Spruce Pirate
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I agree, but in this health and safety conscious world in which we live in I think we can expect to see more of them. I was once told, unfortunately I can't remember by whom, that it would/should replace normal felling cuts, ie every cut should be dog-tooth!!
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I assume this is at least a semi-rhetorical question? But it does stop things moving both on forward and back leaners. Forward lean, obviously stops it going too early, back lean lets you get the hinge set and a couple of wedges in, tension the winch line without pinching the bar of the saw. Seems very much the flavour of the month at the moment, but it does have its uses. If the tree is biased or leaning towards where you want to fell it then why the winch?
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It is amazing how many people think that wood is worth a fortune. People are continually surprised when I tell them it will cost more to take their wood away, rather than leave it for them as firewood.
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My first whole tree dismantle, its a monster.
Spruce Pirate replied to Tommy Hutchinson's topic in General chat
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My first whole tree dismantle, its a monster.
Spruce Pirate replied to Tommy Hutchinson's topic in General chat
Felling should certainly be a viable option, even with only a 24" bar. That said, dismantling is also an option. There are plus points to both, which you choose to do is up to you. As with so many things in life there is more than one way to skin a cat and it often depends on what you're most comfortable with. At the end of the day the tree is on the ground, you're safe and the customer is happy - you can't argue with that. For the record, I'd have dropped it in one. Also agree monolith could've been good, but if the client doesn't want it, then what can you do? -
I still like the 254, it's a little heavier, but other than that it still feels like a modern saw to use. We've been taking dead hedge material up there for them, so I've seen the stick in place, but I've not taken any photos. I think there might be some more stuff to go up, so if I remember I'll get a couple of pictures. Personally I think the dead hedges spoil the whole appearance, I can't understand why they didn't plant a proper hedge instead, but, hey-ho.
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254xp from 1997. Not used every day by any stretch, but still fires up and still gets occasional use if needs be.
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Its not a question of how much the pile is worth, its whether or not you think its worth your while cutting it up for that. If that's the whole lot in the picture I'd be round like a shot (if I was in Lincolnshire). Looks like easy money to me.
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he who ......... into wind gets his own back.
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NPTC requirement for crosscutting with 25"
Spruce Pirate replied to openspaceman's topic in Training & education
Don't know about CS 30, but my old CS 14 covered cross-cutting, it was a stand alone unit so, for example, saw mills could put guys through CS 10 & 14 (as was) so that they could cut a 7.4 log into two 3.7s without having to go to the trouble of having a felling ticket for someone who was never going to drop a tree. I presume the cross-cut element of CS 30 is still in place for this reason, so it would seem daft to have it limited to 15". On the 15" diameter thing for felling, I totally agree, we had a job a we while ago thinning some southern beech, knocking on 100' tall, less than 15" diameter, and yet the 30' tall beech sub-compartment just 100 yards up the hill couldn't be felled without a CS 32 ticket as it was all over 15" diameter. Ridiculous situation. -
Killearn Kirk isn't it?
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So no-one knows of any reason that only elm or beech should be used. It seemed strange to me at the time, but as I had a bit of elm in I didn't question it too much and just took his money. What the customer wants, after all, is what you should sell them (within reason obviously).
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Is that due to scarcity of clean stuff?
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Are you getting good money for infected stuff or only clean stuff? Is there any clean stuff down your way?
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The oven was brick built, by my father-in-law as it happens, to a traditional Italian design (apparently), so there was no supplier as such. However, someone must have come up with the idea of how the oven was designed and they could well have said to use elm or beech. I have been to Italy, but don't remember noticing a lot of beech or elm, so not sure how "traditional" they are in this sense.
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Could be. I think I asked him about that at the time, but didn't get much other than, "it has to be elm or beech" out of him. I wasn't sure if they burned particularly pure, ie almost complete combustion with very little emissions? Are there any species preferred for cooking charcoal?
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I always assumed there was some basis for it but was never sure what that basis was. Personally I would assume that if you get it hot enough it doesn't matter what species it is, but perhaps I'm wrong.
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I was reading another thread a few minutes ago about wood species which reminded me of this. I was asked by a local pub, a few years ago now, to supply either beech or elm for their Italian style wood burning pizza oven. They were very specific about it being elm or beech, I asked at the time why it had to be one of these species, but never got an answer over, "because it does". I had a bit of low quality elm at the time so it wasn't a problem to do it, but I always wondered why the species was so specific. Does anyone know the answer?
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In addition to payment terms etc, make sure you put on how long the quote is valid for. 90 days is standard I think. You don't want someone coming back to you three years later when all your costs have trebled and saying they'd like to accept your quote.
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Is this really a problem on here? For everything that is posted up showing something not being carried out to industry best practice there always seems to be somebody posting up a reply saying, "that looks a bit dodgy, why don't you do it this way?". I'm paraphrasing, obviously.
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Other than almost any semi-mature onward tree may have some bat potential I don't see anything specific in the photos. Is there something I've missed or are you generalising here?
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Climbing in thunder and lightning storms
Spruce Pirate replied to Jack Price's topic in General chat
Don't like thunder and lightning. If it starts its home time for me. I know a couple of people who've been struck, both on the ground, doesn't sound pleasant. -
For those of you who sit on the side line
Spruce Pirate replied to eggsarascal's topic in General chat
Purely out of curiosity, why did you join an arb forum if you've nothing to do with the industry? I'm not saying you shouldn't join, the forum wouldn't be as interesting if it was only tree types on it, just wondering. -
I think they're separate tickets. PA1 is the foundation ticket, you need it to do any subsequent tickets, but all the others are stand alone units.
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Have to renew all NPTC units every 5 years
Spruce Pirate replied to lloyd g's topic in Training & education
The problem with this is that it is supposed to be about improving health and safety. Unfortunately we don't yet have the full details of exactly which hoops we will need to jump through. My worry is that it's going to be time consuming; expensive; contractors will not be able to fully recoup the costs and in reality it will do very little to actually improve health and safety. I hope I'm proved wrong on all these points. I do not think that refresher training is a totally bad thing, I'm on record on here several times saying so. However it should be meaningful, and be based more on an individuals skills and abilities rather than a box ticking exercise. Of course log books can be fabricated, but I'd like to think if it were a viable alternative to endless re-testing that most folk would take a couple of minutes each day to complete it? Maybe I have too much faith in human nature...
