Mick Dempsey

They’re BATTERY saws.

I think utility arb might be your foot in the door, it can be a tough job, but it’s time with the saw in your hands, and after a year or so doing that you are much more of an attractive proposition employment wise to firms. Plus financially it’s steady good money. Forget window cleaning, ridiculous from Kram, he gets some really daft notions.

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It would be an ongoing issue in all scenarios. Would it put me off buying? Possibly. It should certainly be in the conversation when negotiating.

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Re, battery saws. We have the poky husky topper and the battery ground saw, both with clutches. For general arb work they cover 80% of what we do, especially as we don’t ring up stems very often cos of the Avant. The topper is heavy, so gets benched for the little echo on the smaller stuff. As a chipper saw and for light work the back handled battery saw is first out of the truck.

Freedom for Tooting!

I occasionally post a pollard on the work pics threads on the couple of US forums I frequent. There’s often interest in the methodology, some scoffing, but generally there is no major pushback. It was a bit different 10/15 years ago, but these days, thanks to the web, we see so much of other people’s (and countries) tree work that as an industry (hate that term) we are less parochial than we were.

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Mornin’ Stubs. On thé coast this weekend, very blowy and rainy. Just back from the dog walk, dramatic seascapes compensated for the unpleasant conditions.

Well, as my old boss would say “a blind man would be glad to see it”

It’s all work, top ‘em a few times, then take them out when it rots out. Circle of life and all that.

Re. HC pollards. The heads don’t form as attractive a shape as limes or planes, plus they rot out very quickly, so need replacing more often. Are we missing a photo of pleached trees?

That Horse Chestnut pollard is wrong. The French seem oblivious to the fact that they don’t pollard well at all.

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