The Arbalk morning register!

[PeteB]

Morning Team!

 

Tor, Fee, Knows.

[roboted]

Good Morning All. 

[maybelateron]

Morning all,

 

Another beautiful day. Not in Doug’s league, but winching over a large pine using 1975 Land Rover with PTO winch and tracked chipper helping. No electronics, yeah!

 

[Stephen Blair]

Morning, suns out again!

 

long day yesterday but got most of it done.  Back today with wee dumper to load and shift the shrapnel.

but first, coffee and breakfast! 

[Mick Dempsey]

Early doors it’s easy going, no need for the winch yet, just grab and pull. 

[AHPP]

On 06/04/2025 at 08:37, maybelateron said:

Morning all,

 

Recovery day for me. After MEWP dismantling two sycamores with a BT cable on one side and a rusty small gas supply pipe crossing above a small river on the other, my arms need a rest. Had to pick it all off in little bits and throw it.

 

The trick is a second man in the basket. One cuts, one throws. Share the burden. Revert to one if the ground needs a hand.
 

Rigging on picker jobs isn’t illegal either btw. Another advantage of two up. One can get dropped in the tree and picked up from a different place later. 
 

I usually take a good amount of stuff up a picker with me, including spikes and a rigging rope (usually three strand for crotching aloft). For one, so I can ab out if the thing really, really strands me. 

[AHPP]

4 hours ago, maybelateron said:

Morning all,

 

Another beautiful day. Not in Doug’s league, but winching over a large pine using 1975 Land Rover with PTO winch and tracked chipper helping. No electronics, yeah!

 

 

I found myself the other day thinking idiotic thoughts about wanting a Series Land Rover so I could have the lovely, lovely capstan on the front. No electronics, yes please. Land Rover, no thank you. 

[Mick Dempsey]

Those capstan witches

are like hens teeth. 
 

 

[AHPP]

 

On hens, you’ve previously mentioned tragedy. Here comes another. 

[maybelateron]

7 hours ago, AHPP said:

The trick is a second man in the basket. One cuts, one throws. Share the burden. Revert to one if the ground needs a hand.
 

Rigging on picker jobs isn’t illegal either btw. Another advantage of two up. One can get dropped in the tree and picked up from a different place later. 

With my previous MEWP we often had two men in the basket, but with my new one it gives brilliant outreach, but no so good for two men's weight a long way out. I have done loads of rigging from my MEWPS, but sometimes you just have to cut and throw - even when proficient, rigging takes time to get the rope back up etc. Horses for courses I guess.