Jcarbor
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The method was totally wrong for that tree, if the person who planned that work stated it should be down that way then he should be picking up his p45. Proper planning and that situation would never have occurred.
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Good morning Matty, my foreman has been with me since he was an apprentice,he’s now 30, we haven’t had anyone leave for many years, it doesn’t make for a good team if you turn staff around. As for experience we take on people who have been to college,we provide them with on the job experience whilst studying.
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Is it? Been running my business very successfully for years and seem to get the time/price ratio on jobs right and don’t rush the job. We earn a good living out of it.
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Pete, I’m not sure if we are in the top .1% , what I am saying as the director of my company- if a job needs a specific piece of kit ( crane MEWP etc) then it gets it and my client will accept my professional advise on the safest way to undertake the job ,be it kit or road closures or TM. I want my staff to come to work happy ,have a good enjoyable day and go back home to their family in the same condition they started the day in. If the price is too much for the customer then we walk away. That job was done totally wrong, the poor lad payed an awful price for his inexperience or haste to do the job. I’ve seen previous posts on this site from utility workers complaining about pressures of time and unrealistic planning by managers ending in serious injury. Safety is paramount and good planning can reduce the possibility of it happening.
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May be he did but still the wrong thing to fell from that point.
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We often strap rotten knackered tree stems together, but that tree should have been taken down from the tip to the base either by climbing or preferably by a tracked MEWP.
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Times not an issue in the work that we do, safety is and I’m lucky that the clients that I work for listen to what we need to do the detail and are willing to pay for it do be done so.. As for the face cut I may be wrong. Still a bad call to do what he did.
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How many people have ever broken a double braid rigging rope?
Jcarbor replied to Treerover's topic in Rigging and roping
Its a good idea to get booked on to an AA rigging day, they arrange them every now and again, contact Paul smith for details, you’ll learn an awful lot about the dynamics of shock loading and the forces involved. -
May be so Mick, but not face cutting a major stem like that is most possibly going to end up in a disaster, I would be mortified if my boys had done that on a job, if they got away with it and I found out they’d be unemployed.
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How many people have ever broken a double braid rigging rope?
Jcarbor replied to Treerover's topic in Rigging and roping
And there I rest my case to accidents and mishaps on a well planned day Joe. -
There’s plenty of things that can go wrong on a well planned day.
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Why do you cut corners? Its a dangerous enough job when you do it right.
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We do a lot of highways and utility work, if that had been my site I would Have put a 25 metre tracked MEWP on it, that team of lads have been let down by their management team. Shite tall thin co dominent stems like that cry out MEWP.
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We do that with crane dismantles as well, it saves a lot of effort and cuts down on extra machinery and fuel costs.
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Mick I was a bootneck and then a paramedic before i set up in arb, i was well on my way to being worn out before I started, two complete knee replacements at the age of 55 and I’m still reasonably active and loving the job. It does keep you aerobically fit but takes its toll on your joints.
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I started up at 40 plus, i have a successful arb contracting company, we have been arb association approved contractors. Some things you need to be aware of-: A.if you climb you must have a trained aerial rescuer with you,its a must. B. You need to learn to prune properly, its not all about just taking trees down. The reductions in your pics are very poor. C. Get use to doing risk assessments for every job you do. D. Make sure you carry the right insurance. E. Doing landscaping in bad weather maybe pants, climbing can be an absolute nightmare. F. Be prepared to wreck your body physically. Good luck.
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I got hit in the thighs by a 2 inch long blackthorn whilst chipping, it went through my chainsaw trousers and lodge in my muscle, it looked like a large black head, by the time i got to the first aid kit it had disappeared into my thigh, the staff at casualty though i was bullshitting them until they scanned me, ended up in theatre , general anaesthetic and operation to remove it,
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There is no way the removal of that small tree is going to have any effect on that property no matter what the soil type is, its tiny , it would go through the chipper in 5 minutes! £200 and I’d grind the stump out as well
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Buy an engine lift hoist from machine mart.
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Good morning Rough Hewn Palisade security fencing and gates, 7 feet high minimum, top the rails off with barbed wire on outward facing angled hangers, cover the fence prongs with dirty old grease and plant pyracantha in front of it.Set sensors/cameras in the yard that connect to your mobile device or phone if possible. Get a GSD as a companion and have him/her trained to protect you if you ever have the misfortune to come into contact with the scumbags.
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They would need to be quick.
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You can bet your bottom dollar that its the same scum bags, they travel the country picking up other peoples kit and dumping shit in lay-bys, but who are they? No one seems to know!
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Its an absolute sickener when these scum do you over, ive been done 4 times, the last time they cleared me out of £10k, the police don’t give a shit, yet if you caught them and did owt to them they would be interested in you for sure, easy prosecution option. Ive invested in one of these and its trained to protection dog standards.
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Jenkinsons will take it, about £360 for a 27 tonne load, you’ll need to load them.
