jaime bray

Period one, production. During production; I.e from seed to seedling a tree is susceptible to a, b, c, etc. Period two, establishment; from nursery stock bed to urban/commercial planting a tree is susceptible to a, b, c, etc. Identify and state the period, this will show a sufficient knowledge of a trees life cycle, therefore demonstrating a more rounded knowledge. Consequently, this will also enable you to create your answer and direct the flow of the answer to benefit the ease at which the reader takes in the information, whilst highlighting the salient points. Edit, I question whether production is the best word, but this may be satisfactory given the description afterwards. I find that interpretation of questions in arb academia is as subjective as the whole subject full stop. Good luck!

Dolmar are owned by Makita, same saws. I wrote article in arb news letter, titled also available in orange referencing the quality in build of Makita aka dolmar. Tad heavy but well built in my opinion.

Is the survey monkey consultation still running? If so put it up in your thread and see what you can do to help represent the industry as a voice for the forum maybe.

Is there a list in front of aa newsletter detailing names of people who sit on varying groups within industry? Think maybe reg Harris. I know he had reported back to the AWG in the last six months pertaining to afag/hse updates. Having slept since then, my mind does not have the exact situation relating to this. I know that certain afag guides are likely to be continued to be provided electronically by the aa. But I'd imagine that some will need updating and the guides will sit under the umbrella of the icop and be developed in due course. I know it is certainly on the radar within the aa. Doubt you'll get a comment off aa techie today. Think the build up and then running the show has battered the energy levels and they're probably enjoying the day off today.

Day 2. Day 2 was for the weary eyed, times and desire to have multiple attempts seemed to be subdued by the alcohol from the night before. Many times were in the mid thirties, so I thought I would lure them in with a quick round. Oliver Nixon and Rob Keyzor manned the comp for the best part of the morning and early afternoon both seeming to have great fun watching peoples attempts. Thanks to both. With a time of 29 seconds, way off day 1's fast times, I thought that will be beat quite soon. This time seemed to stand for hours, until AA health and safety co-ordinator Tony Lane put in 28.21. Not to be outdone, and fuelling my OCD I went in with a 26.78 seconds. This time seemed unbeatable, with shaun ferraday taking up the challenge with relentless enthusiasm. With this time seemingly unbeatable, I thought well I shall donate the rope to Arbtalk raffle if nobody beats it. With one last attempt to enable the rope to be won by a show attendee I made an announcement over the speaker system. The challenge thrown down reignited those still at the show. Andy Golds came in close with 27.03 only for one knot to be incorrectly tied. He didn't seem to have another sub thirty second attempt in him. Shaun took up the challenge, with regular 28 second rounds, but frustratingly for him, and highly amusing for all spectators, he couldn't get below my score. Up stepped Andy Golds for one last attempt and with a time of 25.69 he seemed to deflate Shauns desire, again highly amusing. Great sports though, Shaun conceded and Andy was presented the rope. Testament to Josh Noons time on day 1, and the others on day 1 leader board, the top three times from day 1 were not beaten on day two. (Apologies if pictures aren't orientated correctly, cant seem to get them to rotate in arbtalk mode) and sincerest apologies for the upside down pic of leader board, I was dying of night befores alcohol intoxication by this stage and just wanted to get on my way home hahaha

The knots that had to be completed and dressed within reason were: Bowline, Figure of 8, Marlin spike, Blakes hitch and prussic knot with loop provided. Day 1. Some good times were set in the morning session and the order in which you went about the knots seem to be the key. It was funny seeing people have a few goes and set a fast time, walking away thinking 'that will take some beating'. Only to find upon their return that they, along with their face, had dropped. There were three people vying for top spot, jostling all day. I threw a spanner in the works with a sub 25 second round in the early afternoon, which only seemed to fuel the addictive nature of the competition, and the top two fought it out between them late into the afternoon. Was highly amusing watching people do it, seeing the expression on their face change when the slightest fumble would lose them the valuable tenths of a second. The eventual winner was Josh Noon with a cracking time of 21.56 seconds for all five knots. There was no limit to how many turns you could have but both he and Matt madge; the 2nd place lad were well into double figures for attempts had. Well done Josh!! ( cant seem to get leader board picture to rotate, apologies)

The Arboricultural Associations AWG;Arborists Working Group, took over the AA's contractors workshop this year at Arbshow. Our aim was to provide a broader range of topics inside the contractors marquee, and also to run some hands on competitions for all to participate in. The knot tying competition proved to be favourite and it was a great success. Nick Winram;a volunteer with the AWG took on the task of pulling it together, and he managed to source some donations from Marlow ropes for the prizes over the two days. A 25m spliced eye rope was winnable both days. The competition was ran by many volunteers from the AWG over the two days and they all said it was great to meet so many people. Good fun and banter was had all around making the competition a great success. I shall upload pictures of the score board and winners to follow. THANKS jaime

Lol, she had low cut top on, the poor lad behind bar didn't know what to do or where to look. Yeah was inside, bar inside didn't close till 2am, what time did outside close? She was good laugh, good humour was had. I thought would be good idea to run up road to didmorton to kings arms pub where was staying, was further than I thought at three am. Haha

Worn like a glove I think the term is. Was couple indoors, I said is that your husband then? She replied oh no were not married, his wife is at home, I'm just having him for the night. I spat my beer out

Cheers will give it a whirl.

