General Tree pics

[Tree Man Tom]

Are you pushing the tree over with the digger, cnt quite figure it out? lol

[Steve Bullman]

nice pics phenom. pic 3. jon should seriously consider a spliced eye, that bowline knot is dangerously close to the wraps on his v.t

[Mr Ed]

Are you pushing the tree over with the digger, cnt quite figure it out? lol

 

excavate the roots on one side, and push over. Its an old fashioned but effective way of getting a big rootball out the ground, as it uses the trees own weight as leverage.

 

I prefer a splitter / shear on the excavator to break up the rootball in situ.

[Tree Man Tom]

excavate the roots on one side, and push over. Its an old fashioned but effective way of getting a big rootball out the ground, as it uses the trees own weight as leverage.

 

I prefer a splitter / shear on the excavator to break up the rootball in situ.

 

It all makes sense now

[Peter]

Two ash reductions from today.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Must have been a pain of a job mate !!

 

They'd have "got more light in" by killing the bloody ivy off

[Peter]

Severed it at the base, but thankfully they didnt want it all stripped as well.

[Will Hinchliffe]

nice pics phenom. pic 3. jon should seriously consider a spliced eye, that bowline knot is dangerously close to the wraps on his v.t

 

Usually he ties it longer but it was making his hitch slip a bit that day. I keep telling him that he needs a spliced eye. We even have spare ropes with spliced eyes sitting around but I think he wants to get his moneys worth out of his blue rope first.

 

 

 

 

I bet its quite scary pushing a tree over like that Alopa.

[Marc]

Usually he ties it longer but it was making his hitch slip a bit that day. I keep telling him that he needs a spliced eye. We even have spare ropes with spliced eyes sitting around but I think he wants to get his moneys worth out of his blue rope first.

 

 

 

 

I bet its quite scary pushing a tree over like that Alopa.

 

Attach the bowline karabiner into the middle hole helps to give a little more seperation and less prone to interfere with the hitch, i climbed with a bowline for 6 months like that because i was to tight to buy a new rope or get a new splice, although far! from ideal with good rope discpline i don't believe its dangerous.

Now i have a splice i use the top hole although the middle hole does make the hitch slightly easier to grab i prefer leaving it open as a second attachment point.

[Stephen Blair]

a view of glasgow today, it wasnt really that misty my camera phone was steamed up. can you spot the Armidillo?