RobRainford

Who needs biscuits! I go for cake! If pushed I will have a Jaffa cake or 6!

Is that on the Stockholm oak?

I've been overtaken in a 50k tractor in a 30 limit through a speed camera, that was a very slow overtake. Pure stupidity!

I don't think the thread title is misleading at all. I think you are reading too much into it, yes it was probably human error which caused this occurrence, but the death was caused by massive injuries from the chiller

Is that like the traveller special? Straight in from the back? I understand cutting fast isn't always an option. Each situation is different so you treat it as is

A good groundie is essential, I am still new to this game compared to you other old boys but I am quickly learning, picking up a little piddly branch at a time is NOT efficient brash dragging! I may not be a brilliant climber or the best groundy in the world, but I try my best! A good climber can spot a good reduction in the tree, but a good groundy will help them make it a great reduction. I have a laser pointer which saves so much confusion! I love having a team of guys, two people can work on a job but a third is so much better, had 5 on a fairly easy beech job back in June, that was lots of fun and we all get along with plenty of banter! If I could I would take 3 guys to every job!

I got 2 tips in 3 jobs in one week, £20 each on one and £5 each on the other. The first one we spent all day talking to the elderly customer who couldn't prune the trees herself but wanted to see every cut we made! Planned to be done at 12, 4 hours later we were packing away! She was very pleased with the result. There wasn't that much pruning either.

I'm assuming you'll be wanting a biggun?

We've got a bunded tank, used to have an rusty old steel one that was sat on about 10 pallets. This new one we've had coming up for 8 years or so now. In the process of moving the old one, it got damaged and we had a little river of cherry in the hard! Fire brigade came but said they can't do anything as its private land! The new one is all plastic, fuel station style handle, better actually because you can lock it on, good for filling an empty tractor! All electric pump and meter. We've got one that sits in a pickup or trailer now, about 400 ltr with its own pump, you just hook it to your battery.

I've mangled one (so far!) and it took some effort to get it out! We used a big hammer and shocked it, then turned it tighter, snapped two torx bits (thanks tengtools!), after doing it ever so slightly tighter, it came out easier.

What's wrong with a nice quick back cut? Powerful saw and small bar. I dropped a number of leaning willows on a site clearance with a conventional back cut. There must have been 25 degree lean on some. 660 and 20" bar with sharp sharp chain, the cut is done before the tree starts to quiver! I can see the methodology in your method, although I prefer to use the bore and release.

Driving a tractor gives you a bit more appreciation for them once you get stuck behind them IMO. You know what it's like. It doesn't bother me to get stuck behind them, I've driven to Lancaster fro, our place, 48miles, mixture of all sorts of roads. City centres are the worst, everybody wants to be In front of you at any cost I agree with the fact that some people are outright unsafe or dangerous, this is only a minority thankfully! An observation of mine, not aimed to be sexist or discriminatory, but I notice that female drivers follow closer to other drivers compared to male drivers, and at higher speeds the distances don't change much!

which firm? weve done some turf work in frodsham and nearby kingsley, been there a few times and driven through there a lot. Thats about as much as ive done there.

if its a long stretch with no safe pull over points, what can they do? its their choice to risk an overtake, and ive seen some bad ones! its polite to pull over, i had one wagon driver sarcastically clap, i pulled over at the first point for about 10 miles, with about 30 vehicles or so behind me. going over runcorn bridge is fun, i have to get to the outside lane to go to frodsham, it does go down to a 30, the best i counted there in a half mile run was 26.

only difference is colour as mentioned, and 11.7mm i have poison hivy for my lockjack, it is brilliant. very nice running rope, using a 12/13mm clutch, a lot smoother imo

woohoo id climb it if i was allowed, they are oing landscaping and want to relay the path in front of it, i dont think they will be thinking much about the tree! i alreay told them to move the path further than 2ft from a sizeable holly stem, the ash is at the path edge and they want to dig it up and do it all level. such a shame!

so i got some 2011 stretch airs, wore them all day today, already much prefer them to the hiflex, a bit warmer, but its getting colder so its not too bad, just means less shirts and jackets! i like having more than two useable pockets aswell!

very possibly, they looked a bit odd coming from a substation. there are some what apeear to be woodpecker holes in a vertical line on one branch, would that be an indication of its locaiton?

ive not seen that, so im assuming its just 'droid

Im sorry, but IMO thats a poor view. A short term damage to the habitat available at whip, such as this, could cause the 'blah blah blah bluebells beetles, bats' to find somewhere else to live, turning a woodland into just a load of trees. as for enjoying a woodland, shouldnt it be enjoyed in natural beauty of fungi, bugs, bats, wildlife, plants and habitat? I agree hazard need to be managed if they are an iminent threat to the public, but how much of an issue does it become? tidy up some deadwood, reduce the hazard, removing the tree altogether isnt always the best option. Its all the risk factors talking here, high target area, depending on how bust these paths are, maybe 1 person every 5-10 minutes every day through 8 hours of the day, maybe each one is under a particular tree for 5 seconds, that means somebody is under a particular tree for 4 minutes a day, not very long imo. minimal maintenance of the woodland would be sufficient i.e. remove major hazards, clear paths of trees and branches but leave them at the side as habitat piles.

No, the Pholiota this is the ash with the hispidus i mentioned at the school, we found other brackets today, yet still cant fathom where they came from!

download Pages, its apples version of word, it will handle .docx (wood 2007-2010) but will save in .pdf, .pages and .doc (word 2003) There is also numbers (excel) and Keynote (Powerpoint) there is openoffice which is meant to be ok but ive not tried it and its more expensive, but i think you get more programs with it.

Just seen this on facebook, dont know if anybody else has seen it. What a horrible way to go, thoughts to those affected! OSHA investigates fatal tree-trimming accident in Belleville; Alton man becomes entangled in wood chipping machine - Belleville news - bnd.com

oo yes you can read me like a book!

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