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First proper hedge job with the Makita UH006, very very pleased with this hedger, its very light. Used one small 2.5Ah battery. Privet, she wanted it reduced hard as it was taller than her, and thined in width, so the brown was unavoidable - it'll grow back. Removed the dead stem. However I did hit the metal gate post and put a tiny ding on the new blade 😭 Pebble gardens are a real pain to clear up if you forget the leaf blower! I dont usually take my own as the other guys will have one. Going back to blow it. Then an oak stump to cut up. The pictures I saw made it look small but this was big, over a meter dia at base and several meters long. Im told it blew down in december, so as far as windblown go, quite disapointing, no tension left and the rootplate just sat there. Oct it looked like this on streetview. Ivy covered, pollarded monster.

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Monday I will be in London Tomorrow moring would be ideal, would 11am be ok as that is when I told them I'm going back I will be there and can cut to whatever size you like and help load it ( my back is feeling it a bit tonight but should be fine by tomorrow!) Ooh a micra, I will need to cut it smaller reminds me of loading up my car 😆 Sent you a message with the details.

Seeing the bark peeled off makes me think sycamore, climbed a few like that. The end grain or dirt in the last pic, looks very coarse, makes me think ash, but that may be dirt confusing things.

@Sam759 Please let me know if you want it, as I'm going back tomorrow to tidy up, if you dont want it I will cut the logs much smaller.

Delivery with that restriction will be a pain due to timing. If collection is possible I am chopping up a big oak stump, its about 25 miles away in RH10. I can help cut to size and help load it. Thats a 28" bar on the g372xp, I'd guess 50" diameter in places.

It wood only be going to the tip anyway. The problem is delivering at the end of a day with a fully loaded van if the tip is the other direction - traffic is bad around there! If you can give a rough idea of sizes, (no idea what a fairy garden looks like) then we can do that. Otherwise you'll not be getting a stump, as we usually cut them into manageable weights for easy throwing on the van. We can do it, but cant read minds

We cover that area. Can you collect from a site or do you need delivery? What size stump, slices and branches would be suitable?

Neighbours acer, beautiful small example on our boundry. The light comes from our side and last year is was getting excessive across the window, so I lightly pruned it back with reduction cuts, still about a foot over fence. I havent touched the height and no attempt to shape it. My neighbour doesnt do much gardening - many corded hedgetrimmers have been de-corded and then used to tie back various plants, so I may offer at some point. We used to have a large camellia bush by the window which is why the acer has a big self pruned hole. I'm wondering if this area of the stem will re sprout now that its getting plenty of sun?

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I started in rail, which was 90% van seat polishing, very little experience gained. I was told the progression to climbing would be 3 years, painfully slow. I didnt enjoy being in a small van with 3 or 4 others, all day, every day. It worked out less than min wage, though I did get some PPE. While I got paid, I feel like I wasted 6 months. I dont know if utility would be like that? Rail clearance is not what I enjoy. With also doing rock climbing, I knew enough to practise in trees. Climbing in local park, then doing about 10 climbed trees for friends and family. I then got my tickets - took ages, trainers are not reliable, and I only needed the assesment. That got me enough experence to start helping out a local business, from there gained experience rapidly.

Window cleaning was mentioned in another recent thread. In summer, good money can be earnt, I believe. My parents* were paying £30 a time for windows and gutters, they were done in under 20 minutes and onto the neighbours. Its a job where you can easily get a whole street of return customers. * I stopped that, Im quite happy to do it for them when I visit. They were not doing a good job, perhaps dirty water they were using. I use glass cleaner spray and a squeegee. Supermarket delivery, or shop work, may be flexible enough to make up the odd days with no arb.

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Perhaps a secondary employment, days off, you could do window cleaning. Low cost just a ladder and bucket.. Good chance you could earn more than arb to begin with. Sounds like you dont understand the industry. Tickets are just covering an employers arse and you will not get anywhere without them. Climbing tickets will add zero value to your CV without a year or twos experience to go with it. At the moment, you might made a good groundy, if you have no problem dragging brash, logs, chipping, and most improtant, good with a rake, reliable and good with customers. No one enjoys the cleanup at the end of a day. Master the rake and cleaning up, be fast at it, everyone can go home sooner, and you will be first choice for domestic work. I suggest small businesses would be the place to start. If you can find several that can offer occasional work, if your any good you will be busy.

If were generous and say a tree takes 2 or 3 hours of a tree officers time for travel, inspection, van seat polishing and paperwork, a tiny fraction of that officers salary

Clearly we will not agree on this. I know my local tree officers and have worked with them in the local council recently. Trees need better protection than that.

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Would you have a photo from before felling? How fresh is it?

Have the Ultralink small. Rarely ever use it as I since found I can use rings for cinching anchors. I'd like to use it more and tried last week on a stem removal. Fiddly to set up, would be easy to drop the pulley.

The council say they inspected and recommended work on the north crown and left the tennant to get on with it, the council did not do or pay for the work as the tennant is responsible for the lands maintence. It is backwards if the council wont maintain its valuable trees and expects others to pay, and then doesnt like the result. Yes sad loss of the tree.

Oaks are only just coming into leaf, some are quite green but others not woken up yet. The best image we have is from the BBC article. Looks to me that the crown was alive.

Theres nothing in the drop zone, no reason not to climb it, far cheaper, I'd argue just as quick. A platform is a bit of a pain as you still need to drop the logs, no real benefit. If you wanted quicker work you'd use a crane, cut and lift each section and deal with it on the ground. (I say that having never cut from a mewp or near a crane). He , or the head tree officer needs to be sacked. How can we make this happen? Why didnt he TPO it? My experience is council officers are idiots. We once got "caught" pruning a TPO'd tree, cant remember what they identified it as ( not oak) but it was a bog standard oak, they got that very wrong. We were let off, on account of doing a decent pruning job, just the minimum with good cuts. If not we would have fought it, as they were on the wrong tree or area. Even so, its a great shame to loose the tree, but its due to council incompetence, a contractor that wanted to get paid and a land owner wanting minimal furture risk (prune managing may have cost the same as removal, plus future costs)