combined tree services

i was recently asked to take down a vetran beech because it had several sever pockets of decay in several main scaffolds by a so called tree inspector but i refused and thankfully the tree officer at the local council was in agreement with me . At some time or another we are all prone to jumping in with both feet and making rush decision that can lead to the removal of a tree needlessly or end up carrying out un nessessary works . In the case of the beech tree we have agreed to carry out a phased reduction of the tree over 5 years ie;- year 1 15-20% reduction of majorly decayed scaffolds , Year 3 - further reduction of remaining cannopy and year 5 formative work . during this time the tree will be regularly inspected and monitored to see how the tree responds at every stage .

sadly it was not tommer , i have the joy of doing any callouts for w.p.d and silvanus over the christmas and new year holiday !!! to be honest im at the outlaws and praying for a big tree to come down onto an 11kv line somewhere lol , you having a good christmas mate ??

the day to day road vibration will do that to an LDV , use duck tape in future lmao

great idea i had not considdered whipping a retriever on , my problem would be that i use both my ART friction saver and a Cambium saver depending on what im doing and both require difrent size retrievers

un lucky 76AR

it shouldnt do if its within the last inch of your rope because both your bowlin and stopper knot should not be using the last inch of your rope .

ha ha ha great effort but would have been better if you had put your spikes on as well or are you only pruning the bunk bed ha ha

it also is a REMINDER symbol to make sure you have remembered you gallon of engine oil (for short journeys) and bowser full of watter oh and your AA/RAC membersip card:laugh1:

does a coffe and mince pie count ??

i guess that it is all down to how good your understanding is of pollarding , take for instance some of the stree trees that have been pollarded down here in west cornwall by the council - trees that have been lopped to mimmic a pollard . Then take a look at some of the orrigionall pollards over in france that have been well maintained and are part of a roling cycle of works . Personally i thing that the term pollarding has been and still is used to describe a poor practice that is carried out by tree cutters that dont actually know what they are doing or talking about , but having said that i have also seen some true pollards that have been carried out and can see the benefit's of trees propperly mannaged as a pollard . now i will climb down off of my christmad day soap box lol

right here is an idea that i have tried out for one of my ropes that does not have a spliced eve but needs to be retrived from my ART friction saver or my normall cambium saver - Get a 6 inch nail and heat it up untill it is glowing red hot , then place the verry end of your rope on a piece of wood and approximatley 1 inch from the end or your rope use the nail to burn a hole strait through the rope . this leaves a clean sealed hole through your rope so that you can either fit a small loop of rope made from starther chord to attatch yoiur retriever to or in fact if you have a spare retriever then you can tie that strait into the hole . any way hope this helps . Failimng that do what i did and send your rope off to honney brothers and they will Re-splice your rope with a smaller eye that does fit through your ART friction save and most other cambium savers , i had one of my marlow ropes done and was impressed that it came back propperly spliced as opposed to the chunky sewn eye that it orrigionally came with

well firstly i would change the spark pluug and see if thats any better , then see if you have a spark , this can be easily done by connecting the HT lead but rather than screwing the spark plug in you simply have to rest the end of the prak plug against one of the cooling fins on the saw , then pull the saw over a couple or three times and look for a spark , the spak should be i deep blue colour . if you try this and either get an orrange spark or no spark at all i would be inclined to say that its the ignition module that has broken .

I really dont mean to offend but dont you think your a little to old to be playing with dolls houses ?? hope you and the familly have a great christmas tho

There is no doubt that Meripilus is a Pathogen BUT it is suggested and has been documented that certain species of trees can and have survived for many years whilst diseased with Meripilus HOWEVER the trees in most cases need more frequent inspections and remedial work needs to be carried out for the tree to remain . i personally would not withhold any information regarding tree disease from a client but i would make them aware of the information i have regarding Meripilus and further explain what the options BUT retaining such trees is dependant uppon many factors such as location , targets etc etc .

how does the spider jack compare to the lock jack bob ??? i am using the loak jack and get on with it really well but am thinking about getting the spider jack

or the wrong viscositty chain oil !!!!

lol well if it cheers you up at all im on standby all over christmas and new year oh joy but trebble time does make it some what better

well so far with my lock jack i have not had any problems with limb walking and find that the lock jack sits just where i want it but this was only possible because i could adjust the sliding d on my harness , the only down side that i have found it that it does not work to well on wet ropes and becomes verry jurkey

great stuff that has really cheered me up , and it should go a good way to getting a mog maybe

im still using a lock jack , i would be really keen to hear how you get on with the spider i wouldnt mind getting one myself

sounds like if it cut out whilke using it and aint started since then the ignition pack may well have gone , i have had this happen on my ms361 , what it the compression like ?

ha ha well if he keeps rewarding me then he can have it ,

wicked this VAT lark seems to be ok so far , i will have to really have a look into what sort of money i will be getting back , i cant help but wonder what the VAT man is going to want in return tho lol

wicked , that has finaaly got me feeling in the mood for christmas at last thanks SWB:thumbup:

to be honest im not mad keen on climbing at night too much but it has to be done the only down side to it is if the job is that urgent that it has to be climbed at night on a call out then its almost certainly going to be a pig of a job , one of my recent jobs was to remove 3 limbs that has plit out and were hanging in the powerlines (which had blown the fuses) and was also over one of those glass fronted sheds lol , im now really hoping that my other half has bought me the petzel head torch that i asked for so nicely lol