Good books

[Dean Lofthouse]

Went onto www.treesource.co.uk when someone posted the link elsewhere.

 

I was just bored at the weekend so decided to buy three books.

 

Tree Climber Knot Book ISBN 3-9810417-1-2

Collins complete guide to British Trees ISBN 978-0-00-723685-5

The Art and Science of practical rigging. (ISA)

 

All basic stuff but really informative and should be part of everyone tool kit

 

Good site though for books

[Mac McLennan]

Think I'll give the rigging one a go Dean. As I don't experiment with that sort of thing much.

[Ben]

They seem to be very keen on there prices

[Dean Lofthouse]

They seem to be very keen on there prices

 

One of my faults is I never look at prices, I decide what I want and buy it.

[bob]

i will supply whatever you want then dean

[Dean Lofthouse]

I did markets for friday sat sun for 15 years and got absolutey peed off with people trying to barter. They think they are the first in the world to barter with someone when in reality every other punter tried it and we served 2 or 3 hundred people a day with 2 or 3 thousand a day walking past and looking.

 

As a result I cannot stand to barter, I look at an item, I get a price in my head as to what it's worth, I then ask how much, if the price is on or below the price I have in mind I buy it if I need it. If it is way over I put it back down.

[treedave]

Dean,

What do you recon to the Art & Science book?, thinking of getting a copy myself.

The Collins ident is good - got me most of the way through my tech cert!

[Dean Lofthouse]

It's ok Dave, it starts of with really basic stuff and then moves onto advanced and compound rigging techniques, rigging forces and top wood removal.

 

All in all it covers from beginners to advanced very comprehensively

[treedave]

Time for some retail therapy then:icon14: - it's been a day full of meetings and deskwork all the worse for being a nice day out.

[Glen Poole]

I've owned the art & science of practical rigging for a few months now & it's a great source of info with some excellent techniques, a very usefull book to have, it also comes as a collection of videos if you can afford them.