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tree-fancier123

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  1. Common knowledge apparently
  2. So the academic work that has been done - too dull and difficult to read? Rather get your opinions via Youtube?
  3. well he said 'they are all as bad as each other' reminds me of the line from George Orwell's 1984 edit sorry Animal Farm “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
  4. Why is it anymore shite than BBC? Both are more opinionated than factual
  5. Room for improvement in the sealing pruning wounds methodology. I appreciate there will always be snap outs during storms that will also be an entry for spores
  6. Lucky you, I'd love to drop that. Fully insured
  7. That big cedar you posted, mazegill, big laterals removed, huge pruning wounds at the trunk, if they'd painted the fresh cuts....
  8. alternatives are available. I reckon epoxy mastic 2 pack paint would ruin your ropes just as well
  9. What gets me is all the 'tree people' too tired to do the practical work. They are usually the ones who have read several hundred square metres of text and come to the conclusion that Arbrex won't protect pruning wounds from pathogen ingress. This is because they are 'up with' current thinking in tree biology and it makes them feel intelligent to regurgitate the received wisdom.
  10. Communism would have meant Stalin having the same standard of living as someone piling up the spoil in a tailings dam
  11. Black popular could be a good street tree with the right care?
  12. What I was getting at is plane (and lime) seem very expensive street trees that will always require periodic removal of new growth. Why not use other species that aren't going to need cutting so much? Hardly anywhere has room for a mature lime or plane.
  13. tree 'work' should include specifying and planting the street trees. Surely there are better options these days that don't need bits sawn off regular.
  14. bit of arbtalk thread archaeology re working on stilts https://arbtalk.co.uk/forums/topic/63339-stilts/
  15. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2094309/Gardeners-use-stilts-cut-maze-Longleat-House-Wiltshire.html
  16. Damn thought I'd had a brainwave then, was wondering how long before the Nobel prize is awarded, turns out it's been done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HzXjRq6tP8
  17. Thanks - I did try this and gave up - ok on rough stuff, but clipped faces seemed to get pulled about too much and nowhere to lose the leg inside the hedge where I wanted to place it, too much clutter. I prefer on ply and small extension ladder leaning on hedge, especially if it is with 2 rungs overlapping to stand on. Hey - you know like plasterers wear stilts sometimes!?
  18. several methods needed to cover most work 3 leg adjustable tripod - great if garden is sloping - not good for wide tops, don't get you near enough extending ladder with approx 4ft by 2ft thin ply bolted on temp, lean against good solid high faces (not griselinia etc ) get on top of the hedge, shrubbery (with no regard for your own personal safety) new method - tell them they need someone with a platform and walk off feeling like a beaten amateur
  19. It is a thread about reaching out and loneliness.
  20. why would anyone want to hurt him? he's only spending a few minutes communicating through the written word
  21. so you've got a medical condition? I don't mean mental health problems, but actually some physical damage to the spinal chord? It can't be old age, plenty of posts on here documenting foresters in their fifties and sixties still very quick cutters
  22. cats arse if you couldn't cope with doing it yourself
  23. Cabstar or Grafter? Iveco Daily worth a test drive. Used to be option of limited slip diff with Iveco. 3 litre engine one Id recommend trying. Upto 180hp options. Mine isnt adblue, not sure on latest one.

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