Jcarbor
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It’s a waste of time too many cash greedy people banging out wet shit . I bit the bullet and installed a biomass boiler to get rid of our wood waste, best 25 k I’ve ever spent, both my houses and barn toasty.
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My wife and daughter were following a works vehicle into our local small town, out of the driver’s window came a McDonald’s bag full of waste, my daughter took the reg number and the company and called me up with it. Ironically the company that owns the vehicle is a business that provides highway maintenance including verge litter picking. The chap who I dealt with on the phone was apologetic and very cross. Next day the two young imbeciles were out litter picking the road. I would have got rid of them.
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Hi Ben, we do a lot of call out for our county council, they don’t pay us a stand by rate, that said they pay us very good money for responding. The other thing is we get rewarded with planned work, my lads love the varied works that highway’s contracting gives them, it varies from roadside trees to river clearance works. They are a good organisation to work for.
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Don’t us petrol it’s full of crap. It’s becoming a real problem with 2 strokes, those deposits will eventually bloke up the carb. Use alkylate fuels
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What about a tracked MEWP? Ours will go through a standard house door,goes up to 20 metres.
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Advice from you forestry types please...
Jcarbor replied to lux's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Chip it all, and give Jenkinsons a ring -
I’d say very few in my experience.
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Ben I was Arb approved, it is good to do, you learn an awful lot about running your business in a professional manner, yet as I have found out it gets you no more work than any other company out there that’s not AAac. I was allowed to do a PQQ for the Forestry commission twice but got nowt from it so I didn’t bother wasting several hours of my precious time filling it in yet again! We get loads of works for highways authorities, city councils, and large corporate companies,none of which ask if we are AAacs, they are more interested in my lads CSCS cards and my RAMS. It’s good to save yourself some brass once you’ve done it give it up and have a go on your own, you maybe surprised how much work and contracts you’ll still get. It’s still a good thing to experience and Paul is a truly good guy.
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Yep fair dos, that said the sheaf is still an integral part of that piece of kit and would lead to a failure. Steel rope in contact against a mechanical steel/aluminium rope grab ain’t good.
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Looks like you’re having a good productive time there. Just casting my eye over photo 3, I think it’s may be a 13 mm Marlow Komodo main climbing line? When you have time get someone to check it or cast your eye over it, that’s a fair bit of rough abrasions on the outer sheaf, I think I would be tempted to fail it if we LOLER inspected it. Happy climbing and be safe.
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Joe no disrespect buddy but that ain’t no pollard, it’s a lopped tree. It’s not good practice to reduce trees by so much. It can often lead to death to the cambium of the lopped limbs. The trees crown has connections to the tree root system, by removing so much structure it stresses the roots system. The LPA TOs in the area that we work in loath this type of work being carried out to such an extent that they now in general refuse to pass any application to reduce trees,even when done to BS 3998.
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A skilled worker card should be sufficient on any site/highway. I’ve been running my business for 20 years and in a previous career was educated to NVQ level 6, I tried to get a supervisors card but BALI don’t take in to account my education level as a paramedic supervisor.
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BALI changed it all with the introduction of the waste of a day ROLO course, you need a card that takes into account of your Arboricultural tickets. We often get asked to show them. If you don’t do any corporate work or highways don’t waste your money on get one.
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the best water proof arborist jacket to date
Jcarbor replied to markrufrider's topic in General chat
We used to issue them in hi vis, they’re very good but costly, changed over now to fristards. -
Decent climber would have done that easy, are you going soft like us in your old age.[emoji23]
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Thanks paul.[emoji106]
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What is causing this? It looks very similar to ash die back, can it effect sorbus trees?
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Speed, wanted it down and stump out and wood gone in a shift.
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bit of crane work today, tree down in 2 hours.
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Does that pick up contain a first aid kit by any chance? Your trucks livery in the uk would have people knocking on your door for a plaster[emoji23]
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Your climbing kit is the most important bit of equipment in your company, look after it and religiously inspect it every time you use it, if it’s faulty replace it no matter what it costs you, your lowering gear is also as important.
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Yep that’s very adequate.
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It’s marked on the piece of kit when you get it or in the literature supplied with it, make a note of it from the paper work provided, it may also be on the end of the rope sheath cover. If you are inspecting your kit make sure that you or another person has had the appropriate training in inspection. Make sure you understand what it means.A great way of understanding these things is to book on to an Arboricultural association course that covers these issues.
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both had a hard day at work
