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  1. maybelateron
    I have had my household and vehicle insurance with NFU for years. They were happy to quote me for my arborist liability, but were a lot more than Trust. I note Doobin's comment re not trusting Trust. I have found NFU excellent over the lasted 25 years for any claims.
  2. maybelateron
    Yellow or orange Escorts, Capris, and Granadas. Oh yes, and no Canbus/ECU's either🤣
  3. maybelateron
    Trust insurance charge on the basis of turnover, but I don't know what their lowest tier would be.
  4. maybelateron
    I would have said Laburnum from the pictures showing the inside of it, but I can't remember seeing a Laburnum with such deeply scaly bark.
  5. maybelateron
    Started at 41, now 63 and still climbing. Only because usually climbing is easier work than dragging brash uphill🤣
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    We took out a conifer hedge this week, one we have managed for ten years with trimming, so it was straight sided and flat topped, ie a bit easier to visualise volume reduction. Measuring accurately (26L x 2.5W x 3H) the volume of the hedge was 195 cu metres, but we need to allow for it having the trunks visible at the bottom. It was a dense hedge with no gaps. Let's say the volume of "air space" the hedge took up was 180 cu metres, or even take it down to a speculative 150 cu metres. Our chip box capacity is 7.5 - 8 cu metres, when absolutely full. We got everything in with one and a half/two thirds loads, including room for rakes, all the sweeping and any timber that was not chipped. So on this job we can safely say the volume reduction was at least 10 fold, and in fact probably a bit more.
  7. maybelateron
    Never used to wear PPE before I turned professional many years ago. Now I always wear type c, no matter what the temperature is; just keep pushing the fluid intake. Always wear helmet unless climbing up something really dense like holly, and lid will catch on everything. Very occasionally will use spider man mesh goggles and nothing else (on head!🙈) if extreme heat, climbing and using leccy top handle for light pruning, ie no risk of timber from above clouting me on head.
  8. maybelateron
    I can see this thread running for a while yet 🤣 Unless other people have realised shed/barn + loyal hound/mutt isn't that bad But, being serious, I am pretty lucky with my wife of nearly 40 years, she's very good Keep on scrolling A bit further Now I only work 3 or 4 days a week
  9. maybelateron
    Flip side being Cedar is a softwood, burns beautifully. Let's not even mention Balsa being a hardwood🤣
  10. maybelateron
    I don't think you can apply any set timescale/formula to this, but I understand you asking. I have felled trees that looked ok/largely ok and found the hinge area was weak/rotten with no external signs; flip side I have felled trees where the crown looks really tired bit the lower trunk is fine. The only solution in my opinion is the look at the overall risk assessment - drop zone area targets/risk of branch falling out and hitting saw operator etc. If in any doubt walk away or seek advice, unless you have a good mewp and can pick bits off it. Every case is different. Definitely agree with advising owners not to delay - over the next few years there will be plenty of cases where through ignorance or lack of funds owners have ignored the problem and made it become a more expensive solution.
  11. maybelateron
    This is absolutely true - a junior gynaecology male doctor I worked alongside many years ago was called Dr Dick. Not quite as funny years later in the same department was a female doctor called Dr Overy. Also in the same hospital, and again true were two dermatologists, one called Dr Byrne, and the other Dr Tan.
  12. maybelateron
    I have had rotator cuff problems on and off for years. Looking back I suspect one shoulder started when I was 29, as a result of a lot of manual digging and using the spade to cut through bricks in the ground. The madness of youth. Next significant time was one then the other shoulders in a close space of time 26 years later. Physio did help a lot, diagnosis was confirmed by ultrasound. Main reason was thought to be plain old degenerative change, and advised that in my age group surgical repair of my torn supraspinatus tendons might not be successful. I can still climb with no problems, but have recently given up all hedge work involving long reach tools. I certainly agree with the comment of not wanting to have surgery without a scan (MRI or Ultrasound, depending on the suspected diagnosis) to check the diagnosis.
  13. maybelateron
    I spent all my teenage weekends and holidays working on the farm over the road, loved every minute of it. Wanted to go into farming but parents persuaded me to follow the family line into medicine. Became a GP, loved the job I trained to do. After 14 years in a stupidly busy practice I realised my mental health would not survive at this pace/stress. Decided to follow my outdoor work needs so went part time GP for 12 years, and started self employed arb work, after doing CS 30 31 38 39. Took on two employees while still working both jobs. Decided at 53 that enough was enough, still loved the GP work I trained to do, but system driving me mad, AND loved the arb work/climbing just as much, so went full time into arb.
  14. maybelateron
    All evergreen chip or mixed loads of evergreen + deciduous go to a local concern where it is dried and used for biomass. Likewise any large timber we don't want goes to same place where they have the ability to process it into chips. This does not cost us anything. Sweepings that are contaminated with soil/grit get taken to a local greenwaste recycling business, where we have to pay to tip. It is ultimately shredded, screened, and turned into soil/soil improver. We keep good clean deciduous chip in our yard and sell it on as garden mulch. Harwood gets processed into logs for our own use, and logs for sale. I also burn quite a lot of softwood, including conifer in our own boiler to heat our house. Also, not surprisingly, an increasing number of domestic customers keep the timber for their own use.
  15. maybelateron
    I fink this issue is bein looked into by some language expert's.
  16. maybelateron
    Still got more coming in than we need, especially as we are now a three man team, not four. Used to have lots a repeat hedge work, as security for the wages etc. Now stopped virtually all hedge and shrub work, which suits my shoulders nicely - holding long shaft hedgecutters out over the top of a wide hedge is not my idea of fun any more.
  17. maybelateron
    Saw them live in the 70's, great band. I'm not a guitarist, but was Phil Lynott's guitar longer than normal?
  18. maybelateron
    Agreed entirely. The C section chassis is what made me opt for the Daily rather than Transit etc. Definitely needs helper rear springs, but simple to sort out.
  19. maybelateron
    You raise a lot of good points.
  20. maybelateron
    Yes, I have followed a few of these sorts in recent times. Know exactly what you mean.
  21. maybelateron
    Definitely agree about the thumb. I have a Bobcat E10 we use intermittently in my small domestic arb firm. In terms of cost/benefit the thumb is a real winner for moving/loading timber, and even holding sections while they are ringed up. Also agree a grab with rotator is superior but then it costs more.
  22. maybelateron
    Maybe he engineered it to get several weeks off work😂
  23. maybelateron
    Back in 1983 my wife was a junior doctor at the Birmingham Accident Hospital. An ambulance came in from a bad RTA, with a police motorbike escort. In those days we had ice in winter. Yes, you guessed it, plod on the bike tried to be smart at the entrance to the hospital, did a footbrake turn (I guess you call it that on a bike), flipped it over it fractured his femur when it landed on him. He must have felt such a plonker!
  24. maybelateron
    Certainly not the usual endless request for quotes, but by no means dead in the water; also got the regular hedge/repeat pollards ringing up on top of the regulars booked in from one season to the next. Tall hedges are such a mixed bag - a pain when you are busy, and a godsend when you are quiet!
  25. maybelateron
    Certainly looks like Ash. What's the story?

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