Marc

But is there less force at B? I personally would prefer the load spread out along the entire length of rope, but plenty of climbers snatching out big lumps on rings and loving them so whatever tool you prefer I suppose.

Just buy them on CE stuff and tell them it is CE approved, i never told you to do this though...

Does it allow you to climb on a single line? Could you move around and work without it? Not that I care just playing devils advocate.

Nice big ring you have Jesse, never broke a rope yet either well apart from when Uncle Q told me it would fit and it didn't he is the worst groundsman i have ever met mind. To be fair I have never snatched anything big on rings to make a fair judgement all I know is I bought rings for the guys and hardly see them used as everyone still seems to use a block. and like Scotspine maybe I and we are to stuck in ways good old Dinosaur Rope Technique and blocks it is then, nice run on that video Scotspine.

I found slings much slow than chains which are quick to attach and then adjust. I guess being steel they have a better cycle to fail rate, all our crane slings (used only in tree planting and with our hiab for lighter crane removals, are retired after a year sometimes they may only do a few lifts, they are cheap failures are not!

We have rings, plenty of rings including a cambium saver type like the one you've pictured, and I whilst it is handy for remote installs hence its purchase it gets used very rarely. The step backwards comments are based upon the fact that it was not all that long ago that trees where rigged using large shackles or big steel thimbles, moving to rigging pulleys was seen as progress. Don't get me wrong I like rings we have a full range of them, although we still mostly use pulleys as I stand by my comments that they are just as easy to use.

At least the pole saw had a safety towel on when he took it out the car....

Or Practicality Brown, or maybe even us. What are you after we have a self drive 1.1m one but it's fairly well booked at the minute.

They have their uses, we have them and use them but they are no quicker or easier to instal. For redirects I think they are great but they feel like they impart to much friction. When it comes to snatching I prefer a pulley the larger diameter i.e. greater bend radius I find more reassuring. Really keen to try the safety block but having seen those go wrong blowing climbers off spikes doesn't fill me with confidence, also your loading such a small length of line initially albeit doubled where as a large radius pulley you would hope would allow a greater amount of the force to be spread along the entire length of the line. I realise you can double the rings increasing the bend radius, and account for the friction, although on a lot of really skinny stuff snatching I find sometimes even one wrap on the bollard is to much, and anything requiring 2 or 3 is pretty darn big and again imparting load on small section of line. Again like others have said it seems a step backwards might as well crack out the hairy nelson and thimble from the deepest darkest corner of the yard at least that polyprop took dynamic loading well.. Still hard to ignore all those singing the praises of the rings. Maybe Mullets will come back?

Nothing like putting the fear of God into people to make them think I suppose, but some of the biggest trees I've climbed barring a few Wellies, Oaks and Planes are Poplar and Willow so for such fragile trees they sure grow big.. I personally don't like rigging them because they are flexible wobbly things but that is why they get big they absorb energy so well. So yeah probably exaggerating things a little.

Yeah probably going to need to ratchet my confidence if I had to climb that one and avoid rigging if possible. Your day rate for 7.5tonner (so operators license, Tacho and cpc i assume?) plus Hilux and kit is a bit low.... don't undersell yourself but appreciate it can be hard in the beginning. It's very easy for me to comment as I am not in your position but don't like to see people undersell themselves.

I wouldn't hand about figures without seeing the tree, looks almost 4 foot at base maybe 2-3 transit loads, I'd never usually hand out a price online but I'd hazard a guess around 900-1500.

None of us can really comment on the OP's tree as we have not seen it, his original comment of would you climb, I think most of us have said maybe we would. Having dealt with a number of split trees a MEWP is not my first port of call, it is usually FellAtGround-Crane-MEWP-Climb, if the tree is liable to collapse how is siting a platform beside it the safest option? Unless you can find a machine with suffcient outreach to be outside the drop zone (unlikely) or place it where you can to some degree of certainty be sure it will not be struck.

Wickmulla almost convinced me. I don't think there is such a thing as the perfect Unimog though just one that is right for your needs and work load.

Ratchet strapped a fair few over the years- climbed some, MEWP'd some craned some take each job as it comes and do it however you feel comfortable with. For what's it's worth the Oak in the picture we had a MEWP on but it didn't work as i couldn't site it out of the danger zone so went overkill on the ratchets and climbed it.

We've had several Unimogs from Vos just like buying second hand cars you have to be careful. One of our longest lasting most reliable Mogs was bought from Vos and gave 10 years of daily reliable use we were sad to see it go but could t afford the downtime tidying it up. Bought an absolutely mint Unimog direct from Germany, it drove like New and was in impeccable condition, engine blew up within 3 weeks ended up replacing entire block, we have had other engine failures where a rebuild is possible. Like everything **** can happen. There are other dealers out there that seem to be more selective with the Unimogs they supply. And as Skyhuch said about the Unimog you linked its to niche so will take a while to sell.

It costs what it costs is my opinion and would have nothing to do with saving the client money, i have climbed trees like that particularly as like Skyhuck said it survived the storm, in fact today's job was one such job half the tree blew out but the other half stayed up. Plenty of space for a MEWP money was on the job but it was not going to make it safer easier or quicker so we climbed it. At the same time we have also specced a MEWP because it was safer, easier and more efficient.

The company I work for has been AAAC for many many years, and up until recently most of our work was domestic with a 75-25 split it has currently risen. We also have used another local contractor who specialise in Tree clearance and only do commercial work and they are not AAAC but hold many other accreditations. To be honest you do not need it to go into commercial work but it will help you get your systems in place, and they offer support if you need it which is the most important thing to bear in mind.

Wish our costs were that low, our maintenance costs are more than that alone.

Not quite no but you did say the rope hitch combo is important. It was a quick reply because I couldn't be bothered to elaborate more, but most arb specific rope from the major players is a much for muchness, not a huge fan of Yale Imori personally but most of the other Yale 11.5/7 is very alike. And personally I could climb on anything... that is designed for arb work.

Hi all, I am after an operator/excavator combo with flail in the 9ton no more class just outside of Bath in September, anyone here with one or know of operators in the area?

Like Steve says rope is pretty much rope, unless it's the ansi type which has little less bounce. I had Yale Limelight for years and had no issue with it, similar to Blue tongue. As for ford I like 9mm BeeLine personally, or cheap stuff, I climb on a ropewrnech now so the cord lasts forever, I also don't climb much these days....

We have telehandler tickets, it's more of an upscale but covers all the pertinent points.

We have everything except a Stein 3001, having used one a few times and it's not often I say this but I'd reccomend the Stein. The Winch type bollards whilst very good are not a deal breaker and more of a luxury.

Wow thats going to be an epic tree and an interesting job be sure to get photos/videos. I hate those skinny taper tall ones always give me disco legs, prefer our fat squat trees.