Felling over 380mm (old cs32)

[harvey b davison]

Hi

 

I am thinking about doing the above course just for the experience However i am led to believe that you need your own winch and strops. I dont fancy the idea of paying for top of the range stuff as i dont think it would get much use after the course, if any at all. I have seen some in machine mart, but would these be any good and what size winch/cable/strop would give me the best combination to get through the course. Also how many high lift wedges and again which sort.

 

Hope this makes sense:confused1:

 

Thanks

Harvey

[divingjimbob]

If you train with paul at tree tech he's not too far from you he has a winch so you don't need to buy one of you need his number let me know

[IanW]

erm.... shouldn't your training provider have every thing already??

 

that's the whole point... they have all the gear to train and show you how to use it.....

[harvey b davison]

erm.... shouldn't your training provider have every thing already??

 

that's the whole point... they have all the gear to train and show you how to use it.....

 

Well, that is the thing. I emailed them yesterday with my enquiry, and they replied saying that they expect me to have all the equipment required. But i'm sure i read somewhere that the training provider/instructor would have a winch for the pupils to use. I dont mind buying my own if i have to, just dont want to pay full wack, as i dont work in trees, i just like doing the courses, for the experience.

[CHC]

The trainer provide the winch when did mine had own high lift wedges. I would go with another training provider but if you want to get wedges I would get two then you can walk them in and they don't take too much of a beating so to speak

[AlexB]

Harvey, you're based in South Yorkshire aren't you????

[harvey b davison]

Harvey, you're based in South Yorkshire aren't you????

 

Yes mate.

[3dogs]

You'll be provided with winching equipment and if not your welcome to borrow mine:001_smile:

 

What's more important is that you get some good size trees to work on there's seems to be real shortage of good medium/large trees to train on at the moment so check that suitable trees are available. there's a lot of training undertaken on substandard trees!!

Edited March 15, 2015 by 3dogs

[harvey b davison]

You'll be provided with winching equipment and if not your welcome to borrow mine:001_smile:

 

Wow, thankyou for that.

[AlexB]

Some one beat me to it! You can also borrow mine....