Peter
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Cheers guys. I always think thinning beech is a little pointless in the long run, but it keeps my pockets lined and the client happy!
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Oh well, call this a dummy run/ taster session!
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Duke Dumont, Mystery Jets - Two Doors Down [ame=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FT3lu_3eG-s]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FT3lu_3eG-s[/ame]
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Crab Apple
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Some sort of ash
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what it says on the tin. Sugar maple
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Copper beech thin
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You could if you derated it....
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See, that was much better than insulting customers or beating up chavs. Although both of those things are satisfying in their own way!
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Yes. Although if you want to come on here and blow off some steam, thats cool.
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Looks like a good days poplar killing. Was there no way of getting any more ropes in the tree?
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I guess you would need to take your laptop to the toilet, or get a urinal installed next to your computer desk?
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Neat!
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Never heard of it! Can any of your tutors footlock? Theres nothing like having some hands on tuition.
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Ian, get Ed to show you his footlocking technique!
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If you milk one of those successfully, the resulting product could be quite valuable. Just dont put it in your tea!
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Do you mean footlocking the tail of your climbing rope as opposed to a fixed single line? Find a video on t'internet and watch carefully, then try to repeat exactly. It does take lots of practice though. Which college are you at?
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Run all the slack in the cover to the end without the spliced eye, cut off the excess cover, and heat seal the cut end. You can milk the cover off by hand, just imagine you are milking a cow and you'll get the idea, or you can use a friction hitch to pull the excess down the rope.
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My personal opinion is that you would probably get away with not using a tacho in a 3.5 tonner, whatever you tow with it, but if the vehicle has a tacho fitted, you may as well use it. When i worked for a LA, we didnt use tachos but had to fill in a drivers hours book for every day we drove. Go figure.
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The definitive answer is that you need a tachograph for any vehicle or combination of towing vehicle and trailer that exceeds 3500kg maximum authorised mass. So if you tow with a 3.5 tonner, or run a 5 tonne truck, you should be using a tachograph. The cloudy bit is the exemptions. Many tree surgeons believe they are exempt from using tachographs under various exemptions, and some of them may well be right. That is all I am prepared to say about exemptions, the information is out there if you want to find it.
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Its not 140%, but 140 degrees proof, which is about 80% alcohol by volume.
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I'm quite happy to avoid transits, they are possibly the most useless tree work vehicle known to mankind.
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True, there must be a market for lime green boots. As you may have noticed from my avatar, mine are not black.
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What, no puce? I'm disgusted! Seriously though, the world of ropes needs more colour variation, we have plenty of orange rope as it is.
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Thats partly because the disco 3 has two chassises.
