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I developed a constant cough and wheeze which X Ray's couldn't show up anything 'sinister' as they put it. I have wised up to these blinking spores and dust now, so if we're short handed and I put myself on the chipper all day,I wear good quality valves masks, and also when crosscutting all day or splitting. Often when you're in the zone you can't see the dust that's all around you. Never used to bother but I certainly do now.
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I will look forward to seeing it working, next time I drop into your yard mate
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Do trees have feelings too?
oldwoodcutter replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Training & education
I had a feeling there would be a comedian along afore long haironyourchest -
Do trees have feelings too?
oldwoodcutter replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Training & education
A funny thing happened one day years ago which made me wonder at the time if trees had feelings. We were cutting the roots through with a dozer blade of a mature oak with a view to winching the whole tree over and getting it out of this building site. After a few of the main laterals had been sliced through, the whole tree in full leaf just stood there and shook violently for I suppose a few seconds. Never seen it before or since , but never forgot that. -
It came true for a friend of mine , he thinned a holly tree and died. That I do know because I went to his funeral recently, he was 92.
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I have a guy in his early twenties work for me in the winter (in the summer he does tractor work) . Now I didn't realise for a few weeks that he couldn't read or write except at what you would expect a 5 year old to do, but this doesn't bother me. His work ethic is beyond impressive, you could not want for a harder working lad. He is also immensely gifted in all things mechanical. He also has a photographic memory so for example instead of giving him a written way to drive to a job,which would be of no use to him, I have to tell him, and he remembers all the route that way,first time.How he passed his theory driving test I have no idea . He will never be prime minister, but he has adapted his adult life from what must have been tragic schooldays.
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I need someone to cut my grass,I never have the time. Bit of a hike though.
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One of the young fellows that claims to work for me , apparently does not wear underpants at work, and of course has come in for a bit of leg pulling from the other youngsters about it since he joined us. Obviously it's no business of mine,but I can't help chuckling to myself when I see him walking around.
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That's very true Dave.
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Well Mull my friend, I'm no expert on dogs so I will take your word for it.
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Just last week a friend of mine was out walking on a public footpath with his aunt, when a big mastiff type attacked his aunts pooch, and he himself sustained hand injuries that needed stitching. Police attended but just gave a warning to mastiffs owner. Aunts vets bill came to over£900 which other party paid. Later in week they took mastiff to be castrated and it ripped up another dog in the waiting room, so they had it destroyed there and then.
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In our world of tree and hedge work, the words ' always' and 'never' are seldom used ,as nature can often jump up and bite you. But never ever give your client a day rate , or you will rue the day you did.
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Holidays, time off and notice periods for PAYE employed people
oldwoodcutter replied to Rhystree's topic in General chat
I don't know the letter of the law, but when I've got a busy Monday morning lined up and a mum calls me at 7 am to say her little hero is still stoned from last night and won't come out of his bedroom, I would say that's a little on the short notice side. -
When a tree man decides that there is nothing more to be learned, I would say it's time for him to hang up his old boots and watch afternoon tv or sit in his backyard and watch the grass grow.
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I believe Ben Burgess have big ones for hire 01603 625370
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While on the subject of experienced fellers or otherwise, one of the first Lombardys I was asked to fell was on the edge of a housing development close by a river. I had a bad feeling about it so I asked a much older and a lot more experienced tree man to meet with me over there to cast an eye over it one Saturday morning. The first thing he did was get a hammer out of his truck and after a lot of tapping said it was rotton , he got his old spikes on and a flip line and he got up to around 10 feet before his hammer found good wood. I passed up a saw and he gobbed it out and knocked it over from that height , as cool and confident as you like. I measured it out at 130 feet, I can't remember its dbh but it was flipping big. He passed over a long while ago but I've never forgotten that rotten old pop.
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I've done them all year round, even in the depths of winter and they thrive. As Ty said earlier, do what the customer wants. . . Before someone steams in behind your back and does it for them.
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When I was much younger I had a thick bushy one for years, one day I shaved it off and came out of the bathroom, to be met by one of my daughters who would have been ad about 5, she ran away thinking there was a stranger in the house. Couple of years ago I grew one again but that didn't last long as I grew fed up with stories that Father Christmas had come early from some of the young fellows that claim to work for me.
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Perhaps it should read . . Tree surgeons to the Royle family.
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Whenever I get up close to a Lombardy pop, with a view to felling it, one of the first things I do is try to judge how rotton it is at the base. As we know they are devils for rot, and this may have been so here, with an inexperienced man gobbing and cutting in soft cake. But as I said in my earlier post, there are so many other factors spelling disaster here.
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I think I can hear wedges being knocked in right at the start, but of course pops in particular can turn on the hinge, specially with that strong crosswind. We can see in hindsight the banks man giving some signal but it's plain the driver should have got a move on. Well they're not the first to have it happen, and won't be the last, but any work beside a public road has to be beyond reproach.
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Did something yesterday I hadn't done for years, working over an 18 foot glasshouse, got everything down safely, very last cut of the day taking off a very small peg, peg comes off at an unexpected angle, hits my helmet, and straight through two 24inch roof panes. After tidying up, Quick trip down road to glaziers, 2 panes for a tenner, and I popped them in. Happens.
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My local Stihl dealer,rather begrudgingly comments as I hand over any sick saw needed urgently repaired is - we'll have a look at it mate but we haven't got any wood to test it in. Doesn't exactly fill you with confidence.
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Flippin heck, I'm glad that eBay is one less thing I have to worry about.
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The way I see it is either don't go over your permitted axle weights, or if you must, then steer well clear of known places where their funny battenberg painted skoda estates are sat up.
