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Hi all i have a interview for large powerline firm, they require a 15 minute presentation on Powerline Clearance - Why is it important to do a survey and what should a good survey contain?. I haven't had any experience of powerline work and was looking for some help from those of you that have cheers
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that would be brilliant will pm you
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does anyone know the best place to get a 088 carb struggling to get one
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will take some tomorrow and the priest we were working for wanted the carbon balls for his fire, apparently he has burnt before and it is very good fuel
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it was 100% daldinia concentrica climbed and dismantled yesterday tree was in poor condition but all went ok and actually structurally felt safe, did one next to it with serve decay problems lower down but healthy canopy and glad was anchored into beech next to it, tree felt very unsafe and a couple of wobbly knee moments glad when job done
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got a job on removing beech about 50ft tall with lean about 1 metre up theres daldina concentrica round some old wound only about 30% around diameter, will this effect structure and is tree safe to climb
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lots of water by major fishing lake
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Have been asked to give a quote for planting 400 norway spruce roughly 12ft each. The area has easy access and nice soil conditions (easy digging), have only ever done small scale planting ie back gardens etc. could do with some advice on planting pricing per tree ect.
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Sign writing your truck and the best for me has being parish mags always get very good response
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i work full time in week and work for myself at weekend, but have so much work will be going on my own, get your name known do some quality work and marketing and it will take off there is a lot of work out there
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go through police report it, get crime number, then wait couple months, find out where they live, and give his car and his wifes a shot of expanding foam up exhaust will make you fill wonderful. if that dont work felling lever round back of head
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The appeal is an ongoing thing and could take months apparently, you are correct local authority, and the other lads agree the arborist should be on higher pay scale, not taking anything off the grass cutters all top lads but they are not regularly putting their lives in damger climbing large trees and using chainsaws.
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try this company always have alot spares at good price Used Spare Parts For Stihl,Makita,Shindaiwa,Echo,Hayter
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health and safety a controversial subject?
BTS replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
I think you will find they are looking for something less in depth technical wise but with an indepth view of current legistrations and how it dose not work or could be seen to be wrong. biggest issue is generic or site specific we know it should be site specific but hea lth safety do allow for generic. -
health and safety a controversial subject?
BTS replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
manual handling ie log weight lifting / hand arm vibration / noise control / site barriers -
the people carrying out the pay review have never had any arboriculture experience at all
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going through appeals procedure but have be asked to prove where in the definition of arborist the term skilled craftsman comes up
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Hi all just had pay review at work they class arborists as semi skilled craftsman ( along with grass cutters etc) and not skilled, what are your thoughts on this i believe we are skilled.
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Iam in my last year of fdsc online course and like you could not use excell cad etc but have managed to do it, i havent got the best grades all the time but i have hanged on in there, my grammer is absoulutly crap like my spelling, but iam hoping it will benefit me in future i would say keep struggling away, you will kick yourself in the future if you dont.
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Hi Ted
Is this a permanent secure vacancy, what are the hours and pay. I live poulton le fylde hold pre 97 licence have cs units including medium trees and cs 38 39 pa1-6 and just about to finish my fdsc in arboricuture, have been in industry for about 8 years. would also be intrested if permanent part time postion ie 3-4 days a week
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thanks for all your help has being very useful
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Thankyou will be massive help
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did mine at nationwide near manchester end up with IPAF ticket and was told cs39 was only ticket need this was 4 years ago now
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Hi iam looking for the calculation to estimate standing timber volume, iam doing some course work and the calculation is based on a 6 hectare conifer woods of around 20 years . is there a standard calculation all help would be much appreciated
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i found a company called blackfriars to be cheapest by long way, but you would have to read small print
