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Yet you voted for the party responsible for the last 2-3 years in the first place. Great judgement that 😂

So Rupert Murdoch is a Socialist?

We have a right wing media largely owned and run by Rupert Murdoch, why are you surprised?

There is nothing funny about screwing the country and tax payer over. I mentioned the alternatives are diarrhoea in no way do I suggest that the conservatives are better.

If the Conservatives get in again it would be like the voting population are saying, “We know you are the most corrupt politicians in UK history, borderline criminal in fact, you ****************ed the economy and made millions whilst people died, and have no shame about it”. Not funny at all in my book, I don’t want f**kers like this in charge, unfortunately the alternatives are diarrhoea.

Had an interesting 6 days this week planning a future work trip. Inspecting the kit, training location and felling sites to instruct the Royal Bermuda Regiment on all things chainsaw related, mainly to deal with storm damage. We will be back for two weeks in October (Hurricane Season) to put our money where our mouth is. Also had the time to scout the location of the Juniperus Bermudiana (endemic solely to Bermuda) for a colleague in the UK who is in charge of the UK National Pinetum (the largest collection of coniferous trees in the world) as he doesn’t have this species on site. Not all work, plenty of good food and rum with the fantastic company of two military aids.

I think the answer to the question asked is, “They are all working”. There has never been so many Arborists. They are either directly employed, provide regular subby roles to several companies or have set up on their own. There are no decent climbers/groundies that aren’t working in some form, they certainly aren’t registering on recruitment sites for work. So the question should really be, “Where are all the unemployed Arborists?” as those are the people you are actually looking for.

Can’t remember off the top of my head, at least 20 species linking two 1 acre blocks that withstood the 87 storm. The FC record all the data on site as they are possible future crops, I will email the dendrologist on site and ask him to forward me the information.

I planted several species on an FC site in Kent. So far the Eucalyptus floribunda are the largest in height and girth, unbelievable growth rate actually.

I see ads for Paulownia planting for biomass here. Massive growth rate/volumes but pretty sure it looks and burns like Poplar. Stunning early flowers for the bees though.

Not all species of Eucalyptus coppice from the stump.

No phone handy but caught a glimpse of my first Swallows of the year this morning.

UK politics is currently like a competition to see who can front the worst leader and still get elected. The Tory’s have done many incredible job so far, but Labour are winning hands down with this waste of space.

You where climbing two ropes on two Prussics, mixed up hire kits, what kind of training place was this as it’s all starting to sound like horseshit?

If you don’t use the saw all the time the Stihl bar/chain combo will be fine then. It makes a massive improvement over the stock 241 and 261 .

They are missing a trick with this singular gauge size, maybe they will produce different gauges later. I would say this chain would be more widely used in Forestry rather than Arb, where most cutters use Husky’s on a different gauge.

The narrow kerf Sugi Hara bars are far superior and durable than the Stihl version, stiffer with far less flex.

I have an old snake charmers flute that I bought from a mystic in India, I play a tune and the rope ascends out of my bag and up through the tree to my desired anchor point, it’s not CE marked though.

Did the rest of the assessment go well. Schedule knowledge, pole rescue etc?

If you have been using it successfully, could you not hire it for the assessment?

Did you do any formal training? If so, where you not using a throw bag from the ground to at least get one of your anchor points set high?

The step cut, spear cut, 80-20 front cut have always been in this schedule( the split level and v-cut are extra in the CS31 schedule). They are to be described rather than being demonstrated in CS31. The purpose of these cuts in this situation was dealing with small diameter trees, dense/tangled canopy with no real bias or felling direction option, stuff you would be removing from your escape routes to allow access to the larger trees you intended to fell, or to remove trees from your felling direction. The 80% cut would be made horizontal, the remaining 20% would be expected to hold the tree from trapping the saw, the final cut would be angled (like the last part of the dogs tooth), if the tree sits down it shouldn’t trap the saw as it is angled, not flat. The tree is then lifted and walked out. I rarely use these cuts on anything 8” diameter, my rule is if the tree is big enough to form a hinge, that’s what I will do to gain control of the fell. An 8” Birch or Sweet chestnut on a coppice stool can be pretty tall/heavy, I would rather deliberately hang the tree, reduce the hinge and roll it out rather than use any of these non hinge/attached to the stump methods.

What are you asking here, you have written the description of the 80-20 front cut, it’s not a question. What is it you don’t understand?

That money was ring fenced from day one. I only know of MWMAC in Wales who got any. You can guarantee the large Forestry and Arb firms, Tilhill and the like got the bulk of the funding.

That is a fair size. Apparently the Romans used it to turn very thin walled drinking vessels for wine as it is watertight and holds its contents. Gave a similar piece to a turner friend who found it very bitty and hard to get a good finish.