Eddy_t

Just climb some random trees, it's not against any rules, and the more different trees you climb the better! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Try and get as much experience in as many of the countryside sectors as possible, the more you understand the better, plus it will make you more versatile, I doubt any arb could say he makes money from trees alone! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

This is an ecology forum thread the design is to promote habitat creation, and the main practice for pollards now is either for ecology or aesthetics, long gone are the days where it was used to provide timber whilst providing woodland pasture for grazing Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

In a nutshell, habitat production, cavities for nesting animals, detritivores and fungi, dead wood for fungi and boring insects, and dense canopy for song birds to nest and avoid predation, the plant matter also provides food Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Countryside management is a useful course, is it classed as conservation? I did a conservation course and the woodland management unit helped me understand a ton of stuff, whilst it doesn't teach you too much, you will pick up loads in the first few years once you've done your saw courses, and the other units on countryside such as heathland will help in understanding the type of area you're dealing with, with specific trees, their needs and how they link together Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

More people are switching to husky, stihl have unfortunately lost out with the new series of saws, the only one I liked was the 200t and they scrapped that the 150 was fun to play with, but IMO impractical as a pro saw Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Fast and aggressive those ones eat stihl for breakfast! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

I shall try this for you, and I forgot your in America, the thing about your gran is a saying, means trying to tell someone how to do something they probably know better than you Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Good luck, don't trap the saw on the letterbox like I did! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

You used to be able to download a licence for the destruction of avian vermin nests, along with the ability to take the parent bird off the nest, but with this I think you needed a valid reason, not just that it was in a tree somebody wanted took down Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

You got him started by saying the A word! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

It doesn't have the letters CTS ground into the plastic does it? My robbed one did Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

We have otters on my friends reserve, never seen them though, only once saw one in Stafford town centre, more often than not they're caught on the CCTV scuttling around the town Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

You forgot stihl for top handles! Until the 540 comes out, then we will see if its up to the mark! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Chinese stihl copies! Like the ms5200! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Yes by all means, the twiggy stuff can be done without a chainsaw, and is silly to use a chainsaw on individual twigs, unless you're ripping into a cluster, the bladed tools are 'glamourised' because they don't give a smooth cut, which stimulates more growth, which is what you want on a pollard, I know this is a bit like telling your gran to suck eggs. The chainsaw also leaves a slightly rougher edge than a hand saw, and while the historical reasons of fodder and timber production are generally obsolete nowadays, pollards provide an important factor in ecology, with cavities and aerial deadwood habitat, I also think they have more aesthetical value than a 'standard' tree. There are no right or wrong ways to manage a pollard, as each situation is different, but bladed tools produce the best result, whilst chainsaws are easier, and will, as I said, stimulate more growth than the beautifully smooth cut of a pruning saw, or pole mounted pruner, if you were referring to powered pole saws, it's still a chainsaw! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

A while? I still can't figure out what half of the stuff he puts up is about! The eggs thread threw me a curve ball, and his recent one about petemate is impossible, luckily rich is translating Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Yup, trained on stihls, first arb co used stihl, as did next, golf course uses stihl, had a go with a 346, got given a 385, fell in love with the speed and aggression of a husky! Admittedly out of my 3 top handles only the 200t remains, the 335 blew up, but the 338 was nicked off me, along with the beloved 346 :'( Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Just an XP Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

AV rattles loose? What huskys you used? AV is better on a husky! And stihl owners just go on and on and on and on! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Clamidia Forsyth-brown? That's one name given by evil parents! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Nah, just do em flat Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Comparing bute and BSE are like comparing arb trucks to chainsaws, as for the origins of the meat, I doubt Romanians have as easy access to bute as British equestrians do, so the probability is very low. Unless of course the French and British have been adding horse knowingly from their stocks! It is really a trading standards/false advertisement thing Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Ms361 = 560xp (60cc), the 550 is slightly smaller, and that's the one I'm going with, and my thread about the 550 or 560 wasn't very helpful, the only people who had tried both were indecisive, where as everyone else had one or the other, my best recommendation is to test em out at your local dealer! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Local dealer had a fit at jonsie's prices, 28% discount, reluctantly agreed at 27.5% to me Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App