MattyF

Nice work work , drone footage made the vid.

I've actually seen a tree split and crack up the gobs when a climbers done and climbed above it ...after breaking his leg after a rigging mishap with Russian vine then refusing to levitate it and go out stump grinding instead got gangrene lost most of his leg muscle and could not wear spikes this was his answer and one day the tree actually split up the gobs was gnarly watching him trying to get off !! Bad idea IMO !!

I was taught in college below years ago with the idea being on a violent snatch you could get flicked off the stem , in 20 years I've never burnt a rope or pinched one in a topping strop/rigging block so will Continue to do it this way although I did do it above in a nptc refresher last week when the examiner asked to see another snatch I knew immediately why. I also like the idea of my ropes being further away from the block whilst cutting.

What's the build quality like on the Taj ? It's a lot of machine for the money there's got to be a catch !!

Have come across quite a few TPOed trees that have been drilled and you can usually see quite clearly it is a drill plus it never seems to kill the tree out right.

Best hitch cord IMO is 8mm armour prus but it's not been available for a while,honeys did have some thing similar but can't see it on there web site... I do like therma shield but it's expensive, roblon and liros are nice but don't last to long on a VT set up.... Any 8mm will do though.

Aye we are all exports behind are key boards , I would of been screaming blue to back off and been unable to show the footage if it was mine!! Thanks for sharing 🍻

Hey patty, Like wise without trying to be picky or pedantic and pick holes mate I just find it a scary thought if some one watched this and tried it on a 60 meter crane ... Lol I would of cut them like you did at 48 most of those picks looked pretty hairy, for the sake of you and the crane I don't think the gob cuts did anything but give it more swing , hinges don't really work with cranes it's more about picking bits off. Maybe it's the reach or the crane operator but they looked well to under tension hence the swing, maybe picking them off the deck would of been more suitable or a small porta wrap set with block or rigging rings up the tree so you can control the bit until it's settled once it's been picked on a short rope.. Never had to try that though but it maybe might minimise the swing.

I was gonna ask the same question like you wanna be really care full shock loading a crane !! Felling on to slings and picking up is good but I would not of been happy at all with most those cuts for picking bits off... Nice rig 😀

Ok ... The shooting of dog foxes that control territory is not a good thing an experienced keeper in his 80's and had run shoots all his life told me that , I used to shoot for him and he told me that If you shot a dog fox expect to stay up for the next 3 nights with your rifle and for the ones that come in that are probably weak mangy and desperate for food to try and take its territory and do cause mayhem in release pens... I know another keeper who shot 60 over two days when some one shot his Alsatian sized dog fox.. Any way your land ,your shoots guys but I would rather nature control its predators or the hounds pick off the weak than just shooting them for the sake of it. I'll stop with my unwanted opinion now as the reality is I'm no expert and don't know the underlying problems you could have , looked a good bag of rabbits though, pretty dry around here of them.

With all due respect you want to solve a rabbit problem and you shoot one of its only predators I'm confused ?

That surprised me rob ,I've found one of its best uses was carrying Alaskan milled boards and lumps of timber to mill later. Still need some side extension poles if any of the Stein dealers can get them ??

Yes but if police cars are fitted with plate recognition that automatically tells them it has no tax or mot surely the cars fitted with this can just drive around doing there business as usual that is what they had all this equipment fitted for in the first place with out the need to launch an operation costing thousands and causing traffic issues.

I don't get when every thing is registered online for mot and tax why can't they just visit every person at there home and fine them. Herts and Essex police have one of the biggest problems in the country with theft why didn't they put that money in surveillance or the raiding of certain sites instead of being the mass business the police are now becoming making money from fining people who don't have there safety belt or Nearly worn tyre, it's a joke.

If you flick the line to say get it over some small branches in the way of your route or coming back through it will come undone though ??

I've heard it won't be at least until next year.

The thing is a free lance climber is natural progression from being a lead climber IMO you don't just come out of college and become a super star climber or what ever as quite a few I've given a chance and regretted seem to think .Maybe there is a few odd acceptions to to that rule but they would be the very few people who have a natural aptitude for the job straight out of basic training and having that natural aptitude is extremely rare no matter how much you want to be a climber..maybe I'm just bitter it seems people now don't have to do all the things I did to get to be a climber such as a long stint as a grounds person and second climber but I honestly think watching as many climbers as possible and been a good groundsman gives you what you need more than any training to be a competent and productive free lance climber... Oh and the image of glen mill bank yelling at you to do star jumps and press ups when your about to do some thing stupid with a saw.... maybe the training was worth it !

Nice work btw... I'm with you on this it's very suspect to suddenly drop leaves like that if you can get an analysis for poison done it would be interesting to see the outcome.

Nicely done and put together tony , enjoyed that. Lol Jonny it does not look like the sorbus aucuparia we get here

Mine too!!

You wanna be careful john , had a lass throw a spoon through my monitor for spending to much time on Arb talk!

Definitely !

Was Sonia out drinking with the girls Jon??

Got it Dave ,replace picker for pecker and it starts to makes sense.

Very true , I think the thing is with Arb work in general though is out of the large proportion of people that start off in the industry very few stay for the end game ... It's bloody hard work and I think you have to have a certain crazy,calculated and maybe even sadistic mentality to progress your self to be any good wether that be pushing your self climbing or dragging the biggest piles of brash and logs you can carry all day, and still have the strength to do a tidy job clearing up job... I think you quickly have to learn the ability to deal with people/customers and smell a rat for the people who won't pay ! When I first started freelancing full time I very quickly learnt who to not work for when cheques balanced and promises were broken, and most of the time I should of trusted my instincts.