RobRainford
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I have a contact who gives me work now and again who is after a guy for all this upcoming week commencing the 7th. I'm after a hardworking and reliable guy for help on a site clearance. This could mean a second week of work too. Although this would be confirmed during the week. You need to have your own kit and tickets Please PM me for details. I will pass the details on to my contact when you send me yours. Thanks
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Yeah I pull them out then cut them. Then try and shove it all back in. I struggle to get rope to attach to the fid properly. It's a treeworker one. Any special technique?
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Wow a free landrover with the purchase of a very expensive winch bumper!
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So how big is yours then? !! Come on and joine the ivy league
RobRainford replied to bats-n-trees's topic in Ecology
i am interested in bats, in my quest to become a prospersous arb, iw ant to arm myself with all the knowledge i can gain, it will only help me in the future. bats are as mysterious as they are fascinating, there seems to be little knowledge circulating about them, only that blah blah bats mean no work blah. ive got a bit of a query, what happens if you sever ivy at the base of a tree and just leave it to die off, also if you strip it all, can that be classed as destroying a potential bat roost even if there were none in the area? this is a hypothetical situation btw! -
im still yet to master a 16 strand, i took one more pair of cover strands out then they all frayed where they were cut and i couldnt get them back in inside! really tried and couldnt manage! however i seem to find double braid splices on ropes such as doubble esterlon a breeze! ones like poison ivy get a bit stiff! got some blaze ill have a go of too when i get more time.
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yet again im after a climber, although this would be a second one. fair sized job pollarding 29 plane trees and removing another, all over a car park. Dates for this saturday and sunday, car park is closed then. even if you can give me 1 day, that would be fine. Please PM or email me [email protected]. i am currently on holiday so wont answer any calls but will get on the PC from time to time and answer messages or posts here.
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few pictures from a massive leylandii hedge i had to reduce, had been topped a long time ago so everything in the middle was dead. NIGHTMARE!
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had a fellow come over to me and kev on saturday, 'would you be prepared, for a high fee, to come and cut down my neighbours leylandii' it had already been established it was nowhere near a boundary and in a back garden, i referred him to kiv who said a rather confident no!
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all my saws are stihl, so i always buy stihl branded stuff, even chains, i would rather spend the extra on stihl, as i find they last better. axes i would go for gransfors, best out there. We do have a stihl splitting maul which does a good job too. PPE i tend to buy the grippy rubber gloves, been using powergrab thermo from towa since november, had 2 pairs in that time, do well and keep your hands warm! maybe you could find another shop which sells related gear and have a chat with them? see what they have and the demand?
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if you can, get the mesh sides made by ifor, then bolt some ply to them to stop chip going through, easily removable piece by piece then, i have a 12ft ifor which i have mesh sides on and a high back ramp, it will fit loads of chip or logs or anything in, plus if access is tricky you can remove a panel, chip against any other panel, then when you need to move, put the panel back on. nice and simple
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haha that was awsome. imagine if that was on the telly too
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I apologise if anything was taken wrong. But if that's what the tender quotes and there's a specialist firm In there to deal with it. It doesnt seem right. I only mentioned it because it's horrible stuff. Which can all to easily be made 10x worse! I have now qualms about travel. You have to go to the work. Good on you for working across the country. I struggle to find it outside my hometown!
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I've priced jobs badly before. But never done myself out of money. I just work out other ways to do it. one job overran by 3 days and I actually saved £50 in costs! Tom I explained what's best on the phone. Even if you told the client to wait till it suits you better. I can give you more days and do them all later in the month. Not for free but I'd help you out as a favour as it's a bit of a living nightmare so far this job. From what I've been told. Start up business closer to home and I'll work every job with you Tom.
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The best way to control jk is to spray it late autumn when it's storing it's energy. We stem inject it and it proves to give a better control rate than spraying. Defra have plenty of info on jk and plenty of info on it. We've got a job where it's grown in one garden. Moved next door and is growing under a patio and has sprouted through the floor of a garden shed!! It's all got to be dug out.
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You cannot flail JK in any state. As that would be propagating it. It can regenerate from a piece as small as 1mm. It has to either be left in situ or dug up and buried at a minimum depth of 3m. Or cart the same amount of soil volume to a registered waste disposal site/landfill.
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i just wash ropes in the bath, few soap flakes, give it a good blast with the showerhead and then run the rope through your hands in the water to get out most of the dirt. Which reminds me, need to do that at some point in the next week or so. got a dirty rope here!
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at least the tree seems happy, look at its smiling face!
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they are about £350 in oz
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shows 2:20 from my place. i could do it if you desperately need me to. have you got someone to do the pop?
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tom whats the address for the site, want to see how far it is for me
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you shouldnt be cutting jap knotweed. that is propagating it, and that is illegal!
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i would wait for the new one, as much as you may want it now, the new one will be announced in less than a week, so id wait it out for that, its meant to be cheaper too! wired4smoke: new ipads currently retail at £439 for 16GB wifi £400 is a good price for a new one!
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'A report on Arborists using top handled chainsaws one handed and possible injury to themselves due to less control of the chainsaw' Derived from arb magazine: 'One handed chainsaw use: Will we Never learn?'
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id get one, wait till the new one is out, its due to be announced on the 2nd march with 2 cameras, smaller screen, bigger resolution and a few other features. ill be having a new one!
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i think it would suit a nice light green
