I've posted up about the worst one I've seen. Unqualified guy, cheapo chainsaw, rips 11kv lines off the post including the transformer. Oil ends up in the stream below and there was a £250,000 environmental and repairs charge. 

Sadly you can't stop them, I mean that guy who ripped the powerlines down was working for money illegally but if it was the farmer who did it then it is what it is. If they felled the tree into the road and killed someone then they would be liable but I agree it shouldn't happen in the first place. It annoys me too, I've spent thousands in training and equipment and someone is allowed to go and spend £100 on a saw and "give it a go". It's not allowed with electrical work or gas work so why should it be allowed with trees. They should have a rule that you can't cut down a tree over say 16ft in a domestic/built up/public area without qualifications or insurance. 

2 minutes ago, spudulike said:

Your server needs overclocking, raise the FSB up a few MHz, overclock the CPU and do the GPU whilst at it.

You will then need to turn your heating down?

Are we all going to have to chip in for water cooling and a RAM upgrade too? ?

It's all our posts saying it's crashing ?

This is what I face. You probably know but maybe it helps. I closed the adult pages first  ?

I have occasional issues with the page not loading or loading in base format, not looking pretty. I'll screen grab it next time it happens. 

1 hour ago, Khriss said:

Get two slabs - slash cut style,  get yr router out n carve yr business name n number on them, oil wood n highlight lettering in black, bolt on an yr done. K

That would stand out although I'm not sure how I feel about carrying around the additional weight of two slashcut slabs on the back of the truck ??

I suppose so. A nice logo on the back tipper with pre-cut vinyl so you can see the aluminium through it and then some minor info else where looks smart to me! 

2 minutes ago, Scottish Cleaning Service said:

I'm looking at one between the 261 & 661, probably go for MS 462

I would 100% go for the 462. The 362 is too close to a 261 and the 500i is too close to a 661... 462 is the perfect middle ground! 

It's pennies and makes a big difference. I'm making a design for the tipper truck at the moment. A giant area of advertisement missed there! 

1 minute ago, Jwoodgardenmaintenance said:

The other thing I have found work is having vehicles stickered up there have been a few occasions I have been to Tesco picking some shopping up and the phone has rang someone has seen my truck in the car park and it reminded them they need such and such doing I’ve had a few sensible jobs like that as well plus as your working people approach you 

 

Jack 

Awaiting the decals for my car as well as the truck as we speak. No point driving that around for general duties in the car and not advertising! 

Darnit, Looks like I'll have to find a company like that local to me then! Let the googling begin ? I know 95% of people will bin it but that 5% helps get the ball rolling! 

I'm gutted that with these restrictions I haven't been shooting this year. I usually beat for local shoots and a load of them own gardening companies and don't do chainsaw work so I could be in for a good deal there! 

Perfect. I noticed theres a few "surveyors" around but having some review is perfect. 

If you want you could PM me your name or your company name (or post it here) and I will say you sent me. May give you a little bit off in the future 

21 minutes ago, kernowstu said:

evolvetrees.co.uk

Thanks! Is this your company or one you use? 

In regards to putting weight on the line I usually do the first brummel tuck, tie one end on a rafter and pull down the other end either with my foot in a loop or with a weight so it cinches on the eye and then I put a marlin spike or a couple of large needles through the first brummel just to pin it in position before doing the next two. The cinching force is removed when the needle is taken out but it just helps hold everything in place so the brummel is tight to the ring. 

The label and heat shrink is just a Brother label printer (PTE550) with wide tape. The other bit is just clear heat shrink that's adhesive lined. one piece put on, labels attached and then another piece that's 1" shorter put over the top. Same stuff they use for the labels at honey brothers. The butt is basically 3 inches of the rope back fed into itself so it gives a clean end. the other 5 inches or so is just regular buried end. Both the back fed end and burried end are just flush cut with no taper and they both meet under the heat shrink so there's no soft spot in the tail as it's under the heat shrink. Before I put the heat shrink sleeves on I lock stitch it to stop either end pulling out and then I put on the whipping. The whipping is nothing special, just a standard whip that you would usually do on 3 strand. Wrap it around a load of times so it's tight and then sew the end over multiple times to give that drillbit/corkscrew effect. 

