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  1. The avantgardener
    Ligustrum microphylla is the perfect alternative, great for gaps in box hedges, doesn’t suffer from blight or moth attack.
  2. The avantgardener
    My mate is an assessor, he passed two yesterday CS30/31, Passed two today for CS30 but both failed CS31, you still have to pass the requirements, it not pay your money rock up and get given your ticket, never has been.
  3. The avantgardener
    You might know a moody assessor that will write tickets out for cash but I bloody earned mine!!!
  4. The avantgardener
    Around 80% of all chainsaw training in the UK is carried out by LANTRA, NPTC just do the assessment of competence, LANTRA are now doing their own training with assessment which is the equivalent and transferable, exactly the same as NPTC tickets so I fail to see how they cant be recognised.
  5. The avantgardener
    The LANTRA tickets are exactly the same as NPTC and are recognised by anyone who knows what they are talking about. NPTC tickets also have a 5 year shelf life on FC land or anyone else’s land that has signed up to FISA,a one day refresher solves the 5 year shelf life.
  6. The avantgardener
    The Seventh Seal (Bergman) Naked (Mike Leigh) City of God (Meirelles) All crackers in there own way, lighting, script or pace.
  7. The avantgardener
    I would do your CS30/31 (felling up to 380mm) first then CS38 (using a rope and harness /aerial rescue) next, they would be the most expensive initial outlay. I would then do the one day LANTRA ITA courses for chipper and stump grinder. You should certainly be able to get your foot in the door as an all round groundsman. Learn the climbing/rigging techniques on the job from the experienced crew and back it up with your own research, NPTC assessment schedules can be downloaded and studied in your own time and get assessed when you know your stuff, best of luck.
  8. The avantgardener
    From someone who was at the 550 mk2 launch in Sweden last week.
  9. The avantgardener
    The 390 and 395 are being replaced by a 592xp later in the year.
  10. The avantgardener
    Don’t bother, splits and warps like hell, makes okay firewood, split it green though.
  11. The avantgardener
    Yeah, it was released about 3 hours ago.
  12. The avantgardener
    So, after quite a large amount build up and fanfare, Husqvarna finally unveil their ‘New Generation ‘ saws. They are the 545xp and 550xp Mk2. I was rather hoping for something a little more special like the replacement for the 390/395 series, the rumoured 592xp, or maybe even some new development that rivals Stihl’s 500i saw. Might not be all bad if the improvements on the mark 2 550xp are as good as the improvements made with the 346xp, annoyingly bought two 550’s last month though.
  13. The avantgardener
    Where are you based?
  14. The avantgardener
    I am certainly keen to try this saw out. The 462c is a belter to use but as Steve has commented, the build quality is a bit patchy, there has been reports about the casting of the oil tank being an issue on the 500 also, there is a lip that protects the oil filler cap that is cracking off when snedding, the 572xp is a belter also so I will have to get a 500 on demo and run it against the others first.
  15. The avantgardener
    I have been using Supertack Bio oil from Clarke Forest for around 5 years, no issues whatsoever, I think it is down to the quality of the oil, use Aldi/Lidl chip fat crap and you are asking for trouble.
  16. The avantgardener
    The small woodland owners that you get around my way are not much better. They have a wood burner fitted then buy 15-50 acres of lapsed coppice/scrub to supply their needs, then they realise it is too much like hard work and the novelty wears off. They then ask contractors to come in and price for putting the coppice back into rotation, when all the cutting, extraction and haulage costs are explained to them the penny drops that instead of the wood being worth its weight in gold as they thought, it is not even worth its weight in wood.
  17. The avantgardener
    If no one comes forward with anything useful I will ask Chalky when I see him in a couple of weeks.
  18. The avantgardener
    Holly is a shrub that happens to grow up to 15m and can live for 300 years, so it can also be considered a tree worth putting a TPO on.
  19. The avantgardener
    I have had a 550xp Triobrake for 3 years, had to import it from Germany as Husqvarna said the was no market for it in the UK, they started selling them in the UK in June this year. I just bought two more 550xpg’s, I wanted heated handles and Triobrake on the same saw but Husqvarna said there was no market for them in the UK, maybe I can have one in another 3 years.
  20. The avantgardener
    Husqvarna have a completely new designed belt out in the New Year, some dealers already have them, looks impressive.
  21. The avantgardener
    And not put a couple of cuts in the sides of the tree to ‘dissapate’ the tension....
  22. The avantgardener
    At least the company now have genuine concern for their climbers exposure to vibration and emissions whilst getting clattered by half a tonne of hardwood.
  23. The avantgardener
    He wanted to make room for a large wood store so that he could sell logs to offset the £1000. Felling fee.?
  24. The avantgardener
    Ball park figure for good sweet chestnut coppice in Kent/Sussex is £400-£450 per acre standing, £11-£14 per tonne haulage plus your extraction costs.
  25. The avantgardener
    Do you mean the purchase of an acre of standing timber to coppice or an acre of woodland to buy? What is the 60-80 tonne total product, fencing material, firewood, chip or all three? You would also need to cost extraction as well as haulage and that depends on access/location and how well you have planned your felling operation etc, have you any experience of any of this?

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