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Hi all we have an empty flat bed truck coming back from inverness next weekend if anyone needs anything moving north to south PM me

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ive moved dumpy bag full of sand and gravel with ease using one so the weight wont be a problem especially with willow i depends how much reach you need

I think hop up to the site and do another measure up thanks a million

Hi all we have a weeks felling of big! Lapsed willow pollards along a river. we have budget to put a digger on the job to help with fishing some of the material out of the river should the need arise and handling/stacking the log on the bank but I can't find a machine bigger than 5 tone with a log grabto hire Will a five tone be man enough for it or am I wasting my time surely better then nowt right?

Thanks in advance

Hello all, anyone heard seen or used one of these things? there's a video on their website, although I can't figure out how to covert Austrian to english:001_smile:

:confused1:The second photo close up im fairly sure is a form of Sorbus, but the overall habit certainly looks a little odd hmm better go look that one up

Hi all

I've started clearing a plantation at my own place of noble firs and a few blue spruce. Approx 500 trees still standing. All between about 6" to 14" thick trunks and mostly around 30ft or so tall. Just wondering if anyone would have any use for them or suggest anyone who would?

 

Original plan was to just burn/chip them and dump them, but I'm busy with other things now but still need them cleared. Would anyone potentially be interested in clearing them and taking them? I don't mind them being stockpiled for a bit as long as site is clear. Otherwise i'll just have to get someone else in to fell/chip them as I'd like to replant site in February time.

 

Any thoughts much appreciated!

If it helps I'm just outside Dover,Kent

Maybe stobart biomass would be interested if they can arrange the felling and extracting:confused1:

I've used a timberwolf once and that was the tracked machine it chipped wood people may say there is an ultimate machine but every jokes different and even using a 15 inch feed bandit and Vermeer every day they can't chip everything. They may not be as durable but as a cheaper priced machine it does the job

:thumbup: A most sensible comment each to their own

So the story behind our stuff getting nicked was my boss and one of the lads went into to the job and met with the client walked around the garden for about 15 minutes to discuss the works, heard a van pull up outside and assumed it was the other team turning up, went up the steps out of the garden to find two eastern european chaps with two top handles and two ground saws and in the process of removing the third ground saw from the locker having just done the locks on it, My boss roared at them and they dropped the saws and one ran off chased after by one of our guys and the other my boss tried holding but this guys was a big ol lump and tried the whole what what i didnt do anything trick:mad1:Anyway then the bloke decides to pull a kitchen knife on my boss, who duly and sensibly let him go, 5 seconds later a white 55 plate renault kangoo van pulls up and the bloke jumps in and they drive off.

Well I think this is really taking the p.... now not only have to contend with maggots stealing our gear but maggots that would pull a knife on someone for a few hundred quids worth of chainsaws:mad1:

Hi All

We have had a back Blower and a 395XP stolen from under our noses on two separate occasions in the last 2 months and today it got very worse came out of back garden to find two gentlemen walking across the road carrying our saws having done the locks on the canter. They dropped the saws and legged it but this is just one of a number of truck locker break in s in the last month around our area Bromley Beckenham, my advice keep your eyes open and take everything out of your lockers locked or not:sneaky2:

Dermot

Good morning All

Anyone any contacts for hiring a pedestrian flail in the Kent area

cheers

Hi all

We are after someone with climbing experience and a good work ethic to sub contract climb for us on a regular bases.

anyone interested please PM me

many thanks

Dermot

Populus lasiocarpa- Chinese Necklace Poplar

seconded that germinates really easily from seed too:001_smile:

Hi All

Anyone got experience of these as an arb truck?

pros cons

cheers

Demot

Cartridge alarms. Blank shotgun cartridges make a LOT of noise. And a good flash (in the dark) used to put a few down the track with wires going across.

The trouble is there is an almost unwritten rule with protecting your stuff when dealing with these type of thieves as my friend found out recently. he had set shotgun cartridge traps and also tyre spikes all of these were activated and as well as stealing everything they also smashed the f..k out of windscreens slashed tyres on trucks and generally broke the place up.

