5thelement

When I left Bolton in September of 2002 it had rained incessantly for the best part of 9 weeks. I had to cancel quite a few large reductions/dismantles and concentrate on straight fells and conifer jobs instead, waiting for the weather to break, it didn’t. Starting a job in good weather then having torrential rain by mid day is quite normal, I have never called a job off mid way through, but starting a wet Beech, Eucalyptus or Sycamore reduction without gaffs is certainly not my favourite thing to tackle, If I could reschedule, I would.

All a company needs to prove to Insurers is ‘Adequate Training’, under regulation 9 of PUWER. This can be done in house and recorded/updated as necessary. Most companies simply use a training/assessment provider that is widely recognised by insurers such as LANTRA/NPTC, but this is certainly not compulsory.

5thelement Having spent the majority of the last 5 years dealing predominantly with ADB in Sussex/Kent on large estates, Woodland Trust, RSPB and FC sites. Also doing extensive research planting Ash from all over the world in controlled experimental blocks for the FC. This was his reply to me that he swiftly deleted, he clearly has a hard on for Instructors, maybe his wife ran off with one. So you’re dolescum, you work for dolescum and you claim that some other dolescum won’t be squeezing whatever they can out of some public sector contract. Very credible.

He made a similar comment like this one in another post about ADB, directed personally at me, a load of absolute tosh, then he bottled it and removed his post. He didn’t even have the balls to respond when I DM’d him, he is the archetypal ’Hard Man’ behind his keyboard. I will post his previous post up later when I am through Border Control.

I am not claiming that it doesn’t happen, I just don’t believe the numbers, and they are certainly not responsible for decades of poor investment in our society and infrastructure.

As if these people are just going to be given a house, where from, total nonsense.

I spent 10 years living in Hastings, in that time the coastguard only escorted in a hand full of boats, your being fed media shit. A handful of immigrants aren’t responsible for decades of poor investment in our society and infrastructure by successive governments.

I’ve got a better idea. Rather than f**k my quality gear up trying to prove a point, why don’t you do it, make a YouTube vid and post it instead, I work for a living.

Don’t forget to use it in exactly the opposite way to what the manufactures who designed it say.😉

Yes, the maxi flex has no memory, no one will be decapitated if the strop comes off.

It is in Lancashire.😂

The genuine ‘maxi flex’ cable recommended for use with a genuine Tirfir has no ‘memory’, so won’t fly back at high speed if it suddenly disconnects, it just moves back slightly and hits the floor, that’s why I don’t stand right on top of the object being pulled. These winches where designed to be operated as per manufacturers recommendations for a reason.

You could just put a pulley on the anchor tree and increase the mechanical advantage by nearly double, twice as less strain on the handle.

It looks like you have that winch set up backwards?

I have had Australian guys come over to the Uk in the past with the equivalent qualifications, although they demonstrated a lot of different techniques, particularly with felling. All went on to do the equivalent NPTC certification to be at a standard that would be widely recognised by UK employers. None of them required much in the way of training. There are assessment questions on UK legislation/HSE/Puwer/Loler etc that they were not familiar with, they just downloaded the NPTC assessment schedules and I went through it with them and familiarised them with some of the more widely used felling cuts. As an experienced climber I would recommend you do a couple of days on a refresher course, just to get your head around the two rope working system required here for the assessment, this will also allow the instructor to cover all the assessment questions and legal stuff with you. Where do you intend to settle in the UK?

The Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester run Forestry and Arb courses, short and long term. Tim Bendle is a LANTRA/NPTC Verifyer and H-Team member, he runs the courses there. You could send some details/photos of the trees/site etc, most training providers are constantly on the look out for good quality training material.

Chestnut will coppice well from maiden trees at this size. Unfortunately these trees where on a nature reserve that was being managed for Lowland Heath so they never got the chance to regenerate. A mulcher went through an followed us up after extraction

This is the only example of stored coppice that I can remember working on. The Sweet chestnut coppice stools had been singled out around 50 years previously. The stems where all drawn up straight and clean with no shake. B9B326D9-DC66-4594-BFE5-26E3299BE003.MOV

I was looking for a decade in East Sussex, never found anything suitable and a minimum of 10 grand an acre. The last site I looked at was 1 acre, terrible access, terrible standing timber, not a flat section anywhere on the land, sold the same day for 18 grand. Good luck.

Just remembered, there is also Rob Blake (Blake Training) Ex- NPTC Principal Verifyer, Somerset.

I am out at the minute, you could contact him on Instagram, he is listed as T4rry As Steve has posted, Roland Heming is in your area, I don’t know him but he has a good reputation and his own training site with digs.

That is a very lucky sighting indeed. I’ve seen a few on the water fishing but never seen one actually catch. Fantastic.

I don’t think you would mistake a White tailed Eagle for a Buzzard, they are huge in comparison. I used to see them a lot when I travelled home on the boat from Skye to North Uist. I have never seen a WTE in England, I have seen Osprey in Scotland and in Cumbria, and Buzzards don’t hunt fish.

That must be an Osprey surely?

Stubbys first car was what the illustrator of The Flintstones used as the basis for Fred’s.