MattyF

Also burning some on the house stove right now … just had to turn the back boiler pump on, considering it’s had ash on it for the last few months and it’s being a rarity unless fully loaded to have to do that any one saying it’s rubbish is talking out there arse !!

Nice walk out and about this morning with something for the freezer.

Burning lime this week in the biomass after coming across a seam of it in the log shed that had gone black , still reading 18% moisture so chuck it on the biomass still reading 71 in the morning and warped the door closing catch …so it can’t be too bad !

Found it a handy bit of kit when I’ve used one.. I don’t own one mind but a subby I use has one, always surprises me what it will lift. can’t say it’s some thing I would use all the time though , as much as I’d like one if I want to lift small bits just use a pulley and then put on the capstan for the timber in most instances I could not justify the cost.

I’m still using mine , I filled in the form and heard nothing so put them back on my tree motion bridges last week??

The reason why a lot of insurance companies want tree reports and surveys of property before they insure it in the uk??

The fact he’s let that tree get in to that state and done nothing would be a red flag as well as what you have said .. be lucky you have avoided dealing with the guy any further and move on.

Why ? Hmr shoots better, shoots straighter and flatter.. unless it’s my burnt out 452 !

Unfortunately I don’t mate as it looks really nice .. I think if I brought another gun though before I’ve finished the house the misses will finish me too.

Probably right , hogue are usually stamped underneath the grip, it could be anything as I brought it secondhand and the only mod I was made aware of was the sound moderator so thought it was standard … I don’t know much about it’s history but it was the only second hand 243 700 near me when I was looking so jumped right on it… I will tear it down and rebuild it to something I want if I ever get time but it does every thing I need and has a tight group unlike my cz that seems to be the most inconsistent gun I’ve fired and the things supposed to be like a lazer in 17hmr.

It’s just the standard sps hogue stock, so I’m not sure I don’t know enough about them… I will at some point maybe upgrade the whole thing as my misses won’t let me buy any more guns 😆 I see there are plenty of DM kits for the 700’s so will probs go down that route , just like the idea of a 5 round mag and going out with a closed bolt instead. putting a few rounds in and having to take them out every time I go out seems to be damaging the tips of ammo which I’m convinced is harming accuracy. It’s the only one locally I have not been too but I will go one day, I usually use Bradford stalker or bywell for guns and ammo.

That’s really nice , did you buy it already converted ? … I was thinking today I really fancy a 308 or maybe a mag conversion for my 243 so didn’t need to see this. My 243 getting a clean for a stalk tomorrow.

Two bridges.

We have to find work some Pete.

If you don’t have any self loathing or are not on the autism spectrum I would forget it too .. they seem to be essential qualities in making a good tree worker I’ve noticed over the years.

I’ve had two lads go on and join the marines and one told me it was a piece of piss after doing production climbing and arb work.. I’m currently working with a lad who started last year at 44 after working as civil servant doing pensions his whole life , he loves it but He also loves going in a cage and fighting and getting his face smashed in at the weekends, to be fair when we got to 2.30 today after been pissed on by the weather all day and scrambling around and getting torn up in brambles trying to carry slippery brash and logs he still didn’t mind dropping another 5 trees.

A few picks of the overall crown would give a better indication of what’s going on with the tree.

I think that’s because the Germans and French and Europeans know how to manage there woodlands and pests , I saw my last red here in 2015 and it was dead , there was a big move to cull greys in the area but as likely there where idiots who would not let there woods be culled , the result was the culls where a waste of time and all the young trees they planted themselves are knackered, I can’t actually bring myself to talk to this one person/family and ignore any calls or messages as I just can’t be bothered to deal with people like that in regard to there tree management… last time I went on one of there sites I was trying to show and explain the squirrel damage on a belt of trees and I might as well of talked to my dog .. even the obvious maple and snapped sycamore branches with stripped bark over our heads was not enough evidence.

Was thinking the same

I usually climb On a 45m x static although I do have a 60m one .. to be honest I don’t find it that bad and it does some in handy for setting isolated anchors instead of base… you just set the working end to ground height and pull harder on retrieving 😆

Another one for xstatic , the non ce cougar blue is a very good rope , feels like a more traditional rope in hand all though the xstatic seems to feel better for ascenders and is lighter but is more brutal on your hands.. but it’s not as bad as some as the cheese wire on the market, it’s a nice compromise I think. has velux for me … although mine needs replacing so watching this thread.

My experiences of running aspen alongside normal fuel are bad.. personally I would not do it as normal fuel dissolves carb diaphragms aspen will clean and then they harden off resulting in then needing replacing and carbs cleaning to make run again…. Just running a two stroke mix like the huskyxp will keep your cylinder virtually clean unlike say the red stihl.

Good points but I feel most of the rigging we do in the uk is over areas that will require lifting over targets as it’s so built up… you can’t beat natural crotch rigging in a lot of scenarios and especially in big open areas with one or two targets but I don’t find it applicable to especially urban built up settings in which most uk arbs seem to work. personally myself, the last rigging I did was natural crotch as it saved bringing out and setting up a whole lot of gear to avoid a dry stone wall to balance a tree for felling, it was all I used for the first ten years of my career with maybe only a topping strop as been the only other hard wear on stems .. I never really got all the bling until I watched a subby climber use pulleys to swing stuff up and over HV lines and the bulk of my work changed from street and park trees and was more crappy sycamores/ash and leylandii in back gardens that needed removing in to 3m square drop zones, which is probably what most are dealing with so more applicable ?

Said he’s away in his last post ? Sure he will get back!

Was gonna edit my other post but I think it’s the 3001 that can have the winch fitted and not the 2001….. I still have an old 2001 and it’s dead simple to use but I’ll take a Hobbs type bollard for most big rigging so you can pre tension as much as possible to lift off and float rather than shock load constantly which is the key in my view for smoother large rigging.. could never justify a GCRS and the time taken to train staff to use and I’d probably drop a lump on it anyway !