MattyF

No I have not seen the program but I’ve seen 3 of my Chipper’s go missing and 40ks worth of My kit over the years and every one around me robbed , people murdered, raped , intimidated and threatened and some of the biggest organised crime and drug rings in that area never broken... and sorry it was definitely what I would describe as pikeys, I know exactly which ones some of them personally, the police know which ones and so do many others who have been victims I imagine. Now the term pikey ... I would describe as any one who in with that sect even the hanger on gorgers who love the money ,drugs and thrills associated with the life style that they will scout and sell or just be soldiers for them as they admire this misery inflicting life style .. let’s not get these people confused with Romany gipsies though, they have no respect for them either and they will be victims of there crimes as much as any one else they can take advantage of , most I’ve met have no Romany heritage , they just use the term traveller so they can claim human rights for harassment when they are being investigated or watched.

Hitch climber, rope wrench.. modern ropes , the bounce on 3 strand !

Thing is knives and guns have always been about but I do remember working in London at around 2000 on housing projects that where been filled with fresh out of Africa Somalis and Sierra Leone refugees ,these fellas where asking us if they could take wood off trees we where felling , sure we said expecting them naively to maybe make some thing artistic or productive but where greated the following morning with about 15-20 of them brandishing lumps of wood carved in to clubs and brandished with nails and spikes to greet us, nice guys but violence was a way of life where they came from and I don’t think for a lot it stopped when they came here ..can imagine there off springs potential grown up with that and shite housing. The other thing is there should of maybe been a stronger reaction by the government for the riots caused after Mark duggans death.

Best thing to do with London

Aye I came around the corner to face a low loader full of plant on my side of the road... the tyres where not in good nick and at 25psi which I’ve been told is well too low?

Have heard two opinions between tyre pressure some say 60psi others 30 after a disaster this week I’m interested to know what others are running there trailers at for road work.

Think the O.p is talking about using it as a climbing device on a secondary line, like I said because your using it with more loading the cam springs blow out a lot quicker than normal use .

Springs wear out too quickly from my experience, better as a work positioner as it’s designed for.

It’s bloody heavy but 2.5 or 3 “ at least you can re saw later or have some thing to play with and it’s summer apparently so it won’t distort as much

Good read mate.

Sadly though as with most things I can see rules for SRT being written in the future and as rescue plays a big part now in risk assessments on sites, maybe enforced as a suitable solution to the grey areas of SRT... I dunno but it to me is more of thing for folk who like playing with ropes who don’t actually do day in and tree work.

Don’t like others near my rope with saws and I don’t like the thought of a large falling branch hitting a taught line, I don’t like the forces envolved on an anchor or the extra rope in the system giving you more bounce .. base tying really for me is only an access thing if I can’t isolate anchor or uncertain of its suitability.

[emoji23]Which end Tommy ?

Clip the haas in to the hitch climber and not found that problem , has in the bottom , hitch middle and the tether top.

Dunno sam I hated it that much when I tried it again I went back to the neck tether.

Not what I was told by tree officers or lecturers and that’s not indicated on the governments web site unless you can show me evidence to the contrary.

Any tree can have a TPO placed on it ...also at the base of the two major primary limbs isn’t the greatest place to remove a limb,Scott’s pine like all species if an a large limb removed can be colonised by decay fungi if the final cut is poor. Seriously though you actually put advice about driving in steel nails and disallowing access to. Make some ones job un safer, harder and encourage bad pruning and bring those serious harm and damage to there equipment .. [emoji1304]

Any close up pics of the wounds left?

Very few photos with stihls

It would be considered your fault regardless I think.. they don’t break unless they are incorrectly fitted with wrongly adjusting bars. Sorry that’s probably not what you want to hear.

Western red cedar or larch have been my two favourite cladding woods, I like Douglas but would use it as a more of a structural Timber.

Expensively, last oak clad building I saw a lot of it had split and fallen off after 12 months , could not believe the cost either!

Looks like it would be mint for the right jobs.... do you have to dismount the chipper though for tipping ,You would definitely need a camera to hook it all back up?

How is the chipper being powered ?? Does it have the worlds longest PTO shaft ?

Have you lost much cutting speed with the pitch change? Would be nicer for pruning I bet. Run a Sugi on a 540 and although the bar will probably last a life time the nose sprockets will not , got about 2 weeks from the original so although it’s a big outlay I would get a spare nose sprocket with a new bar just incase if you go sugi and then you could of brought 2-3 techlites.