Pete Mctree
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Everything posted by Pete Mctree
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And the LA does all it's normal work for nothing Is it not like a company with a huge single contract that pays for everything & supplements it's income with some works external to this?
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mp, suspended for fighting in commons club house
Pete Mctree replied to Johny Walker's topic in The Lounge
Yup, totally crazy - i can't see what's criminal about head butting a conservative MP? -
I hear a lot of bad feelings against LA teams. I just put it down to people being jealous? Those tendering for external works , are simply trying to keep there jobs by finding extra funding, in these times of draconian cuts in the public sector I have worked on both sides of the fence & the grass is not always green on either side
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I detect ecomentalism in the house
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What Graham said. Try & keep branch walking to a minimum so not to overload your t.i.p. laterally. Perhaps work off the ball of the crane if your R/A & crane operators see it as a viable option
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When seasoned & dried it burns really well. Good firewood
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Why does the ascender need a C.E. mark Carl? I see no reason why it should
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Washing your rope is usually a good first step. We have found that it helps in both reduction of slippage & increased rope life. (there are 7 lockjack/spyderjack users at work)
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I have seen footage years ago of a double big shot. That looked fun. If you want to gain extra height build a trigger mechanism & shift to a smaller bag & filament line
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Link please
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What I want to know is why you were googling tree work & strap-on?
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Good description. It need not be as complicated as a skyline to be effitient and practical
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Too many variables & too complex to throw any numbers about without hours of maths. Common sense is the best tool in this case
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With some ingenuity, lots of rope, a couple of winches & some muscle I can't see the task being impossible, especially if you can tension lines with vehicles etc
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Hama, polydine would not be suitable for this application as it's not static. The stretch would mean you would have to "over tension" the line to get comparable clearance with a static line. The extra stretch is what make it a good rigging line, dissipating some of the energy. In most speedline set-ups people try & get the line taught. This is seldom necessary & puts a massive amount of lateral force on the rigging points, possibly inducing faliure either when tensioning or when extra load is placed upon it whilst rigging
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Amsteel or something similar. If you can't get a vehicle near how are you going to winch?
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Nice work Reg. you look very much at home now over there facing the different challenges. Has modifying your cutting style helped & do you think they are an improvement aver all?
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taking bets that Bob & Dave Humphries get maximum points
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Funny. Results are quite scary! 12 for me
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To retrofit would you not need to replace the flywheel & install all the other electrical sundries - not simply the heating element? Sounds like a less than cheap & simple affair to me
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Same as any chuck n duck machine (no feed rollers & a drum machine). They are still used all over the world inc the US & Aus. Nice home engineering if you ask me
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If you have a 372 I would recomend disabling the heated carb - a great way to cook a saw if your not carefull. I would cut the wire
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If you don't care why comment? You obviously can quote chapter & verse helping someone who requested it. Or are we in the presence of someone who always knows better ?
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I check my own kit - what's the problem.
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The triangle looks like the perfect way to induce splitting of the stem. Why use it? The further the back cut progresses the more wood to cut & the greater the forces upon the wood fibres building up behind the hinge. On freegrained timber that IS going to cause massive issues
