combined tree services

i did look at the vermere , then i looked at the price tag and then i carried on wishing lol , im seriously cosiddering the tp though steve

failing that it your not in a built up area maybe a couple strings of crow babgers would do the trick !!!!

hiya guys , was just wondering if any of you have used the old turner 10" pto wood chippers ?? i have seen one for sale but have no knowlege of them what so ever other than they are now called green mech

we have had a similar problem with a row of pines in a cemetery , last summer we could not do them due to crows nesting and due the their location the winter was way to wet to get near them , i consulted with defra and it turned out that i had to get a liscence to remove the nests at any time of the year because crows are historic creatures and use the same nests each year and often use them all year round , thankfully a year later we are now able to get them down at long last . anyway what i was going to say is the you may well have a long wait ahead of you

If you have tried to use your chainsaw to trim back a hedge you will know it just doesn't work. Apart from that, it's dangerous. If you have tried to use your hedge trimmer to cut back thick hedges, you will know that doesn't work either. Unless you've got a commercial petrol trimmer, you're going to struggle with anything over about 20mm diameter, and thicker growth is impossible to cut through easily. After struggling with my hedges last year I came up with a solution which combines the best attributes of both machines in one. You will need to use a chainsaw as the base machine. The conversion to hedge trimmer uses bolt on parts, and it takes seconds to convert it back again. Using this solution you will be able to trim any size hedge - thin, thick, dense, sparse - it won't matter, this will do it all. If you buy the kit, I will need to know which chainsaw you have (make and model), and what bar size you are using (pitch, gauge and length). You will need to drill at least one and maybe as many as four small diameter holes in your chainsaw bar. There is usually one hole already at the far end of the bar - the number of extra ones is personal choice. Alternatively you can send me your bar and I will fit the conversion part here for you, or I can buy a bar to fit your saw, fit the part, and send it to you once it's all paid for. The cost of the conversion part and fitting instructions is £19.99, plus delivery. If you need a replacement bar the cost will need to be added on. This will work for any chainsaw. Petrol or electric, any bar size, any pitch, any gauge. I use an 18" bar on a Makita UC4020 electric chainsaw. I drilled two extra holes in the bar and to be honest I was a bit worried about weakening it. I have since removed the conversion and used the chainsaw normally, and it has not affected the strength at all. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask, but I'm not going to tell you what I did to my chainsaw to make it twice as useful, for half the cost of a hedge trimmer ! Finally I don't expect to sell a single one of these, but if I do I want you as a buyer to know that I as a seller couldn't give a monkey's what you think about the item. I'm happy with it which is why I decide to sell it. If you don't like it - tough. You're an adult, so you should be able to take responsibility for your decisions. If you can't and you're the type of modern day **** who blames everything on someone else and thinks daytime tv chat shows are educational, then don't buy from me. What a salesman

cool cheers Boss , i have found that through my own interest in keeping up to date in the industry and with the help from you guys on arb talk i have learnt about an entire new world of tree climbing , but i do think that some of the new methods should now be being tought on climbing courses , for instance i have just had a goy come back from doing his cs38/39 and to be honest im amazed at how little he has been tought and was even more supprised that alot of the skills i learnt at merrist wood back in 2003 were still not being tought like Branch role's , Re directs , and some of the modern knotts . it may just be me expecting too much !!

feck me that young lad has got some skill , i am more than sure i could not possibly ever achieve that

gret stuff , will try and set that as the ring tone on the other halfs phone , that should slightly annoy her

have you given the guys at treevolution a call ?? i know its a bit of a treck but i have heard nothing but good reports , while we are on the subject is there such thing as a course to learn some of the more modern methods ? i keep wonering as it would be handy for a couple of my guys to go on and probably verry usefull within the industry

its not just the heels that will cause you troubel andy , if your stockings are too tight im prety sure that it will help to problems , any way what the hell are you doing wearing high heels, stockings and chainsaw chaps for ???

hi Andy , as well as taking suplements it may well be worth seeing a fittnes trainer and getting some exercises to build your core strength in your legs , often the bigger muscles develop far greater than the smaller and often more important muscles , this was the case when i dislocated my shoulder the third time , the exercises would be simple and easy enough to do at home with verry little cost . Hope this helps mate

feck that mate its gonne cost your bro , i may lend a small saw (357xp) but will not lend out bigger saws . your looking at roughly £365-£380 . has anyone been playing with the mixtur settings ?? or was it a novis on the saw ?? i had a guy work for me that could not get his silly little head round using the bigger saw's and the fact that you cant just point them at a bit of wood and set them screaming. But on a brighter side it was nice of you to lend a saw to your bro , if my bro was in the same game i dont think i would lend him anything lol afterall he is the competition

nope , have you got any pic's ?? and how does it conform to british standards ie bs kite marks etc ??

cheers for the help and advice chaps , owning a mog really has pred to be a massive learning curve for me , i will give my local motorfactors a call and Bonds . Now my next question is does anyone know of a chenicle that can be put through the air system to clean out any carbon buildups etc ??

some pictures would be great ,, why do you feel that Re-pollarding is required?? is it that the trees location and targets require it to be reduced / pollarded ???? personally if i could fence the area off i would leave the tree naturally grow down , this was something i learnt jrom Jack Kenyon and Ted Green whilst at merrist wood , from Teds reserch with other experts he had be able to prove that vetran oaks are more likely to go on for much longer without the intervention of us tree surgeons

i did ask Alex and to be honest he did not seem that interested in selling me the parts at all , i will give him another shout on monday , here is something to make you laugh , i asked vos about ingector pipes as the no1 injector pipe has been dammaged - vos said to me that they have a second hand one there on the shalf for £35.oo !!! so i give our local diesel fitters a call and they tell me they could make me one that length for about £12 and would do it while i wait

and i thought having to let one of the groundys go after he decided to argue over my decision for him to stay out of the way while trying to get a section of timber down safely and then for him to tell me that even though i was the bos that he was not going to do what i asked because although he has 3 months experience in this industry that he knew best because he used to be a fisherman for 20 years . I think that saying goes- you cant polish a turd !!!! oh and my mog is broken lol

evening guys , its looking like the mog needs a new compressor , i took the main air line off and could stop the air flow with my finger which would say to me that the piston rings have gone , i then took the head off of the compressor and found that oil was being pushed above the piston and had dammaged the gasket . have got a price for a brand new one from vos and they want £600 for the compressor and can have it here for tuesday , i have now got to find something to remove any carbon buildupps from the rest of the air system so that we dont kill the new compressor !! now i see why mog's are expensive to run lol

well done for getting up there and getting the job done mate , but i really do think that not having a line in another tree and felling a section that large when only anchored in that tree was utterly foolish , the experienced guys on site should have carried out a tree hazard assessment prior to you climbing it , to put it plainly , if you had caused the tree to colapse and we seriously injured or even worse then the HSE woud have been informed and the first question asked would be ....... whay was a mewp not used and why was an inexperienced climber sent up there to do the work ??? . having seen first hand the aftermath of something that serious i can ssure you its not plesent . This aint a rant at you but i am very very supprised at the team of guys you work with .

thanks for all of your advice guys , it really appreciated . i hope to have the mog working again by the end of the weekend , not sure if i will yet but as always these things only break down when they are most needed .

You got any pics of this hitch ?

yeah it sure has , i think its called the joys of owning a mog lol , do you get much trouble from your mog huck ??

yeah it can be i guess

yeah mike hill sent me a pm saying the same thing , fingers crossed its something simple

im supprisingly calm considdering , at least i mannaged to get it back to the yard before it did its funky sh1t