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Old 26th May 2007, 01:45 PM   #31
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Here's young Matt taking on a bent head bangalow palm, note the size of fronds/head/berries etc .... I wonder why the heads was so bent over, bit suss!
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Great pictures Ekka,We wish we had a Kanga..a bigger truck...an 18 " Chipper the list goes on ..one day!. The bent head is sus, if we had the room we would bomb it strait out,I get a bit nervous when we got to climb things that are sus.

Were the same as well if we can get the truck up beside our work and strait in it goes.
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Old 26th May 2007, 03:44 PM   #33
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And then when you have all that stuff you'll need to feed it, that becomes a feat in itself.
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Thats so true but you have to aim at something,if we get there great if not we are doing OK as we are,If you look at all the hacks out there ripping of our work why study to further our knowledge in
arboriculture,but we do.you have to hope for better things.
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Old 13th June 2007, 05:08 PM   #35
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At the Sugarland Tavern Bottle Shop in Bundaberg you can bring your own container, any size, and fill it up with grog!

Only $5 a litre and here's ya choices, good plonk they reckon, people come from miles around to fill'r'up mate.

I aint seen this anywhere else, must try it some day.

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Old 13th June 2007, 05:31 PM   #36
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If you do holiday in Bundaberg you have to visit the Botanical Gardens and take a steam train ride, it's only $8 for a family and goes around the park twice.

Run by volunteers and they love their job. They got this ole cane hauler restored and running sweet, it was originally built in Bundaberg ... ahhh, the ole days when Aussies actually built stuff rather than buying Chinese junk.

http://qldrailheritage.com/ascr/collect/bfc3.htm

They have a selection of them they're restoring, you can see on that web site. One of them was in a park for 30 years and even got flooded, they craned that baby onto a low loader and restored it and it's running. Amazing, and they're volunteers.

Anyway, here's some pics for you of the BUNDABERG FOWLER No 3 0-4-2T (built 1952 Bundaberg)

First of all you need some ridgey didge fair dinkum coal
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Some water of course to make steam
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Some cute passengers for the ride
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Thou she blows, we're off and running
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And here's she's steaming along nice
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Old 16th July 2007, 07:22 PM   #37
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The leopard trees were topped 2 years ago, every single leader was cut midstream and resulted in lots of erratic growth.

Customer wanted them re-topped as too bushy now and lawn not doing to good beneath.

After much explanation (and asking him to visit a nearby leopard I pruned) I suggested crown lifting and then down the track to try to thin out those epicormics and restore some type of crown.

The trees were lopped by some old guy (60's+) who was working in the units behind him. The client was never informed of the consequences and now understands the damage done. The treelopper said he's been doing it for years and they'll bush up real nice.

The first couple of pics show you the ferocity of the epicormics and mess in the crown ... we'll deal with that when they're bare for summer (yes, they drop all leaves just before Christmas for 2 weeks they're bare).





The bottom 2 pics show the before and afters from 2 different angles. The alien antenna look of the crown is courtesy of Mr Tree Lopper and his ignorance. Re lopping or cutting those antennas mid length will only exacerbate the problem. I would dearly love to sue these bastids asses for their BS! Two juvenile beautiful specimen trees destroyed by ignorance.



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Old 10th August 2007, 03:49 PM   #38
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These oleanders provided screening from the back neighbours house.

Original request by customer was for a topping around 1.5m high but I talked him into a crown lift which would also reduce the overhand toward the house.

It may not look it but there's no stubs, cut to small growing stems along those extended branches.

It's important that with species like this the work is done frequently or I suppose you could end up having to do a hack job. By working on them more frequently you'd be able to keep them down.



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Old 22nd August 2007, 02:29 PM   #39
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Pics for BCC tree work application dated 22 August 2007

















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Old 22nd August 2007, 04:33 PM   #40
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Hmmm....East tree certainly looks like some nasty things have happened to the root system, and the West tree looks as you say like its gone mining for tin! Its a shame that E torelliana has been so over planted down there, its a really attractive tree..you've just got thousands of them through your street scapes!
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Old 22nd August 2007, 05:22 PM   #41
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East tree is in for removal and west for repairs.

You can load the pics up to here then provide the link to who-ever.

To link to the specific post with nothing else displayed on the page you press the little numbers next to permalink on the post and get the special URL

If you want to send some-one the link for a post in a thread, so they land on the post you want but can scroll up and down you hit the permalink.

Neat hey, so BCC will hit that specific post with all the pics laid out. And find it a little difficult from that link to go wandering.
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Old 22nd August 2007, 07:40 PM   #42
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So there is a VPO over these tree's Ekka?

