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    get well soon I appreciate that tree stems and crowns can behave unpredictably when the weight distribution changes during cutting and lowering, but as always, want to learn what I can from the write up of this. The guy who posted his chewed up hand after one handing a block with a topper so his saw wouldn't get trapped has made me wake up to the dangers, seemed no problem to do it before I saw that.
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    thanks for info - good to know for the pops, not done one yet, watching one in a customers garden in the wind, didn't like the look of it. Also appreciate the comment about not if it's somewhere a bit posh
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    thanks for sharing about these hooks - I've been struggling with trees where a limb grows out from the trunk, with the top a long way from rest of canopy, side branches are too high and not good enough yet to swing for it. These hooks. What a profit margin though - used to do fabrication and welding, 100 euros wow
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    Beautiful location, made quick work of the removal. How could I compete handballing? Nice iron muscles on the never never. Enjoyed the song, good acoustic cover
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    I thought the police had to deal with a lot of gore up and down the motorways, wouldn't think sailing so hazardous - if I make my mark I'll have a gin palace instead
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    thanks for the heads up - you are correct the door pillar plate says 2.25, was getting it confused with what the loaded van can weigh. Still just about legal to tow most of the 9 and 10 inch chippers, but I would not be ok with a decent mini digger on my Ifor trailer.
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    good tip - thanks
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    thanks, good point
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    makes me want to learn mechanics - such a valuable skill, anyone can take something apart, but to reassemble and get it working is worth thousands of hours of study, what a complex beast that is
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    thanks for the reply Old Mill - impressed with the 70 ton shock load on a sailing winch. Those Harken 46 winches alone are around £800, plus time to fabricate a bit of half inch plate for the mount, or pay for it. Seems one of those and a separate RC3000 would be fine, all for under £1200. Maybe a bit of clutter carrying two units and sets of straps, but with a saving of £1400 on Smartwinch or GRCS seems worth it. In fact even at £800 for a 'bare' winch, if they really can take some punishment circa 70 ton it seems safe enough just to drop big timber with them too and dispense with the bollard ( providing the mounting is substantial).
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    is it ever acceptable to spike up a tree to cut bits off if aim is to retain(prune, re pollard etc) I mean are any species going to not be bothered about it too much? Just wondered as with a lime, poplar, chestnut, re-pollard so many wounds anyway, or is it when spikes go into trunk cambium danger of innoculating with nasties or opening main trunk up to air borne insects and fungi/bacteria?
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    voles

    tree-fancier123 replied to a topic in General chat

    i had to google it, seen loads of mole damage, but the vole damage does indeed leave the lawn looking like a maze - don't let up on them!
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    what gets me with ebay is the hour clocks, take it with a pinch of salt
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    only got a transit, but live on Isle of Wight, so wouldn't be far, I guess the trouble would be stalling on a steep hill, but if I can get to jobs doing 30mph that would do. My transit 350 can tow 3.5 ton. Most of the bigger chippers seem to be around 2 ton. Had a ton of chip in a 12ft Ifor on the back before, just the steep hills tricky ( and no off - road sites)
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    I'm considering my first chipper and part of the decision concerns getting rid of leylandi, lawson etc, I can always give hardwood away, but had trouble before with conifer - it is resinous and not great firewood - can be burnt alone, but most easily got rid of when burnt mixed with good hard wood logs - so a 9 or 10 inch machine to eat the conifers would be good, even then the rings
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    Eureka! thanks for sharing, may come in handy, not always easy getting hired help just for the odd day here and there.
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    'Never really drag or lift anything'. Sounds good. Must be a fair few one man band types do their backs in.
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    looking at those tables my 20 ton guess seems far too low considering the stated diameter of over 2m at the base. Each meter of trunk length over 1m diameter could weigh above a ton, so if the first 20m is that wide there's 20 ton already. Revised guesstimate 50 ton fire wood
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    good solution with the base anchor, watching the next vid leylandi swinging the flipline round - with ally connector on it - is there ever any benefit to having a steel snaphook for more weight to chuck it round?
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    20 ton of fire wood, not a clue really. You could go scientific on it and pi r squared the average trunk radius times length and same for big branches to give approx volume. Then just google density of cedar, or use the tables in the HSE rigging research http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr668.pdf pages 140 - 144 e.g a 5 metre lenth of 50cm oak about a ton
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    looks good - so if you had a trolley jack with you it would be possible to chip then swap over to use the dumper to carry wood? or maybe less hassle just to make it tow a little trailer.
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    a businessman and a tradesman
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    crikey that crane looks like it would lift the tree up - no need to go up it
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    thanks for explaining - I think the big old stems look nice anyway, much better than replanting
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    nice job - talking to a local tree surgeon about pollarding and he said pollard to a major fork as that's where the dormant buds are - in Brown/Kirkham - The Pruning of Trees Shrubs and Conifers there is a picture of a Populus sp p73 with caption death due to severe topping. Is that rare? I thought willow, poplar nearly always recovered even if it is cut down? How about the limes - how do you know where you can cut to without killing it - is there a rule of thumb regarding height remaining as a ratio of previous height or similar?

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