Marc

I have one of these fancy new gen diesels all ali block, 200bhp 2.0 unbelievable engine I have never thrashed a diesel to the redline but this thing seems to love it, although the soft rubber wears out in 15k. 50mpg consistently driven hard (long way off the 75mpg!) My only concern with all this modern highly strung efficient diesels is longevity most of these cars will be dippsable rather than repairable. The only thing I have gone through faster than tyres though is egr valves...

There is your problem an Ifor triaxle should not be used for heavy plant our triaxle weighs 1050kg empty. The dual axle we have weighs 650 so both that and the 7015 trx weigh just under 3.5ton

I have a print of this in my study. And the second is from my research the tree as it stands now.

Jesus the Hurricane is a completely different animal that doesn't belong in the UK! has something like a 2m 360 degree sweep We run a Carlton 7015 and it is a beast that does a prodigious amount of work, but they need a lot of TLC and a good wheel the multi-tip is harsh we chew through pillow block bearings and shredded a belt a while back and these are expensive items. The hydraulic Bandits are something we are considering in the next few years.

I'd hold fire for a bit could be something in the pipeline from someone else that may be worth a consideration, or get a Bandit just make sure you get it from Dean and only Dean and never deal with anyone else but Dean. We have a large stump grinder that is used for 95% of stumps and the P28 for narrow access only.

Yep, we caught them on cctv stealing our saws from site, full reg plate of vehicle clear footage and their faces as they left site, they were even known to police for previous offences. They searched their premises found no saws so didn't bother to push for a prosecution. Makes me sick, but you just got to not let it get you down and move on. We recently had an item of plant stolen from site and the police have not even bothered to turn up.

Safely unless they catch the culprits red handed there is little chance of s prosecution, you call the police for a crime number only these days.

Difficult to find the exact specs but these are 2 I found Suspect this one is not ag spec Unimog U 2450 Hiab Kran 071AW - All terrain cranes, Price: £34,625, Year of manufacture: 1995 - Mascus UK Or this one, no crane but looks ag spec, we looked at this seems a very tidy mog for the money. Unimog 2450 typ 437/31 Euro2 Kipper, Zapfwelle - Tipper trucks, Price: £29,029, Year of manufacture: 2000 - Mascus UK We have bought 2 units from Schelling, language can be a problem at time the whole process was painless enough though.

Try Saturn Machine knives speak to Nick or Martin Chignall at StumpBusters both supply Rhino Wheels and Rhino teeth, we had a wheel sent to us on a 30 day no obligation trial (well we had to pay for the teeth!) The Rhino wheel is a small improvement on a P28 noticeably better but not a huge improvement with only 4 pockets the teeth last a long time. On our Carlton 7015 with multi-tip wheel using Rhino teeth the difference was huge! almost twice as fast as multi-tips and went a full 2 days grinding before a change where as multi-tips we change the leaders every half a day of grinding. Much smoother to so hopefully less pillow block bearing going which are a yearly replacement for us which are pricey items to replace. We will be demoing the Rhino wheel very soon in the Carlton which has 8 pockets.

Try a different wheel you may be surprised, those Multi-tips whilst they have there merits are not great.

Laziness Pete pure Laziness, my soft rope lanyard is permenantly on my harness threaded through mini prussiks to keep its 5m length out of the way, only coming off when need to replace it. Every time I use a flip line I think to myself wow this is great why don't I use it all the time, but I don't and other than the odd occasion it doesn't slow me down but agree a flip line is better.

I hardly ever use a wire core and when I do it's with a prussik and on large diameter timber with rough bark and potential snags that make moving a soft lanyard up the stem.

I know right! The problem is we get so focused are our way our industry standard, then you see something which goes against the grain of our way of thinking and it doesn't look right, but you can't deny it that climber looked comfortable and his strategy effective.

Like you said it comes down to safe use of chainsaw not the protection. When I looked into it the HSE did a study link below, when you read the case studies the guy who cut the back of his leg the HSE deemed this could be preventable had he worn Type C protection, yet in the same article the arborist who cut his arm this was deemed preventable using good positioning - which tonne is a contradiction as both were preventable by employing good positioning and work practice. They also claim that the leading cause of injury and death is working with chainsaws even though the other link shows an alarming amount of fatalities from falling objects which in my opinion show the greatest danger we face are not saws, and the most dangerous place to be is on the ground. In all my years I have never seen a serious injury from a chainsaw although I have been involved in an accident (just not seriously injured). Yet the closest calls have always been a potential struck by falling object. Case studies http://www.goodtreesurgeon.co.uk/users/UserFiles/File/Legislation/ArbSafety-indg278.pdf

I guess it was to reduce effort, timber that diameter is not going anywhere and they obviously had some serious winch power.

He seemed fairly competent to me so doubt it was a concern for him.

When is the new stock in must be next couple of weeks? Make sure you get one to me Dean please.

And not a rope wrench in sight! Really good find that.

Depends on application, I see no use for it personally. I did have a length of similar rope and found it would bunch up in areas and expose the core at first I thought thought it was defective until I realised it was wear the out meet the cordon the cross over from core to outer and found it didn't like friction hitches as this would pull the outer displacing against the inner, where as most rope would milk to compensate for this unicore construction wouldn't cause these weird bumps and exposed inner core. Hope that makes sense, worked well with the Petzl Rig etc.

The difference here I believe is that the beal becomes dynamic (edit actually that's Beal Dynastat) not that I have ever heard of an issue but toothed cams will potentially blow at 6kn so I would of thought sheath slippage would be more favourable. From those I know who used it it is nearly run of the mill access line much like the tuefelberger platinum. Having used toothed cams for ascent only on fully static rope on a daily basis for nearly 8 years without issue, I now feel it is a bad idea and that we should aim to use arb specific ropes and non toothed cam ascent/descent device - Rope Wrench, bulldog, zigzag, uni whatever you like as long as it works in both ascent and decent keeping toothed ascendors below this as ascent aids using your legs and not primary load bearing. Just my thoughts.

The sad thing is it will work, most members of the public are honest and will pay the additional cost, the few that don't well the money saved by the local authority will offset the cost of fly tipping.

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Coming from a horticultural background and now working for a company that does a huge amount of tree planting each year mostly semi mature and hedge installation we do not use or advocate fabrics MDVaden puts the arguement well, we use mulch to help suppress weeds and retain moisture.

Zigzag is a great bit of kit, I would highly recommend one a lot of the guys here have the mk3 with no issues, i had a Zigzag but went back to a hitch because I like rope on rope. As for a swivel save your money they are not worth it unless it's for certain applications, in fact I wish the my zigzag didn't have a swivel.

Weather you choose to do LOLER or not is your own risk management and up to your discretion, sadly we are behind as I am the LOLER inspector for our arb equipment, but I will not LOLER our crane lifting gear as I am not familiar with it, instead we retire it after a year and buy new for every contract.