MattyF

Mick I’ve dead wooded big cedars and they have literally shat off large limbs within days to months after..not all but quite a few especially outside exposed trees. I’m convinced after deadwood a number of large conifers species that it opens up wind tunnels and creates a lions tail effect resulting in wind throw..whilst it looks great it’s made me think when quoting, we where asked to dead wood about 60 pines in a church yard a few years back but I talked them out of it but they insisted on some over the roadside and a few over a car park , guess which ones failed the next storm and I think I even tip reduced a few limbs as I knew it was going to happen.

Grants start at £60 a hectare for squirrel control. Deer grants are about £100 a hectare. Both pretty essential if you want trees of any decent quality.

I’ve alway though that when this really gets to a head and needs to dealt with there will be fatalities, you can’t go putting arbs who have zero experience of hand felling in the woods or roadside as even healthy it’s one of the most unpredictable timbers to hand fall, out of all the species it will be the one that will catch you out. Die back or not if you know how it can potentially behave it can be dealt with a lot safer with less surprises and even then it can still throw a few.

I think with spikes the best thing to do is stick to what you know… I could change brands frequently when younger , I’ve had kliens , bashlins in the past and much easier to adapt to change but having been on distils for about 20 years now i tried some the other day it was like watching a new born deer trying to walk for the first time.

I only found them a problem with rope twist and a VT on double ropes rich , on a Rope wrench SRT it seems absolutely fine, actually a joy to use.

Own both … in all honesty they are both absolute shite… at this point my puma 130 needs a new chassis and the DPF on the transit is just embarrassing.. my old 2005 transit is the only vehicle I’ve owned that’s ever made me a profit and paid for itself over and over the new transit is just a money pit and I regret the day I ever saw it.

Yeah you’re right Alex , I was going to say something yesterday.. it’s as good as a Hobbs and lighter ,great for pre tensioning and you can lift limbs up and over stuff but not at Grcs speed.. I can’t fault it but it’s not a Hobbs.

I feel a lot safer rigging out half dead stuff with the safe bloc.. to me that’s its major plus point , if your rigging off a block to bollard that’s a lot of extra force being applied to the top anchor.. I’ve used ropes down to 10mm in it but I think 16 is the sweet spot for friction wise. Matthew Fathers (@matty_arb) • Instagram photos and videos WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM 112 likes, 8 comments - matty_arb on September 27, 2018: "Why I love the #safebloc old lime pollard that had dropped a primary stem on a house and log shed the... There’s another clip on 10mm if you go past the first bit of video.. on the first top I have to join the ground type to add a bit of friction as I didn’t think he was stopping it for the barn roof! Matthew Fathers (@matty_arb) • Instagram video WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM 118 likes, 5 comments - matty_arb on April 4, 2018: "Dutchman’s to pop a top and safe bloc bucket action.".

I thought it was pretty good to be fair , did what it was supposed too every time I use it. I would take it over the dmm any day, until this came out any way.

I stand corrected, I tried to get another one last year and could not find them anywhere!

I think they are kind of irrelevant now mate as you can’t buy them , I got mine from Germany sold by freworker years back I think around 2014 when I was doing a lot of deadwooding of big trees for nation parks and trust… Basically it’s a hook with elastic that has a wooden ball that you can slot in the other side so the hook doesn’t get caught when not being used. these are only photos I can find on the phone.

Mick I think rishti called the last general election early as they all knew reform if they got there candidates together would get a lot more seats , maybe even come close to winning.. the damage was bad enough with out them having candidates , I think every one has had enough of this two party bollox except the woke of course.. that could be bollox but I don’t think it’s far off when you look at the poll that was on here.

Put a link up 😂

I won’t argue with that , the captain was a waste of time , I climbed on it for about a month before giving it away and going back to my old epple hook… this looks better than both.

I dunno.. that’s what I thought , maybe sucking in too much fresh air ??