Cobra Synthetic Cabling Merits?

[jomoco]

pity you never got that patent on "the cambium saver" name. Nice one for trying though, although it must've been a costly venture.

 

Funny thing is, there must be more climbers today using some kind of cambium saver than those who use none. But the manufacturers market them as a hybrid of a cambium saver/rope saver ie ART - Ropeguide, Treemagineer/DMM - Multi Saver etc.

 

If no one's ever said it before - Cheers for coming up with the idea, it was probably long overdue when you thought it up.

 

Thanks for the kind words colleague of mine, I appreciate them.

 

Cheers,

 

Jon Mooring, rabble rouser extraordinaire!

 

Jomoco

[scotspine1]

Thanks for the kind words colleague of mine, I appreciate them.

 

Cheers,

 

Jon Mooring, rabble rouser extraordinaire!

 

Jomoco

 

Jon,

 

this is off topic but did you see this?

 

any thoughts? I think it's a nice bit of innovation, he's taken your leather cambium saver idea and updated it, did you look at steel/metal back when you came up with the idea? - skip to 0.25

 

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[jomoco]

Thanks for the comic relief vid Scotspine!

 

Amazing he stayed in character and kept a straight face.

 

Yah, thots preddy effin stoopin heimen!

 

Fanciest CS's I made were leather midline attachable using industrial grade Velcro.

They still hurt when they hit yu in the face tho!

 

Jomoco

[scotspine1]

Thanks for the comic relief vid Scotspine!

 

Amazing he stayed in character and kept a straight face.

 

Yah, thots preddy effin stoopin heimen!

 

Jomoco

 

Very cruel, and to think that German lad had a framed pic of you on his workshop bench to use as inspiration when he was designing that thing.

 

Anyway, back to cabling, would you attach lightning protection to a steel cable? If so? Why?

 

 

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[kevinjohnsonmbe]

No, I'd remove the branch or the tree, I wouldn't install anything OVER a high value target. I've not done any cabling or cobra work since I came here a decade ago.

 

At last....

 

Reality in a hypothetical discussion!

[Rich Rule]

 

So you guys got no problems installing a cobra system in white birch trees eh?

 

Jomoco

 

Over in Norway we brace a lot of trees. There are lots of Silver Birch in and around the Oslo area.

 

Yes we do brace a lot of Birch trees with Cobra Systems. The Birch trees in Norway tend to have a fair few unions so you can even install the collar in a Union usually at a 2/3 to a 1/3 ratio above the defect.

[jomoco]

Very cruel, and to think that German lad had a framed pic of you on his workshop bench to use as inspiration when he was designing that thing.

 

Anyway, back to cabling, would you attach lightning protection to a steel cable? If so? Why?

 

 

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No, I never have in my career.

 

But I believe outside any cabling sense, installing lightning protection system into high value large trees such as those designated as historical monuments and such. Apparently practiced more on the east coast here than the west coast.

I have cabled a few such monument status trees, most of them Moreton Bay Figs, ironically. The decision to cable them was made before I was born, so I bear no responsibility for such historic foolishness being sold successfully in the past.

 

MB figs have aerials that form lateral support pillars quite naturally thank you.

 

Last tree on earth I can think of that'd need cabling.

 

Pushing cabling on a client absent a genuine, rather than perceived fault in a trees structure?

 

Well it may indeed be lucrative, but it's anything but cricket IMO.

 

Jomoco

[Jake Andrews]

What rope diameter do you usually use rich? Only used the 4 tonne one.

Wish there was a really small version (9mm) for small branches or unions.

[jomoco]

Over in Norway we brace a lot of trees. There are lots of Silver Birch in and around the Oslo area.

 

Yes we do brace a lot of Birch trees with Cobra Systems. The Birch trees in Norway tend to have a fair few unions so you can even install the collar in a Union usually at a 2/3 to a 1/3 ratio above the defect.

 

Thanks for the feedback Rich, but were they White Birches, Betula pendula?

 

Jomoco

[Rich Rule]

Yes, but we call them Silver Birches.