Pete Mctree
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Someone send me some and i will be more than happy too
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pic please steve if you can
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is it available in the uk yet?
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Anyone got any experience of this rope? It looks promising IMO http://www.neropes.com/Datasheets/tachyon.pdf.
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cool, then all we need is an extra half an hour on our working day to start it. Does it get supplied with a paper bag for your head so you don't have to be seen with an orange piece of crap in our hands?
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This is why I climb with a long lanyard (AND a wirecore if dismantling). Enough flexibility in positioning not to rely on compromising my system to ensure my rope is not struck
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I will run with that one. Now if you tell me what completely retarded ones understand I might be able to communicate with you from my lofty arb perch:wave: Nicely managed pollards by the way John
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Welcome John. In this fine spring weather i'd make the best of the desk time
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It was fun indeed. How can you expect to see him taking pics when you were blind drunk As you can see Andy and i were the only 2 sober people there:wave:
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I seldom use both ends of the rope due to the loop created. Accidents happen and when you get a branch of decent size hitting it it does hurt!!!! I see it as a useful method of work positioning, often underused, but the limitations and dangers need to be known
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I'd go for a permenant hard seat then, be it the dragonfly or other.
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those have been posted before Anna. It's the others i seem to remember he said he would not post:wave:
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daisy-chain the excess rope, it's easy to deploy when required and nice and tidy
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I know several people who swear by this system, but they use it in addition to a body strop. excluding any piece of kit or method from climbing is folly imo
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I still wish i never cut mine off and that was 13 years ago. At least he did it for charity as opposed to death threats from the then mrs
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you always use the hard seat?
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Alot of the americans use a cord called amsteel for this purpose. I think dyneema would pick and catch too much
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I just tear a strip off, but then again my nose aint as big as yours
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The ones without the aplicator seem less painfull to use imo
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Great for broken or bust noses though.
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The Blue Book - TPO Guide to Good Practice
Pete Mctree replied to Amelanchier's topic in General chat
It's worth reading and understanding, time well spent -
If you are employed as an expert witness what's the problem?
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There is the argument that if the tree is dangerous, no application is required as it is exempt from any protection. However with the requirement to prove this beyond resonable doubt, maybe we should not submit an application but a notification if intention to fell, and stipulate what grounds we our basing our decision on. The TO or LPA could then disagree with us (i.e. tell us not to with the threat of enforcement), hence all parties have fulfilled there obligations. With the ever changing legislation the minefield is getting harder for all sides to pick there way through. I guess there is no substitution for clear communication between all parties
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I had better expand this a little. Under the H&S at work act (section 3 i think) they would be required to do a risk assesment upon the tree, as they dispute the fact that it does pose a threat to the public etc and decide whether the risk (if any) posed requires managing and how. I oversimplified a complex piece of legislation, but I do stand by the fact that it is down to the TO to accept responsibility for the tree at that point IMO
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If an application for a tree to be felled was denighed by the tree officer, despite a written report by a qualified arborist, they surely would be liable as an individual under H&S legislation
