IRATA tree cutting and stuff

[combined tree services]

hi Jamie , they are some amazing pictures i must say .

 

I did some Geo work down in devon for 4 months back in 2004 and i must admit that although the pay is better i really did not miss going home covered in red sandstone .

 

Just a quick question but in your most recent picture i see your using a shunt on your secondary line , i was told not to use a shunt as they can deform and fail when stress loaded in the event of a main line failure .

[Jamie]

i think petzl would prefer us to use ASAPs but, ropes can blow through them easily on big drops. The first pic i posted above was about 7meters into a 110m abseil. Its hard enough to keep a shunt tight on big drops in the wind.

 

I think as long as shunts are high and the fall factors low they should be ok.

 

I dont think i heard you toot. i was on the middle cantilever and surrounded by herring gulls

 

Jamie

[Jamie]

just realised i've not posted any bridge pictures lately,

 

here is one of two of our guys on the west of queensferry cantilever

 

 

and one of andy on the underside of an bottom boom on inchgarvie cantilever

 

 

we were climbing through loops ( rope is anchored at both ends and you decend from one anchor then climb back up the other end of the rope) and hauling ourselves around using a gri gri and a 6m lanyard

 

oh and in the background you can see hound point, the BP gas terminal, one of the ends of the forties pipeline system

 

jamie

[High Scale]

That looks uncomfortable.

 

Some great pictures.

[DrewB]

sure does look uncomfortable, awesome work though jamie