Tom10

The loop is designed for the carabiner of your saw strop to be clipped to. I then have a petzl caritool thing to clip the saw to up high. The reason to clip to the little loop is that this will form the weakest part of the set up if your saw goes with timber when cutting. If you clip to the D ring or other place the weakest part will be questionable - it would hurt put it that way. That's loop is designed specifically for hanging a saw off.

Good points but if you're chogging down with a big saw and you catch your flipline then the outcome will be the same!

You'd be a long time cutting through wirecore - certainly long enough for you to notice its not wood! You wouldnt get a chance with normal rope!

Nice lanyard set up but thats the thing - you have replaced your flipline with a lanyard........

Its not comparable, they are different pieces of equipment. I think you should dig deep and invest in a flipline. I only ever use mine when chogging down a stem, and I wouldnt be happy chogging down without a lump of metal in it, especially a large stem where you cant see the other side of the tree - If your ''lanyard'' gets caught on a tiny peg and sits 8 inches higher at the back of the tree (the side you cant see) then your meeting the ground at pace...

A simple flipline set up is like 50 quid...

Tom.

Take a brown felt tip pen for when you tear something.

Be quick with it, like a Ninja, so no one sees you do it.

Its acceptable if no one catches you - its in BS3998 (in the small print)

Easy to climb, chips nice, burns well, pollards ok, light wood, looks ok, what's not to like?

... Dont buy a 435 then

If cost if putting you off a 550 or 560 then find a second hand 346 or 357 for the same money as a new 435

The 435 is OK in general.

Its performance of course depends on its task! Its not a professional saw by any means, but handles well and its very light.

It would suit a new starter attending a course or perhaps a gardener with occasional chainsaw use. Ideal for home logging of firewood.

I have nothing for you, but I really want to know why its 22 miles exactly!

Hi all,

Im sure its been said before but just to acknowledge a great service from FR Jones.

Ordered some spikes plus a couple of small items the other day. Got a phone call the next day to say they didn't have the spikes and would have to order from abroad (Distel Geckos... sounding German perhaps?) anyway was told they could be up to 2 weeks. This was on a Thursday

Long story short Jonesie himself rings on Friday and says he'll try and get them in early the following week for me as I explained I was desperate and true to his word I got an email 6.30 am the following Monday saying they'd been dispatched and I received them Tuesday in perfect condition.

Top notch.

... Heroes wear Haix

Harkila are very, very good.

Pro Hunter GTX 12 - Harkila UK

XPG get too hot IMO. If your using a saw enough for the heated bars to actually heat, then your using it enough for your body to be hot through pure hard work!

560 is a nice saw but too heavy for everyday stuff, but again it depends on the job. If your felling medium sized hardwoods then the 560 running an 18 inch bar would be idea. I would always go for the lightest saw you can get away with.

My 550 with a 15 inch bar is cracking. I only use a bigger saw if I have to, I never want to!

550 is a joy to use.

Earlier i fell asleep in the bath and woke myself up by starting a tophandle in my dream and splashing water everywhere

 

The other day I dreamed that i was throwing larges bits of conifer out of the top of a hedge and in the process grabbed the covers and threw them clean on the bed as if it was the lump of conifer. girlfriend wernt happy

 

dont just take work home, take it to sleep aswell

 

Anyone else have tree dreams

 

Arran

Erm.. after reading the first line i was going to suggest you need a girlfriend, but it appears you have one. I therefore suggest you make better use of your time with her! Theres many ways to do this and a Private message to a select few on here should guide you in the right direction with advice.

I think if i dream of work i shall give it up.

I think they may get brittle quickly also, but they do sound ideal in every other way, light, strong and fairly cheap.

To be fair, if they do go brittle you can just replace.

I vote give it a try and let arbtalk know how it goes

It takes a long time to pick all the bits of kevlar out of a chainsaw wound

Even longer picking cheap leather out of one.

To answer directly to the thread title - because they have chainsaw protection in as opposed to work boots that dont?

But dont worry about it, there's plenty of donor feet out there, after all your saving a few quid so its worth it!

