RobRainford

the stihl oil shots are about £15 for 10, which will do you 50l of oil, thats hardly expensive.

have you seen his 200t & 201T modded videos? they turn awesome, i want a 201 just like that one!

thats what im afraid of, i know people will be protective of their kit, i am the same with mine, ive got a number i could phone that i think may work. I hope so anyway. once summer hits and ive got a couple of things out the way ill be looking into a bigger machine myself, the cs100 really cant keep up with takedowns!

This may be a long shot for me, but i thought id try. Ive got a few jobs coming up where i have lots of little jobs to do, my CS100 has been doing ok but is quickly getting out of its depth, plus feeding it requires a technique so that you dont overload the machine and cook the belts, which happened while a guy working with me was just a bit heavy on the little chipper. Id be after a small tow behind chipper that i could hire on a day rate basis, i dont trust the hire company local to me as ive had nothing but bad experiences from them with more specialist pieces of kit. something like a tw125ph or equivalent, something that will shift a bit more than the cs100, weight is an issue though as ive still not got my B+E, but i have my test booked for mid april. another reason for asking this is that the chippers with feed rollers and hence anti stress are a bit more fool proof and just require feeding. any takers? dont know what im going to get from this.

crank!

a mewp can make it a bit awkward for getting the middle out, so climbing it is fair comment, last time i used a mewp on a hedge it was a pain to get into the hedge and was reaching out the bottom of the basket just to make the cuts. there certainly is potnential for mewp hire, i will factor it in just incase its needed. But ive got a feeling this job will take longer than planned. directly behind the hedge on the two long sides are roads, which are country roads but there is no pavement between the base of the trees and the road, so nothing can go backwards.

id happily get a mewp in for this job, done big hedges before and a mewp was the best option. I havent recomended a full removal, yet, but i said i will deal with it in the summer.

Sad sad sad! Ha!

Your all sad. Just buy the silky yourselves

Give them a wiggle, if it moves, it'll probably come off easily. I wouldn't go hacking them off though unless you knew you could!

Silly phone, looking on a small screen made me think beech. Looking now on a bigger one I can tell its not. Whoops I'm not sure on the weights, only ever seen them attached!

Nice bargain. Get me one! I thought I was going to see 'I got one of the last 200ts for £850, Bargain!'

It officially changed to include tree idents and a pole climbing part at the start of 2010

Ok, got another big hedge to tackle,lucky me. Client wants as much as possible to be taken off, as much as a third! They have been topped before, I was thinking of going just below those points which would be 10ft or so. Don't want it to look daft but I've stressed it will if you cut it in half! It's a job for later in the year, after nesting season, plus I don't have the time ATM to do it all at once. I was thinking a tracked mewp in for a couple days.

No you dont! I do!

To do it now you could mow it fortnightly to keep getting the tops and spray it in autumn. Just spraying it now won't do a thing. The bug introduced is just as effective as aphids, they are a biological control, but won't kill their host as that would be pointless, they may slow it down in larger numbers, but you will find that it won't hit is as much as you'd like

All beech it seems there, that last one is an alder flower! I see they are common on beech, seen one on oak too. Got a pic somewheres!

I agree with this, however you can't be sure of the extent of the infection or how long it's been there, it could have fruited once and caused a panic, which could not have a huge amount of decay inside, but it can go for years without fruiting. Still be careful, remember the pics!

If you were a lot closer I'd have had some of that!

Speaking of which, I'm assuming your there tomorrow? I'll be there on Saturday!

run the rope through your natural crotch and that should manage!

4 weetabix for me! currently on a box of lucky charms though!

thats probably true , but that tree does need recording!

spraying it during growing season will only kill off the new growth, it wont stop it, spray it in autumn just before senescence, and you will have a much better rate of control. use glyph at 20l/ha and it will prove effective. other than that, stem inject.

Very nice Steve That is EXACTLY what I want! If you don't mind me asking, how much was that?