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Could you drape some old lengths of carpet along the top of the wall, half down the face, half on top for your rope to rub safely over.
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My co pruned the majority of the mature Elms that make up the street trees in Brighton and Hove, pretty much the last large scale stronghold in the SE and awesome to see. They do tear really badly! like nothing else I've ever cut! Basically told by the LA to avoid pruning/creating a fresh pruning wound too far into the growing season eg. after approx end of May.
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Excuse me, could I chuck this one into the mix if I may, although sure it's been covered before. Q. Can a pre 97 license holder, drive a 7.5t Iveco Tipper AND tow a schlesling 300MX, which I think goes about 1200-1300kg. I know the GTW should not exceed 8250kg, but is that the gross weight of the train, or the total capacity weight plus train? Should that driver only be towing a max weight of 750kg? Please explain!!
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Thanks Hama, do you think that the excessive exudation is a worry? A large HC died off recently nearish to the MPuzzle, but that was mainly due to dieback after a lightening strike i think!? Would a check around the base show the tell tale HF bootlaces, or other signs? Theres a bit of a divide in the family, as it is smack bang in front of a pretty nice view of the lake in the background! So the dieback has fuelled the debate to fell the little fella! Me being the friendly Arborist buddy, has been drafted in to be the referee! Crikey the pressure! Help!
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Evening All, A friend has a Monkey Puzzle tree in their garden, which appears to have quite an excessive amount of dieback, they have been trimming up the dead swirls as they die off, however, right now the dead is nearly half way up the lower crown, the pic isnt the best, but you can see the lower brown section, as oposed to the upper green area. At the base from really old previous cuts, there is an escessive amount of exudation, which is normal, but more than I would have expected to be honest. I know monkey puzzles grow naturally with a long slender trunk, and lower swirls die off, leaving a high open lateral crown. But seems a lot of dieback for a young tree. Any advice or thoughts? Thanks Beezy
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Sorry to bump this thread again, but this message is meant for DrewB or the kiwi boys, I live in Kent, SE England, my sister lives in Welly, and is coming back in a couple weeks for a visit, and i'd quite like to get some armour pruss sent to her to bring back for me to play with. Do you know of suppliers in NZ, pref near Welly, I can then get her suitcase loaded up! cheers fellas Many Many thanks Beezy
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Are you responsible for pricing and quoting for work in addition to the crew management/logistics?
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You should get into a really good habit of attaching a second point of contact when cutting/ just before saw is started in the tree. Either sidestrop in, or secondary line over a nearby branch. wouldn't personally use grillon on lifeline fella, not really designed for that, other mechanical devices run way smoother under load. if you are anywhere near capel manor college, enfield N london on fri/sat, theres a tree event on (right hand advert column 2nd down) loads of sets up there with friendly advice. Bzy
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What do you mean by climbed on mate? Usually used as a side/work positioning strop, as you said. Not designed to be climbed with, eg as an alternative to a friction hitch on your lifeline. A mechanaical alternative would be something like a ART lockjack or similar, or a hitch climber system with friction hitch is super smooth to. Hope this helps Beezy
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with regards to wether your plan will work or not, Laetiporus sulphureus is usually found on living trees, although also sometimes found on dead/declining, guess it depends if it will remain as a host as this piece of timber declines? I'm sure there will be an answer for this along soon!
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Tree man tom, is that your boss that suddenly died soon after? LOL!! seriously, Chicken of the woods is defo good eating, has to be harvested at the right tme though, not too young, not too old and tough. fried off with a little butter and seasoning, delicious food for free!
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A little nest of some sort on the underside of the trailer?! Its that time of year again!
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or try a friendly local belt repair, key cutting fella. Not they big boys, they cant be bothered, but a wee one, will have a little 'box of bits!' Beeze
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Hi there, Can anyone help or pass on details of Forestry/woodland contractors in the Crawley or surrounding areas. I am looking at the area early next week, with a view to getting my crews to clear fell the area in question, process and chip brash and stack timber lengths neatly ready for extraction, thats where the contractor comes in. The work is to be carried out in the autumn (Sept) after nesting season, and will involve extraction to a bumpy track, that will allow articulated timber trucks, but will need a timber grab/skid to get to the loading area. I will have more specific areas/timber volumes when i see the area next week. Please PM me, or pass on possible contacts. Thanks for your time. Beezy -
2 cups of tea from the vicar? lol
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C'mon chaps, an ideas? please!
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Cheers fellas, much appreciated. Beezy
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Evening All, Looked at an Oak tree with this bad boy at the base, tree in a little park overhanging a road in Lewisham. I thought poss an old Fistulina hepatica (beefsteak) because of the purple colour, but looks more like a Gano bracket? Sure you guys can help out with ID and relevance to decay/probs for the tree. Cheers Beezy
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Hi all, Dont want to de-rail, but kind of relevant! Does anyone know the situation re an MOT pass/fail if the airbag warning light shows on the display? The girlfriends Golf is displayed, apparently after the battery was replaced, hopefully just a case of getting it plugged into a VW diagnostic system, and getting fleeced for £50 for the privalage of a 2 minute re-set! Although its getting round to sorting it, super busy! MOT due end of month! any advice if i can get it through with light on appreciated. Thanks all Beez
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Hi mark, Saw this a fair bit on the Eucs whilst working in Perth WA, and pretty much concur with MonkeyD, usually found at the site of an old shear wound/branch failure. Never really saw it causing any major problems for the stems that it appeared on, again just a 'harmless' canker, until the whole tree folds in on itself at that point! ooops! Beeze
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Oh I know the one, lying down holly, that's the Ilex aquifolium 'horizontalis' isn't it?
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any premium strength lager! the more eastern european the name the better! sorry to bring the thread down a notch!
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Thanks Andy, I'll try that lead. J
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dont know if this will help, but i pull the straps through as far as i can until the buckle is touching the saw scabbard/sawpod body, then naturally when i affix it to my leg there is just enough of the end of the velcro to tuck it under one of the strap threading points on the body of the saw pod(?) hope this makes sense, seems to keep the Spod nice and tight for aslong as i want it. also do you guys know of any stockists for the old skool leather silky/seco combo holsters, think weaver used to do them, but mine perished a while ago, actually got a bespoke camel hide one made up in Morrocco when i was there last year! Brilliant, but leather gets wet in the rain and supple, and prone to slice through with the silky. Thanks chaps, i couldnt live without my Spod now, love it!
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Some people! beech reduction, too much?
Beezy replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
Its a Claus Mattheck thing!
