselves to within one hours travel we'd be limiting our work by a serious margin..

From looking at your photo, and reading the posts you've made about the scenario in which the wall collapsed, it seems to me as though the tree roots may have lifted the left hand side of the wall, causing a linear crack or weakness through the wall. Add frost damage, age and lime mortar to the mix and it's probably very lucky that the wall fell the way it did rather than onto your crew on the other side. It's such a can of worms you have here, I think you should just let your insurance company fight this one as you don't have a leg (or a wall) to stand on!! The insurance company, surveyors etc will drag the whole thing out for months anyway, so another option may be to be a little more assertive with the property owners and tell them that they have two options - you rectify the damage and reinstate the wall 'as was' or they fight your insurance company and you walk away. Be good to hear how you get on, best of luck mate!

Just done a job on marestails... Timbrel works a treat

good! about time too!

In my experience, the best kind of fire beezums are long aluminium poles with an aluminium shovel head tig welded to the end with two chains bolted on the underside. They work well for 'rubbing' out the fire in heather as well as beating the flames and are light and easy to use. Being slightly longer you can stay further from the flames and due to them being very robust there is less fatigue caused to the user. Failing this, the commission have some very good beaters which are quite literally a small aluminium pole with a matt of rubber bolted to the end - if fighting a good fire though they do eventually melt! The mesh head beezums seem pretty useless, we used them once (and only once) and found them a waste of time. Possibly better for grassland fires but no good in heather.

Burn it!!

There is a guy about that will do a helicopter application for you... not sure on the cost though. I wouldnt mind betting that you could sub it out and make a little on the top in comparrison to the labour time needed on foot. However, knapsack and shanks's pony is as good a method as any. You'll definitley want to use Asulux and most certainly mixture B although ferry liquid or plain vegetable oil are a good substitute for mixture B and alot cheaper! We've done a bit of bracken before, and opted to get suited a booted and strim the whole lot first with a blade on a brush cutter and spray the re-emergence as it was easier going

Have you got the job to fell the silver fir?? I may have a market for you for the silver fir... drop me a PM if you've got a felling license etc in place.

It makes brilliant chipwood for biomass as Skyhuck mentioned.. The mills will take it for sleeper cuts occasionally but not if the timber has any drought cracking. Essentially they are a weed and the timber is absolutley crap for making anything sensible out of!

Yes, I am... I am quietly furious at some of the replies to this thread... some members of this forum that pertain to be 'professionals' need to have a serious think about their public comments. This is the last post I will make on this thread.. the debate has run it's course.

Seen this a few times in mature Beech with multiple scaffold limbs.. As far as I am aware - quite natural, literally caused by the ammount of weight hanigng off it! I took one down last year that was exactly the same as your photos... we had to rig off the limbs and heard some interesting cracking sounds whilst doing so, but thankfully they were strong enough to cope with the weight we were rigging down. I would suggest it was a good call to remove the limb - they can and do fail in a big way eventually!

As far as I am aware... up here, legally you can make as much noise as you like until 7am-10pm monday to saturday but not on a sunday which is 8am-5pm... If it is not a regular occurance, I would have a word with the neighbour (over a beer) and tell him your youngun struggled to get off the other night and ''what a bloody racket' thatthing makes.. hope you'll keep it down in the evenings, my misses was running up the walls etc.. I'd try to get him on my side before trying to attack him.. However, if this is a regular occurance.. phone your local council planning department and also your local environmental health department who will tell him to keep it shtum!

One is humbly biting ones tongue

Sorry mate, I can't read this and not reply.. If anybody owns a tree in a public place, be it parkland, town, open country estate, garden, whatever.. then they (the owner) has a duty to the public to make sure their trees are safe and that people don't die. Blame is exactly what this situation is about, whether you like it or not, the facts speak for themselves. How would you feel if your daughter had just been killed by a falling branch? You would immediately want to know what there was a branch ready to fall on somebody and then in time you would want to make sure the same thing didn't happen again. It's not the time for winding your neck in, it is surely the time for people to realise that professional tree surveying, risk management, mitigation and corrective remedial action is absolutley 100% imperative. A girl has died, and this is extremley sad, my deepest condolences go out to her family and friends. However, was this an accident.... or an incident? Personally.... to my mind it is an incident, a fatality, in a public place, caused through negligence. Budget constraints have no place here - if something is dangerous it needs sorted, or suffer blood on your hands. I am fed up with the ammount of tree surveys I carry out that ultimately end up in with remedial works not being carried out, and am shocked that many land owners seriously believe that they can mitigate for dangerous trees by just having a survey and ignoring the works required to minimise risk. As I understand it, presently around three people a year die from falling trees, branches etc.. how can you put a price on a life? I would argue that rather than showing respect and winding ones neck in, it is about time that the general public, businesses and land owners were educated properly and forced to realise their liability and the issues caused through their negligence and ignorance. Sorry to voice this aloud in a public forum but it needs said.

I was once told that the skull and crossed bones on head stones was often used when the deceased had died from the black death plague... not sure if that's true or not but seems to make sense

Depends what you class as competition! We are most definitely a coffee orientated establishment

Thanks for taking the time to call our office yesterday Tara, and for sending through your CV. I'll see what I can dig out for you and get back in touch shortly!