Brits talkin about Brit stuff

[Ross Turner]

You get around making a mess by laying down boards first.,It also makes clean up a bit easier.

 

[Big A]

I think someone already covered that with boards back there somewhere, but even so what a drag, seeing how much the tracked chipper cuts up grass compared to a quad and trailed chipper I know what I prefer to use. By the way chipper didnt lose any bolts today!!!

 

[SteveBullman]

i still say just climb it

 

[SteveBullman]

you obviously werent working hard enough then big A

 

[Big A]

Tomwas feeding today for the most part! Mind you Sills saw lost nearly all its bolts Bad Admin!!! Havent been petrol bombed by the neighbour ,,,,,,,,, yet!!

 

[Big A]

i still say just climb it

Thats ok until a council says otherwise, surely. We all know what they're like! done jobs where I've put climbers up a couple of trees then done a couple from the mewp then put them up some more, Ooooh I was so tired and sweaty - Not!!

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

do you have TOM ex-perm boy employee with ya steve...??

 

[blue]

just dawned on me with all the talk about mobile platforms in means your gonna need another vehicle on the job.could work out very costly and a pain in the arse on most jobs.we already take up about 25' on the road thats without working space behind the chipper say another 10'.now thats a lot of space to take up on the roadside.now add a 4x4 and trailor another what 18'.with all the extra cones and signs your gonna need another vehicle just to carry all the crap.

 

[jamie]

we were looking at a platform, i have used one for some real bad elms, massive and bone dead. next day was massive beech, ancient and overhanging the road, that was fun the tree was to get halved basically as there was a lot of weight over the road (it really needed to come down and it was an out of the way b road).....not a nice prune, not good arb practice....hey ho.

if the platform aint tall enough to do the tree which is too dangerous to climb is it worthwile having the platform?

we had to get a saw on a stick to drop the top off of an Ash the top was big and the limb was too dodgy to tie into (i wasnt there though)

jamie

 

[SteveBullman]

no different tom, although hes bordering on a permboy himself

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

how many blokes have you got at the firm now steve ..going back to the subject of tracked platforms i know for sure that a bod in a platform could/can do a large prune up in half the time of a conventional climber.if access was avalable

 

[SteveBullman]

theres usually 6 of us rolla
as for halving the time of a prune, no way.
maybe for a slow climber, like i said they are a good idea, but it defintly wouldn't double the speed i could do a prune in, also unless you have a really opened crown tree you're not going to get into all the spaces.
the few times ive used cherry pickers i found this a problem, to the point that you end up either missing out pieces, getting them with a pole and not getting a good angle of cut plus risk buzzing the cuts, or else just having to climb the tree anyway to work the inside

just my opinion though

 

[PRUNER 1]

mewp use

hi guys, been using a biggy the last couple o days up here in cold not so sunny darlo. 34m bronto, taking down a big beech with meripilus at the end of a garden in a public walkway. tree was probably 30m. 3 stems, down and away in 4.5 hours. none of us were knackered. says it all about platforms. yeah its nice to climb, but i dont need to kill mesell for 8 quid an hour! as for using them to prune, not a chance. dodgy cuts from pole saws and you cant reach the interior crown without pruning your way in! got a big ash and beech down and lifted 3 more beech today with same platform. hope the boss doesnt decide to use them 2 much! got some photos to follow.

 

[blue]

more bad luck

after having a dozy woman slam into the back of the chip truck 2 weeks ago today the tow ball/pin decided to come off the hire lorry at about 50 mph with the chipper behind it.w ewere very lucky in that the chipper veered left and just slid along some armco,only damage appears to be a mashed up mud gaurd.if it had veered right then it would have gone over a divider and into oncoming traffic.
oh and wurzel had his pick up nicked last night and was found parked in the front of a shop 30 miles away

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

pruner how much did the bronto cost for a day? ,boys i cant beleive you don't see the benefits of a platform for crown reductions [not talking about crown thinning] imo most pruning done around these parts are a bit heavey handed simply because most climbers [i'm talking about most not all] cannot get right out to the tips 'less is best' imo

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

BLUE i cant beleive the luck your having lately..must be sending frank of his head.pleased wurzel got his truck back i take it, it wasn't burnt out??

 

[blue]

ROLLA,
re read my last post and wasn't quite clear about wurzel's truck.it was actually parked in the front of a shop

 

[treesnlife]

Hey Nickrosis, you think that's tough? Try being an american, working in New Zealand with kiwis and UK guys from different parts of the UK! It's amazing any of us understand each others slang and accents. Haha.

Aaron

 

[PRUNER 1]

bronto is about 300 quid for the day. here r some photos.

 

[Ross Turner]

So another one of Darlingtons big trees hath been felled.Did Richard wrap the lowering rope around another tree or has he got into the 21st century using friction bollards

I looked a bleak cold day up home.
Wish the Lads that you work with a Merry Xmas & Happy New Year.