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Mr P

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  1. Sorry mate you know how it is, we do so many jobs like this day in day out it's hard to remember which one was which.😉
  2. Couple for climbing maybe Rigging SRT And conny hedge topping...
  3. Had a great last day before the holidays on Friday deadwooding 13 trees over some forest trails near Munich. We would have been lost without the big shot, we reckon the big fir was pushing 45m. I'm in the top of the fourth photo but the quality ain't great sorry!
  4. Any ideas what these beetles are guys?? Found quite a lot of them on some linden trees we are pruning at the minute. Are they harmful at all? Cheers!
  5. Ian, you told a judge to go **** himself?? How is that pan out??
  6. 11.7 cougar blue with hitch hiker. Best rope I've used!
  7. I think by the sounds of things he is doing it wrong, unless he is employing some of the more advanced felling techniques some of the guys are talking about. However if he is just 6 months out of the course and using it on every tree I doubt that he is. Does anyone use it to try and 'jump' the stem? I heard about it in Canada, putting the back cut in 4" to 6" below the notch if the tree has a slight lean the way you want it to go. Mostly applicable to climbing and knocking out the head to clear an obstacle but have heard 'stories' of people jumping whole trees over fences. Putting sticks in the gob to give it more pop and other such wizardry!
  8. Haha made me laugh, thanks for that!
  9. If you just follow this guys tips you should get the hang of it in no time...😂 Seriously not sure if it's a spoof!
  10. On the same job a rotten sycamore. In the last photo you can see my lunch bag at the bottom for some scale. The manitou struggled with it a bit!
  11. A few decent takedowns over the last few days and got to try using a jack in the back cut of one of the stems. The jack was only rated to 2 tonnes and therefore didn't look at it considering the back lean it had to fight. A bit of an oversight on our part but thankfully had a manitou on site to help out!
  12. Paddy if what I hear about you is true, if you got your company name and number tattooed on your lower back I reckon it would the advertising equivalent of a blimp on New Year's Day in New York! ..hope your well mate!
  13. Try Clarke Cunninghams in Carryduff, about 4 miles outside of Belfast. They have a mountain of woodchip I'm sure they could take a bit more. Don't have a number but they're on the internet - Clarke Cunninghams Tree Maintenance Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk mobile app
  14. Worked with Steve for a year and it was a great experience. Big equipment, bigger trees and better yet hardly any rain! Would highly recommend this to anyone thinking of a change of scenery or simply looking to gain some experience abroad. Plenty to do in and around Toronto as well, it's a pretty cool city. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk mobile app
  15. Cheers guys! First time I've seen it, nice looking tree IMO. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk mobile app
  16. Came across this the other day, someone said Chinese pine but I'm not convinced..any help would be great thanks. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk mobile app
  17. Finishing off the big sliver maple I posted about in the storm pics today. They decided to take it down in the end as it was dangerous and over a public pathway. Two of the stems came down easy enough with the bucket truck but the last stem was over a fence so we had to take a section out. All went to plan in the end! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk mobile app
  18. Cheers, been working here for 11 months and realized I hadn't any photos of the lake. Now I have only a week left so I thought I better get a few! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk mobile app
  19. Working beside Lake Ontario this morning, temperature hit a scorching +1!..good day to be in a tree Haven't quite mastered the panoramic shot yet! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk mobile app
  20. Got to this big silver today, the whole tree will prob have to go as it has included bark and it's over a public path and a house!! Shouldn't have been allowed to get to this stage IMO in the first place. No evidence of previous work to reduce it and no cables in sight! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk mobile app
  21. Got back to Toronto last week to find they've had an 'ice storm' over Xmas, the poor buggers in work got 1 day off over the last 4 weeks!!...anyway we'll be doing clean up for the next 4 months they reckon, it's sunny today but wind chill has it down to -30 which is a record for me..apparently it hit -45 over Xmas when I was away home! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk mobile app
  22. 'Are you telling me that 200 of our men against your boy is a no win situation for us??' 'You send that many, don't forget one thing' 'What?' 'A good supply of body bags!'.. Haha Rambo first blood! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk mobile app
  23. I have a mate called Shaun Dick and his mums name is Elleta, also knew a guy a few years above me in school called Eric Cheung! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk mobile app
  24. It's been pretty cold over here in Toronto, -20 with the wind chill at the minute and we had a foot of snow over the weekend. Still the sun is shining and as long as you keep moving it ain't that bad, did this ash on Friday in -20 and couldn't believe how brittle the wood was. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk mobile app

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