new cambium saver type thing?

[mad matty]

Cheers Rich.....I will take this on board when purchasing.

my only concern is retrieval, although everyone says retrieval is easy.

Trouble is mate I think i,m just a bit old school sometimes and may need to spend a day with someone who uses one regularly.

That way I could learn the does and don'ts

Cheers Matty

[MWArb]

Your a bit far from lincolnshire else I'd say come for a reccy climb and try mine.. that said your more than welcome if your up this way matty

 

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[skyhuck]

It depends on the size of the stem your dismantling.

 

I made up a 4.5 metre one for a large London Plane tree we were dismantling and craning out the stem. It still wasn't long enough for that.

 

Longer the better I'd say if your doing big stuff. It will still work on smaller diameter stuff just daisy chain the excess or I do a noose type knot.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Could you not just have an extension you clip on if you need it for a fat stem?

 

I've done that with lanyard/fliplines in the past.

[mad matty]

:thumbup1:Cheers mate...yeah a little far but appreciate the offer!

would,nt mind swapping some help on a job for some pointers on use of one!

Sorry to say I,m one of those people you can explain how to do it till your blue in the face, but show me and you,ll only need to do it a couple of times.

Cheers Matty:thumbup1:

[MWArb]

Perhaps a video.. I'm out tomorrow for a reccy so I'll endever to film it on a low limb to show its installation and retrieval

 

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[Rich Rule]

Could you not just have an extension you clip on if you need it for a fat stem?

 

I've done that with lanyard/fliplines in the past.

 

I actually had two 5 metre steel flip lines clipped together for that tree. You could extend the rope guide but at the time I didn't have anything suitable.

 

These days, most of the time on a pole I use a running bowline cinched to the stem and rope wrench, hc and vt as a bail out option.

[Rich Rule]

Check out the Taylor hamel vids he did for the manufacturer of the friction saver. Thy are in YouTube and give a good idea for retrieval.

 

Especially on a pole, you pass the pulley and Prussic through the eye and cinch it tight. It retrieves really well this way. It is all explained in the video.

[mad matty]

Perhaps a video.. I'm out tomorrow for a reccy so I'll endever to film it on a low limb to show its installation and retrieval

 

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yeah that would be cool:thumbup1:

Cheers Matty