Todays D.E.D

[jojam]

Most importantly the job was completed and nodody was hurt.You think you've done quite well when you come down,that's when you go to fell it with the 3ft bar,first cut an you realise you could take er down with the top hander because she's so BOSS!

[Highland Forestry]

Matt you have just graduated mate, you have learnt today that real tree work is crapping yourself all day, too nervous to eat and stinging eyes from sweat. Your top anchor looked crap(the tree shape not your climbing), the tree was just a rubbish shape and that can make the world of diference, it looked like you were always working with the rope over your shoulder almost, next time turn round and face your anchor for the outside limbs then on the bigger limbs stand square on choker your strop and sit back, you really need to trust your spikes and keep your weight on the harness at all times, even on something with a crappy crown, stick another line in, more awkward at first with all the krabs and prussiks or vt's, but for very safe confident work positioning it is excellent. dead elm is as horrible as you get..well done again:thumbup:

 

Did 14 of them last week.... much smaller than todays though and some of them were straight fell.

The top anchor was rubbish, you're right but it was about all I had to work with... I was using two lines most of the day although you dont see it in the pictures much, but on the pics I'm using my flip line to choker in to the limb i'm blocking down.... I think I have trust issues with my spikes, never feel that safe on them and always paranoid about slipping out so tend to rely on the ropes first and the spikes just to keep me up.

 

I feel like I was working on the edge of my comfort zone and well and truly out of it today and so thinking about it now I really did learn alot and have learnt alot about the characteristics of dead elm in the last week

[jojam]

As long as your learning.There'd be something wrong if you went up that and didn't have a healthy fear of it.Always use a really tight gob so they pop off without tearing as they do,ded ones aren't nearly as bad as green

[Stephen Blair]

folk that arent scared have loads of scars. be scared matt, thats what keeps you safe. good on you for getting stuck in. I can actually smell your ropes mate, green horrible slippy stuff, was the manky water running down your sleeve when prussiking down?

[Highland Forestry]

folk that arent scared have loads of scars. be scared matt, thats what keeps you safe. good on you for getting stuck in. I can actually smell your ropes mate, green horrible slippy stuff, was the manky water running down your sleeve when prussiking down?

 

yeah..... lovley ey!

That coupled with manky wet stinky sawdust (covered in it) and the slime..

[Highland Forestry]

Most importantly the job was completed and nodody was hurt.You think you've done quite well when you come down,that's when you go to fell it with the 3ft bar,first cut an you realise you could take er down with the top hander because she's so BOSS!

 

How true is that..!!

[jojam]

I can't smell them yet stevie but i bet i can tomorrow after fermenting all nite in the van,NICE.Shouldn't mock that might be me tomorrow!

[Highland Forestry]

I can't smell them yet stevie but i bet i can tomorrow after fermenting all nite in the van,NICE.Shouldn't mock that might be me tomorrow!

 

All ropes just out of the washing machine and drying off as we speak

 

... along with my saw trousers now in the tumble dryer.

[jojam]

Good good.That was me a week ago too but they were caked in sap from the 4 grandes i just dismantled.I commandeered the dustbin and filled it with hot water and non bio an left the flip line in it for 3 hrs!SWEET(smelling)

[Highland Forestry]

Did it get the sap out???

 

I used terps once to do mine but it stank for weeks.