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A few bits and bobs from recent days.
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In Desperate times...My Silky saves the day!
Ian Flatters replied to silky fox's topic in The Lounge
Good to hear Paul, I believe the collage still have the alskan mill I bought and donated to them in use. If you missed the deadline for the job, then it wasn't meant to be buddy. There's always another door getting ready to open, but please keep going forward in your training. End goal is always something to remeber and I do throughly believe you would be a fine instructor and assessor. Not because we are friends but because your positivity, genuine care and love for trees to anyone, wanting them to succeed is a great personal attribute. I may actually be in Durham around February as Mr Gage owens is popping back from Australia and his facetimed me the other week to see if me and jenny would come up as he's getting the houghall guys and pole climbers together. -
In Desperate times...My Silky saves the day!
Ian Flatters replied to silky fox's topic in The Lounge
For a few seconds there Paul I thought you'd gone all Harry Potter on us with quinquagenarian thought you be more house huffle puff or slitherin (sadly the only 2 house names I know from Harry Potter) [emoji848][emoji23] Good to hear your focus is the gym. But also like mick I'm keen to hear if you've got any future plans on being a trainer? -
Not quite as cool as some of the recent pictures in this thread but the last 2 days we've been contracted in to carry out a survey of duxford iwm. Here is a few pictures, we had access to all areas that had trees including areas that the public never get to see. The last one is the former backup ops room which is now in a delapidated shell sadly.
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A medium beech with merip we removed today and one of a few birch we took out in a woodland tree belt.
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By the sounds of it you could be in breach of ir35 and on 2 days a week would owe your guy 5 days holiday a year, plus pension and tax to pay to hrmc. If he does 5 days a week then you certainly will be. The Gov website has loads of information on it to be fair and I would check that out.
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Pricing - Pear Technology WWW.PEARTECHNOLOGY.CO.UK The Pear Technology price lists for all software, hardware and services
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Hi everyone, I'm after a bit of advice as I'm updating my surveying. I've been looking at pear technologies and wondered who uses them and what package you use. I will be using it for bs5837 and tree condition surveys but became slightly confused if I only needed Pt mapper Pro, Pocket cis Trimble tdc100 4g I wasn't sure if the tree minder or maplink were needed to start with. They can always be added on later. I appreciate your time and advise on this, Ian
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Bad News Ash Disease discovered in East Anglia
Ian Flatters replied to arbwork's topic in Tree health care
Travelling from schiphol to goes it was everywhere and has just decimated some copse and woodlands we drove past. Significantly more prominent than I've seen in Norfolk (of which I thought was bad, but now thinking not as bad). A friend seems to be spending a lot of time removing Ash over everything else. -
[emoji23][emoji23] In Holland it was its 40th year. I expected to see Bob the MD in Emea and a few others from across Europe but for some reason I didn't expect the actual vermeer family members to be there. I call it my naivety moment.
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Not a today post but were currently in the Netherlands until mid this week. So here's a few pictures of what we've been up to. Meeting Bob Vermeer was an incredible thing for me, he sits down starts chatting away and I had to do a triple take at his name badge. I hope you all enjoy and some pictures aren't arb related but more machinery.
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Pretty much [emoji23][emoji23] she said can I take a picture of her stump grinding. Her fault she did not specify where I would take it from. Crane wise I just get a cost to see if it comes in cheaper than multiple days rigging and being less efficient in all honesty. If like in this case the crane was solely based on having it on the neighbours property and they hadn't asked yet. So they get 2 estimates 1 for with the crane, 1 for without. I don't do many to be honest though. The neighbours were happy for us to have access but didn't like the idea of having a crane on their drive. It would of been fine with boards to be honest.
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Norfolk buddy, near Norwich.
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Some pictures from the last 3 days on site. 3 cedars to take out and I wish the neighbours had let us put a crane on their driveway.
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I saw this on site today and was quite amazed by how the ivy had split the buttress of this Victorian wall.
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A bespoke piece Mark [emoji108][emoji108] my city council spent 40k for an rsj to be put in the ground. Apparently it symbolises our industry. There I was thinking Norwich didn't have anything to do with steel or any industry of worth.
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We decided to clear out most of the yard as we started to lose working space. 7 loads of woodchip and 3 arb waste wood. I was really impressed with the loader and how good an experienced operator is on one of them.
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We extended a rooting area of a redwood today. I didn't have much space to play with regarding being able to build the ground level up. So I went for clean sand and washed crushed stone with the idea of the sand being porous but able to be compressed over the rooting area and the a layer of stone to bind the top layer. Not done anything like this before so I'm keen to know if and what I could of done differently should I be asked in the future.
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Access was shocking so we had a crane day. The tree had a phone line on one side and I just did light picks because it was easier. The heaviest bit was the stem at only 2.7t (we had 4t at that reach) but 90% were sub 600kgs.
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Yeah they were 2 white poplar stumps, only had to chase a few out as they had used a digger to rip out the roots in the pitches, shame they didn't rip these out at the same time.
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I'm planning on ignoring it as it was a freebie favour that someone called in. [emoji23] I expect I'll end up taking the skid steer to load it up and I'll take it in the woods and level it out, or tip it off as a wildlife pile. [emoji6]
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So I ran out of time yesterday so went in today to finish up and I never envisaged the amount of grindings.
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I spent a couple of hours grinding these 2 stumps out at the local rugby club today. It was quite nice and peaceful kind of day actually. I even found time to make a drone video with some seriously questionable music. [/url]
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I've gone and got a platform in a number of times when I've got up there and just thought... I'll get a platform in this isn't the best option right now. [emoji106]
