Entering The Tree

[alex_m]

We rarely have to work on tree's over 60ft in this area, let alone ones with nice open crowns. 3 stage ladders are great, especially just after lunch!

I've just got a pantin so when it does come to throwlining it isnt so much of a chore.

[Mark Bolam]

Even if I've bagged in I'll still use the ladder for initial access, usually with a groundie tailing my hitch.

 

Taking the easy option isn't a crime!

 

Working solely off ladders is a different ball game entirely....

[woody paul]

Did some BIG PINES yesterday and theres no way you could have throwen a line from the ground, there was yews under them and the only way was to ladder above the yews and then throw a line.

[Marc]

Did some BIG PINES yesterday and theres no way you could have throwen a line from the ground, there was yews under them and the only way was to ladder above the yews and then throw a line.

 

You use srt? In over 3 years I,ve not found anything that I could not get a line into (eventually:blushing:), but trees here are not as big as other places in the world.

[Pedroski]

There ain't nowt wrong with a ladder.

[Robert_S]

Some lube......

[rammer]

I'll climb any tree you like from rope and harness.Thrusting,footlocking,pantin or whatever,but get me 2 metres up a ladder and my legs turn to jelly.Got some ladders but they never leave the lock-up.

[skyhuck]

I find more and more that people in the anti-ladder brigade tend to fall in the sub-30 category!

 

I'm fast approaching 43 and detest ladders, as I'm getting older I need to maintain my fitness as best I can, so wondering up a ladders aint going to do me must good.

[Mark Bolam]

I'm older than you Dave, and I keep my fitness tip-top by having sex with young supermodels, using all the energy I have saved by using ladders....

 

Seriously, they are a tool, good for some jobs, not for others.

 

Good for very broad crowned apple tree pruning today, for sure.

[Marc]

I find more and more that people in the anti-ladder brigade tend to fall in the sub-30 category!

 

I know what you mean, but I am 33 and great uncle Q he is well old like in his 40,s so proper old never seen him use a ladder and he is quicker than most sub 30 year olds, freak of nature that he is.