5thelement
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He’s too ugly for BBC TV and can only do radio.
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Started felling 200 boundary Oak trees on a farm, lots of fence wire, high fells and pretty poor form. Got the French cutters coming in next week to help so I have left them these.😉 IMG_3305.MOV IMG_3306.MOV IMG_3307.MOV
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I found the best way to get a cutter to produce the best quality fencing material was to put them on the peeler for a couple of days. First day with good stuff that I had cut, second day, stuff they had produced with knuckles and double bends in, they don’t cut much crap after that. I cut some chestnut in Kent just before I moved over here, best I had ever cut, gun barrel straight, 4 rail blanks per stem before branches, all went to biomass.
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Best thing is an anti spill spout and a spill mat to stop it going on the floor in the first place. Get yourself an old plastic tub like the ones you get trade emulsion in. Clean it out, a spill mat, put in a small bag of cat litter ( very absorbent) for any larger spills , a dustpan and brush, black bags and a few zip ties. Spill kit for less than a tenner.
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I had to stop buying the mixed seed. Birds of several species would discard the seed they didn’t want in favour of the ones they did, leaving a pile of germinating seed in the flower beds and emptying quite a large feeder in an hour or two.
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There are some of the earliest Blueberry cuttings from America in the National Pinetum In Kent. Planted on a bit of scrub/heather Heathland with high Scots Pine canopy, they do fine and I would regularly harvest them when doing felling work there. I had soil specific raised beds solely for them in my old place in the UK, kids ate them all before I even got a look in.
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Loads of Goldfinch on my feeders, they are emptying the one containing sunflower hearts daily.
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He won’t be Instructing LANTRA courses or Assessing for City and Guilds though. This is the problem with College based training, they are internally audited and appraised with no external regulator involved, they could be good, or pretty crap.
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For rest try commission 😉
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You call them high stumps? Amateur 😉
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On the job today and started to hear a strange sound over the noise of the saw. Walked out into the field to see this bad boy at work. Rip cuts and stubs galore, but ploughed through a good 60 Oaks on the farm entrance road in a morning. IMG_3285.MOV
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Breaking into the trade at 26 - no prior experience?
5thelement replied to SussexHarry's topic in General chat
Arbor Venture are excellent for climbers, even experienced ones. 👍 -
Student Looking To Move After College Course
5thelement replied to Reece Pearce's topic in International Arborist Forum
Company’s in Oz, Nz and Canada always looking for staff. No language barrier and they recognise Uk qualifications. Finish your course first though. -
Contact LANTRA direct, they are always looking for Instructors and have lowered the bar so much that you need to be a professional limbo dancer to get under it. Jump through a few hoops and yer in!
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Contact Mackleys near Brighton. They remove and install loads of it. Bring a large trailer and be amazed how little you have on it before your overweight.
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Lawson Cypress or Western Red Cedar?
5thelement replied to Clutchy's topic in Tree Identification pictures
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I don’t know the going rate, but 10 acres is a very small compartment to justify the transport and fuel costs for those two machines, you may struggle to find an operator who is prepared to bother.
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I felled some Sweet chestnut that was cut into feather edge boards on the bandsaw, then trimmed down into shingles for a roof in East Sussex. It was many moons ago and looked great at the time, I haven’t been back to see how it has weathered though. My mate made 6000 by hand over lockdown for his workshop, I suspect his wrists are still hurting.
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It depends on what kind of look you want. The cedar shingles i have used on sheds and outbuildings in the UK where always imported and always Thuja, very uniform, thin, and in my opinion, pretty dull. You see fantastic shingled buildings around me, more so in the Dordogne, usually Sweet chestnut and all cleft/hand finished with tapers and drip line. There is a local artisan that restores the roofs of historic buildings offering 50 years on Sweet chestnut shingles, that’s double the life of the clay Roman tiles more commonly used here.
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My first sighting this year of the Cranes (Grues) migrating North, a recognised sign of the imminent arrival of Spring, early this year as they have been flying over for ten days now. IMG_3272.MOV
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Have you not added 2 items to your basket, doubling the figure to £140?
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It’s not bad near me. ⛷
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SIP do them singular or in pairs.
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Tony Lucas at Kingswood Training could do it, the yard is just down the road from you in Weald Village.
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Yet you posted your usual Covid claptrap anyway. Remind me again, did you or did you not meekly roll up your sleeve and receive your covid jabs? If the cap fits…
