willem

First pic's online. 90 feet head to head footlock. https://m.facebook.com/kpb.isa?id=443319995713655&_rdr

Hello all, This year a the dutch TCC will be held in the weekend of 31 may and 1 june. If you want to compete you have to be at the location on 30 may around 15.00 . Then we will start the gearcheck etc. The party ends on saterday around 16.00 Location: Alblasserdam, a town about 20 minutes drive from the city of Rotterdam. The park is called Lammetjewiel. A great location with camping on site and a little lake with a small beach and great trees of course... To sign up and get more information go to KPB Kring Praktiserende Boomverzorgers - Reglement 2013 / Inschrijfformulier http://www.kpb-isa.nl/new_website/documents/Klimwedstrijden/Inschrijfformulier%20Deelnemers%202013.pdf Hope to see you again on the other side of the North Sea...

Some moving pictures ot the transplant we carried out this week

Chipper is not used to kill the beatles. The beatle needs solid elm wood to lay eggs. Chips can't be used for laying eggs. And if there are beatles in the chips they will be killed when the chips are put in a bio energy plant.

Rover is right. The beatle that spreads elm disease lays eggs just beneath the bark. The beatle needs dying trees or fresh cut elm wood for the egss. Big problem is cut elm wood that is set a side for fire wood with still bark on it. The wood sends out scent that attracts the beatles. We have to strip all the bark or chip. And stripping the bark is a ..... job!

Now with picture

The weight of the tree is 8 ton. We stabilize the tree as in the picture

The job was close to the centre of the city, westside. The tree was broken down and completly chipped in 2,5 hours. The chipper was full so we used the van to transport the extra chips. We had the big chipper because we had to chip some more trees. Most of them elm trees. It's illegal to transport elm wood with bark. So we chip it all. The machine chips wood up to 80 centimers in diameter. And we left the bike were it was only coverd in a little dust

We love to transplant trees but if it has to com down no problem

Pic's of a job we carried out this week.

Found another picture of a pleaching tree transplanted with our transplanting machine. Other kind of pleaching tree Platanus shaped as a parasol we transplanted. Shape comes from the south of france were these trees shade out the jeu the boules tracks. Follow the link to see the pics's http://www.bomendienst.nl/db/PdfVestiging2/pdfDocument2/id/pdfFilename2/BZ_Trees%20On%20The%20Run.pdf

These treeforms originate from old farms in the Netherlands. The trees were planted close to the farmhouse to give shade in the summer, in winter time the branches were cut so they had extra sunlight inside the farmhouse and foodsupplement for the livestock. Since then it has developed in a fashion trend which lasts for a couple of decades now in the Netherlands. People pay a lot of money for these trees. Old picture to illustrate Pleaching trees old style Pleaching trees new style

I've uploaded som pic's of a special kind of treeform. Very well known in the south of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. These trees have been around for ages and had a special place in the community. They are shaped this way because they wer used as a stage for dancing parties when a young couple married. The married couple had to dance on the smaller and higher platform. Almost always Tillia and some of them very old. Is this called pleaching? And do you have these tree in England? This is a pleaching object which our company has restored and maintained for almost 10 years now. This is an unique archway made of fruittrees (pear). Ít's 500 meters long and exists out of 1100 seperate trees. It was used as an shadowed archway for transporting the fruit from the big orchards it was once standing in. It had a small railway track with in the trees to transport the fruit. I'll post some better pic's. This one is from the internet.

Really nice truck. Very usefull that it can move away the branches as well. This a Dutch company who developed and made there own machine. Same idea just a bit bigger. And you need another truck for transport Boomrooierij Weijtmans on Vimeo Weijtmans Baarle Nassau September 2011 on Vimeo

Yes we use myco's.