Peter
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Yes, well it was getting a bit quiet in here without you!
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I'll demo the event and hold the stopwatch. Unless we have some kind of handicapped event.
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I'm dreaming of... A big machine that will...
Peter replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Large equipment
Yup, never stand behind a mulcher. Or in front of one..... If a log goes under the machine, it can toboggan a long way at a good speed, as a manager for a well known large arb firm found out when one such log broke his ankle, allegedly! -
Hmm, same here. Machines such as yours or the yellow beast make using the really bad ones worse than ever!
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I have it on good authority that your groundie was rather impressed with another contractor's yellow machine......
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Hurrah, years of drudgery in the family business finally pay off!
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I did the IPAF, it counted as one the most boring days of my life. The hardest thing about the course was staying awake. I think the IPAF is probably the most widely recognised ticket. I dont know how the NPTC one works but with IPAF you have to do a seperate ticket for each type of machine, ie truck mount, self propelled, scissor lift ect. If you use more than one type it could get expensive. Also with ipaf you get a log book to record all your operating time, and when your ticket expires if the log book is full then you can do a shorter refresher course rather than repeat the whole thing.
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Wild stab in the dark..... Cornus mas?
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Yup, I guessed same as you, 65 feet. Only a guess though, very hard to tell from a pic.
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Sweet. You get all the good stuff!
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Cryptic-omeria then Kev?
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I think we have had a good range of guesses, tell us now!
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65 feet.
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Obviously anyone who has put an answer up considers themselves to be inexperienced.
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Some knots would be nice. Bowline, plus running and on a bight buntline double fishermans, plus sliding DF, ( ie to make a loop) marlin spike hitch alpine butterfly half hitch clove hitch cow hitch timber hitch friction hitches prussic distel vt, xt french prussic helical kleimheist plus a few others...
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No. Conifer yes, deciduous no.
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Possibly not for much longer though......
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Come very close to doing a rescue, but the climber managed to get himself down. The quickest way to get to the ground is to get yourself there imo. I dont really practise rescue as such, although the comps help to stay sharp. As a subbie climber you dont always know the groundies and what their rescue skills may be, so I always work on the basis that a quick rescue is unlikely to be forthcoming.
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So you need a tipper then really. Best value for money then will probably be an LDV.
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cabstar is plated at 3400kg gross vehicle weight. what are you going to use the truck for? ie chip, brash, just kit or what?
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I use a friction hitch with a pulley. I'm not quite sure what you are getting at.
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By pulley do you mean lockjack?
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Your not going to get a decent tipper for that. I would go for an older cabstar pickup, and save up some money for a tipper conversion at a later date. You can buy a kit to do this for around £600.
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On the smaller diameter stuff I use my ropeguide with a climbing line set up as normal. On the bigger stuff, climbing line choked around stem with figure eight set up above friction hitch. Either way enough rope available to get down in a single pitch. There was a good explaination of this in another thread recently.
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Whats your budget?
