MattyF
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timber hitch....fast and easy and never let me down
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Win A Pair Of Stretch Air Chainsaw Trousers
MattyF replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Past Competitions
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public -products and empoyers liability set you back around 700-800 based on turnover but thats what you will be paying aroung the first 2 years i recon..........i use bryant kesek and partners 01483 274792 Another is trust insurance who do liability insurance as well they insure my tools but well........personally bryant kesek will be getting all my buiseness next year
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I got a 357xpg last year with heated handles ........reccomend it!
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its what you get used too i got stretch airs type c and a but will wear my type a's 99% of the time unless im free lancing and sight rules dictate type c's for climbers
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i sweat just sitting down in type c's..... aint wearing them unless its minus 5 or wanna go on a weight loss regime
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well i managed to smash out the second rear window whilst tipping up last night in 2 months then burnt a hole in my new thermal sweater i was wearing as it was so cold with out a window driving to the job with a hedge cutter this morn!
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ha, Atleast wood turners might love some of that spalting if you can get them a bit thats not shot........interesting tree!
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always the way mate ,ive done the same with ropes and new saw trousers........worn out stuff it never happens to!
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yes pantin works great with vt becouse your foot is tending the slack....i think i need around 25ft of rope with a straight drop and no hang ups before my rope will self tend but thats with xtc and roblon cord with a petzl pulley wanna try fly next with roblon and see if that makes a differance
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no friction hitches on my lanyard mate i would not find the vt suitable as you have to watch it locking ........any way i would rather have my trusty ropeman but bullmans got a point its a little on the flimsey side........might try one of those cinch lanyard adjusters any one using one?
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I find the best way is body thrust as normal but take 3-4 long pulls before tending the slack whilst holding your weight with one hand and pulling it through the slack tending pulley with the other..thats why its essential to use a pulley with this set up,believe me after a while its just as quick if not quicker as you can take bigger pulls........its all getting used to. watch some of steves vids on u tube or some compatition climbing vids on tree worker (i think theres some?)
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aint to shabby that vid...one of my favourites as well
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yeah i spose...i mostly only take the rope one up a tree for a work positioner to back up my life line. My metal one stays in the truck unless i use it for a primary life line when spiking or felling.dunno what other people do?
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like ive said ive not had one slip out and backed with a taped up figure of 8 but thats maybe why i dont trust it entirely and the fact its so basic is why i have stuck with it....i dunno thats why i come here to better my climbing so what would be a good trustable solution to my working lanyard?.........
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well its got a figure of 8 taped up on the end of the line wich every day i check, and i have not had one slipout in 8 years.to be honest i prefere it to other grabs as its light wieght ,smaller ,cheaper and i dont mind chucking it when the cams slightly worn.
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I discussed this with my groundy today and was told he would leave if he had to pull up my saw and damn right too! whats on my harness not alot! adjustable strop with rope man, broken krab for a saw hook, spare krab and first aid kit. but the truck is full of no end of crap floating around if i need slings ,pantin ect i prefere to climb minimal .......nothing worse than getting slings strops ect snagged up all the time
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im teaching my groundy to climb at the moment on a prussik ,i had to climb on his prussik after forgetting my kit and it was damn hard work when branch walking,and he loves my vt set up when i give him bits to do ...try it ...the sit back effect can be a little gnarly at first but its a lot quicker and easyer set up after you have climbed on it a few times
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did cross my mind ! This is the second split walnut ive come across in a month....i think this one would be a good canidate for reduction, the two stems pulled backed together and braced and bolted back up but the guy wants it felled not supprisingly..... [/img]
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ropes have only just dried from last monday so no way! gave the chance to catch up on some paper work and viewing jobs though
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well spotted tim spose that means i can only work on the oposite side of the road.....there is one about but some **** ran over it so its a bit mangled so that was the only arrow i picked up and figured it would be better behind the chipper instead of the other side of the road its only a single track country road we saw about 20 cars all morning so didnt need to be perfect just show them we where there! The men at work and change lanes sighns are there though honest! The run away chipper incident........well it didnt really run away it just slowly dragged me and a groundy down a hill the rest is too stupid and embarrising to tell!
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cheers for sharing ...nice work
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cheers guys ill show you another walnut i did back in march that i was pretty pleased with the way it came in ,steves seen this one any way but it took a day and half it was double the size and maybe becouse i had the worst groundy ive ever had and that i also nearly killed with a run away chipper so i wont forget this one! [/img]
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