Pete Mctree
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Everything posted by Pete Mctree
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Dan le sac is hilarious- never heard it before
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3 strand polyprop? Cheap & durable
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You ready to have another get together then Dean?
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i'd go for the coffee drinking- as long as it did not interfere with the wine drinking!
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Nice one Nick
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Kirklees council have one. Unfortunatley those working from it are not arborists and the devastation and destruction has to be seen to be believed. It has caused much anger, and the council department involved were even rude enough to not return my calls, as promised after i complained. Which i did on 3 ocasions
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looks a great piece of kit. My only thought is that a 3 tonne might be too small to handle it
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Is it worth keeping the landy and getting a small van like a kangoo (for example) for the distance work/pricing that does not require transport of log/chip
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Getting a vdeck 404 error, anyone else having trouble?
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I hear she can be a dangerous distraction
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Why should you doubt him?
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here's a current favorite- cat empire [ame] [/ame]
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I will disagree, as that's not there role in it's entirety. The effective tuition of the basics is something we all desire, in college and in the work pace. Without such individuals we would all be climbing on a taughtline with 3 strand, and slinging a bow saw over our shoulders. There is no requirement to accept new and modified working practices and tool, but without inovation you are usualy left with stagnation.
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that is a common industrial rope access system
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It is quite easy to glaze, and transfers the heat to both the rope and hands. My concern, as i said is the lack of core. It does perform well, but i think there are better products more suited to the task and it's demands.
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I had similar issues as Peter when I tried it, slid up quite drastically. I also found the range of movement laterally not briliant, due to a relativley short bridge. The gear loops worried me a little, i could see a climber easily getting hung up on stubs etc when descending through the crown as they do pertrude quite a distance from the back pad. I was not impressed overall, and think there are better harnesses out there for less money
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They are costly no doubt, but any more comprehensive training scheme would be even more prohibitive would it not? If the curent tickets are not suplimented by futher training by employers the constant complaints will continue. I look at NPTC tickets as a start point, not a finishing line.
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Bugger! Easily done and hard to avoid
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Well planned work is always great to watch. Some nice editing too Angus- good rythmn and you get a feel for the place also
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Dinamite and a replanting scheme including the late mrs miggins who died when it failed and she got burried next to the stem alonside her cats:scared1: (for a short time:001_tongue:)
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staged reduction- try and stimulate the growth of an internal canopy allowing further reduction. Thus reducing the overall size more drastically than trad reduction. Then turn everything within the potential faliure zone into a natural wildflower meadow
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The ticket is one of competance not excellance. It is easy to critisise, but any other more comprehensive system would incur greater costs, with an undoubted outcry from those forced to pay for it. One citisism is that of updates- there is an obvious need to keep best practice current- well how about publications of updated methods through the arb magazines, or through e-mails etc. It is too easy to get isolated in this industry and still be expected to meet current and uptodate legislation and modes of work. A perfect example is the thread about backing-up ascenders, was the individual hurt aware that it was a potential hazard?
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The link was put on the srt thread by Bundle2, but I thought it was worth a thread in it's own right. Very sobering http://www.isa-arboriculture.org/content/cm000181.htm
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Don't know about the sorting the men form the boys bit:thumbdown: but this is a lesson to us all
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I have had it since childhood, but thankfully it is not continuous. I just hate it when i crash and burn every few weeks- will be unconsious for about 18 hours then start the cycle again
