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  1. 5thelement
    This is exactly the problem. Employers demanding far too much from people who have been climbing for two minutes. When I finished my RFS I was still green as F**k and my employer recognised this straight away. He started me on the easier stuff and partnered me up with an experienced climber on the more technical stuff. I got lucky I suppose.
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    The Forestry Contracting Association proposed something similar to this to FISA/HSE last year. The proposal was that prospective candidates who wanted to work in Forestry could gain employment and be mentored by the experienced employees, the two tree safe working distance would be relaxed to facilitate this. A log book containing the number of hours a candidate had covered on different tasks, felling, snedding, winching, hung up trees etc would be completed by the person doing the mentoring. When completed the candidate would do their NPTC assessment. You would then have a hand cutter with possibly months on the saw before earning their tickets. I mentioned it in a post on here a while back and it was rubbished, so you can’t win really.
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    My brother in law has two, I don’t think I have seen any dog if that size move quicker.
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    I did a few Winters clearing regen off the heathland on the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex. There where several of these man made warrens still present, they are larger than you might expect and must have taken a fair while to complete, attributed to 11th century Normans.
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    It doesn’t help when the UK now has its highest rate of inflation in 40 years.
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    Whereabouts in Sussex?
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    Not bleeding likely, it’s becoming my milling saw.
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    It’s presently sat alongside my 390xp which now looks incredibly ugly.
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    Walked into my local Agro place today for some Aspen, low and behold, the Holy Grail, €1200.
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    Do you not need a degree to be a member of ICF these days?
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    When you left the Tavern after lashings if frothing Mead served by a busty serving wench, where you perchance robbed by Dick Turpin on the way home?
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    You might be right, they look like they can hold their own. I am pretty sure you can hunt Badgers here also, with right paperwork.
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    It could be. I have seen a few types of wire haired Dachshund here, none quite like this one as it was particularly small. My French neighbour has 3 wire haired Dachshunds, but these are massive in comparison, big heads/thick necks like a Fox/Scottish Terrier, absolutely fantastic dogs that he uses to deal with problem Foxes. He is a member of the Chasse so can put his dogs to ground here with no issues.
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    When I passed my driving test at 17, I did everything text book for the duration of the examination. 6 hours later I had a car full of mates, radio on full blast, beeping at totty, bombing down the A580 at break neck speed to The Hacienda. Tell me, who is at fault here, the guy who trained me or the examiner?
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    That’s why I started with Border Terriers, the Kennel Club have had very little involvement in the ‘standard’ look of the breed, so more diversity in genes, and different size/colour/leg/head shapes depending on what you are working them on. I think a lot of the modern crossbreeding is ‘fad’ but some have specific reasons such as lack of moulting/allergy etc
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    I met a French hunter on one of the estates I was working on in East Sussex a few years back. The owner had invited him to come over to stalk Fallow Deer. He had with him one of the smallest dogs I have ever seen, a French breed for tracking injured quarry, can’t remember the breed name but it was more ferret than dog.
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    Tulip tree
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    It’s been dry here for about a month and hitting 30 degrees. Yesterday I went past a clients house that had tried to get me to prune his well established Apricot in February. I informed him at the time that I only prune stone fruits in the Summer., he was rather pushy that I did it earlier, I declined. I glad I did because it is now completely stone dead with the bark pealing off, I think he would be putting the blame on me and stating my earlier advice as the reason for its decline. Back next week to fell it.
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    Just crack on as you are. Leave pegs on all the trees as high as you can go, then stop. They will look so bad that the neighbours will be desperate to pay for their removal, result.
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    Without getting embroiled in an SNP/ FC whine ‘o’ thon, the answer to your question is ‘Yes’ it is possible to be self sufficient with meat depending on your location and who you know. I have several friends who hunt regularly and have a constant supply of venison, rabbit, pheasant and duck. They also swap venison with one of the local farms who produce rare breed pork products.
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    I have been gradually changing my 346’s and 550’s over to 1.3mm/.050 bar and chain combo as the standard bars need replacing, 7 out of the 8 run narrow kerf now. I find them much faster/smoother in the cut, especially on bore cuts in hardwood. I haven’t been that enamoured with either of the newer Oregon speed cut chains in .325 or 3/8. The X -cut chains have been excellent but always found Stihl chains to hold an edge better. I run a mix of SP33 x-cut and Stihl Micro chisel on all my 50cc saws, X-Cut and Stihl RS on 70cc plus.
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    Looks like it will hold up the the job. If you tweaked it a bit a made a second frame/cutting bed in the opposite side, you could load up both sides and have two chainsaws operators going.
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    That looks like an old Ash stem that is still a bit ‘green’ in the heartwood, be interesting to see wether the pink colour fades now it’s been opened up. You would expect to recognise the smell from Ash though, especially if you are familiar with cutting it.
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    I cut some framing Oak on an estate at Tenterden in Kent a couple of years back. The guys who where doing the Oak construction where the guys who work at Canterbury Cathedral, safe to say the workmanship was extraordinary. All the off cuts and chip was left smouldering overnight on the rubble floor and the barn sealed shut. The smoke coloured the new Oak beams over the period of the installation to blend with the existing timber.

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