combined tree services

im looking to get a longer flip line , i curently use a 3m flip line but find that sometimes its not quite big enough when chogging down stems . does anyone use a 4 or 5 meter flip line ? if so where did you get it from

we brought a cran company in to quote for some contract lifting on a job where we had 14 macrocarpas to come down behing some bungalows with verry little access and boardering the main train line , the crane company wanted to use the 180 ton crane because of the distance from the setting out poinf for the crane and the trees and also due to the trail line . it was explained to me by the company that they needed to ensure that the crane would opperate safely in such a location and because of the distance from carne driver to the tree there was a risk that some of the timber could swing and could possibly take the load out side of the working radius which could result in the crane clooapsing . any wya in the end network rail would not give us full posession of the line and had to be done under a t2 . the cost of the crane was going to be £1076.35 plus vat per day and we were going to want the crane there for 3 days . shame it didnt plan out as it would have been great fun

ha ha great stuff , but im pretty certain that vosa would make a special journey down to see us:laugh1:

if i thought i could get away with driving the forwarder on the road i would seriously considder buying it lol

lol funny as fook , sadly you dont get to see it happen down here for real that much as western power now use swedish pole climbers

wicked thanks steve , did you fit a winch bumper to yours then

yeah it was south west commercials = never again

Tell you what brian see if you can get two as i need on myself Oh and while your at it see if you can get a whold ford ranger so that we can replace Tommers rot box for him

not related to the topic but funt any way - my dad bought a brand new M3 when it was launched in 08 and looked after it like a baby , any way last november he went in and paid £600 for two tyres to be fitted to it , this was done and off he went - as he is driving home along a back road he approches a blind corner driving ar roughly 30-40 mph only to be met by a jcb coming the other way !!! Lets just say the jcb won ha ha oh and the m3 was a total right off

you never got your chinos and gucci shoes wet did you bob ?? and only on your second day in the office lol

cheeky ****er , i have some nice big trees comming up so im sure photos will be plentiful

i tend to use what ever i feel is required for the job , it may be a porter wrap and light weight swing cheek pully , may be a lowering bollard fixed to the tree with various pulleys etc or it could be a crane ranging from 50 ton - 180 ton it really all depends on the the tree and what you have to contend with . but i do like enjoy climbing and knowing a have a whole host of options open to me with the kit i have got .

if the scooby was not in vospers i would take her out for some sliding and four wheeled doughnuts lol

sounds good to me tommer , will probably be nearer to towards the end of the week or sat .

im looking to get a 395xp

me and my big mouth - its now snowing in helston FFS

what husky did you get then

its been cold and never saw anything snow wise untill it was home time , the news was saying we have got it to come tomorrow but cant see it my self - ha ha cormac have run out of salt grit ha ha ha

what percentage did husky go up by then ?? :thumbdown:

ha ha but only a light sprinkle in some areas of cornwall ha ha

personally i think that stihl are putting prices up because they can - simple as that , there is no reason behind it what so ever it simply because they have the majority share of the market and feel they can charge what they like , if you take into account the rate of inflation and poste anual proffits stihl have made then you will see my point . Secondly the reason that cut off saws have not gone up is simply because of several large hire companys that will only buy cut off saws from stihl - take brandon hire for instance our local hire center , they have over 30 cut off saws out on hire and before christmas they had a stack of cut off saws in the shop - probably 25 of them and they all sold within a month .

But at 40+ you will soon realise that your climbing days are over , Jack Kenyon is coming up to retirement age and can still run rings round any of the guys on the course and in fact most of the lecturers - Zack does not like to climb in case he gets dirty or messes up the hair do

we recently have had something similar on a turkey oak - tree had been inspected and no FFB were found but there had been a cavity that was not filled up witth concreat so back in the storms i recieved a phone call saying that siad oak tree had failed at the base of the crown (exactly where the concreat was , so we went along and cleared the tree from the road and 3 gardens . When we had a look at the remaining stem of the tree it became clear that it was either Rigidoporus or similarbut was hard to identify because the FFb had not been exposed to enough light therefore the FFB was colourless and did not really show any common charictaristics .

I think that the price of a man is dependant on how he preforms - i am tired of getting guys down on trilas that can talk a decent job but in reality cant carry it out but still feel that they are worth top money , i think from now on i will set a base reat and re assess the figure at the end of a weeks work - newbies would start on 65 per day as i would suply everything and a decent bloke with his own ppe and certs would start on 75-80 per day , the problem would come when th newby needs showing how to do things - the decent skilled guy aint being paid to teach .

enjoy the course at merrist wood , i really did . i think the structure of the course is verry different to when i was there and the need for experience is no longer required , the handouts and info that jack kenyon will give you is over and above whats needed , i ended up with a big folder full of handouts that we did not need for the course but that were intersting to some of us .