Ben90
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That's a tidy job!
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Don't count the days, make the days count! A day most wasted is one without laughter.
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This poll has shown that 40% of arbtalkers are having their man-berries slow roasted, including mine. I haven't tried the others, but I'm sure as Logrover mentioned, all of them are going to be almost equally hot.
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My suggestion would be to get some more trees planted in an appropriate, agreeable position nearby right away. The reasons for this are threefold; To somewhat lessen the impact on the local ecosystem, to establish that you're not taking anybody's side; you may be able to get both parties to share the costs if the outcome sounds fairer = less of a ballache for you, plus being diplomatic with angry neighbours is a good challenge! finally it shows you're a modern arboriculturalist , because to me it sounds like it's inevitably going to be felled. Eucs are greedy, invasive trees, reducing it will probably make long term matters worse, and unless it has some real amenity value, I'd have it on the deck. Just my 2 cents. I've got my tech cert this year so I'm trying to get into the mindset!
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I agree. Severe lack of root flare going on.
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Qualifications are good for piece of mind and handy when the poo hits the fan. Experience and determination will carry you the rest of the way.
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What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?
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Excellent piece of work!
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Yeah, that's a sequoiadendron giganteum. The timber's not as widely used as Coast redwood, but I know carver's like it for it's sheer size.
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Saws tend to have a much better fume director than hedgecutters, also because they run at higher revs so the fumes are really blasted away.
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I can imagine where aspen really comes into play is with hedgecutters! I used one for only an hour yesterday and I could almost feel my lifespan shortening.
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Haha I agree. You can also do the same thing with Best before dates on food! Huge safety margins implemented by corporations. Or should I say profit margins, buying replacements for things that don't need replacing! Witness marks on chainsaw chains? Pah, I passed the witness mark 6 months ago
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another company using our pics - what can be done?
Ben90 replied to Joy Yeomans's topic in Business Management
Check the pictures on the offender's site for the URL (the web address that the picture links to) If the web address is the same, including the picture number if there is one, it means they're 'sourcing' the pictures directly from your picture account, which can have some very entertaining consequences. You can delete the existing picture from your account, upload any hilarious/offensive picture you like with the same filename/number as the last one, and next time anybody loads the offender's site up it will automatically accept the new picture and replace it! -
If you're talking about a manual razor, there should be a strip just above the blades which starts off blue, fades with use and you should change the blades when it turns white. Or just change the blades when it starts planing layers off your face...
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Close call! Glad you're okay. That was probably just what you needed in the morning haha. I've got a couple of warning nicks on my left boot from a 044, we were a little bit behind on a job so we were logging up as dusk settled in! Silly idea really, nevertheless, the skags now serve and a constant and slightly embarrassing reminder.
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What did the tree surgeon say when he walked in on his friend trying to hang himself? "How does that SRT work then?"
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For those of us who aren't called Mr. Moneybags and find it hard getting used to VTs, I run a distel. Which is a bit like a VT just with one less wind at the top but one leg goes around the host line once and over itself below the 3 twists. I find it much less finicky than a VT, especially being a new climber, but still binding well and releasing easily =)
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That's brilliant. There's always one client who stands up above the rest when it comes to tea break
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Great. I've read BS5837 but it had the proper area equation. Obviously you can't get a rough idea from that without sitting down and doing it properly, anyway the equation off the top of my head is RPA (in meters squared) = (DBH x 12 / 1000)squared x Pi This gives you the area for the RPA circle, which allows you to deform one side of the circle by no more than 20% of the radius, but keep the overall area the same. A bit like squeezing a plastic cup slightly so the top forms an oval, the shape changes but the area stays the same. Anyway that's the industry regulated root protection area. Of course roots grow beyond this almost always, but the damage caused outside of the crucial RPA is considered 'non-significant'. If we wanted to be really strict about it you probably shouldn't even dig a hole 30 meters from a tree because you'll affect it by disturbing beneficial mycorrhizal activity!
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So is it roughly 6 'stem diameters' from the edge of the stem to the edge of the RPA? Making 12 all the way across?
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'Proposals to cut red tape', that's all I needed to hear!
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I climbed a tree with a chainsaw once... Nice fence job!
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The Westonbirt course is on every monday for 30 weeks, 1pm till 8:30pm.
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Bah. If only you could fell the humans on the property instead.
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Great, many thanks! I'll get on that now.
