MattyF

You need a gas mask using that thing.

May have to start a thread as to why they put this wank on a harness.

I’m not sure about the new treemotion either , the new buckles are a joke they just won’t stay put and the harness starts falling off you when your working , must write a letter to treeimagineers asking wtf they changed some thing that worked so well when I get a chance.

I’ve thought about this a bit before but if I was to train a new climber from scratch I would start them on SRT, you can limb walk and move around the canopy and not just ascend faster if your proficient at it , as well as being twice as ergonomic on your joints and all round body wear,I think from my experience of spending most of my climbing career on double ropes and now still living with the injuries from using that technique it is not the way forward. Double rope is outdated and pointless unless all trees you work on will be around 30ft and under... not wanting to pick a fight with any one with a different opinion but that’s mine.. for what it’s worth [emoji51].

Sand blast and repaint with decent primer and this will probably go on for ever. Schliesing 200 MX Wood Chipper WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Here we have a Schlesing 200 MX Chippers for sale, this is a trade in machine.

I have an old mx 220 , not owned it long but seems a good machine for its age and many hours, always impresses me when it’s out on site . looked at and hired some of the newer tracked forst and TW machines in view to buy and I’ll be honest and say they didn’t impress us too much , feeling pretty femme, nearly got a TR8 until it dropped its hydraulic oil over a football pitch at the end of the day... seems you can get a decent second hand Schliesing fairly cheap now.

Hey eggs ,Maybe he didn’t recognise him ? I saw a few people I didn’t immediately recognise that day until seeing photos on n here afterwards and I’m sure you and Mendip where in them . Can’t speak for John but I was hanging so bad with my head aching I could not see 10ft in front of me and unless i had met the person before and new them very well was not feeling massively sociable.. from what i had seen of John and heard of there drinking the night before I can only presume the same for him too.

I’m not convinced on Sugiharas , nose sprockets seem a little brittle , I’ve replaced all of mine at least once.

Been on the 880 for a 5 years and definitely a thumbs up over the stihl.

Here is me in 1998 with a giant rigging ring in the U.K. [emoji38]... it really is nothing new and how we did a lot of trees , blocks for me just added new dimensions to rigging just as the safe bloc gave us more scope for dealing with problem trees safely.

Not even gonna go there ..but I think you have hit it on the head when you said we don’t get to free fall often... it is not an uncommon scenario in the U.K. to work on property’s with tiny drop zones ..I’m talking a couple of metres and the tree going over 6-8 gardens , fences, sheds , greenhouses and then the whole lot has to go through the clients house as there is no access , no room for cranes on the street either ... this isn’t uncommon in the U.K. especially in city’s .. you can’t balance a large limb over a roof with dishes and Ariels and crank it up the bollard and watch it fold over off the targets and pull it in to a small DZ with friction rings as like I said most of the rigging I would do requires the ability to be able to control the piece once cut and not just free fall...fine if you can free fall but trying to pull a 400lb limb on tag lines in to the DZ is a lot easier with blocks. When I get on the stem and it’s straight down I may choose the safe bloc for a few reasons but I could manage with out it.

Do you have one for fitting the oil pump Andrew ?

Awesome thanks ty ... got it located now , I hope your not having as much bother as me trying to get the dead mans back on!

Does any one know what it attaches too in the trigger end ?? A photo would be great!

Apart from agreeing the safe block is great for the situations you described I would disagree with the statement rigging blocks as obsolete! Especially in the U.K. for tree work it any real technical rigging. We are a small densely populated island and most of the gardens we work in have no access and trees are over targets , this is where pre tension rigging with pulleys comes in to its own and being able to fold stuff over with the help of a grcs or just hand power , no place for rigging rings there, unless it as a redirect in to a bollard drum. Also they are not exactly a new thing, having used only topping strops and natural crutch rigging for the first 10 years of my climbing its only in the last 15 I’ve used blocks So too me it feels more of a reinvention of the wheel and a little backwards if any thing.

Schlesing will go on forever!

Oregon yellow plastic are absolute shite , I’ve been stupid enough to buy 3 now and they have all shattered in to bits.. complete waste of money.

Not sure Steve , but it’s just not consistent, some times it’s that low you can see the pellet in the scope drop from the target... in contrast my BSA ultra can nail a pigeon in a head 30 -40 metres most shots. The air arms should be the better gun.

Aye but you can service one ? I’m struggling to find any one and have a 15 year old s410 that needs all its seals replaced and anything else that needs doing.

Don’t suppose you can tune air arms guns as well by chance ?

You left out the gauze filter ?? Not a good idea.

Find sycamore gets worse with age my self , processing 2 year old large syc and beech at the moment, only ring to stop the machine has been surprisingly a sycamore one.. find that strange as you can drop an axe with no pressure on some and it splits.

Aye spot on with your second reason ...To help the knot from binding up and burning out cordage, the top pin and pulley or pin on older models takes some of the weight and acts like the other end of your double rope.. with out it the hitch would bind and burn out very quickly , try setting up a single line and a hitch at about 10 ft and bailing out and you will see how gnarly it is !

It would be of absolutely no use what so ever DdRT climbing , zero!! Don’t even contemplate it unless you plan on using it for SRT.