born2trot

Thanks pecker .. will start preparations tomorrow.

I'm certainly not ' rover ' .. Those wiley yanks are breeding 18 hand mules weighing over a ton and probably think nothing of hitching easily a dozen or more together. Now thats alot of horsepower or donkey power!!

It certainly would make you fitter, because you and your trusty steeds would have to walk 330 miles to plough a 40 acre field!

My this brings back alot of memories. I can remember the genuine needle surrounding this fight and mclellan being portrayed as a real ' bad boy '. Benn always seemed to be out of a fight but had that vicious one punch equaliser.

And thats nice words to end with .

Hi Hamadryad, I have read Dr Lonsdales book and can only but recommend it to anyone interested in Tree hazard management or just trees in general. Superb. But if we cast back to your original post you stress the need for ' feel' and ' gut instinct' in relation to pollarding . Now for examples sake I'll use a previous post to illustrate where I'm coming from the one where an FC manager is expecting to see a pollarded poplar. What exactly is he expecting to see? A nice dutch style street pollard? A lovely story book type with hollowed centre ? What is the chances the tree is going to die because of the tree being a high risk species ? Can the said cutter tell the manager he has a nice feeling about it? that its his gut instinct? Or can he give him sound advice based on facts and figures collected by experts. Hama i'm cetainly not having a dig at Dr lonsdale , on the contrary .. but it would be nice for these guys to collate something which we could all try and impliment with confidence or else trees will just get felled. Take care 'bt2'

Thanks for the reply ' treeseer ' You seem to imply that we shouldn't listen to ' proven academics ' and seek the assistance of climbers instead but then you refer me to DR David Lonsdale I have read his book incidently and I can do no better than give you his own words in relation to pollard work... ' The above considerations can be translated into some TENTATIVE guidelines, but THESE ARE BY NO MEANS FULLY TRIED AND TESTED ; nor are they a prescription that can substitute for individual and sensitive management based on local knowledge and on experience with particular species or provenances of trees '. Doesn't exactly sound like a man willing to put his neck on the line does it? Another thing which Dr Lonsdale advocates is the importance of drought stress in determining when to pollard ( or if to pollard ! ) something that seems to get lost amongst the friendly banter:001_smile: I'll try and trot as fast as you yanks!! cheers 'b2t'

Interesting post Hama. Excuse my ignorance , but is pollarding mentioned anywhere in industry best practise? If it is not then it needs to be , if it is then its being ignored. It is after all a guideline only and if more of us tree surgeons can learn from experienced hands or education days then it will become a more regular solution. I for one would be interested in a pollarding course run by proven academics. The ball needs to start rolling.... so roll it

Sawmillers were talking about this the other day and I'm sure they used WD-40 .

Does it have to be a conifer? Yew a natural understorey species and can be cut hard.

I love crapping in the woods, feels really natural . Its great youse should all try it.

Hello all, was just mucking out the stable there when a filthy white transit reversed into my drive. As I approached I could see some cheeky little sod had written on top of the dirt EMBLAZONED right across the back ' Take it up the bum.com ' Well, I was approaching meltdown when a lady jumped out delivering catalogues.. I tried to pull myself together and the best I could come up with was ' Hows work been'!!! straight from arbtalk!! :lol:

Thats interesting having members in these places Mike. I love the scandinavian culture and speak a bit of Norske aswell. Would be nice to hear from them .

Seems to be you shanks.

Seemed to have an unread message for whatever reason I just couldn't open. Deleted it and both signals have gone . Thanks fellas.

I've not got it sorted out. Its gonna be a long night , i get the feelin

Hi Mark, yes I did. I was receiving one as I was sending one and things seem to have gone a bit wrong. I have deleted all my messages bar 1 which i have put in a folder and its still flashing and also saying i have 1 notification. Cheers.

Shut down everything, restarted, logged back in, have clicked on unread messages , pm's , nothing in my inbox still going. Appreciate this .

Could someone please advise on how I get rid of flashing letter with red highlite. I've clicked on it all night and it won't go away. Also have 1 notification saying one unread post which also refuses to go away. Its getting late and driving me crazy.Could someone please help, thanks.

WHERE!!!!

Seems to be the case.

Thats what I was thinking ? Are there no trees north of Inverness!

AAAAARRGH, cant believe you did that !

I knew i went wrong somewhere!!!

Impressive hinge.