Doesn't deserve a thread but....

[matthias]

I found a company web page and here are some pictures of the services they provide. And yes, when I clicked on "tree trimming" this is one of the pictures that came up.

Moderators: I don't imagine bashing a company on this site is proper so I picked pictures that would help them remain anonymous. (I hope). Please correct me if I am out of line.

 

[matthias]

Here's the picture under that came with "tree topping." Isn't it beautiful?

 

[matthias]

"We recommend side trimming one side (the side the tops are to fall on) to enable easy access in with tree topper and for tops to clear protruding branches and not break them off at trunk. This enables branch with green leaf/needles remain on tree to keep sap flowing to promote healthy regrowth and good visual effects."


Once I read this part it all made sense.

 

[matthias]

http://www.treeworks.co.nz/felling.htm


Here's the link. I feel kinda guilty for bashing them but the terms "tree specialists" and "tree trimming" didn't seem quite correct.

As I went back I read that they specialize in all aspects of "farm shelter" but I figured a tree is a tree regardless of location.

Is this an accepted practice? I didn't know that this is the maintenace that is involved for shelterbelts.

 

[MasterBlaster]

What a weird, crazy company!

 

[Dave]

Apparently they don't posess a chipper???????

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

1 odd ball company....if i where them i'd stick to sheep

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Originally posted by RockyJSquirrel
They had one of those devil machines at the TCIA Expo in Baltimore. I figure they had a lot of nerve showing up, but the TCIA took their money and let them display that POS butcher machine. They get advertised in the monthly magazine also.

If this is the type of crap that TCIA wishes to promote, I'm in the wrong business. And yes, TCIA is promoting this type of work by selling advertising space to the manufacturer of that machine. Regardless of the warm air blown up our skirts by TW and others who come on here to defend their positions.

Those machine have a place in rural ROW work. I don't understand the work in the picture though.

I hear that they are a PITA when the blade gets pinched

They say "no tree is too big!" well if all you have to do is put a line in the top and pull it over...

 

[Rob Murphy]

Similar to Tassie

I can't speak for the Kiwis but we have similar Operators here. They specialize in High hedging with their machines mostly in rural areas( which is most of Tassie). A lot of the old wind break Hedges, C macrocarpa,P radiata are in senesince ( dying and falling apart) .These guys come round with machines etc push them into heaps and burn. Not pretty work...

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Have you considered opening a dialog with the owner of the company? Not much that anyone here can do except blather back and forth.

For all we know, this might be the Kiwi branch of the McPeak family.

Tom

PS After I posted this, I noticed that its my birthday posting, 1954

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Happy Birthday post, TD!

Originally posted by RockyJSquirrel
TCIA is promoting this type of work by selling advertising space

Maybe, maybe not, but there is a need for that kind of work in some spots. We have a sideways-mower looking thing called the Eliminator clear ROWs in our rural area. Looks like (^(%*, but if owners won't clear a sightline on bad curves I'm glad someone does.

No ethical problem imo in selling ads for a machine that is needed for a legitimate purpose. rjs what did the Who tell Tommy to do after the Acid Queen was done with him?
Rock Trivia for $1000, Alex...

 

[a_lopa]

them type of machines should be outlawed for good,theres one getting around my area all they do is charge a fortune and solve nothing,they are like an in between solution to removing trees that are past there used by date they have no place in my book

 

[TimberMcPherson]

They are a cheap alternative to owners of orchards with large shelter belts, I dont condone there use but your not going to find someone wanting a pay an arborist at 50$ per man hour to trim in a day what would take the machine a few minutes. Some of the belts stretch for miles.

Its a commercial trimming machine, the trees are just there for wind breaks and are generally kept as thin as possible. To us they are ugly and massacred. To the owners they are functional.

Those guys are open ground cowboys, and the fact they dont have chippers isnt a suprise. Cheapest 6 inch, 18hp chipper available in NZ is $25,000.

???? it had to be a Kiwi company.....dammit!

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Originally posted by TimberMcPherson
your not going to find someone wanting a pay an arborist at 50$ per man hour to trim in a day what would take the machine a few minutes.

Exactly right. I love pruning fruit trees just right; it's a good challenge. but in the peach orchards in NC they use a similar machine. If they hired us, peaches may cost $100/bushel--who would pay that?

If highway depts hired arborists to do ROW work, road taxes would go way up. I cringe at the effects of those machines on the trees, but I don't have an answer to the economics of their use in some situations.