WesD
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It's naive to think one would use this forum as a yard stick seeing as you are only seeing snippets of what others do. It is also naive to think there are not excellent firms out there that don't carry your accreditation. I do not think you need a few initials and to pay someone to measure/benchmark yourself against others. Being AA approved doesn't mean you will follow best practices or work to British standards etc. We only have to look at the video floating around of the pop being felled! Who is your benchmark? Like I say I'm not against accreditations and yours may be excellent if it carries the weight to win you more work and it brings you work in which covers the time and fees to be approved. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Sounds like being taught to suck eggs! If you can't manage to make simple diary entries on a mobile device and ring people back off your own back then you don't deserve to do well. I'd rather not pay for a few initials to make sure I'm on top of my paperwork. If they offer a lot more and jobs are raining in because of it then fair enough BUT if you have high standards and are on top of your game both physically and in the paperwork department then what's the point? Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Yes exactly I still like to work around a tree though where the groundies don't have to pick up a saw at all or bare minimum. It was a cracking climb and came down sharpish we have even saved a good 8-10 ft section to be milled at a later date which also meant less ringing up. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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That's what I do with the Grillon I split it all down to individual items, get the ticks in the boxes then make it up as I please with passed items. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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The limbs where thick set and messing around with tension and compression on the deck and stripping it probably would have taken the same amount of time as climb strip fell only took 2 hours to get it on the floor with all brash chipped and tbf I come down for 20 mins mid strip to give the guys on the floor a lift as it was a long drag to the chipper and 2 climbers doing 2 different trees with only 2 lads on the deck. It just seemed easier to climb and send it down in bits ready to chip and it looked and was an enjoyable climb. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Am I being thick?! (Rhetorical) how does the replacement rope thread through the zillon? Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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My Grillon has Yale xtc fire in it at the moment and works a treat the Grillon rope is awful think my original rope was spent after a week!! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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I know your not supposed to use other rope with Grillon/zillon etc but rope is rope surely. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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My Grillon is good it is smooth but it is clumsy big. I was thinking about a positioner or a zillon to match the ZZ but can't find much feedback for the zillon. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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How do you find the positioner? Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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What's everyone's preference and what are you using? ATM I'm on a Grillon 3m I think. Thinking of switching to an ART positioner. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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I only have 1 rule, suns out barbie out! Had a few already this year tomorrow I have left empty work wise for feet up then BBQ. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Yes latest version of Arbtalk app on iPhone. Thanks Steve. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Anybody else's app crash when you try to play any video? Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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[quote name=Andymacp Turning some dead standing Scots pines into habitat poles. Winched some tops out and also fracture pruned some. Put bat holes into the stems too.[/quote] Hope you thought about racks and matrix's and stuff when you where doing that[emoji23] Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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I thought the gob was too small the hinge was ok for the size of the tree but he was boreing too much towards rear so it was always going to barber, he should have removed the saw and dog toothed from the back but hey ho like others have said easy to say after watching it go wrong. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Looks text book breaker bar cut to me. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Fair enough. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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If they can afford the cheap option and then your expensive option they are not cheap skates they are mis informed or have a lack of knowledge in the tree game. It is up to you to justify the work you will carry out for the price you are asking. By refusing to go back to tidy someone's mess up out of spite rather than for a good wage is only reaffirming why they didn't use you in the 1st place. You may be hands down better at the job than the cowboys however the cowboys sales pitch is on the money, like previously stated they also charge top dollar in most instances. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Money is money at the end of the day and if you put a price in that reflects the job in hand I couldn't care if I was the 5th firm in. I'm a mercanary![emoji857] Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Buy the pfanners and a wardrobe for the mrs. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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I have thinned crown lifted and dead wooded 4 silver birch today on the back of someone's poor practise. Was going to take pics but it was chucking it down when we arrived so the phone stayed in the van. Owners haven't been in the house long and the work was done before they moved in, the job spec was can you make the trees look as natural as possible no topping no large limb removals other than where needed due to previous work. It was a joy of a job to be honest made a nice change from take downs reductions or topping. Slippy as hell with no spikes though! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Rack is a route made via thinning felling to extract the timber. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Have you tried the Perspex visor steve instead of the mesh, if so what do you think? I hate the mesh but just seem to put up with it! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
