Jon Lad
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After that lot, it looks like your the one whose been drinking AND is after an argument! Try not to be so ambiguous in your posts then, and people wont take them the wrong way. Just because you couldn't give a toss how others read your statements and what you try to say in them, doesn't mean that the people who do read them couldn't.
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I read your post and his. I'm one of those who puts a couple of 'piddly' letters after his name. If you use a word like piddly, I think I was correct in reaching the conclusion I did to your original post.
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I mean if you learned tecniques 30 years ago eg cleaning out cavities with belt sanders, slapping on wound paint etc. Then didn't learn any newer techniques or methods of working since, then those 30 years would count for nothing as they would be 3 decades behind the times.
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It depends what practical experience you've had. If you've been taught outdated methods by someone, never been near a college and never sought out newer techniques or research in tree biology and pruning: you could have 30 years practical experience, but it would count for nothing.
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In what way?
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What would be the point of studying and gaining qualifications if you couldn't advertise the fact that you'd gone to the time and trouble of obtaining them.
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Looks good, Lawsons can be awkward to reduce and get looking right.
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A tree surgeon based not too far away from me bought a new chipper some years back. I'm not going to say which make of chipper or the dealer who supplied it. They took the machine to a job, first time out. Started it up and began chipping. After it had been running a while, there was this massive bang and one of the knives came through the top of the housing. They turned the machine off and were checking out the damage, when this builder who had been working on some scaffolding next door came round carrying the chipper blade. He said he had heard it come past him on the scaffold and then embed itself in the lawn of next door's garden, sticking up out of the ground. The woman who lived next door was gardening in the back garden at the time, but wasn't aware of what had gone on. Has anyone else heard of anything similar happening?
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They're good shots.
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No problem.
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Nice job.
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The generally attained heights for a healthy isolated specimen, growing in its appropriate conditions and climatic range: 10 years - 2 metres; 20 years - 8 metres & eventual - 20 metres.
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I've heard that someone paid £36,000 for 6 business class tickets one-way, to fly him and his family back to England from the U.S. when the flights re-start.
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I've sometimes found ivy on trees and buildings harder to remove when its dead than alive. A small crow bar is handy for ripping and levering it off. You need to factor the additional time and effort into the price, just for the extra volume of chip / waste alone if its a large tree and thickly covered.
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Riemann is good, but expensive. You only need to apply it once and it gives 10 hours protection.
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The words: brick, wall, against, head and banging are coming to mind here. It's a real shame.
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Can you imagine the customer's face if you turned up to do a dismantle and set off up their tree in that get up!
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It might be worth you having a look at a copy of 'Veteran Trees: A guide to good management' by Helen Read published by English Nature.
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If someone is able to go to a client's property: correctly identify all the trees on that property; is capable of ascertaining any fungal infection or structural defects on those trees; identify a serious root decaying fungi eg Ustulina on a large beech tree adjacent to a fragile building; devise a method for dismantling the tree to ground level and remove everything without causing damage; provide an accurate quote for doing the work. Then do the job as quoted, without damage. Then advise the client on a replacement tree, suitable for the soil and site conditions. How can that person possibly be described as semi-skilled?
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A great film about loggers in Oregon is 'Sometimes a great Notion' with Paul Newman & Henry Fonda. Weird title but some great scenes of felling and extracting timber with old school '70s saws and machinery.
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For all those having a bad day fear not mine is worse
Jon Lad replied to TREE-SURGEON-ESSEX's topic in General chat
Don't you just hate it when that happens. -
For all those having a bad day fear not mine is worse
Jon Lad replied to TREE-SURGEON-ESSEX's topic in General chat
That's tough. It always seems to come at once like that. I've just had to spend a load on mine, re-conditioned fuel pump and 4 new injectors. They have made the fuel pump so awkward to get to as well. I don't think I'll get another Transit after this one.
