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  1. tree-fancier123
    the only thing is, from his advert, he wants a good man, able to run teams and do every aspect of arb, even to know a bit of background plant science. Now, there are I'm sure many one man banders with a few occiasional hired hands to call on who can clear 35 - 40k profit doing trees, hedging , fencing, but wouldn't be any good at being a foreman. It's easier to run a small outfit for themselves, than a bigger one for someone else, where a greater technical knowledge/ability and leadership skills are required. So saying 'is it worth trying to get your own work when you can make as much working on the books for someone else?' doesn't consider the fact that a lot of one man band chaps can make that money, but would struggle to do what the advertiser is asking
  2. tree-fancier123
    each big old tree near a house should come with a pipe sticking out the ground with a cap on, and instructions to water x number of litres per day in a hot dry summer
  3. tree-fancier123
    Well I walked from a bay tree clump this week coz I was wobbling about on top of a 12ft tripod ladder with the ht131 fully out, hedgecutter on. They only wanted a metre off and it was 15ft wide. As above I said find someone with a platform. I felt a bit demoralised. Too much of a wimp to get it done. Still next tree will freeclimb with my chineeze 660 no muffs to regain my manliness feelings
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    Nosing through the photos of people's websites I found this, posted yesterday by @King92 I've not seen this before - can anyone explain what its called and what it does?
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    Not heard that before 'Arboricide is a crime, as well as homicide. The name of Gastrell, who cut down Shakspeare's mulberry tree, is justly followed by the execrations of posterity, and hangs forever on a gibbet of reproach, vainly craving the boon of oblivion. ["New England Farmer," March 1853]'
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    murdering is ok, as long as you think it through first
  7. tree-fancier123
    nature has inspired many inventions
  8. tree-fancier123
    all these devices wrench, RR, BDB etc work by bending the rope - if you're slack over winter, why not invent one that tightens on the rope like a sphincter? You're no doubt familiar with bio ones, so can a metal one be made?
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    nice press brake, good to see UK engineering. Why isn't it profitable to make power tools in the UK? The germans and swedes pay their people a reasonable wage and they can do it
  11. tree-fancier123
    Germany seems a good place to pick up a bigger used Jensen. They are naughty though making itchy scratch girls legal
  12. tree-fancier123
    Ah, thanks for info.
  13. tree-fancier123
    the old Timberwolf 230 is a beautiful machine and properly industrial compared with the modern 230. Back in those days they proudly called it 230 because it would chip 230mm. I was watching this one before xmas, regretting not pulling the trigger, sold for 8000 plus vat, showing under 600 hours, would have been £9600 well spent imo. Even with the inevitable repair bills that come with a used machine. I have heard these old air cooled beasts do suffer with electrical problems
  14. tree-fancier123
    Go and climb a few mature ash not covered in ivy (if you can still manage it) you will see that although most foliage is near the tips, there will be side branches with growth inside the crown too. It is these that are shaded by ivy and die off. And you know it full well! Just look at that big side branch in the photo - I've seen similar ivy clad limbs completely die and break off (alder). The limb can't be maintained just by a few leaves right at the end, the ivy has covered what would have been healthy shoots, as it keeps going in winter after abscission of the tree leaves. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
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    Looks handy. Got any pics of the the thing itself? I was also interested by this throwsaw, after hearing Josh's description of its uses in windblow etc Freeworker has two tidy looking kits, but very expensive or if you really want to push the boat out (you're worth it) coming back down to earth the bay of thieves has this version it's not over yet - you will notice a chainsaw chain only has cutters on one side - so those metal rectangles help to orient the chain over the limb - well a double sided one has now exploded onto the market, claiming to cut on either side
  16. tree-fancier123
    Better to pay £150 and get the job done with no troubles. £80 a day I wouldn't trust him on anything, especially nothing with targets, roof, fence, dare I say it sewage pipes
  17. tree-fancier123
    and walk the dog for exercise?
  18. tree-fancier123
    it seems to me the main thing with rustic furniture and garden tree trunk derived features is finding a buyer. I've seen stands for outdoor pot plants made with three or four trunk discs arranged around a pole like steps on a spiral staircase 200 quid wtf. those upmarket out of town garden/home stores with a coffee shop seem to get people to part with a lot of money for not a lot of wood I worked with a gardener of 71 last year, he'd kept one last customer, nice 2 acre plot, couldn't top the hedges himself anymore. He's bought himself a lovely big bungalow, probably £450k worth and told me he bought out his daughters house for her when she divorced. Apart from the money I expect the exercise does him good. Why not do tree cutting 2 days a week and potter about arts and crafts for the rest?
  19. tree-fancier123
    ivy in a deciduous hedge, or a mixed hedge is a nuisance, the evergreen part of a mixed hedge can cope, but the deciduous part gets shaded out by ivy, made worse by any top growth from the hawthorns etc getting removed with a hedgetrimmer. Quite a few ivy hedges about now that were once something decent. Leaving the ivy on that ash tree is like seeing an elderly person being mugged in the street and crossing to the other side to avoid getting involved - the tree is being mugged of daylight. Just don't cut into the trunk
  20. tree-fancier123
    If someone invented a systemic fungicide and a cost effective way of getting into the xylem, and it was found to be effectively disributed around the tree killing the pathogen and halting the spread of decay,you could argue it wouldnt be ethical to use this new fungicide to save a nice tree, because pathogenic fungi evolved simultaneously with trees. One could argue saving a tree from a pathogen, if it were made possible would be wrong, as its only natural for trees to suffer pests and diseases, any intervention would upset other oranisms that thrive on wood decay. The best thing for ecosystems is if man doesnt even get near enough to photograph them?
  21. tree-fancier123
    I have read a good few tree books myself, maybe not the all incunabula you've had access to, but the core texts. I wouldn't say it is ignorance to think ivy kills trees - the increased drag leading to windthrow and the smothering of buds leading to leggy growth only right at the tips. Ivy isn't doing a tree any favours, it's only hindering its growth and survival. The habitat ivy provides is another matter entirely. I can't believe an educated person can't see that on deciduous trees that have evolved to be bare in winter during the strongest winds the increased drag caused by an ivy infestation will increase the chance of windthrow
  22. tree-fancier123
    do you think its chemically impossible for ecoplugs to poison the host tree when drilled into 'veteran' ivy? The phenomenon of glyphosate 'flashback' is more usual between two trees of the same species that have root connections, so stump killing a syc on the boundary could kill the one next door etc, but could the herbicide be translocated to the ivy roots and transported accross the ivy root cell walls directly into the tree roots? I wouldnt want to risk the chance on a champion tree like that.
  23. tree-fancier123
    Of course education is beneficial - sometimes though it seems people get so immersed in the literature they begin to see people doing practical work as idiots who need educating 'follow me I know the way'
  24. tree-fancier123
    that isn't fair - you're just looking down on people now and all because you've given up manual labour and spent some time reading books. Anyone who mows their lawn regularly could be considered a destroyer of worlds.
  25. tree-fancier123
    No strings attached = bring a testing kit

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