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Looked a interesting one stevie bet that was hard work climbing up them ropes to the top!! Good views though! Only been to glasgow once was a nice place from what my boozed up body remembers

Nice work adam you will be back soon for the storm damage i bet

Cheers sean how would you recomend learning more about reductions and the like? I can never seem to have a nice smooth climb always up, down up down round this stem, back round that stem around another stem etc. Thanks the customer wanted me to bring my elastic tape messure so he wont realise what work went into it. Hes not living there yet so the only tip i got was a pile of brash waiting by the gate:sneaky2:

Cheers im paranoid about my reductions never sure if there good or not. I reduced the whole tree including all the top, wish i could have left the tops though!

had this oak to reduce, i priced it months and months ago. i looked at it thought ahh be a nice easy day... or so i thought turned out a real nightmare of a job, over 4 gardens, 5 sheds, 6 fences and a greenhouse and garage. it didnt look massive from the floor or when i priced it but boy i got a shock when i got up it real nightmare to climb someone had stripped the whole inside off it every branch!! no foot holds at all just stem. i even got my groundy to get his climbing kit on to help out abit, hes experienced guy soon as he got to the main union he went hell its imense so wasnt just me who got surprised by it. only about 60ft but its got no central anchor point and no growth apart from on the very tips of the branches. had tpo on it i applyed to raise crown by removing all epicormic growth upto the main union and reduce all round by 2meters. im looking for feedback from hama and the likes about reductions, it really is a art form and i really do struggle to get round trees in what i would call a quick pace or and getting right out on some limbs its always the top 2 layers where your always working level if not above your anchor point. i would love to come and see hama up a mature oak in his eliment i would learn a hell of alot i think, so start booking places to teach us mortals

There nice when theres nothing under them horrible to rig out as its quite hard to tell how solid they are. Here is one i did this year nothing under it so was just a case of going nuts with the 372 [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJqGZ9sSYWk&feature=youtube_gdata_player]pollarding willow tree - YouTube[/ame] Heres another different type of willow these werent nice quite decayed and tall and thin [ame] [/ame]

only really noticed it since i put my name on here people started to notice for me never mind ill have to try my best to live up to the name

heavy sycamore reduction from 1 of todays many jobs, looks very open because the whole back corner and whole middle was dead so had to be taken out. crown lifted slightly to allow removal lorrys and bin trucks not to smash into it. nice weather for it

Its my back i worry about also not good when i just turned 22 in july. Apparently i have a curve in my back which isnt spose to be there kinked to one side kinda thing, i was born with it apparently i only know about it because of a prolonged sporting injury stopped my cricket career. Had xrays, ct scans back specialist after specialist they told me finally that had a curve in it nothing can do about it i dont want back surgery partically! So i feel old at 22 only another 50 years and hopfully i can retire!!!

Cheers guys everythings finally coming together for me work wise and personally in a very happy place at the moment (until i have to pay for a wedding) Week didnt turn out perfect myself and my footy team got knocked out of 1 of the 3 cup comps were still in on saturday then saturday night doing sum kindling i managed to miss but hit my thumb and first finger shud hav stitches but i refuse to wait in a+e still bleeding now!! But some of you guys had much worse weeks by the looks of it!!!

so the start of this week i was feeling abit down because i had a 3 day job i thought i had underpriced miles from my yard wasnt looking forward to it at all. monday and tuesday went by got everything done apart from the 1 dreaded conifer i was worried about which was to reduce by 50% first pic, turned out it took me all of a hour to do it so really chuffed about it got job done in a easy 2-1/2 days then the next day thursday was working back at a old rectory tall and skinny pine to dismantle over tennis coart and another horrible pine that i wasnt looking forward to bent right over all needed rigging out horrible tree i was subbie climber on that job i had a day and a half to do that it took me till lunch to do them both. then the real special bit of my week i had ordered a engagement ring for my girlfriend ages ago it turned up yesterday (thursday) so i thought well sod it ill ask her today so took her out for a nice meal on the coast lovely then went for a long stroll along the beech started doing some stone scimming as she was looking for a stone i got on the old 1 knee she turned round i said try this 1 she was in total shock and said yes so couldnt hope for a better week even though i was dreading it at the start and a member on here ive met at a reccy climb wants me to price up a 100ft wellie dismantle on sunday, had a load of quotes that have been accepted. if i win my footy cup match tomorow it will be a perfect week. so how has everyone elses weeks been? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNmqFSyJGFA]70ft pine dismantle - YouTube[/ame]

Had some good experiences and some awful experiences! wrong items turning up or not at all, not being sorted out for the right items so i refused to buy anything else from them again i used to spend thousands with them.

I would never take a clients word for no tpos etc at the end of the day they just want what they want only takes 2 mins to ring planning dept and check it ur self some councils even have online databases to check online. As andy said if no tpo or conservation area equals no paperwork needed.

Ditto

The fact your asking the question says your not sure about it. get a shut down its a pain in the arse but why take the risk i wont touch anything remotely close to live wires not worth it.

I would say about 6-10 transit loads

As title says got a job next week would be handy to have a place local to tip off woodchip thought id ask here before ringing round local farms garden centres golf courses etc job is in stoke ferry Thanks in advance

Cheers mate so its 50quid plus vat?

I mostly a subby aswell adam the companys i climb for pay me extra just for me to bring my grcs with me so it does sell your self not everyone has one and makes you more money and its easier all round with it. I did look the first time then had dinner and forgot about it you say dates are in november? I would be up for it both my first aids have expired i think.

Soon as i used it for the first time i thought how the hell have i managed without it

Just over 2grand it seems a massive amount but when you see it working it really is as everyone who i work with has commented its best arb tool by far so handy easy to use built by people who clearly thought every little detail for it.

I have a porta wrap, stein dual bollard and grcs its certain this is the 1 i would buy over and over if funds allowed worth every penny!

Ive done a job for princess dianas old house on sandringham estate its now a old peoples home type place some big trees there best thing is its free! The real bigguns are in the house grounds though theres some proper big wellies 5/6 of them together all over 100ft i would say

I wud love a shed like that was pretty cool!

Thats a shame not every day u get a oak like that to dismantle, bet that left a mark on the lawn i can just imagine the thud it made