John Shutler
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an old pic of a monteray pine stem i felled, you can see where it snapped in half on impact and 2 pics of a twisted fir a found walking yesterday. any ideas on what caused it, my guess it was caused by honeysuckle early on in life as there seems to be an abundance of it in these woods
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Someone has made the point about boring a heavily leaning stem and cutting the holding strap to take a top out as a safe method when climbing, this isn't the case. If you make a bore cut on a heavily leaning stem there is a chance the back of the tree will split downwards before you have a chance to cut the holding strap. When the stem splits downwards the top will go over and split part of the top will flip you and your flipline/climbing line off with the stem as well sending you hurtling toward the ground as your life flashes before your eyes. Be very careful when using the boring cut on a leaning stem when climbing - it can go hellishly wrong. i have never come accross a situation where i have had to use this method, as i said i guess this method could be used but thanks for the heads up
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obviously there are the horror stories, but as everything in this job its situation dependant. i very rarely do anything apart from use my side ds spiking, and if i thought there was an issue with a leavily leaning stem id probably use a bore and release cut.
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nice little job to finish off monday, crown reduction on a badly topped beech. dont really enjoy reductions that much, and dont really do that many either. but this was small and easy and provided some beer tokens for the weekend
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ive got a mazda b2500, its my sole vehicle, im doing more subbying than my own work at the moment so dont need anything bigger, ive got a truckman top addapted to chip into when needed, and i can usually bring a load of logs back from my subbying jobs which gives me a few beer tokens
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ashley tree surgeons have got a mitsubishi that ive driven a few times, i would highly recomend it, fully loaded and towing a chipper it performs very well, but is a bit bouncy without weight in the back
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When does a person become a "tree surgeon"?
John Shutler replied to Perkins's topic in Training & education
tree slag -
i love rigging
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or maybe he is very very small:001_tongue:
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[ame] [/ame] awesome song
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yep, il be up there for the weekend again
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im currently studying a fdsc arb and tree care course. out of 8 people im the only one with any real industry experience. im not saying that some of the people on the course wont make good tree officers but im unsure of why some people are on the course, why they have decided to become a part of this very small industry, im also concerned about the "professional" status they will hold on completion of the course(although the course includes a years work 'experience').im not doing the course to become a TO, im doing it to to expand my professional ability and to further my own buissness.. i know why im doing the course but struggle to understand the motives of of some other people
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the tree will try to defend itself by putting up walls to contain any decay(codit) regardless of that an opening for pathogens has been created as well as a weak point in the tree
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i couldnt find my old stretches sheet, but il call my physio tomorrow and see if she can give me a copy. obviously its different for everyone but at least it will get you started. oh and a couple of goes with the old ultrasound machine if the physio has one does wonders in reducing the inflamation
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bugger?
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yeah i was supposed to be subbying today but it got called off.reducing oaks back to a bonudry line so i was pretty pleased to not be climbing. i live in tiptoe so pretty close
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prunus lusitanica portugese laurel
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electical tape(the climbers friend) wrapped around it.then you can cut it off if you want to adjust it, plus wont affect loler
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get yourself a good physio, try stretching before you get out of bed in the morning and before bed at night, il see if i can find my old stretching guide
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Treemotion harness and petzl chest harness set-up
John Shutler replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Climbers talk
is that the set up with ascender with footloop and a pantin, any pics -
Treemotion harness and petzl chest harness set-up
John Shutler replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Climbers talk
steve,or anyone else. Can you post some pictures of your srt setups, after trying srt very very briefly the other day i can completely see its benefits for access. look forward to seeing what your trying -
hehe the ropes were the easy bit. couldnt wait to get back on the ground and hand the invoice over
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these pics are from a very small job i did taking down a sninny woodland ash leaning over a power line, it was pretty sketchy and didnt really fancy climbing it, so i climbed the one next to it and traversed accross to knock the top out. i had to set 2 lines onto 2 other trees to stop it springing back after id taken the top out. at one point i dont mind admitting i didnt think i was going to be able to do it but i couldnt face my brother(my groundy) ripping the piss out of me for ever for chickening out. anyway the customer was stoked and ive got a load of work off the back of it:001_cool:
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speedy recovery buddy
