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Aye, tiny. But kept the mess near the stump, branches went down butt the right way, I came down a couple of times to chip so the pile didn't grow too far from the chipper, the aforementioned not poking holes in the lawn. Being so tiny, reclimbing is no imposition. The one rig was just to show my mate what rigging is.
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Another "what's this tree?" thread...
AHPP replied to slicendice73's topic in Tree Identification pictures
Drooping branches, whatever that's more likely to make it. -
Just a bit too close to a phoneline and nicer to climb anyway. No holes poked in lawn, no muddy branches through the chipper. And my mate got to do some rigging, which was novel for him.
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Just finished putting it away for November. Not a great wage.
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Props for getting the camera out on such a dreich day. I luckily have very little on because none of anything was getting done in this misery. Who do I talk to deity wise about some better weather? Happy to pray, beseech, build temples and monuments, sacrifice children etc. Whatever it takes for more than ten hours without precipitation.
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Climbing, anything's possible. You don't actually need to go out very far, if at all. Conservatively tip tie with a pole and lift them up and in. Butt tie everything to the trunk too in case your hinges don't work well enough. Portawrap on a car in the yard if no lifting bollard. You'll probably get some snaps but the building will probably be fine. But that's all a hell of a lot more effort and risk than just getting a cheap picker. Any old thing can get in there. Even if someone came with a little one on a Land Rover for an hour, you'd get the difficult branches done. I wouldn't say the ADB is a massive consideration. I'd be reaching for the picker because it's easier and safer, whatever the species and condition. It's a bit of a consideration though.
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It's a picker tree anyway.
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IMG_3177.MOV Second job for my little mincer. Smashing thing. Loves conifer.
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I'm selling my Hobbs and trying to find out from the serial number how old it is. The manufacturer is Arborist Designs but you google that and just get swamped with Mick Dempsey's wardrobe. Does anyone have a link or contact information?
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The van will either fit or it won't. I can cope with carrying my spikes, flipline, saw and wheeling the chipper that far.
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I barely understand what you mean btw.
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(Wee) chipper won't touch the road. Ramps straight onto the garden path.
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Upstairs window I think. Aiming to be away in under three hours, taking it easy, playing with the dog etc.
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Haven't had a pricing thread for a while have we. Before I go a micron further, I know what I'm charging, I know my costs and my profit aspirations, I know everyone's are different and telling me, "If [I] don't know what to charge, then I shouldn't be doing it." will result in me thinking less of you for about a second and then forgetting you exist. With that out of the way... Down, chipped into the flowerbeds (or away if you prefer, van fits outside the garden gate), logs on my fire. What do people charge for these kind of tiny jobs? I'm mainly familiar with big stuff. What am I charging? £200 because he's a mate but would feel awkward having it done for free. Commercially, I'd charge £400 if I wanted to win it, £500 if I didn't care.
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Left high for a digger to pluck them out, duh. There was a lot more wrong with the job than that (only in my opinion of course) but that's what we were asked to do so we did it.
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Anyone?
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I used an 8m bit of three strand for that for years. Very handy. Double lanyard for flipping past branches, mini second system, butt keeper rigging, tagline, saw collection and temporary strop. Now using 15m ish of some climbing rope, usually on my bridge now though.
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Which other brands have you used over the years?
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@doobin Honeymoon report for the Oil and Steel?
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Nice. Strong looking head. I performed one of my most successful/blasé bits of dog whispering on a ridgeback. Saw it across a park while walking my mum's shepherd years ago. Went over to say hello. The bloke on the end of the lead was terrified. It was his son's dog and apparently nobody could go near it without significant violence. Wan't convinced. Left the shepherd with my friend, walked straight up to it, said something along the lines of, "Behave or you're not getting tickled." Ten seconds later, it's on its back and I'm rubbing his belly. Bloke is stunned. My friend's heartbeat is still audible from twenty feet away. Introduced the shepherd without event. The episode helped imbue me with a fairly cavalier attitude to dodgy dogs that I'm sure will one day end up with me getting mauled, but it hasn't happened yet.
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That brown one is a handsome beast. What is it? If I had to guess, I'd say some kind of Rhodesian/Vizla Pitbull mix. Fully prepared to look stupid when you give the actual answer.
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I feel more naturally disposed to climbing than pickers too but I've always assumed that's because I only use them a few times a year so I'm probably just not that good with them. It comes down to economics as always. I had a guy put a rope in the top of a 3 stemmed conifer from a picker a couple of months ago because it was already on the site. We agreed it was a climbing tree but five minutes' fighting through brash at the top meant I had a lovely safe, easy skin-up climb the next morning. No way would I have hired the machine in just for that though. Forgetting what point I was making...
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Ah. It goes down the back of your leg and tends it from there. Someone could have just said that.
