madbopper

They are coming in a couple of weeks time.

Afternoon everybody, got a couple of questions that might be a bit obvious to some, I packed in tree work in 2006 so I’m very out of the loop with regards current legislation and all the shite that goes with it. So packed in tree work and now run a fishery, I’ve recently been contacted by sparsholt college to see if I can give a lad one day a week work experience. A major day to day job is hedge trimming. So the questions are. Can I allow a 16 year old to use a hedge trimmer ?? what tickets would be appropriate, if any, can he use one if given on site training by a suitable person, I have 35 years Arb experience but haven’t got any tickets for a hedge trimmer myself. Ive just ordered a battery long reach for myself, this seams to me to be a far safer machine to use compared to my old stilhl which will happily Chop through 3/4 inch Hazel. I have no other employees( so under 5) so do I need to do a risk assessment, every day he’s here. I would like to cover my arse. Cheers russ.

Cheers all, I will contact the ag college, if no good I will bop them over myself. I do have a lot of other stuff apart from ash, so might remove those from the climbing equation.

Evening. Bit of background quickly. 35 years in the tree game, most of them climbing and running a successful business, so I roughly know what I’m on about. Not in the business now but own a chunk of land with a lot of trees. I remember a while back employing lads who had a good grasp of stuff from college, but their hands on experience was rather lacking to be polite. Are their climbers that need trees to practice on, do they not get the chance at work to get up and have a go, is it always too rush rush on site. I have a bunch bunch of ash that will require removal in the next couple of years, now I could drop them from the floor in about 5 minutes and clean them up with my excavator no problem, but what about letting somebody come in and do a reduction on them, sort of pretend back garden scenario, after we look at it and all jump about saying how fab it looks and isn’t he super, we could then pollard it, again roping down missing the pretend shed and greenhouse. You get the idea. I have absolutely nothing to gain from this and it could be a thorough pain in the arse, some numpty turns up, thinks he’s gods gift to the tree world and turns out to be bloody useless, as I said I could just drop them over. but I wouldn’t mind trying I have a bit of spare time. So what do you think. Location cirencester. Cheers russ.

Cheers for that.

Hi chaps Does anybody have any experience of having a newt survey done in preparation to build a new house, or is there anybody out there that carries them out or can put me in touch with someone with a bit of knowledge. Cheers Russ.

Have you had a quote of them yet, If you are comparing them to a local ag firm I would think you haven't. We had a budget,and started to get quotes off a few companies, there price made you think they were going to be using gold plated rivets. But we still had it as it was clear the quality was spot on. Tipping body for Izuzu rodeo with side tool box barn doors ladder racks,flashing beacon reverse camera,full vinyl wrap. £10,000.

Yes the lad I work with has just had one done,it is the best made tipper body I have seen,and I am into fabrication and car building myself and I'm not very easily impressed. BUT. when they send you the quote make sure you are sat down with your wallet firmly clenched between your bum cheeks. Also don't expect it to be light his turned out a couple of hundred kilos heavier than he wanted. Also don't hold your breath while it is being built you could probably build a small house in the time it took

I would like to get a few bog mats suitable for a 14 ton excavator, I've looked into hiring but wanted to know if any one had made any or have you used anything else that did a good job no matter how weird it seemed but it worked, I've got a large pond small lake to dig and wanted to have them on hand in case things get a bit sinky. Cheers Russ.

Quick question for you digger pro's I have a large half acre pond to dig out on my own land and it has been suggested I get a 20 ton machine in, now looking at a few specs of machines it seems the 20 will be too wide for the acces road and the gap between the roadside trees, So looking at machine specs I should be able to get a 14 ton machine in no probs what would productivity be like between the two, would I be better off cutting a couple more trees down to get the 20 in or are the 14 ton modern machines more agile so just as productive in the long run. Cheers russ

Cheers goaty. Nothing like experience.

This is also another sensible way cheers going to give it a bit of thought.

Ok better clarify a couple of things. Wire on the out side of posts,as we are trying to keep things out not stock in. Lifting over sounds good but the posts will be out of the ground by 1.5m so that's high and this wire is 80kg a roll so will be a bit of a struggle I reckon I think I've worked out a plan I'm going to knock all the posts, and make a wire unroller like you have with plain wire. rather than pull the roll along unwinding as you go I'm going to fix the unroller in the ground and pull the wire off the roll passing it behind the posts as I come to them, if I pull of 50m in one direction and then do the same from the other direction and tension in the middle I think this will work fairly well. Thanks for your thoughts.

Ok so I'm not sure if this will work in theory it should So I have a run of about200 m of stock fence that is 1.4 m high the problem is it is going to be about 600 mm away from a hedge and the wire has to go on the outside of the posts which is the hedge side, each roll weighs 85 kg+ How would you roll out the wire ? Or how about putting in the strainers running out the wire and tension up and then go along and thump in my intermediates, What do you think. Cheers Russ.

Yes box strainers.