Ben90

I keep a small arsenal of gloves in my work bag, ranging from a few pairs of cheapy brickie's gloves, a couple of pairs of green Tegeras and a pair of Sealskinz for when the poo really hits the fan. A cheap but effective tactic is quantity, not quality. If you've got a nice warm place near a chipper exhaust to dry gloves out, just cycle a few pairs of cheap gloves in and out on 'orrible days.

I've been meaning to get this for a while, but hadn't quite mentally prepared for the painful experience of handing over £60+ for it. Good find!

Awesome, was that the World Of Wood (not sure if that was the name) festival at Westonbirt? I was there!

According to a young lad near here that just passed his basic tickets, the instructors recommend sharpening everytime you fuel up.

Was the instructor also an investor in Oregon chains and files?

Worst hawthorns I have ever felled are on sailsbury plain. Their long exposed life of being flailed by tractors, nibbled by animals and shelled by tanks has made them the most bad-ass thorns in existence.

Fire usually works. Failing that, use super thick gloves and be careful with each piece that you pick up, twisting as you grip to snap the thorn.

200t hands down. I'd buy a husky top handle if it were half as decent, the sound it makes is tempting enough!

hey thats a good idea, perhaps we could have a little comp to choose a logo

A guy doing a lunge over the word 'Arbtalk'

The Sun is hardly a newspaper anyway, it's a jokebook.

Strange that a woodpecker would go to so much trouble to dig 4 inches into a tree when really all they do is tap the phloem, drink and go. Are the holes diamond shaped? Increment corer holes perhaps?

Spotted this

Ebay UK

Thought it might be of interest to someone

Good stuff I say, the sooner the public start becoming informed about the effects of climate change on trees, the more critical it will become to help retain the ones we've got, ultimately more people will start to respect trees as well as the work we do.

I think we'd see some serious fibre buckling on the compression side of the limb before stresses on the upper tension side started to bring about cracks or corrective growth. That upper knee could be caused by a bad cut/break or repeated squirrel damage though, hard to tell really.

I'm a bit concerned about that wire and how deep in the wood it is, luckily beeches weld themselves together for a past time but I'm curious as to how many years that wire has been there.

Union looks like a good'un though, that horizontal growth is a bit excessive compared to the rest of the tree anyway. Remove some end-weight as suggested and dig up a few spaces.

Little do we know, D probably had a weekend away in Sherwood forest..

Asylum seekers will go to extreme measures to get in to the country.

Haha, that reminds me of some funny dirt graffiti written on the back of a lorry. Where most would write 'clean me' this guy went one further:

WANTED

2 immigrants to pose as mudflaps

must be flexible and willing to travel

Great picture kiz

It's a 30% crown reduction.

30% means from the bottom up, right?

Even the crustiest of jugglers will have charged more than £350 for a beast of a job like that, that is, if they've any intent on actually getting the job done..

Either that or it's a nice little imaginary number than the client dreamed up that he wouldn't mind paying for such a job.

Good luck to them either way.

They're asking you to buy them? Sounds like a responsible usage of high-energy waste, but I wouldn't go buying tons of the stuff until I knew I had a customer base who's interested in it. Request a few for free, trail them with your customers, see if they'd consider buying them seperately. I hear they burn like coal and have a higher calorific value than wood, the curve-ball is does Joe Public notice a difference significant enough to pay more for them.

The Chilean Miner rescue went very smoothly, despite the small pod which meant they had to come up Juan by Juan.

Well they seem to be avoiding the top quarter with the angles they're cutting, and the only reason they're not using the front handles that I can see is so they don't have to bend down.

I'm sure they've encountered kickback many times. Hm, maybe part of the cutting technique they've adopted (the Limp-wristed one handed cut) is their own response to it? Say, if you were to get a kick in that position, wouldn't the rear handle jerk downwards, flop out of your hand and hit the ground? Rather than using your right hand as a pivot and a 1-way ticket to your face?

I'll be quiet now..

I agree, pretty sad sight. I suppose at least you won't get backache or kickback...

Get the ratchet straps out!

Or the Wd40 vapour combusted more readily than the petrol vapour, getting it started!

Definitely not. Two things in this job you should never skimp on; helmets and sunscreen!

and ropes, and harnesses, and chainsaws, and tools, and boots, and protective clothing...

Haha, in all fairness with the way print on the packet is oriented it is technically one row. What most would call a 'row' he would call a column.

I tip my hat to the lad!

What made me think about this was seeing the work done by British Waterways on the canal. A lot of the overhanging branches from set back trees were cut back only as far as the canal boundary, which meant a lot of long stubs were left.

That's just bone-idleness. No consideration for the trees there or even their own jobs, since new stems will probably shoot from the cut and won't have to go far to get straight back over the canal.

Probably a boundary related issue, the trees are grown on council land and the branches overhang BW land. They're only entitled to remove what's overhanging.