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I still reckon that logstore should go ahead with his LR90 tipper plan :-) Go on, You know you want to!

whats this madness? Black and white legislation That will never happen! all the fun is in how you interperate it. if legislation was black and white, why would we need lawyers????? ooooooooh, now there's an idea!!

Firstly, I do think handing out trees is great, and free trees are all the better. They are fun to plant with the kids, make the area look better, give shade for picnics during bar-b-q summers, and even provide work for future arbs.... but why do people always drag CO2 into it Once the tree dies, all the carbon gets released back into the atmosphere. surely all tree planting "carbon warriors" do is store up problems (if CO2 is a problem) for our kids. If you have something againts CO2, stop burning fossil fuels, its the ONLY way way to affect human related atmospheric CO2. (but where is the fun in that) (BTW, this is in no way knocking Tom2020 , just the whole stupid carbon thing)

How about Lickham Bottom near Hemyock in Devon.

Think i'll go for the NEBOSH. Least I get to find out something new. Can't see the point of shelling out, yet again, for more RA and 'this is your duty of care' sermonising. :-)

20 years industry experiance now stands for nowt (it turns out). What i really need (I am told) is a qualification to assist me in spoting 'non-conformant' working. (pesky young upstarts with their fancy suits and their blueberry cellular radios) IOSH (managing safety) vs NEBOSH (national general certificate) - which is better do you all think????

If time is hanging heavy on your hands, wade through this thread... http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/climbers-talk/15234-climbing-near-powerlines.html There is some excellent advice here (like mine, ha ha) but also some superbly lousy stuff to (see if you can spot who) Of course, its all out of date now, as G55/2 becomes more widely implemented.

First I would contact your local NPTC assessment centre. Ask them to organise you a CS31.4 and a CS32 to be taken in a month or two. If they do, you are home and dry. If they say something like 'computer says no' you are going to have to start wiggling if you wish to avoid doing CS30 / 31 assessments. Once the 31.4 / 32 assessment is booked, I would then only bother with the CS32 training. Takedown is covered by Cs32, the only differece is you are getting the tree down with a winch rather than a breaking bar.

There is a chance depending on who you talk to, and who you can get to arrange it. But at very least you will need to take CS31.4 first (takedown of hungup trees) as this was not covered in the earlier units.

Once worked for a chap called Colin Inder at a company called Arboricare (based between Taunton and Wellington). Try looking him up on the internet, He seemed ok :-) ('corse, that ain't very near Yeovil)

more pens and hats? shameless!

Apparently some posts on Arbtalk are pointless. Even worse, It's been claimed that some whole threads are not worthy of the electrons that carry them. For instance... Therefore, maybe we should have an Elite forum so those who are either very serious, time poor or just not wanting to sift through the chaff can simply cream off the arbtalk gold. Entry stricly by appointment, me thinks. Ejection after a moments indiscretion. Don't think I'll be joining:blushing:

well, I guess its begun Whoooop whoooop and all that.................. ................come on Scotland!

maybe rule 10.5 should be Don't believe what you read or see on the word-wide-webster-net. Rats, I don't know now whether to believe quickthorn or not

Since these silly 3 action things have come in I have followed a simple rule.... Only buy ones with the secret code PETZL embossed on the side. The spring that turns the collar (not the spring that closes the gate) just seems far more up to the job than the spring on other karabiners.

or...................... how about getting a boring well paid job for a while (southeast would prob be the best location..... some soleless city should do it.....maybe sorting out other peoples imaginary problems.........) THEN, once you have made a nice wedge (give it 15 years or so) you can 'retire' to a nice little place in the country, and become a hobby arb.

or, are we the FIRST generation to build things that are either too complicated to fix, or desiged to NOT be fixed?

No idea. Maybe you you should try http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/employment/17383-tesco-night-shifts-11p-h-climbing-7-9p-h.html for clues (just don't try recruting down Tescos) A tree surgeon is like one of them fancy arborist gods..... but whereas arborists are highly skilled (like airline pilots or nurosurgeons), a tree surgeon is only semi skilled (like a grass-cutter). Ha Ha, I laffed till I cried.

Or do!!! Often wondered if there is a place in the market for Arb or Forestry holidays. It would be great to loop over a couple of rainforest monsters before they are all gone. But then I come to my senses.... ....None of us lot are ever going to willingly pay to cut trees!

Was there not a practice in New Zealand called "power felling" where a whole forest hillside would be prepared with sink cut and a partial back cut? The trees remained standing due to dense creapers growing between them. The 'holding' trees were at the top of the hillside where then cut, and the whole section fell over at the same time. Apparently, the creapers stopped the trees from being felled individually. Fun to set up..... Great to watch..... Turns out, not so good if you are sat at the bottom having a picnic! 'Course, it may just be a myth. :-)

Say no more.

Enjoying a KFC - (Bargin Bucket - can't be doing with all that new fangled 'chicken zinger' rubbish) - in the nice park in the middle of Haywards Heath (sussex) the other evening. At first, I thought this cherry tree had interesting red leaf / green leaf ability. On closer inspection, things are not looking so well............... (mind you - from a distance you can see the crown is thinning rather) Can't say I have noticed anything like it before.... Any ideas to the cause? Is it common? Is it becoming more widespread? Should I have gone for popcorn chicken?

I doubt its proper fuel injection (anymore than Jonsereds ever had a turbo) ;-)

Had 200t, 338 and top handled Makita. Faults of 200t / 338 i agree with. I had the Makita around '99 / 2000. The points that I found really annoying with it were... The fuel filler hole was too small to allow an anti-spill spout, resulting in having to remove the spout and either using a funnel (yeh, right!), or just spilling fuel all over the saw / lawn. The side casing required a 10mm combi spanner (which if they exist, didn't come with the saw) which ment you had to carry an actual spanner about with you. The throttle trigger was too long. It only needs to extend under your index finger, but the makita seemed to interfere with 3 fingers, so at times, you would be gripping the top handle with just your little finger -- not safe--. The day I got rid of the makita, and bought the 020t was a happy one. I do quite like the ground saws though, as said though, they are just a little too blue

What a great world it is eh? Newt fence, Smoooth snake relocation, Bat suryeys Hedgehog crossings, Toad underpasses. I hope all this wildlife appreciates our efforts to not steamroller it in the name of 'progress'. Got some Slowworms living along the hedge on the right hand side of the garden. Maybe some newt fence will stop them from getting tangled in the Hayterette.