College fun, and Red woods.

[Tribaltree]

Looks like me and my fellow arbor students are going to go and have some fun with a few Sequoiadendron Giganteum. A few need deadwooding and a couple have a severe attack of ivy. But I honestly can't wait to get up them.

[Tommy_B]

What College you at mate?

[Tribaltree]

Moreton Morrel, it's part of Warrickshire College and is slowly growing in the Arb section by 2010 they plan on doing full on degree's with the ability to do MSC's and PHD's.

It's also affiliated with Coventry Uni.

[Stephen Blair]

nict to look at but they will be hard going, the old banana branches! but once you get up top it will be worth it mate.

[Mick Stockbridge]

nict to look at but they will be hard going, the old banana branches! but once you get up top it will be worth it mate.

 

I was gonna say exactly the same but did,nt have the front in case other people found them easy. Definitely hard work to reach the top.

[skyhuck]

I think spiking up them will be real easy.

[Andy R]

each one will be slightly different, but generally they are a pleasure once you are about halfway up...first half is difficult. Did these recently, have been looking after 5 of them up until last year, now just the first 2.

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=4248

 

spikes and 2 climbing ropes for the first half - no spikes 1 climbing rope and 2 3m strops to the top....

[peter_t]

wow that looks fun! i recently found one in a local wood, it was only a young one and it looked very out of place in the middle of a chestnut coppice. im gessing its fine useing spikes untill the bark gets too thin at the top? is it true that the bark clogs your chainsaw?

[Ben Ballard]

i learnt to climb on thoese red woods at that colledge back in 95 and the cedars there to, have fun

[Stephen Blair]

wow that looks fun! i recently found one in a local wood, it was only a young one and it looked very out of place in the middle of a chestnut coppice. im gessing its fine useing spikes untill the bark gets too thin at the top? is it true that the bark clogs your chainsaw?

 

naaa, its like cutting butter.