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I bought some at the AA show back in July and everything on the packet sounded great, as soon as I showed it to my girlfriend she said 'Hm, funny how it says nothing about pain..' That kinda stopped me in my tracks, it probably does hurt like hell to apply. Still, that's why Celox is usually sold to ruff tuff tree surgeons and soldiers.

Displaced water maybe? Either way I'm keeping some Wd-40 in the cab from now on!

Am I the only one who noticed this? This isn't the 70s my friend, flush cuts are sort of frowned upon. I think you mean just beyond the branch collar. Many here including myself believe that stub cuts are a great way of helping the tree to compartmentalise and partly occlude, especially since the branch we're removing is more often than not, alive. The tree then has time to set up it's defensive barriers on the branch that it had no intention of killing off naturally, and (if practical) you can return in a year or so's time to carefully remove the stub back to the perfect point, because the branch collar will have swelled by then giving you a perfect line to cut. Of course, who would add a re-visit to the bill for every job to remove stubs? Nobody.

I'm lichen this thread guys!

I recommend that you get all the information you can about a site before you start. Call the council planning office and ask, they may have some maps and tree sheets from previous surveys/works and it can make life a lot easier. I've yet to teach myself a cad program but if you can scan in a copy of a blank scale map then you have a great basis to start from. If that were the case I would also erase the trees from the map if they were there and draw them all again, to allow for increased spread, past removals and such. Indeed, the survey should come before the building layout, but most developers, including the last ones we did a survey for shoot themselves in the foot by assuming they can clear-fell the area, put their ridiculous building in leaving no growing space (if any) for the remaining trees (if any) that he/she has kindly left on the very edge of the site, and then expect us to get them planning. They even insisted we carry around a copy of their map of the basic building design, probably to hint at what trees they want gone! You just have to remain totally unbiased throughout. I'm in the same boat as you really. This advice is just what I've experienced with bs5837 surveys that I did with somebody else, I've still got a lot to learn about them, but I hope it helps.

If Timberwolf make chipper covers then my only hope is that they avoid orange at all costs, don't want people seeing your chippers from space.

Protector lights, the mobility is brilliant, especially in trees and their durability means they've already outlasted my old stihls with plenty of life left to boot (boom boom) Nothing in the way of gore-texy lining, but I've not had soaked feet in them once, not even on hot dry days!

Or get a manual drill, a bottle of glyphosate and a sack of old wine corks out!

Indeed, it's Lawson and Nookta, names must be different in my book.

It's a stable hybrid that came to life as an inter-generic hybrid. I.e 2 specimens from 2 different genus' (Cupressus macrocarpa and Xanthosyparis nootkatensis) managed to fertilize and produce the beast that is leylandii. Grafts are man-made, a way to ease propagation of otherwise difficult trees.

Hawthorn and Meldar have already been done, a Crataegomespilus! They don't give graft-chimearas a specific name since it's technically 2 different species at once. "A graft-chimaera is not a true hybrid but a mixture of cells, each with the genotype of one of its "parents"; it is a chimaera, created by grafting, in which the tissue of one plant grows within an outer envelope of the second plant." I wonder what the nitty-gritty is about actually getting 2 different plants to graft like that. I suppose all of the possible combinations have been tried though..

I believe it's called a chimaera graft where phenotypes from the species of the root stock are expressed topside as well. In most cases it's very unstable and will easily revert to one of the 'parent' forms, and only a few can grow to a decent size while 'staying in the balance' One horticultural interest in particular is a chimaera between a laburnum and a species of broom, called Adam's laburnum. Interestingly it bears shoots of both species, including leaves and flowers, makes for quite an interesting specimen. Clicky

With a follow-on qualification, NPTC 38.5: Passing urine from a rope and harness.

I pee'd on one by a tree in the dark at a festival. They weren't happy.

Someone's been busy with the winch! Some awesome examples of nature's graceful defeat by gravity, wind and/or decay. Especially that first one of the beech. I had some photos of a huge fallen hornbeam that had ganoderma all over it, the heartwood was so soft you could pull it out of the fracture in clumps, it was like sponge. But alas, those were stored on my old laptop which i dropped.

You've probably got nothing to worry about if your employer sees enough drive and potential in you that he's prepared to swallow the costs of climbing gear and a course with an exam! But don't get cocky and best of luck!

Okay that's great, thanks. Yeah slight error in the title there, not sure why I wrote fungi. I suppose we'll monitor it this year and see how it flushes next spring. Oaks are compartmentalising fiends after all.

Morning all, I've got a Q. robur here with a historic wound which seems to be showing some phytophthora-like exudates. I'm pretty sure it's phytophthora ramorum, but I'd like a conformation first because as soon as scary words like 'Sudden', 'oak' and 'death' are uttered, the caustic, tree-hating residents with their weak-roofed park homes will be up in arms with torches and pitchforks. Some info: healthy buttresses, even vigor across canopy, historic wound showing apparent signs of stress, no honey fungus or any other brackets in the vicinity. There are also around 150 other beautiful mature oaks in the area, could this be a case of fell one to hopefully save the lot?

It always cracks us up when some clients ask: 'I'm low on money in this climate, so make sure you give me your best quote' Err, you're not the only one in a recession.

Pm me your email address, I can sort you out with 5837.

You're not the only one! It looks an awful lot like the knot I'm climbing on too! I started with a distel but the OP i was using was new and stiff and wasn't gripping, so i put a knut termination in the bottom, worked a treat.

Take all of the panels off and have a looky at the cooling fins on the engine block, if they're full of crap then it's probably overheating and tripping somehow, get some ear buds or pipe cleaners in there.

It's Window's never-ending mission to stupify their operatin system for the sake of reeling in new customers. By grouping every function into as few toolbars as possible, they think it makes the system 'easier to use' Unfortunately for those who do already know it, it's become near impossible, that's what we get for being loyal customers.

Mother nature clearly saw our little stunt fell thread and thought we needed putting back in our place!

Ohh, so it was the pap taking pictures of me, I thought it was just bystanders wanting to immortalise how great I am! Bloody cars getting in the way when I'm trying to work on a pine tree...