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Marc

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  1. The Romanian fella I believe has always worked at that company, regardless I am surprised at the shock pretty much standard procedure on those kind of jobs, and I bet most of he larger more respectable aaac outfits also pull stuff like this. Maybe they did have the right amount of appropriate signage, maybe the spec was to dismantle by climbing and this crew choose to ignore it. This is more a matter of internal discipline, although often if targets are meet no one really cares how until something goes wrong!
  2. Yeah I'd always advise against doing that and against gripping tightly, like Ben says a lose grip is sufficient let the device do the work not you. If you go walking in and trip over it could become dangerous. I once did a big Dougie being the rope man, was all going well but one piece I missed judge and lost a wrap on the bollard, I just let it smash down, no point being dragged into the tree and doing myself an injury. The mark of a good climber he just asked if I was alright before asking if anything got damaged.
  3. I'm always scared, I hate climbing and have a fear of heights it's just my pig headed ness and the fact someone once told me I'll never make it as a climber. I may never be a truly great climber I get things done in a reasonably effcient way. This was an intresting job, the 2 remaining stems were split to the base held only by a Cobra brace, stuck a few ratchets up and climbed the rest.
  4. A tip? What is this tip you speak off? I got a cup of Tea once almost broke down in tears with this simple act of human kindness, thought the sugar was very fine! F@&£ salt!!
  5. Looks like it's been typically trimmed to death, as in lions tailed this certainly wouldn't of helped issues and will not help future management as a lot of the internal growth has been removed. Apologise if I am mistaken,
  6. Speed line to the chipper.
  7. Marc

    Sewn eyes?

    Contact Honey Brothers or Nod at Treeworker, both can stitch eyes for you I believe
  8. See I said people forget how bad they were! Out of intrest did you ever get and original A type carb without the additional gubbins that seemed to be the root of all problems?
  9. Is that for both feet bungee on one plain pantin on other? For ascent I use an srt system that utilises both legs, once in the tree I footlock short ascents as I find using a pantin only not as comfortable.
  10. Where did you hear that? We have one and it's great would deffinetly get one over a 660 and day.
  11. That is the unknown, only time will tell how robust the auto tune system is. People seem to forget how unreliable the 200t carbs could be, once ours played up rather than reach for the tuning screw driver we'd bin the piece of crap carb with the damn accelerator pump and source an original carb fitted to the first 200t's these were far more reliable.
  12. You will not need to send these new saws away to be repaired, I just had to gut a T 540 and found it an easy saw to work on and strip down. So they are just as serviceable as any other saw. Apart from tuning and the piezo electric adjusters, so let's wait and see how reliable they are.
  13. ^ This, with my old dragonfly I had 3 rings 2 small with the large in the middle, both small rings would not go over the shackles and allowed me to have a second attachment either side and you will not alter the harness from original spec. Alternatively attach onto the swivel ring that slides on the bridge leaving the swivel part free for secondary attachments, particularly good with DMM a axis.
  14. Any particular reason why? The shackles are great. I think Kent James is right the harnesses CE will no longer stand as you have modified it beyond original spec. As a personal note as long as the mod is suitable I can not see a problem with the harness still being fit for use....
  15. Thanks for the response Justin, the only problem is consumer confidence, having a 661 and knowing they have stopped selling them makes me feel that maybe my saw is going to have problems.... Again have to say we are happy with the 661 other than the stalling issue the other day, and the 461's which we have used heavily the last 9 months without issue good solid Stihl.
  16. Let's not forget the mighty 361! That saw was great, but don't worry they sorted it out with the 362...... Really happy with our 661, although it has begun playing up by stalling whilst idling and is an arse to restart, which is not what you want on spikes chivvying down! And if course it's mtronic....
  17. Anyone know the reason for the recall? Or any official statement? Ours has begun to stall during use, and is a pig to restart especially when your on spikes!
  18. Depends on the loler inspector, I wouldn't fail it for having no markings, I would find it helpfull if you retained it and presented it to me explaining the reason you removed it. A loler inspector could choose to fail it on the fact it has no unique marking or tracability.
  19. Your obsessed! really enjoyed that nice length no fuss smooth job.
  20. Make sure you get up some pics, although I'll probably try and hit up Adam for one of his in the new year. Just don't let anyone know I'm getting a fag wrench or my credibility what little I have will go out the window. As for rated tethers, it's an old subject, but still important, it is taking a load otherwise how else would it work, it's just technically not a life supporting load. Although without it descent would be hard if not impossible there by they partner each other forming a complete system. I'd be intrested to see it in the comps, in the prelims I doubt there would be much in it. For the masters it could be very infesting to see the different problem solving.
  21. Marc

    Throw Bags

    25m at a push 15m-20m accuratly, working on a tree over 20m is pretty rare in the UK so hand throw is all I need.
  22. All the time the ground crew love it when I half hitch the bejesus out of light limbs.
  23. I don't know, maybe it's because the 441 was Stihl's first stab at that style of saw, it is much like a Husky in feel, we tend to be very rough with saws so maybe it's not an issue with the 441 itself but us the end users. The 460's tended to absorb the abuse we gave it. If I was to by my own personal saw it would be a Husky 372 if I buy it for the company it would be a Stihl 460/1 they just seem to accept indifferent multi user abuse.
  24. I do not know because some rave about the 441 but we found it was a very poor saw, sure partnered with a 16" bar it was a flyer, it just spent more time getting maintained with bits breaking off it constantly, broken av's and various plastics. So it ended up on the parts shelf, yet the 460's that are older and been in service 4 times longer were the go to saws of choice. We now have 461's as other than the golden screw capped 10 years old 460 which still runs like a champ the other 460's were stolen. And have to say the 461 really feels like a proper Stihl saw should. Also have a 661 and again solid build unlike the 441's and so far impressed, let's see how they fair after a couple of years.
  25. That's right Dean Petzl have really tried very hard to emulate a Hitch because a hitch and it's action is very intuitive to us. And to be fair the Zig Zag was perfect in its response and control. And of course the video is going to show lots of well practiced leaping, look at Joe Harris everyone saw Spiderjackry and thought wow if I buy a Spiderjack I'll be just like Joe. I climbed on a Prussik but I don't have the ability of Grahame from Sherbroke, it's not the device that's important it's you.

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