5thelement
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This used to boil my piss when I was hand cutting in the UK. I would meet up with a tweed wearing fatso with ruddy cheeks, who would show me round the estate and point at the 100 or so marked Oak trees that needed felling. He would then tell me how much he was prepared to pay me, like he was my employer and I had no say in the matter. Hang on a minute, I am my own boss, I will tell YOU what I am prepared to fell and process the trees for, if you don’t agree the price and put it in writing, the chainsaw doesn’t start.
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Judas Tree, I have a similar one in my garden, it displays wonderful Purple flowers on bare branches in early spring. I will be planting a Foxglove tree alongside it shortly that has similar flowering habit, brightens the garden early on in the season.
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Branches Growing over my Neighbour's Boundary
5thelement replied to parkgate's topic in Trees and the Law
If you attempted to come into my garden when I have told you “No”, I would simply knock your block off, how’s that interpretation? -
That isn’t possible post Brexit without reems of documentation/import duty paperwork, a total ball ache. When I contacted Greenmech to import a refurbed Evo they basically said it would be simpler and easier to just buy one in France.
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Individualy, not very much. Its hard enough trying to get Greenmech to export me a 6” chipper at the minute.
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I’m not an Expat, I’m an immigrant living and working in France. Perhaps we experience some of the difficulties that Brexit has caused an see it little clearer from our side. I certainly thought that there would be something to shout about after this length of time, it doesn’t appear so.
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I have a British passport and a French residency card. I can apply for a French passport in 10 years if I passed the examination requirements.
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If there where any provable benefits from Brexit you would think that the politicians in charge and Farage would be patting themselves on the back, banging their drums and saying “I told you so”. The silence is deafening.
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SEILFLETCHER NOVOLEEN x 13mm is what I have on the Eder 1800. I have been thinking about what you wrote about elastic in the rope being beneficial, but can’t think why in the situations I use my winch in, when do you find elastic rope beneficial, what circumstances?
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How do you rate that little Timberwolf Mark?
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Picked a bunch of Tomatillos that had started to drop and some mixed hot chillis. If you have ever had proper Mexican Salsa Verde, then Tomatillo would have been the main ingredient. They ripen green and have a distinctive tangy taste. There is an orange variety that is used in Thai cooking also.
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First batch of squash cureing in the sun before being overwintered in the cellar. A mix of butternut, crown prince and potti marron.
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Looks like well over ripe baby corn.
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Getting Foreign Qualifications Recognised in the UK.
5thelement replied to benedmonds's topic in Training & education
I had an Australian guy in a similar situation a few years back, his qualifications weren’t recognised by NPTC. Both the main European Chainsaw qualifications (ECC and ABA) where based on NPTC which was regarded as the benchmark, so they standard set their qualifications to them, making it far more straightforward to work in and around the EU. Outside of these governing bodies it is difficult to establish just what the certificates mean in relation to ours. I simply went through the assessment schedules with him and did a couple of days training to show him all the cuts. He was experienced and a skilled saw user so it was all straightforward. He just had to register and pay for his assessments with minimal training costs, he walked it and he was working the following week. -
It’s a bass guitar.
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A fitting message from President Macron.
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She will certainly be an hard act to follow. At least Charles has had a lot of time to prepare, I’m sure he’s learned a few things from her over the years.
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I have a at theory that after her meeting with Bojo and Truss, she simply thought, “ one has had enough of spending ones time with spunk stains of human beings”, and has simply given up the will to live.
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You still have to demonstrate how to tie a three knot system using your preferred method before accessing the tree, you don’t have to use the closed system to ascend. You will use a throw line to achieve an high anchor point for one out of your two rope system, most trainers I work with set up a throw line with two bags to set both anchor points from the ground. Most candidates use systems with Zig Zags or similar with foot ascenders rather than twin friction hitches, which are a total faff when coming in from a branch walk.
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Most if not all climbing courses cover basic friction hitches like Blake’s, Prussic, Distel and VT before moving onto Hitch Climbers, ZigZags and the like.
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In my experience, candidates quite often don’t really pay attention to what they are being told, they also nod their heads that they understand when they don’t. The machine is perfectly capable of dealing with dead wood, there are a few H&S issues such as dust and debris flying back out of the hopper. As these where National Trust, the instructor might have been hinting at dead wood as habitat, so not to be chipped, rather than can’t?
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What sunny Sunday mornings are made for. Drying the onions in the sun before getting them ready for overwintering. White onions are cheap as chips here, red ones are eye wateringly expensive. Another box of tomatoes, I am going to roast these then freeze them for future use, the next lot will be made into fiery hot Salsa Rojo, I have Tomatillos nearly ready for Salsa Verde. I decided to lift the sweet potatoes, it’s the first time that I have grown them and I am happy with the yield from 4 plants, I will plant 12 next year, they will keep for 4-6 months. The butternut squash, crown prince and potti marron are looking good, as are the last of the Charente melon. Making space now for Winter greens.
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Have you fact checked these figures? I saw the exact same map showing completely different values on last week, the UK being considerably higher than the rest of Europe.
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Problems and issues this industry faces and how to deal with them.
5thelement replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in General chat
The most recent version of the NPTC Small Tree Felling certification requires the candidate to explain/describe a whole series of felling cuts including step cut, spear cut , 80-20 front cut, V-cut, split level, standard fell, Danish cut, Dogs Tooth and when each cut is to be used, they also have to describe the cuts and their uses when doing their Ariel cutting certificate. As an instructor I spend a lot of time explaining the physics of the cuts. Dimensions, hinge length/thickness, sink depth etc on the whiteboard before demonstrating all these cuts and their application. The candidates will be expected to carry out these cuts using the correct methods, for the given tree bias, and will need to show this when being independently assessed. Maybe it has been a long time since you did any training? And the back cut doesn’t need to be higher than the sink.