AFAIK the burried section isn't really giving any true support. If all your brummels have given out then the ropes snapped anyway. 2 ft of burried tail isn't going to save you. 

I run 14-16 rope through it. No need to run any bigger. I do most things with 14 as unless you're chunking down massive sections I just take smaller cuts. The 15.9mm T-rex is rated to 5900 Dan when spliced so roughly 6000kg. Rigging safety factor is usually 11x so 545kg force. My 14mm sirius bullrope is 5302kg so 482kg by the time you safety factor it. Now when you have a rigging rope going through an eye the force on the eye is double the weight of what's on one end of the rope as you have say 100kg of wood on one end and then 100kg of groundie on the other supporting it so the weak link now is the T-rex which can only now handle 272kg of wood. No groundie on earth is going to be able to support 272kg of wood so you need a basal anchor of some sort. I use a flying capstan usually. The flying capstan has a safe working load limit of 10kn which is 100kg by the time you safety factor in for the negative rigging. So Really, the biggest piece I could safely chunk down in negative rigging without fear of going over the safe working load limits of my gear is 100kg. Why have a rope larger than 14mm? 

I know what you mean about removing some of the stretch but we are only weak and frail humans. Us pulling the line tight with 10-20kg of force isn't going to remove any real amount of the dynamic absorption of the rope. If it did, it's no good for rigging ?. The force we are talking about being on the rope in the relaxed position with all pins/tape or whatever removed is under a kg. In my mind having everything appropriately tight stops chafing of the splices as things move about on/off load 

MS200T
MS261

MS661

Hi everyone, 

I've had some recent enquiries for tree inspection work. I'm not an approved inspector so I am looking for someone to take on any inspection work? I'm not looking for any cut or subcontract, just someone who I can forward to the client as a BS standard inspector?

Thanks,

Patric 

6 minutes ago, Khriss said:

I use them i dont design them ?  plus yr piston is part of the reciprocating mass. Flywheels are lighter part of the combination due to their function as a cooler too, if they were cast steel too it would be a bloody heavy saw  ? K

Makes a fair old difference though. You think about the weight in a flywheel with the magneto inserts plus the weight of a large pro-saw clutch. The magneto inserts and the clutch pads all being on the outside of the "wheel" mean more mass effect too. All the old steam engines had massive flywheels so they could put more weight on the outside of the wheel as they could have less weight on the wheel but more torque! You could have a light weight crank and add a little weight to the outside of flywheel to give a lighter saw but keep the flywheel torque factor. 

5 minutes ago, Khriss said:

Heavier crankweight = flywheel effect and smoother more reliable engine . K

Doesn't that mean you need to weigh it with the flywheel and clutch as a rotating mass? If you have a 700g crank and a 500g flywheel then you're going to be in the same boat as a 800g crank with a 400g flywheel? 

I went for some training recently so I was up to date with the most recent climbing rules. It all changed again a few weeks back or so I was told. Originally it had to be 2 ropes always but you can now (AFAIK) drop to one rope assuming you're static on a branch or something so you can be on one rope whilst tying in your other anchor for example. Originally you would have had to have anchor 1 plus your positional strop whilst changing your second anchor. The NPTC assessment still requires you to be on two ropes all the time though so there are some massive inconsistencies. 

Be interesting to see what's said about the connection to harness thing. I assume they mean two connections to a closed harness connection i.e. two carabiners on a rope bridge ring is okay but using two ropes onto one carabiner on the harness would be a no as it's an open connection (although why you would do this is beyond me anyway). I use a camp gyro as my rope bridge connection which is a tip I got from the instructor. Technically a closed system and makes the two rope thing not a big deal as everything rotates independently to eachother. Two ropes onto a single ring is a nightmare. 