Do you have any good witnesses to him saying exactly that?

It was on the phone so could only ask a recording from phone provider. Think thats taking it too far though

You don't need to appeal. Just put an application in for works to a TPO tree, like you would any other. Justify the work you want to do and then they have to justify any reason for refusing it.

He said to appeal the decision within the 6 months time limit of his temporary TPO before it becomes permanent, but has already said it will be declined.

I guess if we are lucky we might get a reduction in winter.

Who would be responsible for damages if anything happened? the customer has done everything they can to prevent damage so surely it cant be their fault?

I never ask if there is a tpo on such and such tree... you are inviting a visit from the tree officer to said premises.

 

I ask if there are any planning constraints at the property. If not, then crack on and get it done.

That's what we done, and always do as i find it works better too . We gave them the address and they told us there was a TPO in the fron garden but the back was clear. He knew we were working in the back and not on the TPO. We couldn't of been any more vague!

On arriving he said 'he was passing and heard a saw '

Appeal then if refused apply for the work and then go to the government inspector at appeal if the application is refused. That is the only way you could do it now.

How much work for 2 trees? Even harder to swallow as its not our fault as contractors but will be our endless time trying to appeal as you say.

Thanks for the feedback though.

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Why do you even bother going to look at them?

Because if he did get it he would get it at a good price (overpricing conifers usually means the right price by the time you finish if you ask me)

If this is the case it is poor and I can understand your annoyance.

Question is 'is it worth for you and your client to go through with an appeal or mover on?

Is it bugger he has already told us 'we are welcome' to appeal (Thanks for the patronising tone mate!) however has also made it clear it will be declined anyway!

We have just covered our time at the property with other work so the customer is as happy as they can be and luckily we havent lost as much money as first thought

Wonder how long before they fail and what the reprocusssions will be as they overhang 2 gardens both with kids

They are in a bad way. heavily Ivy covered and old for this species. From the ones we did take down I found numerous examples of why they should be removed including lots of dead wood, weak unions and even a completely hollow stem (2cm of hard timer around 50% circumference of the branch) I reckon it would of failed this winter.

Insead of the stick, why not try the carrot? Incentive bonuses work. No breakages, extra money on the weeks pay, breakages = no bonus until the costs recovered.

Because people shouldnt be 'rewarded' for doing their jobs carefully and properly.

Sorry Andy, disagree.

If someone breaks something they should offer to cover the cost.

Sad world if people have to be lured into being careful with peoples property with beer money.

I do get your point though. However if i asked my regular contractors for extra money if I don't break stuff I think I would be laughed off site.

I think there's a world of difference between a bad decision (I agree, I'm sure there are many examples) and a TO's cynical decision to apply a TPO 'simply to look busy'.

 

Maybe I'm just lucky in that all the tree officers I have worked with were highly professional and applied robust processes when deciding if a tree was worth protecting. I am no stranger to appearing in front of planning committees to explain why the tree in Cllr Smith's ward isn't worth a TPO, despite his and his constituents' protestations to the contrary.

 

Whilst JR or appeal can be costly, it costs sod all to make an FOI request to see the evaluation that was carried when deciding that a TPO was appropriate - has anyone thought of doing that?

I think you are lucky.

The long and short of it is the tree he protected on site, on the day of our job, after we contacted him 2 weeks before shouldn't of been protected.

I am right. despite your understandable siding with the TO. I couldn't agree more, most are really good.

In this instance and this instance only to my knowledge he went about the whole situation wrong.

A bad decision is a bad decision and maybe would not of wound me up so much. What has got my back is we told him the work we were going to do 2 weeks ago and he said go ahead. Then turns up on the day of the job and goes out of his way to stop us. Ignorance at its best.

I dont think TO's are in the business of slapping pointless TPO's on trees, what benifit would anybody or wildlife get from that? There has to be valid reasons for tree protection or they would just get overturned at every appeal and make them selves look bad.

Exactly? Thats my argument here. there is no benefit, thats the issue!