oldwoodcutter
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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. -
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.
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This job maybe all above board, but I can usually smell big trouble a mile away, and this could be one of them. Proceed with caution my friend.
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If they weighed that load of scrap in, that would cut out the middle man.
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You are quackers Gerard
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Good response my friend, we seem to come across complete twerps on an almost weekly basis. Neighbor from hell last week was lucky he caught my foreman on a good day or would have been lamped, and I had a customer from hell this morning.
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We were knocking over and dismantling mature Connies yesterday, my climber had had enough of it by 2 o clock, the brash draggers had problems keeping upright after mid morning, and I was blinking glad when I turned my chipper off and folded it up at 3. Seldom have I drunk more water.
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The biggest change I've made to my style of climbing, is I now simply pay people who are very good at it to climb for me.
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Those straight cuts are quite impressive
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I've found that some sort of chain saw is often quicker than an axe and bow saw
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Unbelievable.
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If I hear him on the radio or see him on tv, then I have always switched to something else. I thought when he got the tg job, that of all the likeable people to chose from in the world of entertainment, the beeb went and chose him.
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I mistakenly pulled into the local one with my transit tipper, didn't even manage to get out of the cab before the hi-vis guards pointed to the exit, so that was that.
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I will keep a lookout over this side, you never know.
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I go back a long way, but I can't remember forestry handcutting ever paying a 'good' day rate. Many have retired with nothing in the bank, and only a bad back to show for it.
