Ian Flatters

Not tree related. But a few weeks ago we finally bought our first house. Nearly ready inside for the plasters, so I decided to go find the boundary as there had been soil just dumped at the end for decades.

1 years notice, fair play Andrew. I struggle to get them to serve out their months notice fully. One thing I did just get pointed out.... How many people are going to say you've got a cannabis leaf as your logo. I know it's not. But the public can see something different. Ps how's the house hunt been going?

There good machines. But depending on your trailer liscence have you thought something a bit bigger? Like Vermeer. Nigel Ecclestone is a local rep. Came out to see me this week over my machinery.

Yeah, possibly one of the rarest. I've now seen 2 in 32 years. Quite large in size, I could of watched it for hours.

Cutting a hedge today and a swallowtail butterfly landed right by the truck. Last time I saw one was 16 years ago. So not tree related as such but I thought it was worth a share.

Finished up the site today. A quick removal and an oak reduction.

Yeah, first time working where a trees over a well shaft. But in fairness we had it done pretty rapidly.

Yeah the reflection is water at the bottom. Very deep. I think whoever cleared the grass, weeds, etc must of found it.

Your missing the point "sadly" is me saying someone gets seriously injured and say hypothetical the insurance doesn't pay out for you falling out of the tree on a non ce marked system/ non recognised system of work for example. A court battle could ensue from the boss against the insurance, you against your boss and possibly your boss against you. Possibly outcome worst case: you don't get that payout you need. Not rocket science, just a very good reason why what Ben and nod are doing is extremely important. The way I see it is the industry is evolving at a rapid rate and standards are behind, dare is say it we could probably do with our own EN testing numbers. For example just google some of your equipments EN numbers during lunch. Which in itself would in my eyes probably make the industry better for testing of safety equipment. Just how I see it and I'm more than holy to be enlightened and explained of the error of my thoughts. Ian

Hello, Basically they weren't going to renew the insurance. Something about it not being on any map the client said too but not sure if that's to do with the issue over it that arose. Council were really good as it had a tpo on it. Just got to sort 2 12ft high replacements placed further back into the garden.

Taking down this pine after the insurance company went mad when the found a deep well shaft. Tree was leaning back towards the garage to rigged down and wedged over slowly and controlled. The ground was very soft so I decided a pull with a vehicle could increase risk.

Sadly I think the only way we would know for sure is sadly someone going to court over it. There's no history of it happening so, it's all best guess at what will happen.

Standing stem with some back lean towards the garage and house. Stripped out and wedged over. Only 26" roughly so nothing huge. And the well shaft.

Just thinking out loud in my head.. So don't take it as anything concrete. Other than access systems aimed at irata. I can only think of the rope wrench system. Which has many variables because it's more of made up of different CE marked components. Rather than a system like the bdb, rope runner (neither have a CE mark).

Yeah I'd be up for it. Just need some notice as I'm competing a bit over the summer.

Yeah I'd be up for it. But would need good notice as I'm competing a bit over the summer.

Yeah that's what keeps bugging me. Once these are in a document, like what you and ben are doing I hope it will bring acronym clarity. I saw a post a few weeks back in "I love srt" and had more comments about if it was single, stationary or static than the actual question.

Not change, poor choice of words on my behalf. I'm saying it would be good to have a definitive guide which is long overdue in the uk I think It seems there's so many abbreviations for the same set of wording is what I mean. Srtwp was my example. I'm all for it so don't think my comments werent intended to be taken as negative I was just being curious.

Possibly could if it's a redundant with a back up on. Much in the same way you would have to feed your main line. But there are a few implications in my head with it, excess rope to get caught. Where in relation to you main anchor should it be, same stem or an independent stem. What type device should be used and should you be in a full fall arrest harness compared to a tree surgery harness. I mean until the other devices get ce approval it's quite a small field for srt devices for tree work.

I think it's a good idea Ben, noddy. Just seems to be far too much of people trying to change things though. For example. Srt - single rope technique or is it now stationary rope technique? Srtwp - single rope work positioning (as stated in some of the first more recent articles) or static rope technique work positioning? Just seems to me that people keep changing the lingo to make people think they've come up with something new. So a definitive guide would be good, although I doubt me or Dan Curtis will get any credit for why we did in the past. But Craig Johnson should be mentioned for his first retrievable srt redirect. Kind regards Ian

Awesome find Andrew. Cool link too David. I keep thinking it would be cool to do the notable trees at the capital.

Not the best picture but this evening I went and stacked all the larger bits from this years jobs. Basically because I've been putting it off for far too long and ran out of offloading space. And pulled the timber off site this morning.

Sadly my master plans bit me in the bum as I've got to help log all the 25t of timber we felled and moved today. It was nice passing the day with radio2 on though.

Nothing special for me today. I was running chip about on site today. 3 lads made filling a truck 10 minutes work.