MattyF

another balance pic,might make it a bit clearer but photo quality is crap [/img]

Im a creature of habit and dont like change !...have always balanced limbs this way, its a made up variation of what i was taught years ago...but has never let me down and i find it easy and fast to set up....but the prussik method could be quicker but i just dont like the idea that it could slip like it always seems to do when you climb on them!then putting the cradle unbalanced but i spose with weight on thats imposible how do you find it? basically its a sling with karabiner attached to one end then with the lowering rope run through a biner then to the other end with a half hitch wich can be djusted to get the right size cradle as by pulling rope through the biner on the sling then just clip the lowering ropes end biner to a slip knot....no butterfly im afarid high scale

Just one more! the reason for felling well one of them any way....not a lot holding it up. [/img]

how any one could look at that every time they go to there window is beyond me.......they might as well taken there rusty bow saw or digged out the black and decker and put it on the ground

welll cut out a few rings after this and it died !but thats only becouse the groundy forgot to fill her up.....sackable offence especially when your trying to get that thing going on spikes in the wind and rain atleast that was the problem ...didnt miss a beat thoughh lurvely saw...lookin forward to pickin up my old 288 that has been stripped down and new fuel lines but the 395 is a quality saw! [/img]

nice pics 18 stoner .....i have no problems at all with flat topping a leylandii hedge but them birches sre shocking!

as steve said very noticable on a hot a dry day and on a soild tree like ash lime sycomore...on a manky rotten tree you dont get the cracking so nothin to worry about dude

sliced and diced fu(kin wet through and a gay pose...about 130+ by the ring count [/img]

on the ground and giving a damn good talking too for being such a dirty rotta. [/img]

some spiking [/img]

some pics from today some riggin [/img]

shocking it certainly is, dont think it was done by pikeys...just a coning B@astad. I had to drive around the block just to see it again and get some photos, seen some bad work but this is one of my favourites and one else got some pictures worth a laugh?

Like ed said. they harvest it a bit around here and thats the way ive seen them boys working on stands of bat willow, volvo loading shovels and an old matador with winch to get them over. they where felling big trees one guy said to me they had been left to long really and where burning 70 80% of the tree and hardly taking any for timber

Check this at least it has corenet cuts hey! [/img] Little story behind this. we had a very small take down,that i had in for £50 about 20 mins work nice end of the day job if we got an early finish for some beer money any way i did the job and the womman told me she had been quoted £180....when she told them i had quoted 50 this ass hole told her i must be a pikey,she then showed me this very nice little bit of paper he had posted through the door with a tick for tree work box and a mobile number,she told me one of her nieghbours had used him and by the way by the lurvely tears and the way he mutilated this ailanthus this dude deserves to be on rouge traders

I once put a heat deflector wich was an aluminium plate across a 3120 chainbrake as it kept melting them to the point they would snap off...it worked ,well sorta the saw blew up just as i got a chainbreak handle to last more than 6 months

Its always amazed me the general hatred old people feel towards trees...i often wonder why it is....? I once lost it at a warden at an old peoples home when she handed me a petition sighned by all the residents to fell a ray woods ash that had just reached maturity,i was just admiring it imagining it would be real nice to sit under on a hot summers day...... glad i dont have to do council work any more.

being hard working and eager can be better than lots of experince the two combined evan better! my mate had a years experience went free lance and had regular work well to much ! from about 6 companys in the end he got made an offer to stay at one that was too good to refuse! though he tells me he wished he hadnt and stayed freelance but atleast he doesnt have to do his own tax now.

nice work mate ,that is the healthiest chesnut ive seen in a while... all are brown with leaf miner or chlorotic with ozzing cankers round my way

I can tell you why good groundies are rare, there is bugger all incentive for most of them, paid crap money (on the whole) treated like crap by prima donna climbers who think they are gods gift, if they ask for more training, the bosses cant seem to justify it. Saying that it IS possible to be good at what you do, take a pride in your work, read,read,read. Watch closely and learn. Learn to tie bowlines, and various other knots and hitches, and if you are really fortunate, you might just improve yourself. I get really ticked off with the attitude that groundies are shite, we all work out in the wind and rain, in the mud and slime TOGETHER!! Try working together. if your groundy dont understand, then help him/her/it. Climbers want respect for what they do, then respect the poor sod on the ground too, he's the one untangling your ropes for the umpteenth time because you dropped a pile of limbs onto it, and he'll be the one clearing the mess up long after you've come down from the tree. Now STOP bitching about each other and post about something sensible:playingball: I find the worst groundies i have seem to end up being the prima donna F8ck wit climbers who have stupid little tantrums when they make stupid decisions and then blame there groundys ....mainly I think this is becouse they think dragging brush is above them so after 3 months mummy and daddy pay for them to go to college and they think they have become john turnbull or somthing ,then when they f*** up take it out on some poor fool who had the misfortune to be there groundy that day.......I think we should start a thread an ode to the grounds man thread....... how much crap some groundies have to put up with,some of the ways ive seen people been treated is ****ing digusting,by there bosses and by up his own arse I think im god when im wering my harness pricks...... sorry about the rant

had some nice storm damage come in££££ nothing like some good winds to bring in some decent work....got two take downs and one clear up in all 4 days work out of just one job:151: amazing how people panic when just one tree comes down on there land

splits and strops ...not wise in my opinon,...heard about that dude with 30 years experience getting afixiated and died in a split willow whilst his strop held him in to the fatal position as he tryed to top the remaining holding wood ....good call fella

i agree with that....problem is when you climb and make your boss £2000 day and your target is 400 i oncedid that for 4 days made my boss2000 a day in the end i didnt evn get a drink in and that was when i thought f*ck you enough is enough....i can still see the profit going back in the buisness but what did i et out of it .?.then i became self employed ,best decision i ever made

nothing worse than half snedding some poor vermin you did not know was there........i used o take great pride in throwing babey pigeons and squirels in the chipper, but lateley it seems like to much bad karma ....next squirel i find in a nest im gonna train up to get my life line in a decent anchore point! last one i tryed on normal milk though and it died as you are sposed to use special premature baby milk or somthing...still pretty funy when peple stroked it and it pissed on them apparently thats what there mothers mothers do to make them wee

Get in with farmers i pay no rent for storing timber in a heap and only £10 a load for the unchipable stuff to be burnt also the farmers weekly did an article on the benifits on wood chip as cattle bedding and other uses i now have 5 new drops just as was filling my last one up!

I would stay it was pretty important to use steel on lowering kit ,the ally ones make a good saw hook when they blow out though,just bend the gate back around and it will stay open and sit nice on your belt....