James Atkinson

On a side note what does “op” stand for next to my name?

Very light. It would have been marsh land until relatively recently in history so organic matter. But obviously I have not done a soil test to back this up, but I’m fairly confident.

Today I was asked to quote on a removal of a walnut tree around 5 metres away from a old stable block. Now I know these older buildings tend not to have great foundations. Would you recommend a removal over stages on a tree like this? I would usually just go ahead and take it out but felt this would just be worth checking. Any help would be much appreciated.

Funny how things change. I learned so much from this forum over the last 10 years. Remember the mental rope wrench thread? [emoji23] I do think Arbtalk on Facebook has pulled more users over to there. Personally I hate Arbtalk on Facebook full of total morons

Another good looking little loader https://youtu.be/mdnwUaQpR3I

That’s the answer I was expecting [emoji23]

Where can I do this course? It seems a little vague on exactly what course I need to take to be able to shut a section of road way off with stop and go boards. Any info would be much appreciated

I prefer it on srt mate [emoji106] but hen I also always used one when I was on the spoderjack

This is a strange one

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/162788230534

And Steve is always arguing with me about flippin bollards [emoji23]

Mine obviously. Jamesarb. I warn you I do # a lot [emoji23] but I do get new kit to review and product test [emoji106]

Where can I do a course on risk assessments please mate?

Where from mate?

Would they take a truck and chipper or is that pushing it a bit?

I’m guessing pretty pricey?

As the title states, do any of you guys use some type of rubber matting or ply boards to protect your clients precious grass? For your truck/chipper or skidsteer etc etc

Fits in the Jensen a540 perfectly [emoji106]

Anyone seen these?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272766264578

That is a very good point. I guess I live out in the country so pretty on my own, but you can see why the rules are their

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Don't really have a problem with that bit you can't even put it on your own drive haha

I have no problems with the laws. Apart from the strange having a yard to run a 7.5t vehicle [emoji23]

Well what a read that was [emoji23] The NHS is always a classic debate. My wife being very "up" in the NHS for many years points out on regular occasions that the main problem is diet. Diabetes alone and obesity costs billions, yes billions of pounds. Smoking, we all know about. It is a domino effect, eat worse, get bad organs, need new organs, need new knees, etc etc. These are the expensive items. In the past we ate what we produced off the land. (Less illness, less need for NHS) unfortunately this goes across all skin colour and nationality. For what ever reason in the past and present their has never been enough people to do the basic jobs. The Caribbean people were invited by the British government in the 50s/60s to work in the factory's. This was broadcasted throughout the cinemas on the islands "the queen needs you" basically meaning their isn't enough English to do it. Regarding the whole Africa is thick debate compared to Japan. It isn't really that easy. And it requires a lot of learning and visiting the actually countries to understand fully what is going on. Often simple things like decent ports, soil and a government who wants to help is the main problems. Making England great again attitude is a slight problem as well, the people who say it have not lived through the time when they thought it was great, or were children who remember summers that last 100 days and playing out in the streets safe. England only 100 years ago had extreme poverty and premature deaths.It Is easy to say make it like it was "but only if I'm middle or upper class like on tv", we can't help what we are born into. What everyone would benefit from is tighter borders, real checks, real controls. Look how hard it is to get into New Zealand unless your a arborist [emoji23] any slight link to any organisation and it's a no. Also don't get me started on the lack of motivation to do any work by young men in this country.