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JonnyRFT

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  1. This has helped me out massively! So good!
    Matt was super helpful, friendly and a great contact. The site is easily accessible and just ideal for me.
  2. Cutting back a Walnut to some previous cut points today. I wish I owned one of them caravan easy movers as pushing the MEWP uphill through a tight arch/alley way wasn’t fun.
  3. Could you not sub contract some work out until the need to expand your team?
  4. I’m worried it’s all going to get dirty soon!
  5. Couple of trees with the same structural properties of cream crackers. I was mainly banksman today but still had fun...standing in rain...for hours.
  6. Has anyone found any really late nesting birds? I’ve just turned up to a site to reduce a large Laurel and have found fresh eggs with a Black Bird nearby giving us some stick. I’m now walking away from the job but I’m surprised to see an active nest this time of year. I’m guessing the hot late weather is to blame right?
  7. Suffolk has been insanely hot. I keep not being able to make it past midday.
  8. I work for a large social housing group. We had a huge survey taken out on everything we’re responsible for. I’m removing everything that poses a H&S risk or that will do in the near future. We don’t have much open land, just built up areas. But you are right too.
  9. Hi Emma, I have a campaign starting in September to remove 1130 dead trees in East Anglia. I could ask my boss if we are willing to take on some work experience if you’re interested? I can’t promise anything but any extra help would benefit me no end! Let me know. Jonny.
  10. Sorry for the confusion there. I didn’t want to make multiple threads as I’m not too hot on idents, otherwise I’ll be filling up the forum with really short threads. The White Poplar threw me as it seemed to be a different variation of leaf. That’s the first time I’ve seen one so palm shaped.
  11. Another one I can’t figure out. The bark is similar to a poplar. Anybody know this?
  12. Cheers @OakStag. My initial thought was some kind of Whitebeam but for how hairy it is...that what threw me off.
  13. This might be easy but I’m not the best at tree idents... I’ve suddenly came across loads in one area.
  14. Well this thread got weird! Haha. Erm...thanks?
  15. Cheers guys. Everybody was non the wiser. I was the only qualified operative there and the only one who knew that a mistake had been made. Its easy to move on and get back into the swing of things. i guess it just felt like being back at college with the assessor squinting his eyes at me haha.
  16. So today was my first day felling after a 7 month gap between jobs. The company I work for have just brought tree services in house (social housing). It was a big deal for them so they brought along H&S, Mid Management, my Manager, Marketing (for photos etc) and the yard manager. It’s safe to say I was pretty nervous. My first job was to remove a dead Whitebeam. It’s was pretty sizeable as far as Whitebeams go. Anyway, its a clear fell jobby with stacks of space around me. Happy days!!! Before I started, I removed some bark from the base as it was flaking and a lot of insects were present. The base seemed pretty good albeit some rot had set in. After all the other checks I started my cut. I was shaking pretty bad and had to take a moment to calm down. I’ve been working with trees for 6 years and I know what I’m doing but today I felt immense pressure. I went in at 20% to try and keep a hinge on some sap wood. Looked great, straight and tidy. When it came to the felling cut, I started to really become nervous. I ended up withdrawing the saw and I second guessed myself. I suddenly felt like I had no idea what I was doing. I ended up making a second felling cut at a 10% angle from left to right! The tree did fall where I wanted it to (thank god) but it did make me think. When the tree was on the ground I looked at the first cut I attempted, it would’ve been almost perfect. I have no idea why I ended up starting a new cut of which ended up being the mistake. Once my corporate audience left I cleared up the tree and I was totally fine. The pressure lifted and it was like I’d never had a gap from tree work. Today was a good lesson learnt. I obviously don’t cope as well as I thought when the pressure is on. I am far from being professional but I’m normally pretty cautious and sensible with good attention to detail. I’m kicking myself for messing up because that was potentially a dangerous cut.
  17. It’s a T6 3200kg GVW. Combined MAM of 5700kg. 204hp engine too. Every job I do ends up on a weigh-bridge every day. I’m always under the threshold.
  18. I thought my head was going to explode reading through this and the VOSA documents. I can certainly see why it’s so confusing. I really appreciate the replies to this and thank you to everyone who has given their input. The most logical way of thinking (in my case) is to operate without an O Licence due to all of my trailers unladen weights being under the threshold. The exemption rule is stated near the beginning of the document also making me believe that no further action is required. Hopefully that isn’t too naive to think. If I’m ever pulled over then I will quote from the exemption rule.
  19. Because of it’s load capabilities taking it over the 3500kg threshold the O Licence must be applied BUT if your vehicle miraculously weighs under 1525kg unladen then no O Licence is needed. I can’t think of any truck that is 1.5t and could take well over another 1.5t+ Unfortunately, as yours sits at 3000kg unladen yet has the capacity to reach 5300kg the O Licence is a must have.
  20. I mainly use a 3500kg trailer but unladen it’s 810kg, so I’m thinking the following exemption rule applies... “A trailer with an unladen weight of less than 1,020kg need not be taken into account in the weight calculation for a vehicle pulling a trailer. It therefore can be ignored for the purposes of adding up total gross weights or unladen weights to determine whether they are above the threshold for requiring an operator’s licence.” ...so surely (in theory) if I’m below 7000kgs in total with both (for example) a 3.5t truck and a 3.5t trailer that weighs under 1020kg unladen, then no O Licence is needed. I am a little nervy about this because I would hate to not be going by the book.
  21. Thank you both for your help @Jonny69 & @openspaceman.
  22. I think it must be some garbled information I’m getting hence why I’m so confused. Perhaps it’s only one company saying this and like you say, I should just go with another. Because I don’t deal with them direct, I only get my info from my company fleet manager. When they threw the O Licence question, I panicked and thought I’ve been towing illegally for years.
  23. The axel of the caravan was too wide to pass the the arches of the trailer. Tried putting it on the other way first. This was as good as I could get it.

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