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I wouldn't say all trees are evil - but most of them have evil moods. I always remember the young woman who died at Kew gardens from a 'summer branch drop'. I wouldn't trust anything over 15ft

thanks for reply - I appreciate all the engineering and parts sourcing is a big investment to produce your machines, so deciding what to build and what to leave can be the difference between profit or loss https://www.hydro-gear.com/residential/ probably expensive, I can appreciate your 2000 figure now I've looked into it a bit more, some of the pumps are almost a thousand on their own. Needs a copy one made by some poor soul living in a dormitory

And photo from a different angle.

Yeah trad way axe only

Item no longer available another coincidence along with identical galv showing under black paint of already unique spout extension. Got worried or just sold elsewhere. Im saying scum to be on the safe side. Scum scum scum scum

the control box looks identical to me, zoom in. If was dealing with stolen machinery maybe i would consider paint stripper or a heat gun to remove all traces of the original colour

If you asked the seller for engine serial number and they dont reply they are scum. Any honest person would simply go and take a photo.

sounds good - they should have called you in, 250 a day - death or glory

You're only saying that to try to make friends

The only shame is they didnt shape it like an elipse. Anyone pruning a perfectly innocent tree even to BS3999 should know they are inflicting wounds opening the cambium to potential ingress of pathogens

Footpath, that tree could kill several people at once given half a chance. So what if it isnt BS pruned. The considerate thing would be move path and low fence to dripline. In the days before compo people could die from falling tree bits without hurting the public purse

this was already dead - but this bloke lopped the top with a foot of snow on top, I would have been shaking I'm sure https://arbtalk.co.uk/forums/topic/15959-favourite-picture-of-you-climbing/?page=7

I watched one of your videos on 'easy rider' the electric assist wheel - you say putting in hydraulics the machine cost goes up by a couple of thousand. It seems to me this is a lot for a hydrostatic transmission to the rear axle. Hayter have stopped making the Condor mower I read somewhere, but they had a nice looking hydro drive and the whole mower was only 5000 or so, surely the componts and assembly of that particular hydrostatic transmission would be less than 2000? The Hayter Condor drive has forward, reverse and importantly disengage, so it can be towed if it breaks down. Why not make a narrow access heavier machine with hydro drive and hydraulic feed rollers? The hydrostatic drive means it could be driven up ramps into a van, rather than messing about with a winch. The narrow access machines could then be much more powerful, with 150 , or even 200mm capacity (conifer bashing), but be half the cost of a tracked chipper, and on four wheels, not mess up lawns like a tracked chipper. Those big engines say Hatz 50hp retail quite dear, but butter them up tell them if it works out youll have 500 units a year.... If no one does it I will have to bodge one up myself, and waste valuable time when I could be typing on the computer...

that 23hp Skarper looks alright I think there is room for a bigger narrow access machine - ingredients as follows 1 Hatz diesel 66hp, chipping gear off e.g Safetrack or TP200, but with quick release hopper and unpluggable cables, the rotor and motor are on a narrow steel frame only 650mm wide, with a hydrostatic drive to wheels, like the M500 , but more industrial gear like from a big hydro mower. And with all important hydraulic feed rollers. So the contraption weighs north of a ton, but is air cooled no rad to worry about, will chip 30 ton a day if required and fit through a narrow gateway. Not a redundant concept due to narrow access tracked chippers, as I recon the hydrostatic drive could be configured with a freewheel (like on Hayter Condor), so if there is a breakdown its easy to winch onto a trailer/ into a van and away. So in summary a Hatz powered Jo Beau M500 chips 8" only 650 wide without hopper, assembled in Ethiopia, only 12k inc tax

I was thinking about your wifes accident today, having to drag stuff under a low hanging tree, twigs went under my glasses a few times, so i spent the rest of the day with these trendy Dewalt goggles over my glasses. I have worn these goggles over glasses climbing with lid and earplugs, much safer from a poke in the eye, good vents help reduce steam up. Screwfix 15 Thanks for posting about your wifes accident, I never considered how serious a hazard plants can be to the eyes.

Good points, case also shows why professional indemnity is needed in addition to public liability if a tree worker wants to get into surveys

in the document posted by Craig Johnson above the fungal bracket gets much discussion - would it have been visible to the last inspector back in 2009? Opinions were divided, apparently the experts were saying annual growth increments were visible on the bracket, but it couldn't be certain that it would have been there when the tree surgeon surveyed the tree almost three years before the accident, was well rotten by 2012 apparently. Also goes on about the tree surgeon changing his story as to whether or not he included the tree in his parish survey or not, luckily for him the judge didn't try to crucify him

not seen The Seventh Seal, will have to check it, the other two were good had a crack at watching some of the Palm D'Or winners - some great movies among previous winners and runners up, many worth putting up with subtitles from the winners list - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

piss it up against the wall

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

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

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

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?

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]'

murdering is ok, as long as you think it through first