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I have a friend in Sweden who has two, she has had the breed for quite a few years. They take a hell of a lot of effort and need a working role to keep them happy, she has them out pulling sleds in between forestry work. There was a vid doing the rounds on FB a while back comparing GS and BS police dogs. The padded suit wearing guy was in the corner of a seated auditorium, the GS weaved through the aisles to launch an attack, the BS vaulted the chairs in a straight line to attack in a fraction of the time, proper agile.

I did a stint labouring for a well known Steeplejack in Bolton in the mid 90’s. No bother with HSE /Tickets at the time, just got on with it, you would be entering a different world now. Effing hard work in bad weather and pretty scary at times, good crack if your with the right team though. I look back at it with fondness, as I allow myself forget about having to trawl around all the pubs in town on a Friday afternoon looking for my wages.

Nah, just locked my knees so my legs where dead straight, bolt upright and felled them waist high Arborist style.

Went through too many chains on that job, I started just felling above stock fence height to save time in the end, bad for me on volume but good for the 360 driver following me up grubbing them out.

I felled 200+ Oak trees here in France this time last year, every one the same. 😳

Have you derailed the chain and burred up the drivelinks? Both the 1.3 and 1.5 gauge chain would fit in the standard .325 drive sprocket without issue, only the bar groove/nose sprocket would matter, bar groove and drive link thickness (gauge) need to be compatible.

Dear God, please save us from the tedious groaning of the woodlandforsale lifestylers.

Let the father of the murdered girl attach it round his neck. 👍

Glad to hear this as I have been underwhelmed by my 562xp since I bought it when it was launched, a guttless and heavy piece of crap. I mostly run 550’s and 572/592 and the 562 doesn’t get out of the workshop, it has been downgraded solely for use on the chainsaw morticer for sweet chestnut posts.

I’ve had success with Ash and Sweet chestnut, but most dense hardwoods will work, I’ve found Oak just tends to give you more repeat fruiting.

If a candidate with a good attitude shows up on a course, I quite often introduce them to decent operators I know and get them a start.

Sweet chestnut all day long. 👍

You forgot Rowan. 👍

I would think that points 2/3/&4 would be largely irrelevant to the majority of jobbing Arbs but certainly worth knowing. 1 and 5 shouldn’t need to be explained to anyone in the job with an ounce of knowledge or experience, a novice certainly. Personally I would look a bit more into the benefits of job pricing, quality TPO applications, and urban planting. Find some good tree examples locally, work out a job spec, reduction/re pollard/removal etc then get each person to price accordingly with a full breakdown of time, men, wages, machines, fuel, tax/vat etc I recon the variation in pricing will swing in the extreme from pence to the ridiculous, I think it’s where most Arbs struggle, too little and doing it for nothing or not getting the work due to pricing too high, either case they are not working. Detailed and accurate TPO applications using the correct language and written with enough detail as not to be returned/declined due to it looking like a 5 year old completed it and holding up the job, or job going to another Arb who can write comprehensive TPO applications. Urban planting looking at species, planting pits, ground anchors/staking options and most importantly, aftercare. The catastrophic losses of newly planted trees certainly needs addressing. Where do you lecture Harvey?

Same here.

Happy Birthday Mick, although It’s all down hill from now, all you have to look forward to now is sickness and purgatory. 👍

Do you remember when flu vanished off the face of the earth for a couple of years? Old age, that was the best one though, no one died of old age for two effing years, that Covid is really something else.

I could watch them do that all day. Did you ever see them on The West Pier in Brighton before it got torched? Estimated to be in excess of 3 million strong at one point, an incredible sight. Ive been watching a Robin strut its stuff and scrap with its own reflection in the wing mirrors of the wife’s motor, it’s been at it non stop for the past 5 days! I’ve had to cover them up with carrier bags as I’m worried the little thing will use up too much energy in the run up to Winter.

In not convinced about that at all, or your 1 in 20 who have had Covid will develop long covid. Pretty much everyone I know has had covid at some point, some several times, not a single one has claimed to have developed long covid though.

Looks like a load of old bollocks to me, I wonder WHO funded it?

Is it, all over Africa or just SA? Not heard anything about this.

Couple of guys I work with in the UK proper lost their shit over Covid and are still towing the line.. Both just turned 50 and in decent health, jabbed up to the nines, including the most recent booster. They are like Covid magnets, they have each had it at least 5 times now and always run down with something or another, worrying for the long term.

Not so much here. It is quite common to find it on ride edges and for dividing compartments of Sweet chestnut coppice. Getting more scarce in this size due to box caterpillar. Cydalima perspectalis

I was felling Poplar this time last year as my first proper Forestry job since moving over here. Saw logs at 14m with no max DUB went to the saw mill up the road from you for pallets, the pulp over to the St. Junien paper plant. Its certainly a big industry over here.

Inertia chain brake is poor and doest’t work on a saw that has the potential to kick like a mule, AV system needs stiffening, fuel economy is crap, filtration system is dire, but all this can be resolved with a full wrap, big dawgs and a bark box. 😂 I don’t know any hand cutters who have replaced their 500i triggers broom with another, most have opted for a 462.