dan blocker

There’s a couple of chaps on here with mobile log processors, it might be worth you getting them in to process into logs and you’ll double your return🤔

I would send the photographs and location of tree along with your concerns to the head of the local council, parish council and highways department. Ask for a written response from all of them. You could add that if the tree was to fail and God forbid - injure or kill some one you would pass all the details to the HSE and any  lawyers that could be involved in any resultant legal case. They have a duty of care to keep the public safe.

On 31/01/2023 at 08:30, Mark Bolam said:

Danny Mac bought the Lhotse when the weather turned really wet last autumn, and really rates it.

 

It is expensive though.

 

I just bumble along in my rapist looking ex-army goretex dpm shell, a farmers Sealflex, and my knackered Pfanner Ventura ex-40000mm.

 

If you’re climbing or grafting hard you’ll be wet either from rain or sweat.

There’s nothing that will stop both.

 

I prefer sweaty wet because I like being warm!

As Mark says, your either wet “from rain or sweat” if your doing manual tree work? Buy some fancy expensive jackets and trousers if you like but prepare to have it scagged the first time you start throwing some narley barked oak about or scrambling through a big black thorn to get to the base of a tree. I go cheap and many? Carry a couple of spares to change at break time along with a fresh tea shirt or other top underneath, and a towel to dry off and away to go - again😳. And when really soaked and moral is really low - into spare dry kit for the trip home.
Did a tree job recently on a small development site where we were soaked by 0930? About 11 we went into the site hut for a bite to eat and a tea. The youngest of us (25) was like a drowned rat, the other two of us had spare kit and proceeded to dry off and put some dry kit on. The younguns bottom lip nearly hit the floor. Gave him a tenner to pop to Tescos garage to get some coffee’s, otherwise I thought he was going to throw the towel in(which he didn’t have!) I’ve been telling him for years to bring spare kit - he does now? He’s also stopped gobbing off about working with a couple of geriatrics!

I’ve found that my chainsaws are much more willing to work in the rain than I am😳

Bought a smart phone outright several years ago and then a sim only vodaphone package for £12 a month years ago and I’m already quids in🤔. Recently got rid of BT land line and Broadband and taken out a Vodaphone landline, broadband and mobile phone sim only package for Mrs and me for £47 a month. A lot cheaper than BT and separate mob phone packages. Broadband no worse that BTs which was rubbish. Have never had Sky because I probably watch too much crap on telly as it is without scrolling more channels. Only downside was when England rugby went to satellite for home games. 

7 hours ago, Hedge Monkey said:

 

 

Looks like the operation was to take out infected ash. There will be some kind of plan in place for sure but lots of other woodland to manage and very few hands on deck. 

Reading through this, are you sure? “there will be some kind of plan in place”? Cos I’m not so sure. Not convinced that falling it all downhill towards the extraction point is ideal if your going to winch it out. Sounds like a cluster🤔.

I wouldn’t bother. Summer is definitely coming, it’s on the calendar 🤔.

So you’ve been asked to be a consultant to an App design company on a subject I presume you carry out as a business? but throw it out to an Arb forum🤔. What’s your input for your fee? As I thought a consultant would be the subject matter expert🤔. I think a researcher would be a better description and justify a lower fee!

Ask a mate(or two) if you can try theirs? Even the most expensive/ comfortable ones just tried on in the shop might seem ideal but after an hour or two up a tree they could turn out to be torture. We all have a wide range of lower leg length/ muscle/ bone/ weight/ boot size and width etc even with adjustment it’s not necessarily the case that all spikes can be adjusted to suit all types.

Wants a blank canvas🤔 development site🤔

Looks like Ash Dieback to me. It’ll never recover and form a good tree, cut it off at ground level this winter. It’ll shoot new growth in spring which will then probably suffer dieback again so if it was me I’d poison stump with eco plugs and plant something else to replace it asap.

I’m not so sure putting the clocks back for winter is a good thing, I know it’s supposed to be safer for kids etc to go to school and work but they’ve forgot they have to get home as well?

6 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

@KateH
One good thing about this job, compared to say the building trade, is our old friend ‘job and knock’ which means that for many (most?) firms you get a job to do and if you finish the job early, you finish work early, down the pub or on the sofa or whatever you like.

 

This rewards guys who hit it hard for the first few hours, then cruise to the finish line.

 

I can’t remember the last late finish we’ve had.

With it being dark just after 4 every day now feels like a late finish?

