john andrews

Thank you, looking forward to a day out.

I know its a bit early but whats this years Arb show like, travelling up tomorrow for a day out, would be nice to know your thoughts, thanks John.

Try, Forest park and gardens on the outskirts of Cardiff, ask for Trev Coles hes got a tracked Toro, hope it helps.

Any ISA cd's etc or learning text books up for sale, thanks john.

Echo cs501 sx 50cc ish, no need to port Echo cs 620 sx 60cc ish, hold on and enjoy the ride.

Evening all, does anybody have the Isa cd rom box set and text book that their like to sell on, this is for myself and my son to study prior to hopefully sitting the Cert Arb exam, many thanks and kind regards John.

Evening all, every interesting post and a lot of things to consider while we all carry out our daily tree work, if you don't mind i would like to add my two pennies worth of both advice and experience, i spend 23 years in the Royal Marines and have been on all of the recent battlefields since the late 80's to 2012. It's good to see that we're all carrying a good comprehensive first aid kits, weather it's a small personnel one on a climbing harness to a large decent one in the landy or mog, it's ok having blood stopping granules, first aid dressings etc, but the primary and most important thing is that you know how to deal with the situation, it's important to have good training in how to use the first aid equipment and carry the right kit in relation to work being carried out, but the most important thing of all is the CASAVAC PLAN, you could be in a remote forestry block to a town centre next to an A&E, if you don't have a plan then your basically ******. If you work on something called the golden hour then you would have tried your best to keep yourself but probably your work mate alive, the first ten minutes is spent giving life saving first aid, this is where the good training comes into play, ABC, stop the bleeding etc, the next 50 minutes is getting the casualties to some sort of primary health care, i.e paramedics or A&E air ambulance etc, throughout the time constantly assessing the casualty, your extraction to safety may be on foot using a stretcher or by vehicle to a road point, ora simple marking of a helicopter landing site, but if it's not planned and if the team is not briefed it wouldn't work, all you will get is a lot of panic and confessed people and may be a very bad outcome, so next time you fill out the site or daily risk assessment take a couple of minutes to make a plan and brief people up, you never know it may save your life, i hope i haven't taught people to suck eggs, thanks and kind regards John.

Bad yesterday in south wales, had the Sip Keiu on that i bought in the APF, glad i did, just for feedback it's a cracking arb jacket i'm well impressed:thumbup1:

Thankyou Saw Toll, excellent info, cheers mate.

Thanks for the info both, cheers john.

Good Evening Gents, I have a chance to pick up a nice condition Jonsered 2145, the only think i know about the Jonsered is that there from the Husky family and seem to be very good, i do not have a Jonsered dealer close to me but i can use the internet to get parts that does bother me, the 2145 turbo is 45cc, would that be near the husky 346xp sort of performance give or take a few cc's, many thanks John.

Hi Tim, many thanks for the reply and help on this one, i live in Ammanford and a good friend of uncle les, i'm away up in Rhayadar on my windblown course tomorrow until Wednesday,will try to bell you if not i'll be in touch shortly, thanks John 07703399508

Evening Gents, looking for help from fellow Arborist's etc, my wife has been approached by a horse charity on the outskirts of Swansea for Approximately 50 tonnes of woodchip ASAP, then a steady flow to top up, this is a horse charity that not only looks after unwanted horse's and ponies etc, but also works with young children that need therapy and general help and well being. Its for a good cause and the site is open all day including weekends, the site is just off the M4 near Hendy, and the details are as follows, please ring Luciana on 07921 817970, and the postcode is SA14 8SW, in the village of LLANON, please can you give Luciana approximately 15 minutes notice before drop off just to secure any nervous horses, hope this may help some tree companies out, many thanks and kind regards in advance John.

On the Bandit gallery on here lol. thanks John.

Thank you all so far on the comments, plenty of good ways of protecting yourself, thanks John.