General Tree pics

[MattyF]

another balance pic,might make it a bit clearer but photo quality is crap

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[High Scale]

Simple and effective.

 

I tend to just use a sling with a choker hitch.

[MattyF]

to be honest so do i but tom had to use all the big slings to get the capstan anchored around the bottom as i forgot the loopie:damnmate:

[bob]

Im a creature of habit and dont like change !...have always balanced limbs this way, its a made up variation of what i was taught years ago...but has never let me down and i find it easy and fast to set up....but the prussik method could be quicker but i just dont like the idea that it could slip like it always seems to do when you climb on them!

 

if you use a prussick on a ballancer you thread it through 3 times to gige you 6 turns then when you get it where you want it pull loop up and break prussick and it will never slip hope this makes sense

[MattyF]

got a call today regarding a topiary yew that i have pruned for the last 12 years,well this was how i left it a couple of months ago

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[MattyF]

this is how i found it after some builders drove a skip down the side of it and snapped a load of branches off with a bit of have a go pruning...the woman whos tree it was is devistated !

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[Steve Bullman]

ouch

were they her builders? is she being compensated in anyway?

[MattyF]

no it was the nieghbours builders who did the damage..I told her to sue them or atleast pay for some root treatment to make it grow a bit faster.

Its in a conservation area so dont know how well it would stand unlike if it was tpoed, i know of builders getting fined big money around here for damaging yews with tpo's ,gonna take a few years to get it back though!

[Buzz]

Pisses you off doesn't it because if that was someones shed, wall etc they'd soon have to stump up some wedge

[Buzz]

Rotten red oak stump cut. This was a biggie !