If they say it needs to be two completely independent systems then the only harness on the market that offers that AFAIK is the Treemotion Evo. Part of the reason I changed to one is the treehog doesn't allow for leg D attachment so your positional strop isn't a tie in as its on the waist D 

17 minutes ago, flawer said:

one of the american forums does give a product code for the 500i R handle that translates here to the 462 handle (which is available in the UK market). Stihl UK just say this is the 462 handle not the 500i handle ?

ive contacted some USA dealers asking if they can ship but their stihl dealer T&Cs stop them from doing that. 

i am getting my hands on my old 462 in the next couple of days hopefully with the intention of taking handles off and seeing if they fit on the other saw, could be interesting....

Wouldn't surprise me if they were interchangable. Why make all new cad files, moulds, bend guides etc etc for a saw that has pretty much the same form factor as a 462

I just looked at side by side photos of the 462 and 500I for a start the mount screws on them on the cutting side are different locations 

1 minute ago, doobin said:

Trouble with flyers, even 'gps tracked' is that your flyer will go straight in the bin along with the other dozen they drop at the same time. You're much better off sending a lad to to a flyer drop on a posh estate whilst you finish clearing up after working on a house there. Much more targeted and cheaper.

Yea 100%. I don't mind spending a lot on an initial business boost though. I appreciate that probably 75%-90% will go in the bin but I could spend £99 a month on "Advertising" online that most people ignore or don't even look at. I feel like I could spend the money paying a few younger people in my area to do a drop route seeing as most of them post up on local facebook pages looking for work anyway. In saying that, a single post on the local facebook pages and a snippet in the local magazines would be free and reach a lot of people anyway. I'm just trying to find a way to get out there and have that initial boost. I would put up posters but with less and less people being out and about it targets fewer people anyway! 

I've had a bit of a look at Bark. Although I registered for tree surgery/removal all the jobs seem to be grass mowing and landscaping apart from one tree between 6-13ft... They seem a bit like My builder. I was working with some builders a fair few years back and they were using that. They spent a load of cash bidding for jobs usually to be outbid by someone who has no idea what they're doing. Most of them just seem to say "I'm researching" which reads "I'm wasting time (and your money)" to me! 

Has anyone contacted LS Engineers yet? They seem to have wrap arounds for pretty much all the other models? 

Is this the wrong thing? #

Scrap that. Why call it a Wrap around when it's not? 

There are a fair few tree surgeons on checkatrade in my area. Thing is checkatrade is page 4 on google and then you get asked a load of questions before you can even see who is on it. Also it seems when people want "builders" then checkatrade comes up trumps but it doesn't seem to get many hits with Tree Surgeons/Gardeners/Agricultural. On average a month there are 1100 google searches for "tree surgeon/arborist/tree removal" in my area. Check trade said that the tree surgeons in my area were getting 12 calls a month which for £99 seems like not much when you don't know how many of those 12 became actual jobs. I went on there as a "customer" and it was garbage. Using SEO and the correct methods I'm no.6 on google maps list now in 24 hours since going live. 

I ended up shutting down (not going bankrupt) my previous company doing aircraft repair as since march the industry is knackered and I got absolutely 0 support from the government. I remember when this outbreak started the guys saying it was like 9/11 all over again and they were wrong. It's a lot worse. I went for some update training recently to get my head around 2 rope working etc etc and the examiner said that he trained three other aircraft engineers in the last 2 weeks. Goes to show what it's like. Most guys had been laid off and of course a lot of them were taking any work they could meaning the price for labour went from £25+ an hour to around £9 an hour in a matter of weeks. Lidl's offer more than that for stacking shelves, why would I work 12 hour shifts signing off work on aircraft that if I got wrong would land me in jail for life for manslaughter? Hence I thought I would go back into my original calling and do tree work seeing as I was pretty much doing it for free most weekends anyway. I just need to get a good supply of work coming in. 

14 hours ago, Jwoodgardenmaintenance said:

I use flyers I pay a company £470 + VAT for 10,000 printed and GPS tracked work always seems to phone in for the first 3-4 weeks then another batch get put out I’ve tried Facebook etc and seemed to be full of dreamers and time wasters i also use bark.com 

 

Jack

What company do you use for fliers Jack? Or is it one that only works local to you?