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Innit, why work with someone who you trust so little?

If we get on the snow/ice too late, our Stihl backpack leaf blower with the high pressure curved flat nozzle blasts ice off our paths proper good. Can then bung salt onto the bare ground the prevent refreeze. Hopefully getting a plough attachment for the tractor so can do some road clearance round our way. I'm fairly certain though that investing in one will guarantee tropical heat through the winter months, so it's win-win.

Cool. Just to reitterate, I wasn't planning on doing a tandem bungee from one. Well, I'm not now anyway!

My old hood always used to shoot back when I duckdived. Luckily I found another one washed up on a beach so now I use that one over the top. Double gimp action. Gets weird looks but it's warm. Having said that, I haven't been in the water for a year. I must put the effort in.

To ease my lack of confidence in MEWP's (not great with heights, trying to overcome that), would a MEWP with a max cradle load weight of 230kg (including 2 operators) theoretically be able to be at max reach and have one or both operators fall out (secured to the cradle) and not tip over?

I don't think you can sign away Occupiers Liability, but if it keeps them happy then it's most likely harmless.

We mix offcuts from our mill with standard loads.

lol Do you, or did you expect it to get a little "Dale Farm"?

Quoted for truth.

Got to say I hate Rockstar, dunno why, just don't like any of them. Relentless green can or brown can is alright. Can't beat Monster Green though. Second and third place to Yellow and Orange respectively. It's all filth. But it's good filth. Smooths my teeth down a goodn' too.

Being a council worker, I get the time and indeed support from my peers, to appease my addiction to coffee. I went on honeymoon to South Africa and part of that was spent at some sort of fair trade coffee plantation. We drank various coffees from there with the guide telling us how crap our coffee was in the UK. I couldn't take him seriously though; all of these poncey coffees at source, poncey coffees in poncey shops over here, none of them taste as good as 3 spoons of Nescafe Gold with 1 sugar and a lashing of milk.

Is there perhaps software you can bung on a blackberry or similar, that would map location of a photograph you have taken of a tree, letting you input relevant notes there and then?

Cheers for getting back to me! Budget <£1,000 To include 100's of records. Unlikely to reach 1,000. To cover a country park of 1,000 acres, all trees owned by us. Basic tree survey to include location, species, risk, hazard, action (something that can prioritise work into a plan, i.e. several of us can bog off for the day on site and cover different sections of the park, come back at the end of the day and amalgamate all our records into one place without leaving a pile of paper. If we were to put a timescale in which particular trees needed attention then I would like a calender to remind us. I currently have no access to GIS but have experience in MapInfo, I am likely to get access to the county GIS programme if I can justify it, this would justify it. GPS use would be beneficial, but I can pinpoint almost every single point in the park on a map no problem so paying extra for GPS may be uneconomic really. It would be for our use primarily but would need to be a format that would stand up in court. It wouldn't have to be compatible with AutoCAD. Thank you!

A toolstore isn't complete without a knackered, old polesaw sat redundant, manacled to a wall, waiting for another polesaw to be cannibalised so it might live again!

My mate who works for an East Dorset based fire station has never once seen a chainsaw on board her wagon. When I asked her if she or anyone else had used one, she was completely clueless. I always assumed that there would be one on board most wagons. Obviously not hers.

Looking at investing in software to input tree survey records and plot them on a map. Perhaps one that you input into a handset in the field, and bung into a computer on return? Our paper copies keep going in and out their folder and get tatty and occasionally unreadable (plus my handwriting is terrible). Any advice would be good please. Would prefer to keep costs as low as possible so doesn't need to go "ping" or have many flashing lights. Cheers.

Right, Went and had another look, should really have had a closer look last time around as there are parts that are a little beyond 2mm deep, in fact let's just say 2 digits deep of decay (really only spent about 4 seconds looking at it last time, spent more time uploading the pic). Pulling up the soil though I couldn't make out any stringy structures. Pulling away a bush on the other side and there is a smaller area of identical decay. I've left a message with tree orificer to come have a look, with a view to hardcore pollard or total removal.

Depends on the target species.

If anyone from Hampshire is interested in going to a KB class, there is one at 1830 (as far as I remember) on Wednesday's in Southampton. Google Essential Krav Maga for details (it's before the main Southampton class).

Whoah.

Just left Leigh Park after an evening of patrols with coppers. Had to cut it short as they needed to be down Park Parade for high visibility stuff. Seemed pretty moody in the air as I was leaving but like Matty in Blandford, moody goes with the area. Can't imagine anything will happen though, not by a long shot.

Seems a little big for that, the base is about 3 foot across. I would have suggested a tractor smashed it hard years ago but you couldn't fit one down there. I haven't seen any fruiting bodies on or around it before. Imagine we'll dismantle in the near future, owing to the target.

Ta! Unsure how it got the damage though as it's on the path side of the tree so sheltered from the car park. Is the armillaria the white rot?

White decay in base on one side. Exterior feels dry and brittle but 2mm in and it feels solid. No history of dropping limbs and looks okay in the crown. It's on the edge of a car park with the other side being an overgrown barely used path (non RoW). Any ideas on the likely culprit? I imagine it won't be salvageable but would like to learn a little more before it's lights out for it. Many thanks.

Knee-jerk reaction tbh. What a joke.