jaime bray

Or white lithium grease best to be used?

Bought 4x gt85 from aldi, deal on £1.99 a 400ml can.

Yeah I was spraying with wd that often old mill, and greasing bearings monthly, so was surprised it had gone so quickly, the last set lasted near on seven years, but latest set 18 months. Have sprayed wd more so last six months and have been working in rain more so than in previous years. Need to buy new head, so in relation to ongoing maintenance, will grease weekly till splurges, but spray wise, is gt85 same as wd regards breaking down greases?

When you say regular spud, do you mean daily weekly fortnightly monthly to splurge grease? Lets base it on two to three hours of use a day, four days a week?

Just had to replace 18month old hedge cutter attachment hl135. Bearings were all rusty inside and had broke down. Chat with dealer and he asked what I use for lubricating the blades. Told him wd40 and he said that is likely to have been a significant contributor to the break down of the bearings etc, as wd breaks down grease. He said combined with using in wet weather and the water being dispersed internally into the head gearbox by wd it's caused head to be defunct. Gutted,as had just bought four bottles of gt85, which I guess is similar to wd40. So is lithium white grease the solution? He said stihl do their own, but doubt its reasonably priced. He also said its good to occasionally strip out the head and replace grease, but I guess that's a cost benefit analysis thing. Always been a good boy at machine maintenance and greasing heads of hedge cutters, but apparently wd40 is taboo on blades.

Steve, I have mentioned it a few times in my arb news updates within arb assoc news letter. I'll give it another blast in the next one, if you pm me and we talk it over hopefully this may help promote it to.

I always thought that if prunings that were up to the boundary I.e common law right, could be placed back onto the land of owner of vegetation, and they could be done so without causing damage to any feature, or trespass like entering air space, then a neighbour could place/throw/chuck them into the garden of owner without being seen to have fly tipped. Sure mynors references it in his book to.

They are gps boosters. They pick up on air traffic from mobile phones etc when traffic stationary, the transmittance is used to gauge time in traffic and consequently how long the jam is likely to be there for, which then in turn provides updates for traffic flow adjoining the trail of the traffic jam, the whole system provides additional support to General traffic surveillance.

Yeah, bacon ruins the water supply.

I've found over the years that any breakfast other than bacon and eggs, result in me being nauseous by 9.30 am with hunger. On bacon and eggs breakfast,I wouldn't feel hungry till late afternoon. Lovely jacket potatoes shop in Coventry, however try getting out the van let alone up a tree after that for lunch. Potatoes, bread, pasta. Been off my radar for three years now. And I prefer the consistency of my stools with salad. Goes through me like a porsche, and looks pretty and fluffy in the woodchip pile on the van. Blends in better with the pitch fork too.

Tel him that whilst your there you'll take his appendix out too as it may burst at some point in his life. Removing it is pointless unless its causing a problem. If said tree is in good condition, why would you need to reduce it on the off chance that it may drop a branch. Every tree may drop a branch. Some more likely than others, but that's about your capabilities to decide the best course of action for the tree management. If you have in place an accountable assessment process you have gone through to reach your decision, and you're prepared to standby that decision and the process in a court of law should anything happen untoward then don't worry about it.

There's a document on aa website under help for arborists worth brief guide to the updates as for training in your area speak to the local approved contractors there. They'll surely put you in touch with right training provider. But sure someone in here additionally may help you out but for update to nrswa see AA website. I know there's rules for supervisors and site operators where the supervisor with unit ten isn't legally allowed to touch a cone, only design the road works specific to site etc

I'm sure you can legally urinate on the off side of your vehicle. I put nearest welfare facility eg McDonalds etc on risk assessment

Google scholar three Alan Rayner paper Dan. It will be explained in there and you'll get a complete grasp of it.

Sorry Jules, just saw you had already written about the key terms/phrase. Didn't read all your post

Alan Rayner was author of key terms you require.

They're was a piece of work written many a year ago. It was particular to this question, or vice versa. The phrases your after address, sap woods exposed, sap wood intact, heartwood exposed. Or something similar to that. There were three to four written about in arb literature and one author described then in this way. That is the standard answer for this question. Mattheny and Clark spring to mind

Yeah I'm not good at analogies, bit like the saying goes, what came first the hen or the frog spawn

I think I was of the same mindset mike Dempsey, naive and possible ignorant to it

Obviously not. But should we be cutting one handed in the tree with a saw? Some do not, some do so habitually. For some this will make then reassess work positioning or even their next boot choice. For others with exemplary skills and work positioning they won't need to bother with such threads. 😉

Meant to post a while ago, but forgot. When attending the recent AA shads course at Stoneleigh we were shown videos off youtube of chainsaw boot testing. What amazed myself and others was the ease at which the saw went through the composite (plastic ) toe cap. Was scary to hear that the toe cap part is not under the same strict regulation for chainsaw protection as the remainder of the boot. Anybody else seen the videos? Or heard/seen of this? Will certainly alter my next choice of boot. Do prabos boots have steel toe cap anyone know?

Jules, the first part of your answer just shows how subjective it all is. A free standing veteran, ghastly in appearance, etc. Some people would look at said veteran tree with veteran features as less than ghastly, and the prominence, and history of it may add to the landscape from afar. So cat 2 would be totally adorable in their eyes. The gnarliness of it would lend some users of said landscape to reflect upon the usage of the land in years gone by and Thurs it's contribution to the broader landscape could be argued. The human mind works in so many ways that for us to stand and say no, that's definitely a a,b,c123 is not feasible. Or experiences throughout our careers up to and beyond consultancy will alter or opinion, so the document is furthermore interpreted by everybody in a different manner. The years for each category and the writing therein are interrupted differently by many. Regardless of what we think, it's subjective. Apologies for long paragraph folks

It says at least ten years, not up to ten years.

It would appear that the surveyor has discounted remaining contribution in years within his assessment, and read the wording trees of low quality, and added this to trees with no material conservation or other cultural values. Hence the comment about low bio diversity to native species, which isn't entirely true. It's all subjective though, so bogging down I'm such detail is not worth doing. What is worthy of your attention is creating pictorial reference of the tree in association with the development. How close to the boundary is the tree? What's the actual over hang of crown onto development site? What are the levels of the site like? I ask the latter as it may be worth you making note of chemical use on site and the leakage of that into the root system of your trees. If there land drains towards yours, then keep an eye on this. With root severance and then chemical uptake it could significantly contribute to the demise of your trees condition.

David, didn't Rodney helliwell do varying work on shade etc from trees and woodland. Mat be worth an email