Goaty
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Yes I remember this video earlier in a thread. He hangs on to his precious saw for an age, has a good long think about it. Then decided to drop it. I find when things go pear shaped thinking speeds up. But this guy is as cool as a cucumber. The big question is how would you get the stretcher to him in the tree? Would you strap him upright in situ then flip him end over end between two of you?
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I would of been worried about my hefty colleague long before this. I mean, who ate all the pies?? Also he would be robbing 40kg off our precious EU payload allowance on every trip in the truck. That would be the difference between finishing some jobs or doing a little job on the way back to the yard. It's highly unlikely he'd meet our fitness expectations unless he was 6'6
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I have been involved with airpots for years but didn't think this thread was for trees of the larger size. Yes they work with the root Air prune idea. They are not water efficient unless you recapture and reuse water, easy to irrigate with nozzles and an irrigation system. The discs used in the bottom tend to sag and crack rendering them useless for reuse. We've started using them sat on concrete without the discs. Probably could do the same on plastic membrane but defeats the object of air pruning and roots going through the membrane in to the ground. Upto 10 litre size in my experience I'd use pond baskets.
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For small "airpots" just buy the plastic pond baskets. Achieves same effect. Will need to shelter and water more frequently. The plants on the right are in them. Sent from my iPad
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For small "airpots" just buy the plastic pond baskets. Achieves same effect. Will need to shelter and water more frequently. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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gardening/grounds maintenance qualifications
Goaty replied to RexPayne's topic in Training & education
For your own sanity sake make sure you go to a decent college. Some are now running the course for the sake of it . It's a sham. Still gift you the qualification. But demoralising enduring the course. -
My feelings are the same, far from being a wuss. I don't see the point in needless pain. Only time I would get physical is if saw someone getting an immoral pasting. Kicked in head etc. Or myself or someone with me being attacked then I'd only do the nessasary.
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To poop the party, I've yet to understand this as a legit sport. It has few rules, is brutal. Damages people and has had deaths on occasion. If it happens in the streets it's regarded with disgust, gbh, arrests etc all out outrage in the media. Put it in a cage beat the day lights out of a guy even when he is helplessly pinned down. There is no other legal "sport" like it. Baffles me. Mohammed ali had Parkinson's, going to be interesting what this lot end up like when their glory days are over. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Agreed on all counts fagus. Not an anti Europe rant but imported stock suffers high failure rate I think due to time in cold stores and transit. The cheap barefoot fruit trees in supermarkets are major victims. Lifted early season in Eastern Europe when they know the weather won't hold them up. Dehydrated in cold store. Bit like veg in the fridge. Shipped. Handled, packed reshipped. Arrive at store exhausted. Also sadly the anything for a sale practices of some nurseries. They insist on saying pot grown is ready when it's only being potted a few weeks. Knowing your nursery and them knowing your high expectations should help. Hopefully they will be honest and say when stuff is not ready. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Brutally in your eyes. Grown in any soil type. Often root pruned in winter by dragging a u shaped blade under them or lifting them trimming roots and replanting. This creates a fibrous root system that will transplant well. The trees are scooped out the ground and either shaken by machine or simply bashed against the machine to knock soil off. Bare in mind it's done in winter, little uptake of moisture required and the roots are not growing much so hardened not soft tissue. When I get tree planting jobs I nearly always root prune, rather than the common shove it in and fold it to fit technique used by go quicker is more profit outfits. I also single up the top growth to one shoot to balance this, helps establish a tree not a bush! Here is a good piece of pro nursery kit in action Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Accurate fitness per job probably is optimistically five percent. I've a round gut, always have had. Never been to the gym in my life. I'm in my 40s. I've whupped many on my way, that have been keen footballers, military, gym boys etc. Mostly I'm talking about being a commercial hardy stock nurseryman. Which I remember the cries and taunts of fellow school peers, "your going to be a gardener!, how gay! Girly work " etc. The reality is many of them couldn't cope with the weather for starters. Not trying to make the nursery game more exclusive or anything but from what I've seen less than one in 25 hack it for long. A chainsaw and heights aren't in the equation, so it could be less is the pro tree game. There is a lot of wannabes and softies try. The mentality isn't there to start with along with the willingness to put effort in. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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How electronic is it. A MAN truck I used to drive destroyed its fan every 8-12 weeks until they sorted they sorted the issue . Can't remember what the problem was. The truck was an electronic pile of problems.
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Thinking of the ploughing. Geared is better. More of the power to the traction. Leave it sat in gear. No leg ache from holding hst pedal. As you already have a hst you will have both. Hst is for movement changing all the time short distance work in my opinion.
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Drought stress in the soil water table. We don't get hose pipe bans anymore due to improved infrastructure from the water companies. In the last few days I've seen, beech, birch, lime, sycamore all suffering some defoliating and two beech shed limbs. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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I keep them to this point in regular use, then when they start to blunt quickly keep them for disposable tasks. Cutting plastic, roots, wood with masonry or metal such as fence wire in it. Yes I'm tight, but I also have a conscience about resources and have had since I was a kid. Long before all the tick boxes recycling exercises came on the scene. You will probably find only those that can maintain and sharpen a chain correctly will actually still be able to use it effectively at this point of wear. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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The bane of technology, interfering spellchanger! I wear boots sometimes but prefer flip flops when doing sweaty chainsaw work[emoji12] Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Sounds like reality tv show to me, I don't watch em, but the masses soak them up. Ty's trees tv. Anyone? Would never of expected a camp Frenchman! Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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That chest shadow isn't very flattering Ollie. Makes mine look like fried eggs.[emoji1] Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Found this, it's says overall barefoot makes more sense http://www.barchampro.co.uk/sites/default/files/anella_et_al_2008_growth_of_bb_vs_br_trees.pdf Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Looked at a Bosch grinder I own today. Made in Russia! Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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I'm suprised, it's going to be lumpy for you. Maybe at least bring the tissue closer with dressing I would of thought, but what would I know, I'm not even a tree surgeon. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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In the post I can't but I can in the timeline to the left? Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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I would've had that stitched or stapled up at least Roy's. Yeah it doesn't hurt or annoy but scar tissue in bulk is a nuisance. I have older everlasting Bosch grinders and I'd noticed recently on someone else's made in China. It seems the transfer the tooling over etc. Then rush it through making them and reducing costs in component sourcing, I used to go for Bosch, unlikely now.n Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
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Grafts on to 2-3 yr cell grown stock according to species. Grown in trays in greenhouse until late spring. Potted into 2 litres. Most sold in the autumn. Some reach 6ft! Probably 5000 planted in the field each year. I don't work there much these days. Sent from my iPad using Arbtalk
