combined tree services

We Run a Jake mounted Crane and after a while your not even aware of the king post on front of you , the center of gravity is lower and should you need to take the crane off for maintenance or repair it is alot easier , the guarding kit does not need to be so over engineered either as it does not support the crane

Have you got a market for the timber ? what sort of dbh are the trees ? and what is the rough volume of timber to be felled and extracted ? , although on the face of it it sounds like a peachy job these are often the jobs that turn round to bite you in the arse , we are currently on a site felling Western Hemlock and the site is not that easy to work as allot of it is steep ground and some of the compartments need trees to be winched out 200m before converting and then a 1 mile haul back to the deck so although the timber is big and there is allot of it and because its an F.C site the roads are great and we have none of the problems associated with private woodlands and poor access it is still a site/job that even getting top prices for the timber it would be hard to make a profit , that being said we are only in cutting and extracting for a company so half of the head ache is not our problem but it always has a knock on effect

For your Assessment you should not come off of your system at any point regardless of the type of rescue so the pole rescue from a belay should be carried out in this way , the course guidance should make this clear , also before carrying out the rescue make it clear to the assessor that because this is not a real life rescue you will not be taking the casualty off of his system and in the case of a belayed rescue you will ensure a minimum two points of contact but will have installed a false anchor for your system and will be staying on your system at all times

it is a shame that i am so far away , we have at least 2-3 a month to take down !! tomorrow we have two to take down both with a decent size stem - 20-28 inch dbh and roughly six foot of clean stem its just a shame we are in cornwall

The units have only become live in the last week , i have been chasing the qualification guidance for the last week and was only able to get my hands on the final version on Thursday afternoon , it is now seen that once you have completed base unit and forwarder operations the only difference will be tracks/wheeled , weight and rigid or articulated . I will be able to tell you more after a trip up to MWMAC on Friday

I would Be cautious in which courses your looking at doing at the moment as the assessment schedules for FMO units have changes and so have the categories !! my advice would be to have a look on the NPTC City&Guilds website !! look at qualifications , click the option for level 2 forest and arb units and scroll down and you will see the new units Hope this helps

woodnet.org also appears to be the same !! not sure whats going on !!!

Just wondering if its just me that cant seem to get onto woodlots ?? i keep getting a page telling me that the domain name may be up for sale or lease :confused1: anyone elts found this ???

Having owned/used hilux, ranger , L200 and various navara's i am now running landrover defender 110 and 130's ! i was a diehard jap fan that thought that they could do anything a landrover could dobut quite simply they dont , they certainly do not and can not carry the ammount of kit that our 130 kit truck carries , they dont and can not easily run a hydraulic winch with hydraulic tool outlets , the chassis it way to flimsy , leaf springs do not allow enough articulation when off road , the four wheel drive system is woeful if you want to use four wheel drive to get out of a field in a ranger you wont be long before the front diff fails , the older rangers are not designed to tow in fifth gear (as advised by Ford when our gearbox went bang ) and last but not least there is not a jap pickup that will take prolonged abuse for years on end and still have a value at the end of it !!!

personally i think that climbing and dismantling a mature tree in a location that felling is possible would simply not be cost effective takes far longer to dismantle a tree of this size as opposed to breaking down the crown of a felled tree and being able to use any machinery to assist with the lifting/shifting and chipping of a tree this size . Also the client can often question costs and practices if they are well versed in bringing in contractors for site clearance jobs . Its almost like asking me why we are clear felling mature western hemlock and snedding them out on the floor when we could climb and strip them out to poles and then fell them or even better section them down in sawlog lengths !! quite simply the easier question is to answer why you wouldn't do such a thing !!! in a nutshell Huck it was a decent size tree felled nicely . Just out of interest how long did it take to break down chip and move the timber ?

Had a similar experience with a TW - there great if you call them looking to buy a machine but not so great when they go bang /break hence the fact i will never have another TW

we have about 60 ton at roadside £55 per ton roadside in cornwall

were the blades genuine main dealer blades ?

