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Joy Yeomans

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  1. I have probably just under an acre that had waist high bracken and 6 ft of brambles a few years ago I wanted to control the weeds and plant saplings. I have bought an old Westwood ride on mower and cut about every 4 weeks. No sign of brambles or bracken now. If you keep it cut both get weaker as time goes on. Luckily my ground is fairly smooth so the ride on is quick and easy, but if you can cut regularly by some means then that should do what you want.

     

    I would second this. continual cutting is the best method. when at college years ago we had this method for couch grass yes it takes a year or two to weaken the rhizomes but it will work with perseverance

  2. ok fair enough but for employers trying to jump through every best practice fisa and afag I would not want to see one of my employees doing this. Each to his own indeed my father in law chainsaws without a helmet he has done for years the liability lies with him or you. but in an employed situation surely you can see my point.

  3. I do . How can using a top handle on the ground be more dangerous than using it up a tree ?

     

    top handle are designed for work in the tree/climbing it's not just best practice yes afag guidance tells us this but complacency of using it single handed on the ground may be done and also the stance of the operator in a kick back situation would be different. yes ofcourse using it off ground is dangerous but once off the ground the situation of the climber makes a good climber more aware of danger on the ground you could be more complacent

  4. Hilarious comments by the armchair arborist masses of YouTube!! Apparently tree officers in the UK can fine you for using a top handle on the ground....

     

    You just did I was just reiterating don't do this and thereby don't rely on ppe it's there as a safety feature not to be an excuse for lax h& s

  5. I don't trust councils as far as I could throw them I was on a steering group I had a grant application in and they blatantly knicked my ideas and the chap running it is the biggest swindler out he and his wife go by different names and only when he got a job on the council running said scheme did I realise what a fool I had been sharing my ideas with such a pair of snakes.

  6. wanted for short term contract self employed person preferred, must have cs30/31, its for forestry felling and feeding tracked chipper, sorry we cannot offer accomodation and no travelling costs. so please be realistic before you get in contact as it wont pay travelling more than 30 minutes i would have thought. Preferred experience in forestry fellling, trailer licence useful.

    may lead to full time position for right candidate.

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    Joy via email with initial c.v. or details

    thanks

     

     

    Joy Yeomans

     

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    07971 220186

  7. we have a pile of bagged chimenea logs that we cant get to a robin has made her nest in the top of the stillage, so that pile will just sit there, we do sell quite a few bags through the summer months, bit early yet, ours are £1.50 a bag for a standard log nets size 45x60cm, we put our hardwood offcuts in from the hardwood nets

  8. 1Both times we have had to pay ssp as something done out of the workplace. I don't mind we do it but my argument is that for a small business trying to carry on when 1 man down if your a 2 or 3 man band and paying ssp on top of trying to keep going is very hard . In the forestry game we very often get paid as contractors on a cutting rate or how much we can do in a amount of time and to have someone off 6 plus weeks and having to pay them is a hardship for small businesses. then they may want their full holidays as well. Where does all the money come from....

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