If your going to use mobile security it'll be best to have cctv installed as well. Why? Well theres lots of companies thatll over work there lads, i.e give too many sites and the lads will just choose which are quickest to use. I know of one company that had the repay a client over £4.5k as they weren't keeping to the contracted agreement.

Good lord so even security companies cant be trusted to do their job properly:001_rolleyes:for the love of....

Come on now theres enough of us on this forum we must be able to come up with some ideas on how to sort this out:sneaky2:

Apart from what we'd all like to to do the individuals in question.

Is it fair to suggest that most thefts happen from our yards units lock ups, probably what are the options for protecting our equipment. The guys im working for have been cleaned out twice and will be unable to get insurance when! it happens again.

Does CCTV work? Anyone use a mobile security company?, anyone ever consider clubbing together with other businesses to spread the cost of security?

The Terram Geocell 25/15 is shallower, but only for light vehicles. I'd assume that unless height restriction barriers were in place, the designers would have to over engineer/specify.

 

Was the sand laid straight onto top soil?

Try and use the Cell web product its far stronger unlike the terram version. Depending on the situation we have in past contracts carefully stripped the existing tarmac using a digger and grading bucket and then as you say import some decent topsoil to cover existing roots and to level up the area. then a layer of sharp sand, a woven geo textile, then web a minimum of 200mm for cars, filled with clean angular stone, then another layer of geotextile and then your wearing course. if you contact geo synthetics i they will give you the full spec have fun

Had a cracking day down west. Had an 8 am start to get down there for a reasonable time. Didnt get any pics of the site as our western apprentice had been there since 8.30 mowing the path edges. Back there next friday bright and early with the big blue beast and 3 knapsack sprayers full of chemical to blast the path edges back. But just to keep the thread going. Here are some shots of tonights 2 hour dog walk.

wow!! love the nettle leaf with upside down caterpillar brilliant

spotted them today on our new 395, anyone enlighten me as to what you can bolt onto here?

maybe for a full wrap around handle

Hi I thought i'd share my recent experiences. Air Spading clays soils especially this time of year for me has always been a ball ache, I use an Air Spade 2000 with 150cfm nozzle and a 220 cfm 4 tool compressor.

 

I undertook some excavation work this week and shifting the compacted clay was next to impossible and extremely frustrating let alone highly embarrassing!

 

Anyway I thought I'd contact ADP group they sell Air Spades, and are quite possibly the countrys leading experts in Air Spade and Hydrovac excavation. They've got millions tied up in Hydrovac excavation machinery they contract themselves as well as sell and hire

 

My thoughts were clarified as soon as I mentioned clay and Air Spades, i didn't even have tell them my problem, the Air Spade doesn't work efficiently on clay soil, especially this time of year when its desiccated. The only way to tackle clay is hydrovacing, but what damage this will have on roots I don't know.

 

ADP GROUP LTD | Surveying | Vacuum Excavation | Drilling | Vector Sales - Air Spade Sales

If you look of the spec of the new bigger 3000 Air Spade you'll see exactly what I'm getting at

Adrian and the lads from ADP certainly know their stuff but having done hydro vac excavation with them in the past its better to get them to use the water lance they use for cleaning the trucks rather than the one they use for excavation or at the very least get them to knock the power right down on the vac unit because it will mill straight through the roots if not careful. just my tupence worth

Salix caprea?

yep defo goat willow, nice old tree would certainly start to get rough bark and if the new growth was in response to any pruning the leaves would be a lot larger than :001_smile:normal

It's a shame the bloke owns the patient for this design doesn't make larger amounts/be easier to contact; it's a great bit of kit and lasts for ages. You can re-cut the teeth to get a few more years out of them.

Wow that was well loved er! abused

I was off work yesterday so didint think to try him might give him another shout tomorrow see if i can convince him to go back into production:thumbup1:

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Can anyone help identify this spiky critter?

 

As you can see this plant has rose like thorns to the stems and if you look closely vertical spikes on the leaf stems.

Deciduous and currently standing at 3m in height.

 

 

 

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It's an aralia gorgeous autumn colour but not nice to pruner:001_smile:

Think he was called Nottingham rake? Been looking for one of these rakes too, if you track him down let us know!

Will do but its not looking good mobile number goes straight to voice mail and the land line is engaged