Martin du Preez

Venoms great just crap customer service, could do with a bigger blade aswell

Can highly recommend Roy! Fantastic chap, does a cracking job and always gives you a price which allows your margin

didn't know that for treated for old fencing. can't yousay you just bought it for firewood?

i can sort you out near braintree

about time we got something, cracking dealership as it is already

I shouldn’t worry about a tree that size...

Any of you chaps know what this is and the prognosis for the tree, found all the way around an ash, pretty target rich area

why do you need both? if you are getting properly seasoned air dried it'll be the same moisture content? always baffles me this

What’s wrong with air dried?

I’ll leave this here

Looking for a timber trailer around the 6/7 mark? Anyone know of any going about? And does anyone have any experience with 6-8 tonne eco botex trailer anddd does anyone know any grants for such? TIA

3 to 4 man days for a 200m hedge? We’re tree surgeons not gardeners [emoji6]

16%??? If your stoves can’t handle anything up to at least 25% surely you should be looking at the stoves not the logs??? The stove supplier who hands my name out recommends 18-25% and so does the booklet from the manufacturer. I mean obviously I stand to be corrected as that is our trade, just repeating what I’ve been told.

First let me say I would never let any of my guys climb without someone with rescue on site. However when it comes to it doesn’t phase me. In the end of the day if it’s a serious enough accident to require rescue it’ll most likely be a severed artery... I stand to be corrected but I remember the pass time being capped at 40mins... as long as your groundies keep your ropes tidy self rescue is surely the only way... any worse than that you’re gunna be a gonna anyway

Just took the corner to quickly, inexperience. Must admit I used to be a bit of a yob grain carting as a kid but bale chasers still made me nervous when they were coming the other way, but I know they were all always pushed

For ground staff £80 if I have to tell them what to do the whole effing time or their brain shuts down. And a £100 when they start telling me what to do [emoji23]

I spent most of last week reducing 12 sycamores, a fair few nests in the garage roofs underneath, couldn’t be more grateful, rather the occasional sting over a mouthful of green flies

Where abouts are you? Pretty please I’ve got the same rope

I’m still backing apple

old gnarly bit of apple?

i must also be the exception! i have seen this a fair few times, having worked for a drainage spares firm as a kid probs gives be the inside edge

100 % a possibilty we had the exact same problem. water started coming up in the field so we could pinpoint it, right under some massive poplars. Dug down and the pipe squished underneath roots, it must have applied enough pressure on it to force a stone through the pipe

Look tirfors are great for some heavy lifting when you need it, but for extraction? I'm 24 and end up in a heap after using one for than hour (spent a whole afternoon on mine pulling ash heads out of a moat). way i see it is 3 easy enough options. 1. get them to river/stream and float them to a landing 2. we all love working in the woods but the engine was invented for a reason, set up a red direct pulley and run along the bank. 3. you'll probably like this one. set a pulley head height in a tree on the bank, run a line from the log through the pulley on to level ground, get yourself or make up yourself a 3:1/ 5:1 pulley system, anchor this to a tree then attached to the drag line with a friction hitch(VT, Prussic etc) then pull the system all the way, then once you run out of rope advance the system on the friction hitch and so on. (respect for cutting up dead oak with a handsaw, i was cutting up some petrified oak the other day with chainsaw breaking a sweat) best of luck!

. Where that white bump nodule is I had a thorn in there about 7 months ago, still hasn’t gone down. Also had a 200t go though it before which probably didn’t help [emoji23]