That permalink sure seems dandy... Though I let my clients deal with the council permits...
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Old 22nd August 2007, 10:49 PM   #43
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3 VPO's

WAV (waterways vegetation)

SNV (significant native vegetation)

SLT (significant landscape trees)

We can do the paperwork on clients behalf, also needed pics and brief, just like 1 page letter. Council goes out and has a look.

I like it when it's like this, keeps the hacks out a little.
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Old 27th August 2007, 06:01 PM   #44
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Due to proximity to water these young poincianas had a WAV BCC protection order.

Council stipulated crown lift must be performed by L5 Arborist, had to lift them to provide 2.5m clearance. Timing was perfect following the rain and they're just the right age. Here's some before and after pics.

Came up good and what a great spot to work ... bit of a drag to the carpark though.
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Reminds me of Savannah, Georgia
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Looks great mate, you sure do alotta poinciana's up there... What bridge is that in the background?
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That's the Story Bridge.

I VTA tested that bridge ya know.

Hang on, I'll find the video.

http://www.palmtreeservices.com.au/v...torybridge.wmv 3.16 mins and 14.2mb WMV

LOL, imagine if engineers were as thorough as arborists.
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Default Crown thin of gum tree

Crown thins are a way of pruning eucs to reduce likelyhood of failure. I have been around a while, and when ever I hear of people doing crown thins on eucs with no tower I get sceptical. Generally they'll gut out the middle and miss the very top coz they cant get to the tips and cut pencil sized pieces off. So they "lions tail" the tree perhaps making it worse. By using a cherry picker we can work the tips.

Here, the secateurs do more work than the chainsaw.

We also dead wooded and took out any bad branches/unions etc.

A few before and after shots plus a pic of the tools.

We lifted the crow to clear the tuckeroo beneath, removed the dangly bits and went through the tips thinning.

Here's the tools I took up in the bucket.



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Thats a really good job Eric, for a healthy Euc a really acceptable dose IMO
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The tree is very healthy, secret is the lady never cleans up under it and it has a bed of 100% natural mulch under it ... maybe 4" thick, just like in the bush.

It co-habits with the tuckeroo and just had to cut off one bad rubbing branch and clear the head of the tuckeroo.

The gum tree was drooping and very thick in the leaf and starting to bud up for flowering.

I think it will do very well and this quote started out as a topping quote! Lucky the lady listened to me.
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Nice work.

Next week I'll be doing the same to silver buttonwoods. I will get pics this time!
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Great work ekka!

Happy for ya to get some good arb work out of those customers up there.

Good on ya! Did they take a lot of convincing not to lop?
What was different about this customer than the majority do you think?
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Intelligence, qualified accountant, responsible person who believes in correctness and quality not how cheap to get things done.
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Intelligence, qualified accountant, responsible person who believes in correctness and quality not how cheap to get things done.
Makes total sense. Thats your target market. So, how can you position yourself to attract more like-minded customers?

If you can promote your point of difference, being the benefits of quality arboriculture as opposed to larry the local lopper, in a way that this type of client will find you, maybe you can get through the "butcher barrier" and get more and more of this work and leave the hacks to cut each others throats in the same way they cut trees.

The question is how........?
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I have an idea I'm working on, when I'm rich and done I'll let you know.
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That's the Story Bridge.

I VTA tested that bridge ya know.

Hang on, I'll find the video.

http://www.palmtreeservices.com.au/v...torybridge.wmv 3.16 mins and 14.2mb WMV

LOL, imagine if engineers were as thorough as arborists.

Loved it. And not one person asked if you really knew what you were doing.... What was the DBH of the upright
I think our Engineer's must go to the same school.
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Plastic factory is expanding, needed to do this today (Fathers Day) for 2 reasons.

1/ Concrete pour Wednesday

2/ No bugger around, bloody busy place!

Solo'd it, ground it, all done 3 hours including stump grinds and other shrubs, cut and stacked. They get rid of it.
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Went to church today, nice day in the cool shade.

Here's Steve looking for the confessional. Like the ole Holden in the Background? Very original, should be covered not out in the hot sun like that.

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And this is how we made it shady.

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That's the Story Bridge.

I VTA tested that bridge ya know.

Hang on, I'll find the video.

http://www.palmtreeservices.com.au/v...torybridge.wmv 3.16 mins and 14.2mb WMV

LOL, imagine if engineers were as thorough as arborists.

You Idiot!


i would love to know what the pedestrians were thinking.
they would be like "man, is this guy on drugs"

typical australian dry sense of humour.
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