nathan marshall
-
Posts
557 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Classifieds
Tip Site Directory
Blogs
Articles
News
Arborist Reviews
Arbtalk Knot Guide
Gallery
Store
Calendar
Freelancers directory
Everything posted by nathan marshall
-
too right adam when i started working at 16 for a local tree firm i was on £95 a week and i had to pay for all my equipment. BUT .... I loved it coming home at the end of the week with money showing all my hard work for the week and it was experience. even after loosing my job after my apprentiecship finished i went looking for work im now cutting grass for even less and working 7 day a week but i still love it. i do admit im only 19 and i dont have any real over heads but still i would happly work for nothing, in natures play ground in some cracking weather and some day it may all get better. we may win the lottery ...... but we do need to buy a ticket first
-
we didnt even know the pipe was there her is the start of it
-
here is the last lagoon to go nice and hot and smelly here is us just starting it a rig around the top then onto the incline. sorry for the bad quality of photos
-
its good to see what other experiences people have had of this as i knew it was someting to do with hogweed ive been on a strimming job for a couple of days now clearing nettles, brambles, hogweed from around lagoons in a sewage works the lot has been a nightmare in this heat and the smell is pretty bad but oh well. i learnt to cover upbetter even in this warmer weather as i had this problem a month or so ago and now when strimming i wear a long sleeved hi vis top problem solved for the arms and waterproof trousers with shorts underneath the ones with nice vents down the sides and depending on what we are strimming even a buff. i try and put some pictures up from the last lake today its also good to see what herbiceds people are using as well
-
there are so many boots out there but you will possibly want a lighter pair, possibly some mendils. haix are also wicked boots i have a pair of protector pros and find them like slippers but others say they are quite clunky. try a few pairs on if you can.
-
yes just like that bu has not been as out spread as that just near the base to breast height.
-
well as there is so many variables as to keeping friction but thats cleared up that problem then
-
cheers drew just what i needed. with the diamiter of prussik cord is it mainly down to personal preferance or is it the types or rope and the knot that are used that will depend on weather you get 8 or 10 mm ?
-
literally it looked like if you had a very blunt saw that fine and a light saw dust colour but it does not seem to be there all the time some times its reallly dusted then the next it looks like a normal oak trunk
-
Nice one marc i will possibly look at a cheap is cambium saver first get used to it then at a later date justify something more expensive but possibly more useful as well. also look at getting some armour prussik first as that is suppoed to be good with Yale xtc as im on that at the moment. as the armour prussik comes by meter what sort of length should i get or is it prettry much tie a fishermans, create knot eith v.t or knute then tie another fishermans and cut off the excess??
-
ive got plenty of ball lok crabs they are pretty good except for in winter with cold thumbs you cant press the button with ease. as for the prussik cord as well the size best for 8 mm or 10 mm ??
-
Cheers frankie in regards to purrisk cord what length is best to get or is it trial and error to find the correct length. i may give it a good go with the xtc and armour to get used to using the hitchclimber set up and then progress from that. ill wait till its brightened up a bit first
-
HI all yes i realise there is a million and one threads about using a hitchclimber and all that jazz, BUT i need some help im transfering from a very simple rope and prussik over a branch style as im endlessly going though gear and it can be hard work some times. ive got 13 mm xtc at the moment but looking to buy another imori as ive been using my mates for a while. is ther any other suitable ropes that would be good ive just brought the dmm rapide at capel all i need now is some real hard advice on what sort of cord to use best knot and even whats a good cambium saver out there, are oval crabs best as well?? cheers for any help it will get me going on a new easier set up... hopefully!
-
yet another tree horse chesnut at a school failure at the base
-
not that i know of... i can get some more next time i go and try `and get shots of the saw dust like stuff. sorry guys its not a larch though all i know it was a very nast takedown massvie cavity half way up
-
cheers david reading of some of the other thread you know alot on fungi and preservation. the oak has a saw dust like residue coming out of between the bark and the bark is now also starting to flake, what could this possibly be ?? I will have to find another picture form that garden of a large oak stump rotten in the middle with a brilliant oak sapling now growing.
-
tbh im really not sure as this was done before I started this job it is being eaten by something and had alot of major deadwood as ive been told but has been left as a monolith as its at the bottom of the garden and no major targets. the trunk is massive, the squirrels and wood peckers have just started to use it as a large ash tree just down the road was taken down and they seem to have migrated to using this now.
-
large scots pine takedown last summer cracking weather pictures dont do it justice
-
more pictures planting some paper birch in st johns wood and large of being lifted
-
wind damaged cedar back from the high winds at the start of the yea a very lucky escape. last pictures show what it was like 6 months prior when we deadwooded the cedars
-
heres some more large poplar in welwyn during winter conifer bashing in the mud= NIGHTMARE !!
-
i thought i would show some pictures of work that i have done. at the moment im out of work so working part time doing grounds maintanence so all the photos are not that recent but the ones of a garden are of a private job i have been doing since i was sixteen after working there doing some tree work for the customer and eneded up being roped into working there im still there now but its a change and at the end of the day it pays the bills. enjoy nathan
-
ok thanks. i now understand wehere you are comming from and im abit sorry. as for your point of strolling into college and within a month you have all your cs tickets, when i was at college that was not possible as the train to start with was all theroey an then slowly progressed on to tickets CS 30 and 31 and then moved up to then take the cs tickets when you were ready. but as i was on aan apprenticeship i could progress a bit better as i was earning and learning so to speak. one problem that i will add is one that many people on my course had was on completion of their course many did not have a job and as many had very little expirence some found it very difficult to then find future employment. I have found it difficult as out of the blue i was made redundant after the boss was struggling in these economic times which i understand completely and i have been franticly searching for a new job sending my cv to just about everywhere but with no luck we will just have to give it time.
-
I think it starts at 10
-
agree there we did learn techniques used in foresty but they do push you more toward comercial works, and the amount of other students on my course that actually ended up continuing in arb you could count on one hand, many do think it may be an easy route out but in fact its hard work which they dont all realise
