Mick Dempsey
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Painful.
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There’s a growing little industry of tree surgeons who climb in all the hazmat gear with chemicals to kill the nest. I have had occasion to come off a job and get my local guy to arrive and kill the nest, then finish the tree the next day.
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Serious stuff, not always easy to spot the nests. On a few occasions I’ve been up a tree and spotted an active nest necessitating a careful retreat. Maybe take time to have a look around the tree before getting up in the summer.
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Blimey Rich, the long winter nights in Norway are making your posts a bit Bergmanesque! Roll on spring.
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It’s why it’s great Mark, no regulation, next to no HSE in domestic. If you know what you’re doing, can take a risk and can bend your back all day, you’ll never be short of money in treework. Anyone who can’t is FoS.
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Total bollocks. 20k tops gets you going in domestic tree work, and 95% of the time you’re paid almost immediately.
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In that situation I usually cut a new pollard point leaving 1 mètre of the biggest regrowth, maybe 3 or 4 on each old pollard head. Opinions may vary of course.
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Looks like a Norway spruce, but the pics aren’t great. Close up of a spray of needles might help.
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Good luck! My advice is to try not to burn any bridges with your old employer or any other established companies in your area. Sub~contracting for others is a good way of filling your week till you can get your own client base built up.
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Pine TD in Angoulême. If we could have done it in one we would have. Went sweet as you like.
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They’re becoming very popular, with a change of chain/bar/sprocket and some exhaust mods they are excellent. My ‘go to’ topper.
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Hello, Echo 2511 is lighter (and better)
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Did not know that, thanks.
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Ravens? Whereabouts?
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Finishing beaver work.
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Now there’s a job spec you never thought you’d see when you started in the industry.
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It seems not.
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Interesting.
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Every Sunday morning I’d be in the workshop, sharpening saws, changing blades etc. Just pottering really, Wrighty on the digital radio. He had certain songs he’d play regularly that you’d never hear anywhere else, quirky ones like this. I had no idea who sang it, I just Googled ‘Moses the cat song’
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How very sad. I feel like an old mate has died. RIP Wrighty.
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Some good, some bad. I will give my view on what I think has changed in the nearly 20 years since I left, for the better and the worse, as long as it is taken in the spirit it’s intended, not as an attack on either country.
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I remember when burning up your arisings from tree work was commonplace. Leylandii used to smoke a bit! Banning of wood burners would be a very hard sell here, so many houses use them, so much easy to process standing chestnut. can’t see it happening in my lifetime,
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Did I get another ident right?
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Selling Cord Wood Seasoned & Unseasoned
Mick Dempsey replied to Liam Outdoors 89's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I’m sure you’ll get a chorus of replies.
