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This is so relevant Little bit of on the job training and trusting the guys you are working with goes a long way. Much more than having someone with 38 standing there with a harness on watching your every move. All aerial rescuers need on the job shock training to cope with reality should they be required to take action. We need to do this more

Straight to the red button without saying a word is currently my preferred method.

I'm always thinking aerial rescue will be required most likely in a biggish tree when a climber falls and becomes unconscious hung up. Possibly a bad chainsaw cut. More often than not I think the climber will get him/herself down without help from the ground. Both our climbers are aerial rescue trained but I think they are not prepared at all times for this event. Like you say- should the ground man have his harness on ready. Well, yes if the climber is doing a particularly risky operation. But this isn't 100% of the time and often only 2%. Maybe the climber shouts an instruction to be ready if he thinks the situation demands it. If theres 2 groundies and one is aerial rescue then should that one just stand about holding ropes while the other one does all the dragging. Thats a bit unlikely. Share the workload applies. Should there be a second climbing line in the tree for 'just in case'. I've never seen that. How far do you go. History/ ability/ attitude/ size of tree all come into it. It's not black and white and is a dynamic situation. Good luck with your H&S witch hunt. Hopefully they live in the real world but in reality they more likely will be covering their backs. These are just my feelings on the debate that is so often just brushed under the carpet for practical/ financial reasons.

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Terrible beech reduction- the guy is a bully. Stand up to him he'll probably fold. On the phone number thinggy. I hate 0800 numbers because they cost me on my mobile. I do think though that only mobile numbers on vans looks a bit fly. Tricky one.

Booked up till xmas too and is the first time it's ever happened to us and it's a good feeling. Doom and gloom has evapourated. Finally I said it would:001_rolleyes:

I'd be interested to hear. Where did you get this information from?

How did they drive They look like pigs:001_smile:

Its a tricky one We,ve got a chestnut to fell. It lost a large limb earlier in the year. Theres a lot of children play around it If we retrench I think it will require monitoring. Hmm... Any thoughts.?

everyone should see that

Try the folding ones Rich- I keep one in my vehicle- nice and safe and is often used - Maybe some grease/vaseline to keep rust free. I could see it going through a thick rope piece of cake. Failing that 660:biggrin:

Never mind - you can still get series 5 for free:001_smile:

Watch it on Netflix £6 for the whole 5 series. Free if you've never had it before. I've been getting up at 4am to get in 3 episodes before breakfast. It's well worth it. Great Finale too. Won't spoil it.

we had a customer who was slowly but surely losing his boundary hedge to honey fungus . We tried most things and he even got armilotox people to come and treat the soil- to no effect. The disease continued- 1 or 2 plants (privet) a year. In the end we removed 3 healthy ones further from the dying ones. and planted yew in the gap. Still there today and no more dying privet. So it is possible and there is light at the end of the tunnel although this is drastic and the client won't want you digging out healthy plants- you've just got to. Having said that, as the ground is dry under the conifers on your site, I wouldn't recommend yew unless you can keep watering in the first couple of seasons. You could try bamboo:lol: but be warned!!!

Spot on- Thanks- apparently not that uncommon but prefers sheltered spot. This one is about 3m high. I was waiting for someone to say it's a .........................hornbeam:001_rolleyes:

Thats the one sorry about the pics- they were off bens phone and we should have taken a close up. We snaffled a cutting and the leaflets remind me of a ginko in shape but not in the way they are spread nor in size. Certainly a wierd one

Try this

Anyone? Grows about 40 metres from the sea although reasonably sheltered.

Didn't know that How high is high- more than benzene?

Hi Alec That would suit fine for a lot of it. How much could she handle- we'll probably have 20 cube chip and quite a bit of log wood.

Anyone know where we can tip chip in these areas or even Maidstone or Gillingham. Quite happy to let tip site have any log wood if that clinches the deal. We're working a long way from home very soon.

I know I've requested before but I've lost all the details people kindly sent. We have now got a lot more tree work in Chatham/ Sutton/ Kingston/ Faversham/Maidstone alongside more local stuff. If anyone can help out M25 side of Sevenoaks would be ideal I'm quite happy to drop logs off too if it helps as we don't really do logs other than for our own use and our stores are full. Can anyone help out PM if you like.