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  1. The avantgardener
    Genista?
  2. The avantgardener
    And before that you will need a first aid +F before they will let you on site.
  3. The avantgardener
    If your working on FC land you need a refresher from a FISA or LANTRA + F Instructor or get the next ticket up. refresher is one day, depending on where you live, good luck finding a FISA instructor, they are nearly all based in Scotland!
  4. The avantgardener
    It could just be that they have not explained what they mean properly. In the felling up to 380mm they train a dogs tooth cut for heavy forward weighted trees, where the back hold is severed last, or a danish cut which can be used for a tree that is not excessively leaning forward/back/side, where a hold is left at the back and severed last, with or without the use of s felling lever.
  5. The avantgardener
    You should have asked for your money back!
  6. The avantgardener
    This largely depends on what you mean by ‘trainer’. You could get tickets and set yourself up as one right now with very little experience, set up a website and most novices wouldn’t know the difference, Micky Mouse’s Chainsaw Training Certificate wouldn’t be recognised by FC or FISA, not worth the paper it is printed on, same for the refresher. LANTRA/ NPTC have stringent Technical Evaluations where you have to prove you can instruct and deliver knowledge that is well above your candidates, this is after a detailed theory based interview. I personally have only had very good instructors in the past but I did pick them to suit my needs, no point going finding the best Arb instructor to teach you Technical Forestry units.
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    I don’t have a problem with most of the training/ refreshers out there, a lot of the stuff I was taught is still valid and instructed, it’s the quality of the people coming into the industry for all the wrong reasons that has become the problem. It has been a while since someone came working with us who was any good, tickets or not.
  8. The avantgardener
    Is that a left handed saw your using? Not seen one of them before.?
  9. The avantgardener
    Lime is light as though, I still think it’s Maple spp, I have some field maple in my wood store that is smooth barked with really tight grain as described, it was growing in an Ash compartment, drawn up straight, looked similar when I was thinning it, had to look up at the crown to identify, I will post a photo for comparison when I get in if it’s not already dark.
  10. The avantgardener
    The majority of injuries in UK Forestry are not even related to the chainsaw, they are caused by fat men falling in and out of tractors/harvesters, if you want to make Forestry safer, simple, pay the cutters a better rate and have the big players like Tilhill cut their investors profit margins, job done, but that’s another story.
  11. The avantgardener
    Where have you got this 90% of deaths are within 9 metres of the tree from please? Is this info Commercial Forestry based, Arb or both? Is this info from the UK as I thought FISA had ended all injuries in UK Forestry?
  12. The avantgardener
    The bark looks poplar/aspen like but I would expect it to be noticeably lighter than sycamore if it’s dry.
  13. The avantgardener
    Looks like it could be Acer Campestre (Field Maple), burns fine.
  14. The avantgardener
    My work colleague and I have just felled 550+ dying Ash trees in 20 days for The Woodland Trust, most needed wedging, some winching. if I had to use a winch in every one I would have been there till doomsday and not made a wage. Winching can be invaluable and certainly safer in some situations than wedges but not always practical, site location/terrain/suitable anchored trees etc. Training is one thing, the ‘real’world of Forestry another.
  15. The avantgardener
    Thanks David
  16. The avantgardener
    I bet he wouldn’t think it was a better job if he was the one on the hammer! Had my sledge for a couple of years now and not suffered elbow pain since so for me it has been worth every penny.
  17. The avantgardener
    I have always used sledge hammers with Hickory shafts, they absorb the energy well but do not remove the shock, no sledge hammer is shock free no matter what the handle is made from, the dead blow sledge hammer that I have is certainly the best I have used though. Hammering wedges into heavy back leaning edge trees for long periods is not the same as knocking in fence posts, I have done both. The position you swing the hammer from the side when wedging combined with carrying a vibrating machine all day is what used to cause me the elbow pain. I generally use a post knocker for fence posts, especially if they are Sweet Chestnut, I find It doesn’t split the post as much, providing the cutter did a proper job of cutting the top level.
  18. The avantgardener
    I came across a large Ash tree in a compartment that I am thinning due to die back, this one has been wind thrown, partially revealing the root plate. The brackets are from a previous season and I can’t see any new fruiting bodies. Not sure if it is a Ganoderma and it’s hard to make a comparison with the photos I have in my books, it doesn’t exactly match the description of Perenniporia fraxinea which could have caused the tree to uproot. I have photographed from the top, the underside tiny spore holes and a cross section also.
  19. The avantgardener
    If your still looking for work, give me a call 07964585942 David
  20. The avantgardener
    I have one of these hammers, got it from Amazon for £115 delivered. I fell a lot of trees using wedges and this is basically a ‘dead blow’ hammer that absorbs the shock coming back through the handle, my elbows where taking a beating. i wouldn’t use it on anything other than nylon/ wooden wedges though. I use a combination of nylon triple tapers, nylon headed hi-lifts and nylon headed bolle wedges, the latter are the best I have used, easier to drive in than the standard hi-lifts so don’t shake deadwood out of the canopy as much.
  21. The avantgardener
    I find it very useful when snedding on uneven terrain.
  22. The avantgardener
    Trio brake for a 346xp, finally kicked mine off recently after years of service.
  23. The avantgardener
    There is always some knobhead who thinks the barriers/coned off area etc doesn’t apply to them, but this isnt the point here really. This cyclist wasn’t doing anything wrong and could have been killed or seriously injured because of shear negligence and poor planning, these type of cowboys are also one of the reasons your Insurance Premium goes up each year.
  24. The avantgardener
    That is unbelievable, If I was riding that bike there would be some serious violence. Why not fell it in the direction of the lean so that it falls nearer to the truck, make it easier to ring up and load? We can all make an error but that is just dumb on a whole new level, a couple of guys in hi-viz out on the street stopping traffic for a minute, job done, unbelievable.
  25. The avantgardener
    Use plastics to get the thing moving then hi-lifts to finish the job otherwise you will be smashing the hell out of your hi-lifts and elbows.

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