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Pete Mctree

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  1. 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?
  2. Yup, totally crazy - i can't see what's criminal about head butting a conservative MP?
  3. 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
  4. I detect ecomentalism in the house
  5. 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
  6. When seasoned & dried it burns really well. Good firewood
  7. Why does the ascender need a C.E. mark Carl? I see no reason why it should
  8. 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)
  9. 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
  10. Link please
  11. What I want to know is why you were googling tree work & strap-on?
  12. Good description. It need not be as complicated as a skyline to be effitient and practical
  13. Too many variables & too complex to throw any numbers about without hours of maths. Common sense is the best tool in this case
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. Amsteel or something similar. If you can't get a vehicle near how are you going to winch?
  17. 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?
  18. taking bets that Bob & Dave Humphries get maximum points
  19. Funny. Results are quite scary! 12 for me
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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 ?
  24. I check my own kit - what's the problem.
  25. 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

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