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Ian Flatters

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  1. Had to assess the damage caused by a fire engine crashing through some willow pollards. Google pic of the fire engine crashed.
  2. Something very clever.
  3. I wasn't on site today until the last shovel full of clearing up (timed it well I thought). 3m reduction of the overhang over the house, deadwood and aesthetically reducing the crown tips to give a even shape. Starting to let the lads do the bigger reductions by themselves now so I can crack on with site clearances and willow pollards.
  4. What's a favicon? At a guess a like thingy.
  5. Just messed me around and wanted me to move everything over to them or they weren't interested to be honest. At which point id had enough of being messed about.
  6. They were cheaper on just the mog but I moved a load of other bits under one policy and they came in cheaper. Either way Christ mogs are cheap to insure.
  7. Cracking video Adam, Whoever was on the rigging rope on that poplar was A-class work. Very smooth on the limbs and cool and decisive on that spinning timber section.
  8. I know this thread hasnt been used for a little while. Today i ended up insuring mine with Trust. NFU were a nightmare to be honest and even after 30 minutes on the phone they came back with a stupid cost. They switched other bits and bobs over too and all together ive saved a good wedge.
  9. I just started this year around my area. While new level of brown pants doing some night time downhill. This was us lot before we went blitzing across Sheringham park one night. A few of my arb mates do it so I think it's that adrenaline junkie side of us.
  10. Thankfully only 2 buckets of grindings.
  11. Monster rich. Saturday club today. Removed 5 trees and reduced a red oak. A bit full on to get done by 12 so everyone gets an afternoon off.
  12. I've just started my second round of cpc days. 1 a year to get them down with less pain. We went through drivers rules, hours and exemptions. I read it as if it's not your main job ie your a tree surgeon etc you don't because it's not your main job. However if your lorry is subcontracted regardless if your climbing and bringing your truck. It's hire and reward so a professional drivers card is required as well as copies of your cpc awareness courses and your tacho card in or depending on your exemptions 100km from base a drivers log book and carriers receipt of where it's going. Ie the tip or a transfer station. Just how I read it from the course.
  13. Almost right. In fact it's was much like the time I was riding Pegasus pruning trees with the greatest of ease, then I was punched into the earths inner core by a stray meteorite and had to ride a wild unicorn out of one of Iceland's many active volcanos. I then borrowed two match sticks and fashioned a pair of water skis found a porpoise and got home in no time. Or the saturday I got hit by half a tonne of tree, got crushed, went to hospital and was back in work Monday. Then booked shendy in off here and took a few days lay in a lot of pain in bed. One of the above is a true story. I'll let people decide. Ps cheers for the nice comments on other threads. Very kind words.
  14. Cracking set of shots Joseph, Day 2 and another knackered beech. Mainly wood in this one, down in 2hrs but it took all day to ring up and breakdown for the client. This time we had wet clay to deal with too... Anyway after one sunken trailer load it all went well.
  15. Yesterday's beech fell. All done in 2hrs.
  16. And it loads my end this time.
  17. http://Www.targettrees.com
  18. One from today. A heavy side reduction that we were contracted to reduce because of overhang on 4 properties. We had to use a mixture of reduction and pollards to start the rebuild of the side crown. Sadly the owner of the tree wouldn't let us do anything other than reduce it back. Oh and a couple of dead elms on the way out.
  19. Marcous-cous will shake his head at your pegs. Haha
  20. Really like your site. Logo is brilliant.
  21. Mostly done other than some slight updates because I haven't had a couple of hours. But here's our new site. http://Http://www.targettrees.com
  22. Best response ever!!
  23. And done with a broken leg if i remember right.
  24. First come first served. I do tell the regular customers to order in the summer. So when they forget I can say I did warn you.
  25. I thought I spotted a tractor mulcher in a pic

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