I chipped palm few years ago and it wrapped around my entec flywheel and caused bearings to burn out. Few hundred quid later and I viewed never to risk it again. Was a whilst you're here could you just do that for me job to, which hurt even more. So after always judging bamboo to be quite fibrous just thought would check

I know that the fibrous natures of palms aren't good for chipper bearings as they wrap around fly wheel, but what about bamboo? Do you chip it? No option to burn so will have to pay to tip other wise. Thanks Jaime

From what I can gather, it is ok for neighbour A to prune back to the boundary, as confirmed in the deeds, any overhanging vegetation from neighbour b's trees. You can not enter their property or airspace to carry out the work without the owners consent. Any arisings can not be removed without consent as it can constitute theft. However, the rubbish can be placed back within the grounds of the owners property without notification, as long as in doing so no damage is caused to the neighbours property, and the airspace is not entered. Re. Pruning tpo'd trees, I always read it that as long as you are abating an 'actionable' nuisance, then this over rides the need to apply for consent to carry out the works. The extent of the works can not be to the detriment of the aesthetic value or cause the demise of the trees health. Any pruning of roots or shoots is to abate damage to property, loss of light is not an actionable nuisance, nor is leaves blocking a gutter. Can't remember case law but it was established what constitutes an actionable nuisance. I Would be very wary of advising or carrying out pruning work to a tpo'd tree that resulted in pruning back to the boundary to the detriment of the trees visual amenity. Abatement of nuisance in my opinion would be removing branches that we're touching a roof, in doing so I would remove one meter for example any branch that was touching the roof. There is a procedure available for further work to be carried out should it be deemed that additional pruning work is required and the extent of which is beyond that of the abatement of nuisance, which is to remove the likelihood of damage occurring in the imminent future. Similarly, within the realms of root pruning, you can not just strip out an entire stretch of roots if it were to render the tree unstable and unsafe. It would be prudent to apply the guidance within njug for distances of root pruning. Red, yellow, and green colours of distances from trunk centre. Of course this may vary from species to species tolerance, but never the less. Prudent, common sense should prevail. Ignorance is unlikely to be a defence in such circumstances. But if you interpret it differently, and are willing to defend your actions should you be hauled to court, then crack on at your peril.

It's an interesting topic. I remember reading somewhere about roots that are diverted away from structures with root barriers and such, will try and re direct they're orientation of growth back to the original position/direction of growth at point of contact with said barrier. If you think about one of the fundamentals of roots this theory is viable. One requirements of roots is stabilisation. Roots orientate accordingly based on several factors, crown asymmetry/symmetry, favoured growing ; watery and nutrient, penetrable surface layers etc. So if a root is growing in a particular direction, and it's reason is stabilisation, then whilst elements of the re direction, will cause the root to bolster it's cell strength at weak points, re establishing it's original orientation and direction sounds like a good strategy for stabilisation and assistance in the trees desire to survive. This thought aligns with the principles of flow architecture and cell inter-linkage in woody plants. Based on my interpretation... So, to add my point, do root barriers, when installed, need to go way beyond the extent of the perceived foundation line or area of potential influence to reduce the propensity for the re direction to occur, thus resulting in the roots not influencing the foundations and zone of influence? The time frames of this is not a couple of years by the way. More medium to long term.

The rigging doc RR628; if I correctly, will give some good advice relating to this. Arbocop in arbtalk will point you in right direction. PM him.

No need to be sarcastic.... Although have you seen ariel have entered into arb equipment? New rigging line. Aka washing lines...�� But as some have mentioned, arboriculture has not always been shiny shiny equipment. Used with in limits it may not break the first time, or the second, however under puwer, in the event of an investigation should an accident occur the use of equipment that may not be intended for its use at time of accident/failure may not help your case to hse, Or, it will give your insurance company a lovely get out of jail free card. Always best to but right equipment for a job when in business I've thought.

Contact Simon rotheram beechwood trees and landscapes. Coventry. Great firm, good chap. Always crying out for treeworkers 07976358219

Try a.m lane, he wrote the ealth and safety stuff for the helicopter job on torbay beach front. Highly complex job. His work is very thorough. Google for his details

Read a document titled esm0500 employment status, on hmrc webpage to ascertain employment status in the eyes of hmrc. Also esm055. Whole list of titles there to determine legalities of varying situations

See I found it the other way around. Bought a km 4mix about eight year ago, it kept getting hot and cutting out and spluttering. Spoke to buxtons, they said use hp ultra, havnt had the same problem since. Hp ultra being the green oil yes?

Dig dug Dan, sorry to be cheeky, could you list the product number, model etc of the tracker you have, and if feasible, the contact name/number where you got sorted please. Sounds spot on

Well done Mr bullman. But I have to ask, does one have there penis hanging out in the first picture. Lol

Will check that. After looking on internet, I thought was just choice between diff rams. Tidy job that you had done.

One of the things I'd be checking next time I but tipper is number of stages in tip ram. My old transit had four, was dream to tip. New one has three, doesn't empty like old one used to. That fourth rod really gets body up right and causes it to empty better in my experience.

Is it a ' really economical, fuel gauge hasn't budged, sputter, pfff, babadadum, damn it's actually stuck.. I'm out of fuel' scenarios though...? 😉 Great vans, I'm looking to get caddy four motion, it's the four wheel drive system. Got driven around nursery in Germany whilst selecting some plants, had been raining and was ripped up and rutted. Handled very well on normal tyres. love caddy vans, go on forever too