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Any recommendation of tree suppliers uk
The avantgardener replied to forestboy1978's topic in General chat
It depends where you are located. I have used Specimen Trees in Cheshire for large stuff before, excellent stock and service, and Barchams down here in the SE, both excellent. -
Yeah, he sure is.
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Yeah mate.
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I also use Clark Forest bio oil, never had any problems in 5 years running 6-8 different saws. Why do you think only the non Stihl saws are suffering?
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My first day back proper today, had a good run up to Christmas, 6 day week for six months after promising the missus a camper van for her birthday. Got three months of the same booked in as she has changed her mind after stumbling across houses for sale in France, you can pretty much buy a detached farmhouse for the price of a camper, I’ll keep going with my head down for now.
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Combine this with industry professionals expertly demonstrating how safe the current systems are when used correctly and the mind just boggles.
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Burn the bottoms of the posts before you put them in the ground, they will last much longer, especially in wet ground. They do it as a matter of course for the vine strainers in Italy.
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Sausage factory means they churn them out like a production line, shame really as they used to have some excellent Forest and Arb lecturers. They caused huge environmental damage to the River Adur a while back too, emptying massive amounts of slurry straight into the river. On a positive side, they are apparently very good at making sparkling white wines.
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Combined with a catalogue of injuries.
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Don’t...just don’t.
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This has nothing to do with training and says everything about the individuals, no training can completely remove someone’s fear of heights or prepare them for hard graft, they can do it or they can’t.
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So you had a bad experience with a trainer, it happens, is he involved along with all the other training providers with writing best practice/icop for the industry as you stated earlier?
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But the training providers haven’t brought this in, HSE have, there isn’t a training provider in the country who would have welcomed the change to a two rope system, they have just had to respond to it and with minimal time.
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Usual bull, All new training/assessments have to be done on two ropes, there is no choice in this, there are no retraining requirements for your existing tickets so no extra profits to be made by training providers, the only profit I can see is to kit suppliers.
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Total crap, who are you talking about here? I can count on one hand the people who are involved in writing best practice/training for LANTRA/NPTC.
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If this is the case then this is surely an ‘Industry’ created problem then, not a training problem. When I did my 5 day CS38 I certainly wasn’t the finished article, where any of you? I also wasn’t sent out as the rescue man on technical climbs with such little experience either, maybe I just got lucky and worked for a pro firm straight from college.
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What compliant systems would you be training these novices on then?
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Kingswood Training and Scott Fraser Training, both based in Kent have excellent reputations.
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For day to day use I would have a good run out on the 462 first and see what you think. I was massively impressed with the performance and handling of the 462 even though I run Husqvarna, the performance difference between the two Stihls is minimal in real terms but the price isn’t. Build quality on both saws I thought was dubious in the long term compared with the 460/461 that are workhorses, but the new Husqvarna are similar compared with previous models.
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I will ask him for an estimate of the kind of area he has on the go at any one time the next time I see him, I reckon it will be ridiculous.
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He has been doing it for many years so does more rotation harvesting than coppicing now, he still needs to do some more sites each year though. He is a main supplier for The Jockey Club so his customers are Nationwide like the tracks.
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The guy near me who does this as his main income has sites all over the country, from Kent to Lockerbie. He cuts the Birch down initially and markets the wood in exchange for three coppice rotation harvests when the regrowth is as thick as your thumb. It’s a lot easier to harvest using a clearing saw if it is all the same age rather than picking your way through Different size groupings.
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There is a pretty good mark up on these Birch faggots for horse hurdles, you just need a good connection with The Jockey Club.
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Chainsaw Oil Leaking All Over My Boot - Help
The avantgardener replied to Jamie Jones's topic in Chainsaws
And brush all the oily crud from the behind the clutch and side cover each evening when you have finished. -
It’s your tree and your responsibility if it unsafe and could cause damage or injury to other people or property. Unless your tree man has indicated that the tree is in imminent state of collapse then being an Oak I would think it will still be standing in a couple of years, that should be enough time to save the money to get a proper/safe job done.
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