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Hi all Just wondering whether anyone had any experience of advertising at an agricultural/garden show. I'm not talking about a national show but more the local rural show. Its only a thought at the minute but if a showgrounds had a suitable tree/group of trees near a boundary would a tree climbing demo be a worthwhile venture to raise business profile and be a good advertising tool? I realise there are going to be a lot of variables like the type of attendeees at a show and the number actually bothering to watch any sort of demo but my gut feeling is that it might be worth a punt. The kind of format I have been thinking of is a simple 10min demo of footlocking into tree canopy and taking off part of a branch (possibly lowering it to the ground), and then repeating this at set times through the day. I would appreciate your thoughts and any experiences(good or bad) anyone has had of this or similar. Thanks:001_smile:
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Thanks Gareth. Will give those numbers a ring tomorrow
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Anyone know of any places going on a CS 30/31 course in Northern Ireland or RoI border counties in next few weeks? May have need to put a lad through this fairly quickly Thanks
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Hamas big reduction/pruning thread!
ballymac replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Picture Forum
NIce work all way through this thread Hama. Here's an effort at a reduction on sycamore from today- forgot to take a before photo. The view from the top was pretty special. -
Gave the challenge a rip tonight and got 10-3. Think I got the kick up the arse I needed to get myself back in shape. Thanks Mark for posting:thumbup1:
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Cheers Les for the heads up about the show. Am off on tuesday so may be able to take a run up.
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Was passing same site today so stopped and took a couple of very average photos. The new growth was only really apparent on the first tree I worked on. The second tree didn't really react with new growth anywhere near as much. Photo 1 is of a low branch on the second tree showing the wind damaged leaves and the dormant buds. Photo 2 is of a low branch on the first tree showing where some of the buds have opened into new growth. There were better examples of more extensive new growth further up the tree but didn't have time to go climbing to get pictures today. Thanks for the comments/opinions to date:001_smile:
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Hama When we came back this morning there were lots of fresh leaves on the part of the tree that had been reduced- really light green new leaves. I started doubting myself that maybe I just hadn't seen them yesterday but they were definitely fresh. I'll be passing that way tomorrow so will stop and take a few pics. There's another couple of beeches in the line of trees that haven't been worked on so I'll try and get a 'before' picture if that makes any sense.
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I did some fairly severe reductions (20-30%) to two large beech trees yesterday and today. When we turned up this morning it seemed that dormant buds had flushed into leaves on the parts of the tree that were reduced yesterday. I should have prefaced this by stating that I am based in NW Ireland and we experienced a pretty big westerly storm at the start of June which has affected many trees badly. Many trees appear almost burnt especially on thier western side with curled up leaves browned at the edges, and whole woodlands have browned edges. (I'm assuming this is salt damage as we are probably only 30miles or so from the atlantic). Beech seem particularily badly affected probably because they had just leafed out when the storm hit. Some beech including the ones I was working on had loads of dormant buds and these seem to have opened out following some swinging about with a saw. Just wondering if anyone had experience of this? and if anyone knows why these buds flushed following pruning? Thanks
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Have ran a 46 for years and goes great with 20'' bar. Happy cutting
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Good luck with the monkey puzzle. Felled a couple of dying ones a good few years ago and got some of the stems planked up into 2 inch boards. Got a friend to make a kitchen table out of it for my folks and made a small kiddies table myself. The pale timber looks good with the big dark contrasting knots in it. Dismantled a dead and a live one recently-pigs both of them. As others have said wear good leather gloves and long sleeves in the tree, make sure your spikes have proper purchase and be prepared for the sticky gum even in a partially dead tree. There's not much hold in the wood and branches tend to snap out quickly. The branches and timber are pretty heavy and I found that it was very easy to underestimate the volume of chip in a tree (but that might be a chronic problem I seem to have with most trees!!!) We took approx 8t chip from those 2 medium sized trees (60ft ish) Best of luck
