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19th October 2008, 02:32 PM
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| Moderator - Previously known as JayD  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: TreeWorld, Sydney Australia
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|  Re: The Wandering Arborist
Beutiful pictures Sean,I was last on Russell Island in the late eighties a truely beutiful part of Queensland the flora and fauna was great.  We went from Russell to Tipplers taven in a small wooden boat powered by a 6hp engine imagine that! through jumpin pin bar to the pub and back full as googs...LOL..I had a great time.Macleay Island front door looks the same as it did back then..and your picture of maindrag reminded me of Russell Isl main drag.  
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19th October 2008, 05:06 PM
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| Mature tree  Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Norway
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| Re: The Wandering Arborist Interesting thread, you are a good photographer, Sean! Leif. |
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10th November 2008, 10:36 PM
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| Monument Status  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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So sometimes, not very often but sometimes you get lucky and someone recommends you as the possible solution to a managers tree problems....so it happens that I'm on a plane flying into Hamilton Island......some days life on the road aint so bad  The view from my digs!  Keith Williams was (probably still is) crazy about bloomin coconuts, there are literally hundreds of the damn things on the Island, anyone who has been through Cardwell will know what I mean!!!!  My digs  The view from the contractors bar  An artificial lagoon part of the water recycling process...  The top of one tree hill, the buggies are the way everyone gets around on the Island (save a fleet of buses and very few contractors)  |
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11th November 2008, 10:37 PM
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| Former Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Perth
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Bah, humbug! Jealous? who is jealous! Im not jealous...much  |
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15th March 2009, 09:22 PM
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| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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Been a while, here are some shots from the weekend just gone, bit of a bush walk through the rainforest at Binna Burra absolutely great weather for fungi (and leeches) but here are some pics of the magnificent E. grandis flooded gums in this patch of forest...Ballunjui Falls Some of the beauties right beside the road..  The Bellbird lookout  Walking into the grove  Canopy high above  Sharing the space with Bangalow palms Archontophoenix cunninghamiana  Bit gloomy as it was raining  |
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15th March 2009, 09:38 PM
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| Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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Hey Sean, what and where is the tallest tree in Queensland?
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15th March 2009, 10:00 PM
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| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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Don't know Tom Greenwood might. I suspect some of the untouched forestry plots north of Cairns might have some big ones though.
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17th March 2009, 03:09 PM
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| Sappling Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Atherton, (Cairns) North Queensland
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I grew up on the Atherton Tablelands, near the rainforests of what is now the Wooroonooran National Park. When i was about 13, a friend of my fathers took us for a 2 hour walk through the rainforest, following along a ridge until we got to a some huge trees, he called them "Stockwellia's". They seemed to grow just in this area. You will have to make allowances for my age at the time, and the fifteen years since, but i think some were about 5m in diameter, not including the buttresses. A number of them were rotten in the middle, and hollowed out, but they grew fairly straight up with little sign of narrowing, and dissapeared into the canopy. At the time, i thought they must be 100m tall, but now i don't know. I'm going to have to track down these trees and take some measurements and photos. Have you guys heard of these trees at all? |
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17th March 2009, 03:21 PM
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| Sappling Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Atherton, (Cairns) North Queensland
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Found a picture.  Seems like the trees aren't as big as i remembler  Last edited by Eric Frei; 17th March 2009 at 07:00 PM. Reason: uploaded pic |
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7th June 2009, 12:25 PM
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| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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Took a long drive to Newcastle a while back and stopped off in a few NSW country towns... Tenterfield...  some lovely colour...  Beautiful oaks....  and then onto Armidale....   |
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7th June 2009, 06:02 PM
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| Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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Sort of miss alll that autumn colour ... then again, they can have the leaves! 
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7th June 2009, 06:37 PM
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| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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I miss the huge piles of Autumn leaves, loved playing in them as a kid with my dog.... I really enjoyed the drive to Newcastle despite the time it took, here are a few pics from many of bits of Newcastle I liked. Some remarkable Hills figs that refuse to give in to the growing pressures imposed on them (well at least most of them remain defiant so far)  Looking out from under the canopies  I had a laugh with Bernie looking at the surrounds of this little house...look closely and see if you can see what would have made an Arborist from Qld giggle (hint: comparing attitudes to tree growth NSW:QLD)  The Town Hall where ISAAC 09 was held  The fountain in the park facing the Town Hall...with the Hills figs up above on the street outside the park.  |
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7th June 2009, 07:59 PM
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| Mature tree  Join Date: May 2008 Location: new zealand
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you've got some awesome photos there mate |
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8th June 2009, 07:03 AM
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| Mature tree  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: International, Germany
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Cool thread Sean. Now i have been traveling around the globe the last few years contracting so i thought i had better add something to the wandering arborist page! I took these photos at Paul Simon's (from Simon & Garfuncle) while pruning some big park trees on their estate.
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8th June 2009, 11:13 AM
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| Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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Jeez, what a nice place that is ... like the botanical gardens!
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8th June 2009, 11:45 AM
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| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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Really lovely pics Jim Looks like you did some signature tip work on some of the=ose beauties Kept having corny Simon and Garfunkle song titles banging round my head but I won't impose them on others.....some jobs just make you feel very privileged to be an Arborist eh?  |
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8th June 2009, 12:46 PM
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| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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On the long drive back to the Gold Coast called in to the Hunter Wetlands...what an excellent example of how a community can achieve magnificent outcomes...this was a refuse dump...its now a RAMSAR Wetland!       |
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3rd July 2009, 09:12 AM
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| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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About three weeks back I was asked to assist in setting up some complex rigging for another company Envirotech Industries on a very awkward site across the Brisbane River off Mt Crosby Road.... I have put together two albums of the setting up and the job in progress, although I was not there for the actual work the photos were provided by Daniel Oaten director of Envirotech. |
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4th July 2009, 11:55 AM
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5th July 2009, 07:00 AM
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| Mature tree Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: International, Germany
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Great pics and a always a story to go with Sean great stuff. Hear are a few pics of a property in Dalaro Sweden we were working at, bit of a change from tree climbing but apparently we do a real good job soo... That was wone of the worst shaped towers i was working on but most are really good.   
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5th July 2009, 10:39 AM
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| Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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Great pics Sean, would have been a good job to get that one. Jim, you standing in the middle of that hedged tree adds some size perspective, what about doing the sides? What a job, what's it like climbing up the guts of some hedge?
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5th July 2009, 10:57 AM
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| Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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Nice pics Jim......you are the real wandering Arborist mate, covering thousands of kms Were you standing on upper limbs of that "shrub"? A great many years since O had to climb through anything like that to work, but a few years back did some 'restorative' hedging out of an EWP on three heritage figs in the front of Townsville Railway Station. The Brisbane River job I think is finished, though I know there are other work requirements in the area that may keep the four tripods and some of the workers occupied for some time to come....no-one is permitted to walk on the pipe, apparently it needs cleaning preping and painting. I am told that the Fire service came out to the site from both Logan and Brisbane to have a good inspection of the set up, seems they might be interested in investigating whether such tripods could be a viable solution to some of their own specific work problems....who knows! |
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5th July 2009, 10:47 PM
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| Mature tree Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: International, Germany
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We used a skylift for the job. Took 2 days for 12 odd towers, hanging that hedge trimmer out of a bucket is not easy, thank goodness for my ipod! Haha there is no way ya could climb up though those towers they are soo thick, even that one that i was standing on which is one of the ugliest, is still really dense on top.
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