Peter
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Got it on DVD, been waiting about 6 months for a 2 hour window without wife or baby around to watch it......
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My bank will only lend 10% of turnover to small businesses. However I can get a unsecured personal loan for many times that amount no questions asked.
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Not a great deal, no. Most small contractors seem reluctant to spend on moving timber. The attitude tends to be, it all has to ringed up for firewood anyway, so it might as well be done on site. There are exceptions, but to keep a truck busy with timber all the time you would need to cover a big area, or get a proper 8 wheeler timber truck and do proper round timber haulage as well. I like having the smaller truck though, so I can get on driveways etc. I won't be getting rid of mine any time soon, put it that way. Can't imagine having to go back to handballing timber.
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If you want it to work all the time you will need to look at other markets than just tree work, moving machinery or containers etc. Obviously for haulage work you will need a full O licence.
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That is the official position of all LAs now anyway. FWIW, according to a court ruling, if a tree is deemed dangerous it must be dangerous now, so putting an application in and waiting 6 weeks for a decision is not acceptable. If it's dangerous, get the 5 day notification in and then fell it. Document what you have done and why, as long as it is dangerous there can be no comeback from the LA. Especially if they don't have a tree officer.............
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Yeah, its in the picture, top left.
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Plastic shower curtain ring? Wasnt there a thread on on of the american forums about this?
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Looks good. Slightly nose heavy maybe?
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Was that with the winch or the bollard? I don't find the winch as smooth to lower on as the bollard or the Hobbs, but that might just be me. The winch probably is bombproof, but it feels a bit wrong to put big shockloads on a expensive Harken winch!
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Yes and yes.
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Yes, it was a little superfluous I felt, as was the redi, but hey ho.
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I'm not really sure what purpose it served, but it was compulsory to use it so I clipped it on. It was a fun climb.
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There was a sort of SRT line with a prussic on it set for that station.
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The clippy in thing is a re-direct, pre-set for all the climbers. Presume thats what you mean? The limbs walk is a length of polished western red cedar, slippery bugger, and you get the oscillations through it as well, you can trigger the buzzer by blinking while your on it.
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True, and there is no r in pedantic!
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Cool, I think you will be very happy together!
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I have used both, and for blocking down wood I would choose the Hobbs every time.
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Much easier to do with the Hobbs than with the GRCS.
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Me neither, but it is more about not destroying the cycles to failure by exceeding the SWL. I did strip all the bark off a lump of beech, 4 feet long by 3 feet diameter, snatched off onto a 19mm line. The skinned lump just pinged straight out of the rope and put a big dent in the lawn. The other point to remember is that the lower down the stem you get, the heavier the lumps and the less room the groundie has to let it run......
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I dont want to be doing any heavy rigging on the Harken winch, don't know about anyone else. If I was doing any snatching on the GRCS it would be with the bollard, which you cant pretension with the winch, cos the bollard is where the winch should be!
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If you have a higher anchor point to crane off from, yes. I'm talking about blocking down stems, which is much the same with Hobbs, GRCS, Portawrap or whatever. The only difference between the devices is that with the Hobbs and the Stein Dual its easy to pretension the lowering line.
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Yes, but how often do you snatch a 33kg log? How often do you snatch a 150kg log? Multiply the loading up on that and you are looking at 1095 kg peak force.....
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Yes, unfortunately the emergency load cell we had didnt permit the inclusion of a rigging block, so we were rigging off a shackle, which didnt really allow for a smooth lower. The demo was about worst case scenarios, can you be sure that the groundie will let it run perfectly every time, or will it get stubbed off 1 in a 100 times? Worth considering imo. Would be more than happy to do your scenario, maybe at another event this summer if you are up for it?
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A 33kg log, dropped approx 500mm, generated a peak load of 245kg on the rigging anchor point. If I have any really big snatching to do, it will be with Reg's two pulley system, otherwise I shall make more use of vertical speedline or other non shock loading techniques.
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Comparing apples with pears there John. G50 spec chip, delivered to a power station, is currently around £70 a tonne I believe. Wet stringy tree surgeon's chip, full of leaf and rakings, collected from site or yard, is worth a fraction of that. If its composted or semi-composted, virtually worthless. Clean wood chip with no leaf, rakings, or logs in, is worth a bit more, but you still have to deduct the haulage from the collected price.
