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Does it really offer that much advantage over a standard rope guide to warrant the extra time and gear ? I think a lot of people if they are using a rope guide would possibly srt to there TIP then use a Normal rope guide . That's what I would do any way ..mmmm actually I would just stay on a SRT system and not bother with it any way .

Spud saved my 560 cylinder mark .... And it was bad apparently!

Maybe it's in reference to a couple of bits of ply ratchet strapped over a transit over loaded with chip, brash or scrap? Not a custom made bolted and welded box.

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/95013-sip-keiu-rain-jacket-2.html Hopefully works al.

Keiu rain jacket mate..it seems to have gone up a bit in price at around £95 - so about £75 if your vat registered.

Would of liked to of seen the stump to see what happened , at a guess it looks like you have undercut the gob on the side facing away from the fence so inadvertently you created a swing dutchmans... The undercuts compressed and it swung/pushed the tree in to the fence instead of folding on the hinge and in the intended path. Thanks for sharing.

Hope you get some where with pfanner. I gave up on mine been water proof and just wear it as a work smock , brought the cut and climb which is good and works , my old mans just brought the sips jacket and for the price it looks a winner, I wore it as we had swapped trucks and there was a hard down pour all afternoon so had to try it out ... stayed bone dry!

I think that's why they come with a handy bag so you can collect all the bits in when they fall off so you don't loose them.

Nicely done mate

I didn't take it down low enough to find any evidence of it David as they wanted the stump left high and at an angle for a house sign.... The crown was significantly dieing back though.

Been on this for a few days 220 year old oak with Inonotus dryadeus .. Lots of rigging with phone wires roofs and soft Tarmac on site ! Vid if any one is interested [ame] [/ame]

Hi jomoco , most of the production cutters and climbers have to do first aid courses every four years in the uk , is this common practice in the States? I know of a very bad incident near me recently where a guy lost 5 pints of blood and a tourniquet saved him.. Thank god for the training!!

Yep!! He should be!

When did the RW mk 1 first appear ? You really have got to give all the credit to Kevin Bingham for bringing it on for work climbing.

Don't know, maybe the specs are with the saws dry? ..... but I would take the 395 any day of the week!

Drag ,carry logs and rake .... Doing this commercially for a year and you should have the fitness it takes to climb or start climbing any way.

Quite a few I know of ... People forget that a lot of hand cutters came to tree surgery in the early 90's when harvesters only really became the norm on felling sites... That's not that long ago.

Not sure what your getting at ? I don't think there was any holding wood left for maybe three reasons the most likely being the cutter messed up and did not leave an adequate hinge which should of been huge imo for the conditions and circumstances. Also very possibly is hornet moth larvae had turned the tree to mush I know of avenues of Lombards like this in east anglia where the only thing holding them up is inches in places of Cambial wood and possibly why he was felling high. Lastly the wind just tore it off being Lombardy is brittle or most likely a combination of all 3. I did try and point out the truck driver at fault as I have seen in heavy winds the need to keep pulling not pull a couple of feet and stop so the wind takes over as the hinge gets weaker to almost redundant as soon as the tree tips past a point with wind pushing it from the side it is almost certain to have an effect on how long it's going to travel in the intended path. To be honest I think being an arm chair critic watching and commenting on a phone when I can barley see what is going on as fair as obviously the conditions and tree can not be judged properly at all. But what I do know of working as a production climber and cutter is very stupid things have been done to meet targets and deadlines , I'm glad now I don't have to make x amount a day on a underpriced cut to the bone contract for a crap wage for a thankless boss and all the stress that goes with it...

You would of come back on a day with favourable conditions... Not just for felling climbing also , Lombardy is unlike black or hybrid in terms of its holding wood abilities it's even more brittle and twice as sail like so I think to any one who said they would of climbed it in those gusts has never done a big Lombardy in heavy wind.

About 15 years ago I know of a very similar accident from a certain firm that is making the news when they dropped a poplar on one of the main train lines out of London. The guy who told me had stopped falling due to heavy un favourable wind... Basically he was sitting in the van when the site super visor asked what the hell was going on and why where they not felling the trees as they needed them on the deck to meet dead lines but the crew refused so the supervisor grabbed a saw ... Next thing is there is a tree caught on the high voltage lines jumping and burning with intercity trains speeding underneath it and the formans hopping up and down crying..

Nice ! I hear from lads working on them that they don't like the cabs as they can give an amazing sense of false security on slopes then things go wrong ... That's just what I've been told though what do you recon?

So you are you an electronic as well as two stroke genius ! ive got a big broken angle grinder can I send it too you

Think my new favourite phrase is " gone and done a bartletts " it will remain in the British tree workers vocabulary for years to come for when any one messes up a cut.

Agree that was reckless in those conditions but If you pull over a heavily weighted back leaning tree it's better to pick the speed up as the centre of gravity starts pulling it off the hinge , it may be reckless but I've done it lots and it works on trees that other ways would of gone side ways , fine in the woods but not some thing you would attempt on a street or garden tree.

It's not about angles though it's about pull speed ... Watch the video again The truck stopped pulling it should not of until the tree was on the ground or there about a if your going to even attempt felling in those conditions and species.