Ouch.

[Joe Newton]

It's alright for kebabs, mind.

It's worked for pulling too.

[Steve Bullman]

9 minutes ago, SWORDSTA said:

Those 100+ foot dead Eucs down in oz I'll climb, reluctantly but I'll climb them because of what happens to them when they die. Dead trees in the uk is another story, I don't trust anything dead here, mewp it baby!

 

Explain please 

[Marula]

Explain please 

Which part Steve?

[Steve Bullman]

Because of what happens to them when they die

[Marula]

Oh right. Due to the lack of fungal activity down under in the dryer areas the trees don't become a hazard as they do here when they die. Eucs are also an extremely dense wood, this combined with their large sizes and huge amounts of polyphenol compounds seem to create this concrete like structure. Spiking dead Eucs is a nightmare! I've done a fair few where we rigged massive sections on itself with no issues, bar the shite sloshing around my shorts obviously [emoji849]. I'd chog down sections that had been dead for 5 to 10 years with no decay in the main stem. Theres a dead forest out there called ghost forest or something like that, arborists from all over go climb those giants and they've been dead for a century.

In the uk I'd never climb something that's been dead for a decade let alone rig on itself.

[Steve Bullman]

thanks for the explanation

[Marula]

thanks for the explanation [emoji4]

 

I had to mute the TV to write that out and the missus was not best pleased, I hope you appreciate the lengths I go to for this place.

 

[TIMON]

Oh right. Due to the lack of fungal activity down under in the dryer areas the trees don't become a hazard as they do here when they die. Eucs are also an extremely dense wood, this combined with their large sizes and huge amounts of polyphenol compounds seem to create this concrete like structure. Spiking dead Eucs is a nightmare! I've done a fair few where we rigged massive sections on itself with no issues, bar the shite sloshing around my shorts obviously [emoji849]. I'd chog down sections that had been dead for 5 to 10 years with no decay in the main stem. Theres a dead forest out there called ghost forest or something like that, arborists from all over go climb those giants and they've been dead for a century.

In the uk I'd never climb something that's been dead for a decade let alone rig on itself.

Interesting. How high do you recon that euc in the Tahune airwalk video was ?
I only ask as it looked a lot higher than 100’.

[Marula]

Interesting. How high do you recon that euc in the Tahune airwalk video was ?
I only ask as it looked a lot higher than 100’.

Quite possibly well over 100, they get massive down in Tasy. They call the climbers that climb down there "gun climbers".

[Khriss]

Horrific ! And that gave way-  just totally rotten - no possibility you wouldnt have noticed that on the way up K