lmao sorry 10-15 tanks full

In response to your Questions regarding Pre 98 Cutters i would like to point out that many pre 98 cutters did not have to demonstrate how to take down a hung up tree and neither did they have to talk their way through the correct procedure(s) for taking down a hung up tree , the number of felling cuts were limited and did not take into account dealing with small timber under heavy stress and the correct method for reducing the stress neither was there much in the way of assessing how to deal with tension and compression in various situations, the standard for snedding/de-limbing a tree was far lower and the specific requirements of ppe , the ppe at work reg's and coincidentally this was the year in which the provision and use of work equipment regulations came into force . The question of who would want to walk into a woods lugging their kit 3-4 miles and carry out felling operations is more a question of who is keen on hard work and who is not , even back then you got your fair share of lazy wannabees . I dont hear may people complaining about the advances in technology allowing the equipment that we use to go about our day to day work ! No this is because it suits us - equipment has advanced more than ten times in comparison the the kit that was used in the 90's and this has further brought the need to retrain and refresh as the industry and equipment used within it progresses . I started in the industry at 17 and went down the route of tree surgery and as i progressed i gained more certification which in turn allowed me to advance further this also meant that i wanted to get into the forestry side of the industry and again started at the bottom and as i progressed i in turn i gained more certification , and then came the natural progression to becoming an assessor , this i can assure you was easily the hardest step that i had ever taken within the industry , being constantly assessed by experienced foresters and arborists not to mention the principle verify-er and knowing that you are going to be torn to shreds for the slightest possible flaw in what you have done and often actually having not made a mistake is not something that i thought i would do just as another way to make more money from the poor old hard grafting members of the industry ! It is because i am passionate about that industry and the standards that should be met by all who work within the industry . Anyway this is just my thoughts on it and possibly not everyone would agree but hey ho such is life but sadly although im only 30 i do believe there should be a great in Great Britain and this in turn should resonate throughout the various industries within GB

To be totally blunt its a bit like this - Accept that you will have to sit a refresher regardless of your personal opinion on it , your number of years in the trade , your acclaimed level of expertise , or your claim that you could do a better job than the man /woman running the refresher course . If you chose not to sit the refresher then be prepared that large organisations such as the FC , LA's and large private sector bodies will notbe prepared to enlist the services of your company or your self . The utility sector has been faced with compulsory refresher training since the UA units were revamped roughly five years ago and i don't hear anyone complaining about that. The FC expect all FMOC operators are to refresh every 3 years which believe me is vastly more expensive than Chainsaw units ! bot utility and fmoc units are more expensive than the usual chainsaw units but it is accepted that if you wish to work within these industries then you need to keep refreshing as and when required . legal requirements do change regularly as do the industry expectations . Surely it is better to keep up to speed with this rather than get left behind ? If you were trained many years ago then it is likely that you will not have had anywhere near the level of training that is now delivered on courses and i say this having seen it first hand and make no excuses when i say that the biggest problem within the industry are poorly trained , out dated, under skilled and ignorant workers who all of which seem to think that they are the best think since sliced bread and can do the job and probably teach it / deliver training to a higher standard than guys who have been through the system to gain the training and qualifications and then gained the experience before going on to teach it !!

Well i have been using my t540 for the last month and i can assure you that the saw comes alive after 1015 tanks of fuel , the saw is well balanced with bag loads of power and some innovative features suck as a built in ring to clip your saw up short between cuts , sprung on/off switch and sensibly place choke/half choke switch , the molded hand grips are also gret and really help to make the saw a personal piece of kit , i paid £545 in vat and believe me it is worth every penny !! that being said it was at a reduced price due to the 2 years i had had it on order for !!!

well worth considdering the Moheda carnes , yes they are Jake mounted but having used a botex on a fastrac and then this Moheda on a Jake frame i would really considder the Moheda A.T Osborne are the dealers and are more than helpfull

i caught my wrist whilst dipping out the top of a pine in high winds in November , thankfully i missed all of my veins and tendons and with a fair bit of glue and stitches i was ok . it taught me never to be so complacent or willing to work in poor weather under pressure

i could possibly be able to help you out , drop me a Pm with your intended use , who would use it etc and we can see what we can do

hiya guys , just have another look around for another winch and wondering if anyone has one lurking abouth that could be for sale ? much appreciated and Thanks Dave

thanks guys , i think the new sign writing will read - combined , ag, forest , highway , not for reward and run on red services . lmao , the mog is off to its next job tomorrow which happens to be a roadside tree Clarence job which will take about three weeks , thankfully that falls within the remit of exemption lol

Thank you for your input Agrimog this is exactly what my specialist transport solicitor/barrister made me aware of , in a short time having seen photos of the machine , its set up and its operating scope he was happy to that there are at least eight exemptions that the mog falls into> allot depends on what you do and how you operate. after a long meeting my representation was more than happy to email said vosa inspector making it clear as to what we do and where we sit within the criteria , and he made it perfectly clear that i was well within my rights to carry on doing what i was doing .

Thanks Andi , it was prety much what i have been looking at on the tinterweb , there was a case in 2010 where a fencing contractor was stopped and vosa tried to prosecute him for carryin old fence posts as "a load for hire or reward" he won the case in court . im hoping that my solicitor tomorrow will shed some light for me

you will probably fint that it is a gandini chipper , 45 degree feed and a tow post to one side . My only warning would be that they were never type approved for use on the public highway