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(Arboricultural-styled) 'Fact of the Day'
tree-fancier123 replied to Kveldssanger's topic in Training & education
good thread - was just thinking how slow evolution works compared to the length of a human life - wonder when the last discovery of a 'new' species of tree was in the british isles? Must have found them all hundreds of years ago. -
in need of rescue Experience: I got stuck hanging naked from a tree | Life and style | The Guardian
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£800 - sounds low, but there are loads of idiot newbies like me who will make a loss just to get some experience - you are also competing against them, and if you have to ask you deserve to take a bath on it anyway!
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So you want to be a freelance climber do you?
tree-fancier123 replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Climbers talk
house repo - my worst nightmare, well flat repo in my case, hasn't happened yet, but I'm stringent on it. PAYE, subbie, contractor owning machinery vehicles etc. All can go bust - just don't pamper yourself with unnecessary crap until you own the roof over your head -
£55 wouldn't be bad for an apprentice, sure someone on that with a family would need benefits, whatever care homes are even worse for it, and they don't even get to climb
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I can't see how this got onto the minimum wage. If a subbie gets 100 120 a day, for 220 days, minus say 3k a year for expenses, ppe, chains, etc, surely that's still way over the minimum wage?
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thanks, I'm sure all older machinery is excellent value if you're good with a spanner
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cool, thanks
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Yes, http://http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Forestry-Tractor-Forwarder-Skidder-Valtra-/201342922210?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2ee0f92de2 only seem to be able to save about 7 or 8k a year, so if it's still on in five years I'm getting in
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just the thing, saw a tractor with roofmount on ebay for 45k, is that how much you need to spend, or would that have been at the top end of second hand?
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if you want to win the comp, do more, give yourself over to it, learn what devotion means, you want it to be like your training for the olympics get the best headlamp and go out into the woods in the dark and don't stop until you've only seven hours left to catch some sleep. It's like in Topgun movie, not all the flyers got to shag Kelly
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The £100 - £120 day for someone who can cut a tree down without damaging anything, seems reasonable, not a lot more complicated than hedgecutting. Max £4k invested. Someone who is a fast climber, knows tree biology, is good at reductions, even on the biggest trees, and knows which decayed trees can safely be climbed, that is maybe one in twenty working climbers - the top rates are for them, coz no one else can do their job.
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you don't HAVE to go, you WANT to go
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I spent 1200 in Honey Bros the other week and that was rigging kit and aluminium gecko spikes, nothing wrong with your budget, unless you want GRCS, smartwinch etc. I just got the Stein RC2001 bollard, about £230, DMM small impact block, ISC small block for redirects, or small rigging, rope isn't much £100 for 50m 14mm. Also got some 12mm for a pull/tag line, and a 30m length of 8mm for a fetching line for zipline pulley. Steel carabiners and 20mm width rigging slings. The kits are ok too. I would have got the larger Stein RC3001 block if they had it in when I went. With your budget you could have the Stein RCW3001 with a little winch to lift the branch tips. See the Stein RCW3001 thread, about £750
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good thread, interesting range of prices, what sort of tonnage of firewood will there be if none milled? My guess 15 ton.
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In this winch we trust Excellent pictures, job I wouldn't have known what to do. Tractor winch, another thing on the wish list
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ace - Dubai looks so futuristic and with those birdmen too, almost couldn't believe it's real. teleporters soon
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I thought it was a bit dodgy that the one on now is using exact photos from a listing that ended on the first of march (from a different seller) the second link in my post was of the sold listing - two different sellers, same photo, same machine?
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greenmech chipper on now 2008 Greenmech 19-28 woodchipper shredder tree surgeon chipper | eBay photo from a listing that supposedly sold 1 mar for 8k 2008 Greenmech 19-28 woodchipper shredder tree surgeon chipper not timberwolf | eBay bit of a minefield
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Thanks for posting. So sad. I know someone who was knocked unconcious, needed a month off. Got to have the profit, but slower and safer makes sense.
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with disposable earplugs
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looks good, similar to the Epple hook Freeworker - Ronny Epple Throw Hook Tree Catcher - climb up high!
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The 1973 TV series The World At War was reshown a few times in recent years, some of the episodes, particularly those showing the camps, including real german film footage documenting unspeakable things, brought tears to my eyes. Really was hell on earth.
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approved contractor scheme seems like a cash generating machine, but at least they helped get the Research For Amenity Trees series republished
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English Polish Romanian HGV Drivers
tree-fancier123 replied to Ruskins Trees's topic in General chat
It's like rabbits - put them in an enclosure and they'll breed until there's too many for the available vegetation to feed. That's why China went harsh on it, would be another billion over there now otherwise.
