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Matthew Arnold

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  1. We have an "album" at work. Here are just a few ranger work related songs "Son of a pleacher man" - Hedge laying "Solid as a rock" - Finger/gate post installation "Stop the pigeon" - When we hit one in the truck. It removed our beacon on the truckman back. "Hi ho, hi ho, off to work we go" - When carrying kit a long way as we cant get he truck close enough. MS 362 - The daddy/biggun MS 341 - Middlo MS 260 - Littlun FS 550 - Kick back king FS 450 - Smoker FS 400 - Chain smoker Mitsi L200 - Workhorse Ranger - Meeter (Bosses truck)
  2. Do you have an air flow controller on the sides and bottom? And a flue valve?
  3. I dont think you would get stuck with these. We have a friend who has them on a very heavily jacked discovery 2. http://www.mickeythompsontires.com/images/products/baja_claw.jpg
  4. There are some cracking vets in the grounds. Last year at Ragley hall they had a couple of tree surgey stalls where they were doing work on some of the old pollards. Should take us about 2 hours to get up to blenheim from our house.
  5. Coronet cuts. Basically looks much more natural than a standard/pruning cut. Looks like the limb/top has snapped. Much better for bugs n beasties.
  6. Looks like expansion cracks but they dont normally ooze like that. Might be where the expansion cracks are getting infected with bacterial flux. Nothing structural just the natural process when the tree wants to expand it just splits the bark slowly.
  7. Just ordered the tickets for Saturday. 4 of us going. picking up an old work mate on the way up there. Should take us about 2 hours to get from our house to blenheim palace (on a good run).
  8. A secret pleasure of mine. Dr Dre. Here is his latest offering. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuJDaOVz2qY]YouTube - ‪Dr. Dre - Kush ft. Snoop Dogg, Akon‬‏[/ame]
  9. Here ya go. Some images of the arches. All of the ivy that is on the wall was removed by truck and winch. The Somerset and Dorset Railway - Midford Midsomer Norton Gartell Shillingstone Washford: blandford arches
  10. LOL. We had the chipper on the Tuesday after the heavy rain overnight. The pics were taken on the monday. We had a biggish bonfire to get the stuff gone. Trouble is ivy is a pain to get rid of as it is so smoky. So we stacked it and chipped it on tuesday.
  11. Stihl is normally 50:1
  12. Shouldnt really put it on here but had a bit of an argument/ work tiff about a brushcutter. Our apprentice has just done his brushcutter training and passed. But the guy who i had the work tiff with was constantly asking if we should pick it up. We had no need to it today but then he would say well what about the big bramble patch that needs tidying. We did it with slashers and a hedgecutter. At the end of the day he proceded to have a go at me about the state of the inside of the truck. Its everyones responsibility to keep the trucks in good order but i think washing it at the end of each day when it has a few splashes of mud on it is a bit OTT. Other than that productive day and going out with an old work colleague for a few beers tomorrow night.
  13. We saw some hawthorn just coming out into leaf. Even some pussy willow with full on buds.
  14. Yep its behind the Somerfield (now Co-op). I'm not 100% certain but judging by the embankment that extends into the council housing estate there must have been some form of brnach line to the camp. There is a very small section of branch line in Langton long. We cant do anything with that section though as it is full of compacted steel and contaminated waste.
  15. Same here. I was on at 5.30 then it just crashed.
  16. Not entirely tree related but stilll. We did a clearance job on some old railway Arches known as Langton Arches on Monday and Tuesday. Here are the pictures my boss took with my camera. Im not too good for heights so he went up with another colleague to help clear it. Here is the associated link to the press release that went out this week too. FIRST steps were taken this week on securing a long-term future for the flood arches on Langton Meadows which used to form part of the Somerset & Dorset railway line.
  17. Very neatly trimmed bush. Bet thats taken alot to get it to that shape.
  18. Thats the plan next month. We have a contractor coming in to reduce by 35-40%. All done by MEWP due to the fact that Lombardis are a major pain to find an anchor. When i am i nthe area i shall get some pics of the big butresses and a pic of my colleague stood in front of the tree. The colleague who i am normally with is 6 ft 2 to give you an idea of the size of it. At a rough guess its probably touching 90ft tall maybe 100 ft and about 5-7 ft across. The MEWP is a specialist one that we have used before. We had several tree surgeons look at it and shy away. We have only just taken the site on (last 2 months or so). We did a site check when we picked it up and we were paying particular attention to stuff leaning from river bank to peoples gardens. We knew the poplar had something wrong with it when a gentleman showed us a picture of it taken in Summer 2010.
  19. Yep. The site up until about the 1970s was used for grazing by cattle which would explain how the colybia in. Nope. No tips dead on this one. We do have one in gillingham which is even bigger and has dead tips espcially near the top. It is also hollow and has even more pronounced butresses. It is also well within falling distance of houses and a newly installed pedestrian bridge. So we are keeping a very very close eye on it. Its right next to a constantly shifting river bank and has an active badger sett around it.
  20. Ive posted some of these pics before i know. Three are Common Oaks. The other is a Lombary Poplar. All have flared root butresses. Only one of them has a confirmed fungal issue but obviously the other three have had something in them in the past. Three are healthy, one is not. The plan over the next few years is to monitor them and reduce if/when neccesary.
  21. My boss forgot until we told him. He was searching frantically in the near by supermarket for a suitable card and bunch of flowers. Got a cheap card n decent bunch of flowers for 5 quid. We all nearly wet ourselves when he was running back to the job site, tripped over a kirb, destroyed all but 1 of the flowers and the card ended up in a big pile of dog muck. he didnt see the funny side but he was let off big time when the misses came round with 3 bags of donuts for us to eat.
  22. We used to go out lamping on a regular basis on a few local farms. Sadly the farms were bought by high wage "townies" and the sporting rights were removed. Still was good fun whilst it lasted. The best my dad and i ever had was 19. That was at the end of Sept 09. We are currently focusing on the farrowing pens on one of the big local estates and can normally have 5 or 6 a night.
  23. One of the joys of roost shooting. We can go down some of the muddiest tracks on the estate. Because we have mud terrain tyres we can go places other people cant. Was good fun going along one track known as Hardings Resi to Penfold Resi track. It is being heavily used by tractors and has been for the past two years. Lots of sloppy, claggy chalk clay mix on a very compact base. This is the result.
  24. We got a new (2 month old) FS 550. Brilliant brushcutter/clearing saw. Will handle most stuff. Bit heavy but well balanced. It took a week or so for the anti-vibration bushes to bed in and loosen up but after that very very smooth. We have a 2001 FS 400 and a 2010 FS450. The 450 has a tendency to flood when cold but other than that no problems.
  25. We normally call it quits at the first weekend in april as the birds will be starting to get in the swing of things for spring. We have a vermin shoot on two of the estates we go to. Normally split into two teams one team go to one end and the other team head to the other we just sweep through blatting squirrel dreys and having any woodies that come over. We have a few people stood out the front in case any ginger critters and jays come out.

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