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I highly doubt it's Armillaria, i would say fireblight but apparently Cherry can't get this...

Cheers Morten - just the trick. Steve, i've gotten hold of a non runner, just thought a service manual may come in handy to double check what i'm doing. Oh, and you have a PM!

Can anyone help and sort me out with one? Cheers.

jones' have the Hp Super at £4 more than standard for 5 litres...not alot really...

All the best with the job - looks a cracking place to work!

Yeah, agreed with Paul, i gave my client the options for the trees and she had both of them out! Bit of a no brainer as the removals were the most cost effective option for her.

This might help - http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/44129-leaf-loss-cherry.html Few suggestions in there.

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Thanks for all the replies, i'll recommend a reduction, sure the client will be happy as they were keen on the tree! Just a shame that they didn't do anything about it before, it's the second year it's been suffering badly...

@Fungus - On the predominately dead (and also showing dead leaves) cherry yes. On the second cherry with dead leaves, no.

Yes, the cherry blossomed but died off along with the leaves. There are a few at the very top of the tree left but are headed the same way...

Chris Gill's pricing is how to make a living! Some jobs that i do on my own, hedge cutting etc, my standard hourly rate is £30. Me, kit, insurance, fuel and disposal of waste. I stopped pricing to get work because when it ended up over running i got p*ssed off! This is my livelihood, it's MY name on the work i do so i don't do bad work for a cheaper price! I sub in as part of a two man team that is £65 per hour, or about £520 a day, 2 men, truck and chipper. How on earth some people make profit on a job to buy new kit, repair broken stuff or even take a holiday is beyond me!

That helps alot! The last images was of a copper bark cherry shows signs of the 'shot leaf' As for the other two cherry trees i checked for any oozing and cankering on them! The scorched leaves were on both the cherries, the crab apple next to them had some sort of (i assume) bacterial infection with dark spotting on the leaves.

Thanks for the reply - symptoms look the same. The leaves on the Cherry were far below 'average' size for the species, fireblight taken hold early and stunted development? in the garden there was one cherry that i've suggested removal, there was extensive die back on all limbs and cankering around the base unions of the branches. On the other trees as far as i could tell there is no cankering. Is this a later stage of fireblight? The client says it's only been suffering the past couple of years, this one being the worst.

I've been out today to look at 2 Cherry trees and a Crab Apple that have seriously damaged leaves (where there are any!) and this years leaves, after blossoming have died and dried up, still attached to the tree. A few photo's attached.... Spotting on leaves. Dead leaves. Shot of the tree. Closer shot of dead leaves Any ideas? Cheers, Chris

Yes. Do it.

Shamefully i do keep an eye on my mpg 02 Skoda Octavia 1.9 TDi - i got 88.8mpg over 79 miles on the West coast of Ireland, admittedly it was at between 40 and 50mph, but it was just the speed the traffic i was in was doing. And yes i have photographic evidence. Back end of last year i was subbing in Beaconsfield, on the drive home to Nottinghamshire on a Friday, during rush hour i'd see just shy of 70mpg, average speed was 65ish. The Octavia is currently on about 135,000 miles. At the time i was getting about 700 miles for about £65. Chris

Thanks to all the above posters, i've used twist wedges for felling before, they can get back leaning trees to vertical and over in no time, but i do appreciate what Chris said, that they can slip. With that in mind i'm back to the hi-lifts, but i saw these, again from Oschenkopf, the angles look similar to the hi lifts, but the wedges are solid aluminium. I'm keen on metal just because they drive in so well. Ochsenkopf Massive Wedges | Clark Forest : Forestry Tools Cheers for all your help and advice! Chris

Doing my CS32 next week, i have a few varied Oregon yellow wedges but i've been looking (and the course has recommended!) getting some hi-lift wedges... So i've been looking around for alternatives before i just get these, i've used steel wedges before and they drive in nicely. I saw this from Clark's Ochsenkopf Aluminium Twisted Wedges | Clark Forest : Forestry Tools Does anyone use twisted wedges for felling? Or should i just stick to a couple of hi lift wedges with an extra ring on each? Cheers, Chris

Pleasant, I'm all for preventative maintenance, which is why the needle bearing on my saw gets greased every 10 hours or less, my filter washed and so on. And i do understand the point in replacing items IF they're in need of it. My saw ran well, the plug was a good colour, i had no fuelling issues, my filter wasn't blocked. IF it needs replacing, replace it, and if it has a 'serviceable life' replace it. But don't try and tell me that it should be replaced as matter of course. At least we agree on the diaphragms. As for you car, was the engine oil as clean as when it went in? Oil filter the same condition?

BUT Megatron, the dealer had already seen my saw (a warranted switch replacement) so could have looked it up etc etc. Either which way or any, i was told that within my service for £100 + VAT i NEEDED a new fuel filter, air filter and the diaphragms needed replacing. Odd how despite not being replaced all these items are still functioning perfectly well 8 months after my saw was serviced by another. I see your point with dealers, but as i've said, this particular one has lost my trust, trying to upsell me, or in fact falsely sell me service items that are not needed is just bang out of line. And some dealers will give dealers as a whole a bad name. But good dealers need fear not, their reputation will carry them. Chris

Stand corrected, Pleasant has stood up to the mark! Good work!

If we lost members like Spud and GardenKit (who both don't sponsor) then it'd be a shame for the site. Their knowledge is invaluable. As for a 'dealers who want to share their knowledge' thread? Other than garden kit most would consider that to be against their benefit? would a dealer who is sponsor of this site wants to pay one of their mechanics to give free advice? I doubt it!! (GardenKit is the exception to this rule) I went to my local 'approved Husqvarna' dealer as my first port of call for a service on my 372XP, asking for service works that were necessary and a check on the tuning, i asked him how he tunes and his own words were 'by ear'. Tuning by ear on a saw with a limited coil?! THAT is why Spud serviced my saw, it was quicker (including posting time) and cheaper. Though price wasn't a factor, quality of service is. And importantly he has the trust of me, and other members of this site. My local dealer has lost mine. That said if any of the dealers people have highly recommended in this thread were local to me then i certainly would be working with them. Chris

I'll be there on the Friday, it seems like the weather will put a dampener on things...

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