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I am not a talkative bloke. I think that the report uses lots of words to say, trees do alright on their own, any interference upsets this "doing alright and doing their best" equilibrium. Which is kinda my attitude and I'm sure I lose lots of work due to it. Lots of tree work is purely aesthetic but I really love it when it's to try and help the tree regain it's equilibrium or avoids it's removal for a few years as it is clearly in terminal decline and making it "safe" for a period is all that can be done. Maybe I'm a shit tree bloke!
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Best way to light a woodburner with down draft?
Chris Day replied to sandspider's topic in Firewood forum
My parents have a trianco solid fuel boiler, and always have. I was taught to light it as a lad by lighting a fire Lighter cube in the top of the stove on top of the heat exchanger veins and just below the flue. Do you have a flue damper that you could place a firefighter on? Maybe light that with the stove door cracked to reverse the airflow. The door open bit was and still is important on the Trianco otherwise the boiler room fills with acrid firefighter fumes, nice! If that's not a viable option I'd be using the blowtorch, seems simplest and guaranteed not to fill the house with smoke. -
Please report back when you discover the issue as I have a couple of these vanguard engines, would be nice to know if it's a common fault with an easy fix or preventative measure. Especially as one is on a cs100 chipper and the e stop not working on that would be catastrophic potentially.
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Stupid mistakes you've made doing tree work
Chris Day replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
One of my first ever jobs, up a really tall Lombardi, don't think I've been up one so tall since, bloke I was working for said "fell it there chris". So I did and I pointed this twenty foot long top straight at the drop zone, shaking I may add not really knowing what I was doing. Bloke I was working for hadn't noticed the wind and neither had I so this top comes over lovely lovely, then the wind gets it and it starts to twist and spin end over end towards the conservatory and bungalow roof. I thought well that's me done! Some how it landed on the lawn with the butt pointing at the chipper. I was put on the ground for the rest of the day whilst the experienced climber on site rigged the rest out. Not exactly dangerous for me but a bloody swift kick up the arse to get thinking none the less! -
Portwest hi vis softshell for the winter. Can't get on with waterproofs, bloody sweaty things and most fleeces are too thick to work in.
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Sounds like a wise decision. You could also further your learning by trying to work ahead of the climber and plan the next pruning point they could then explain whether you are right or not. However right is based on an opinion and everyone will do things slightly differently and achieve roughly the same.
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Self Employed Tree Cutting Gangs wanted for Highways / Industrial works
Chris Day replied to Ashford's topic in Employment
Chris Day Tree Services Ltd is interested, please provide an email address for information as requested in the post. -
Traded the commuting skoda superb in for a ranger super cab tipper, subbed until I could buy a cs100 and trailer. Then took every job I could get, still got that set up alongside the transit and tr6 although the cs100 is not used much. But picking up mr burch's 7.5t arb tipper and flogging the transit next week.
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Under-planting Chestnut
Chris Day replied to Luckyeleven's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Ah , missed the firewood bit, do it in quarters and include some cherry to draw the slower stock as your replacement firewood once you've done all four. oh and chestnut spits lovely get a good fire guard or woodburner if you don't have that already. -
Under-planting Chestnut
Chris Day replied to Luckyeleven's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I've just thinned 2.3 hectares where sweet chestnut had been planted every fifth row. It had been planted seventeen years ago with the obvious intention of felling and poisoning or for coppice the sweet chestnut which never happened. The sweet chestnut had ruined the oak and nearly so with the ash, the only other dominant species was cherry, which was starting to be stifled by the remaining ash racks and the chestnut. I would fell the lot and replant with a mix of hardwoods and re coppice the chestnut stools every three years for three rotations until your new stock gets going and then selectively kill of the coppice stools. You could do it selectively or in thirds/quarters but leave a decent gap between the chestnut and your new stock. -
Kenny Rogers The Gambler, sums up my view of the tree game from my previous post. The key bit know when to run.. I'm making f**k ups and learning that bit.
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When you realise you are losing domestic because you're too expensive (even though the original £400 for what was described seemed pretty cheap) and lose commercial because your are too cheap the headache gets bigger! And then on bigger commerciall stuff cheaper wins the migraine of confusion begins and you realise to price everything for what you need/want for it and stop worrying about whether you get it and just evaluate if different kit or staff set ups would have won it if you don't get it. .......this post could go on. work out what you need and walk away before the money hits that figure.
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Bark.com is a waste of time for tree work. For the gardening, landscaping sector it seems to throw good leads up in South Yorkshire.
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Broken right wrist, didn't realise I'd done it for three weeks so kept working and popping painkillers. Three years on it's still sore..... Oh and it's just got cold so it's got loads better not! 31 and the injuries are tapping me on the shoulder not looking forward to twenty years time. It's ok though the mrs has said she'll fasten my boots in a morning so I can keep her in the manner she has grown accustomed , so all good! Cheers love
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Bit of duct tape it will be fine.... As for stupidity I don't know how to fix that.
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Aye but we've had our share from the eu....... Oh wait those toll roads through France and Spain even in low traffic volume areas who paid for those..... But yes with pfanner's from Germany supporting trade in the common market I will turn over more meaning more tax and more VAT so a win win for the home nation and the EU. It would be a crime to not provide them IMO.
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Fair one. There's plenty like that in my village, crying shame some of em bright kids just wasting themselves. At school they were far brighter than me and could tie their own shoelaces!
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I agree Kevin a known liability on site is straight to jail if something goes awry and HSE get involved. Once got asked by a severely autistic kid for a job, now equality and all that I racked my brain for a way to find him some work. I couldn't, it was heart breaking as he was very passionate in his request but he'd have killed himself or someone else in very short order. Probably would have done so working bloody hard though!
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Who ever sharpens them make sure they know about the angle on the opposite side to the main ground bit. If that's forgotten and only ground one side it's next to bloody useless! i had the same issue first time I changed the blades on mine, rest assured copper slip and quality bolts have meant it's never happened since. First time it's a c--t!
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Im with Mick, it's right job for the right dude or dudette. First day I watch people like a hawk, even book them in as an extra so if they just need telling to stand and watch for a bit and drag brash it's not an issue. However as much as I agree the climber sets the pace, he's part of a team and if someone can help they should and likewise the climber should try and help the groundies. I even tell complete beginners to shout stop if they see something they assume is dangerous, only once have I had a muppet shouting stop every five minutes.
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What he said. Have many baskets with an egg in each.
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Property! Two rentals nicely paying themselves off and once they're mortgage free then that's the pension. Knowing my luck the tenants will burn them down the minute the mortgage is paid and my insurer will find a clause to not shell out. So bear me in mind folks I may be that geriatric climber you've been looking for down the line.
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Ok cheers, I work that out as delivery early January. Will call tomorrow Dean.
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So if I order a zt 38hp today, how long is the wait? Still ten weeks or going up?
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I know you are probably right, the zt is the way to go. Re-sale is not really relevant for me as I buy kit and run it until it. Is basically scrap value before changing. Nay mini digger is 18 years old and going strong! I shall all pm mr git as seeing one in the flesh is always worthwhile.
