Dan Curtis

Keep your chest loop clipped in, use both arms to push your body away from the fork and lift yourself through with the pantin

15" on my 550, really nice balance and size combo

Exactly Rich. I never ever cut near my feet or legs

Does that mean you don't need to wear trousers either then?

Can't see the sense in non ppe work gear personally.

Something Eerie about those pictures...like a lost woodland

It was reminiscent of "The Road" if you've ever seen it?

Came across a wood falling into the sea this morning. The beach is fairly strewn with stumps, some of which still have felling cuts visible in them

Don't rate the BFGs on ice Jon

 

Few years back when we had a winter. Driving the landy with BFGs was doable but tricky on the ice (great when deep snow).

Wouldn't entirely agree there, my bfg at's don't want to let go on the ice, even if you try to make them. Stopping can be interesting but I'm far happier on bfgs than I am with general grabbers

There's not a huge amount you can do unfortunately. You could try reducing some of the end weight of the remaining branches, but be aware that it will not flush new growth from bare wood. Live foliage needs to be retained to keep the branch alive and functioning. You may also lose the spiky habit of the tree if you prune the ends of the branches unsympathetically

I'd say almost certainly it's due to increased, altered wind loading caused by the other side being stripped bare. The coincidence being wet is the water held by the foliage is increasing the weight. Looking at your photo, the majority of the foliage left on the branches is at the tip end of a long branch, which creates excessive leverage and increases the chance of limb failure.

If you dont directly employ them you wont need employers liability insurance, I just have my labour on a self employed basis as i do seasonal work and i only need public liability insurance..

Good luck with that should the proverbial ever hit the fan.

Good luck with the second opp Dan, and a fast recovery too.

Cheers.

If you're lucky you might get a pink rubber band:rolleyes:

The first part is good now. Going in for another op on the same shoulder in the next month or so. Bloody tree work

Well I just had my opp a few days ago, to shave bone from an impingement to the rotor cuff, & remove & clean up some frazzled tissue after a break last winter, I pretty much know what to do for the recovery, any idea on how long I should leave it before getting back to climbing & cutting?

I can't say for your particular op, but I had my shoulder socket put back together earlier in the year. Surgeon said 3 months off, when I got to see the physio I ended up with 5 and a half months off. Take your recovery day by day and don't push it. They do know what they're talking about so however long they say is how long you need. I know lots of people go back earlier than their told but a little short term gain isn't worth a long term problem.

Best of luck with it

Ash pollard, finished by 1. Cup of tea with the inlaws on the way home then washed and hoovered the land rover for it's week off

Today's customer "the reason trees have deadwood is because squirrels run along branches and wear out the bark"

The other firm's insurance

So after 2 1/2 months of disputes over access someone finally cracked and we shot in to start finishing it off.

How come you're using the Stein bollard over the treeworker?

No, keep the retrieval ball on the end of your rope, but also add a throw line onto the end of your rope, so your cambium saver can be lowered to the ground. Pretty much the reverse of how you set a cambium saver from the ground

More if you factor in the rainy Friday afternoon climbs back to your anchor point when the bloody thing gets stuck!

Always go up and get it so I don't have to pull it out and watch it fly out the tree and smash into some concrete!

Why not retrieve it with a throw line? Virtually eliminates both scenarios and saves you going to get it

Nah,moan first about bashed right elbow, THEN foot, THEN fuel consumption.

Open window, buy proper boots, but shares in oil companies. Sorted

Im with you on easily fixable Dan but mines slug like when loaded! Im waiting for someone to pipe up with pump adjustment that turns them into rockets..😄

But then you'll moan about fuel consumption:rolleyes:

So are we all stuck in the 300 tdi era. Is this not just an old oil burner. Does anyone know of one fitted with some newer technology. I've had a v8 petrol before a 300 tdi and a td5 I can see the easy nature (mend it with some fence wire ) 300 thinking. But what about an izuzu engine or land cruiser ?

I've got a 2.4 tdci, it goes well and having a sixth gear is great. But I don't want to be getting into diagnostics software, and the parts can be expensive. For a work horse I'd want something you can fix with a hammer and duct tape, hence the 300tdi suggestion.

Think you're missing the more important parts of his spec here chaps.

MIDDLE SEAT FOR THE DOG

All you need really.

Mine gets the passenger seat and sulks if I have a human passenger.

If you've got £25k to play with....

300tdi 130 Ali Tipper

300tdi/td5 90 hardtop with tool lockers internally.

Ifor TT126

Assuming your work requires two people or more daily, one driver per vehicle, passenger in the 90 first if needed. Tools in the 90, chipper on the 90.

This'll keep you more legal payload on the back of the 130, with the Ifor behind. 7t train weight for the 130.

I reckon you could get all that for 25k

Have you ever seen a cats skeleton up a tree?

Yes!!

is there place for them to learn in an industry that's built on efficiency?

Yes, depending on the candidate. If they're willing to listen and learn. One problem I encounter is repeatedly having to tell someone the same basic things, one person in particular the same things over more than a two year period. The same basic things that imo should have been taught from day one.

If they're starting their learning with the college, get them working efficiently from the start. I know there aren't time pressures in a learning environment but you could get into them the idea of a tidy site, tidy wood, brash cut and stacked from the tree in armfuls. If they start off by knocking bits all over the place and under no pressure to keep things moving, it'll be harder to adjust once they get into a commercial environment.