High Scale
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Matty after some posts on the Treehouse and a chat with an old time feller today who started out in the 1970s I went about the tree all wrong, I should have followed my gut and cut higher and left the buttress's alone. The tree went over very fast once it had pinched the bar, we were trying to get it out when the buttress broke, I have probably not moved faster in my life but were far enough away when it hit the deck. As my experienced friend said "You will no better next time and the tree is down and nobody got hurt" We were lucky, it's lack of skill on my part and I will be far more careful next time.
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A little bigger.
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Didn't there used to be a top HSE guy on the Treehouse?
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Drum and Bass. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mLJ6hwsq624
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I don't know.
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Oh my gosh! Tune. Mr Oizo. [ame]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_c5TJk1ny2k[/ame]
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Of course not.
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I recommend cordite and a match, just like Johnny Rambo.
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Stunning job Barney, I have worked at that school, long time ago for AJE.
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Yes Pete. I should have left them, it's one of those trees that you will always look back on and think, I should have... Talking about it last night over some beers with a mate we decided just pulling the tree over with a fat winch would have been the thing to do, no cutting just rip it over.
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Yes Tim, two trees condemned last year, nothing was done until it's neighbor snapped like a carrot a while back, the tree I cut was very heavily weighted in the right direction. Paul, I was smiling because I lived.
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Today's fell, Beech tree, I knew there was going to be trouble when the saw started to pinch immediately I started the face cut, the saw continued getting pinched in the cut, the same started to happen with the back cut and I realized the tree was in a very bad way within, no resistance completely rotten. The tree let out some very loud bangs and we could see the holding buttress starting to crack and split, the 88 had barely cut one side when the tree sat on the tip and wouldn't let it go, the tree then let out an impressive crack and the buttress gave way, I have a short video of it the rear buttress literally explodes out of the ground. In hindsight I think I wouldn't have bothered with the face cut and used a faster saw to cut through the back.
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Always with.
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Old manager of mine once called up to have a go at me about a mug of coffee being thrown on to a customers driveway.
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Dammit! My pm is not telling me I had a reply, yes splicing the double braid has got me hooked, 16 strand next, I have started but have been waiting to get a wire coat hanger to make a fid as the one I made was crap, way to soft and bendy. It's been hard as hell to obtain a wire coat hanger.
Hopefully I will be going on one of Nods courses in Feb to learn more, have you ever considered doing a course to instruct? I only ask as you live close and make splicing look like a piece of piss.
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Surely, the pulley above is taking the majority of the load?
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I don't work Tuesdays, that and a fat guy in the southern hemisphere pays me to stay at home and not to interfere with trees.
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Them tunes is cool.
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Origin Unknown, Valley of The Shadows. D+B from way back. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gy6pmptegxc
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mmBeqZf_caQ
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I need that much for council work.
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I just had a quote for 10 million employers liability and 5 million public liability for £1,756.
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True that.