How come I can’t find someone local to me that wants to split some wood for a day(for nothing😳) and take  part of it away as payment (in full) and in doing so go towards my use and also clean the bloody yard up🤔it’s just not fair😫

On 07/11/2022 at 18:05, Stubby said:

I never realised procurement of  fire wood was so involved and complex . I have a stove , and a splitter  . That's all . 🙂

Is that an atom splitter or something bigger🤔

12 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

But there has only been one party in charge of Covid and Brexit, what other parties have suggested/would have done us irrelevant, they where not in charge of the decision making then or now.

Buy and large the other parties generally supported the Government on the response to Covid. Labour had no ideas of their own only splinters in their arse from sitting on the fence.

1 hour ago, 5thelement said:

No one’s saying Covid hasn’t been an economic disaster, but Brexit has influenced it as well. The same Government who led us into Brexit is the same lying scum that led us into Covid, or have you forgotten that?

Didn’t think it was the UK government who led us into Covid? I always thought it was the Chinese🤔. Funny how they’ve coming out of it as one of the current leading economy’s?

1 hour ago, Big J said:

 

It's 9.3% here in Sweden, down from 9.7% the previous month. 

 

The difference is that the cost of living crisis isn't really talked about, with the notable exception of electricity. I think that people aren't as close to the bread line here. Maybe it's better hidden though. Who knows!

9.3% or 9.7%  makes very little difference on the price of fish. What is being talked about is the anti Immigration movement that’s building in Sweden. There’s about 15% of the population on the poverty line. Wait till Sweden as to pay the huge membership fee to join NATO and catch up with some sort of contribution to the party? No matter what picture you paint of Sweden Big J things are far from perfect🤔

Whilst recognising that everyone’s entitled to an opinion it’s interesting to see that nearly all the posts for the last couple of hours over the merets of brexit have been in the main from forum members currently residing abroad. Thanks for you concern for  “the old country”. Not sure where Scotland wants to be placed🤔.As far as I’m concerned( as an Englishman still living in England) we’re still suffering from Brexit and will do for years to come for a no of reasons? Firstly Europe are still trying to punish us for having the audacity to leave. They are putting every barrier that can to try and stop us being successful? Knowing full well that if we are then there are other countries that could well follow. Almost as soon as the Brexit paperwork was done we entered a period of a perfect storm with Covid, Ukraine and the economy crashing from a no of reasons. Every country in Europe are having problems and there’s actually very little difference in inflation, interest rates unemployment rates etc between countries such as Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Sweden, others and UK. We chose Brexit and need to stick with it after all Labour are coming over the hill to rescue us from doom 😳.

On 20/11/2022 at 22:05, eggsarascal said:

I can’t afford a house,,well I could but it would mean a lot of work, so after taking a blow to the head today I’m going to look at this tomorrow, if it looks alright and the out of water survey comes back ok I’ll be moving, slowly.

Brilliant idea. Lots of benefits to living and travelling on a barge. Just think of the laugh you could have when you sail over the top of a “just stop oil activist” who’s glued themselves to the bed of the lock😂

You do live in a really nice part of the world Mr Blair. Spectacular.

Well this post didn’t turn out like I thought it was from the heading🤔. I thought it was going to be something really informative to give me a real useful life skill🙄

49 minutes ago, Ben10 said:

Thanks for the responses….

Not sure I’ve got the kind of cash needed for cherry pickers etc, but what I have got is time. I thought about starting something alongside my other job. I do 5 on, 5 off so hopefully it would fit in. 
With stump grinding would you go for a tracked one and bigger jobs or something a lot smaller?

Have you got any tickets yet? If your thinking of stump grinding it’s useful to have a saw to reduce stumps where you can to minimise grinding. Same with a mewp - ideally you need the necessary saw tickets to provide a full service. The advantage of a mewp is you can provide a service to others - gutter cleaning, chimneys, roof inspections etc, but you’ll need a 3.5 ton tow vehicle ideally if going for a 18 mtr tracked mewp. Have you spoken to any local arbs? What about finding out if your cut out for it before you jump🤔 and try a few weekends/ hols.

I have not seen any lifetime manual worker that I know retire in their 50s. Maybe gradually reduce days as they approach retirement. Generally the biggest pension earners are still Public servants, government department, teachers, NHS etc, they have a good enough pension to retire early especially if a couple and both public workers have it good with a double pension? These public workers fail to mention they’re pension when threatening strike action when asking for eye watering wage rises when this country is on its arse(one for another thread maybe) Don’t pin your hopes on a large inheritance either because the authorities are coming to pinch it if there’s anyone requiring care and the longer that’s required you’ll be lucky to be left enough to to buy that new Arb digger you’ve lusted after.

We’re not all JR trigger-andy Ewings either with mega pay and pension😳 from an industry that’s taking the opportunity to bleed us dry under the smoke screen of a war🤔

Speak to a Morso  supplier and ask them. It doesn’t seem to serve any purpose to me?