MattyF

I’d love heated handles on a topper... stuck up a tree with chilblains in snow and ice whilst watching your ground guys warming there hands over the chipper exhaust ! Only thing is if they are the same as the ones I’ve had on my 50’s and 60’s you have to rev them hard to get the temps up.

Many factors though stubby , and I’m not gonna day more as I wasn’t there.

Aye and he has a decent anchor point as well that can clearly be seen in the longer vid and he spends ages putting a gob in ... now that is maybe the clue .... dull saw +lean = barbers chair

To be fair it was the groundys first day doing proper big negative rigging I can only say it was my fault for not taking on what he was doing and talking him through it better. So we both learnt some thing, I am glad he took on the reasons why you never stand under a negative rigged stem though.

The one that sticks in my mind joe was about 5ft long and about 3-4ft”across , was probably one of the tightest grained ash I’ve felled as I estimated it around 120 before felling ,the final ring count really surprised me as it was around 230! That’s all I remember of the job and my groundy putting 5 wraps off for this lump so it would not run and snapped the rope on the snatch.

Very good point mr Bolam.

I have broken a few hanks of Yale polydyn neg rigging hard wood years ago... bits where far too big and the groundy not experienced too many wraps.

Yeah but personally I think they did the right thing talking him down as it was the quickest way after evaluating the situation he would of got out the tree and his harness off and he was still conscious ... by the time he was down it would of taken longer to get your rescue kit and put your harness on.. getting the casualty out the tree, I’ve seen quite a few in tree accidents now and every one has got them selves out damn quick, there is way to much emphasis on Ariel rescue IMO. Maybe he didn’t wanna come down as he was scared they would of all called him a &:&;: for messing it up so bad... I’ve had that happen when guys have hurt them selves bad. Sorry lads this is all I have of it but try and get a grasp of the last few paragraphs and there recommendations for safer tree work.

I’m betting you found the company through a leaflet in the door and they are of no fixed abode.

The accident report is unbelievable! Now it recommends that it’s arborists use battery chainsaws and have three anchor points...... three anchors would of held the guy so ridgid it would of probably killed him. So now there climbers will have an even harder time trying to bail out if it goes tits up and double the likely happening of barbers chairs with a slower cutting saw .... what tits make up these rules???

Apparently you get used to the sway! A know a few folk who swear by them and would not use anything else, I’ve been told if the wheels are on the widest setting and Ballested they are fine.. just felt odd to me as I’m used to the rigidity of legs on the trailer crane.

Looks a very tidy set up [emoji1303]Would like to hear how you get on with it after a few months. The only thing that puts me off a roof mount was the stands we work on are usually on terrain they won’t put harvesters and forwarders so on slopes and it worried me that a roof mount would be too unstable , I’ve only used a couple and they felt bad enough on the flat along with the height of the whole unit when thinning ripping off branches and pipes, on the plus side they have excellent visibility and it would be awesome to stack on a landing and not have a huge pile of pick up sticks to winch through that can catch you out.

These are good.

I will look out next time I’m due a pair then pete.

The ideal pair would be pfanner arborists without the price. Just because they are the best I’ve found on the market for movement and the least hot along with leg vents and tick guards. Last sipps I brought les where still to warm, no tick guards or vents.

Does any one know if this was the amey incident?

That bank didn’t help matters but there are so many things wrong with the whole thing where do you start? I really hope the guy came out of that .. was kind of hoping that would not come up on here as it’s the sort of thing that haunts you after watching it.

Aye it seems a shame the big two don’t give a shit really who sells and repairs there saws and offers warranty . My local husky dealer ... I’ve tried to stop using as it was just a joke really but a few weeks back desperate for 15liters of XP oil we go in , they inform us we don’t want that it’s too expensive to run in saws and they didn’t have it any way ... I’m not putting anything else in my 550’s and 560’s so head for the door and there walking out by the door was a 15litre container of XP oil ... begrudgingly I took it back to the counter to be charged full on whack for it... and that is the last time I set foot in there. Then there is the stihl / husky dealer not far from you spud who could not even change a topend on a 3120.

Did he give it back ?

I’d take the karitool over a vault and any other metal saw hook. The vault won’t brake if you get a rigging rope caught in it.

Are the legs going up and down ? Did have a problem last year when the legs where down it would not work as there was a faulty relay in the leg not letting the pressure switch to the boom hydraulics ... I probably explained that badly!

Do it and learn nick, try and stand on the ground and look at it for 5mins over a coffee visualise a shape and pick points you can ident in the tree and get in and start cutting , I’ll usually do the high stuff first and just keep going around in sections so you can clean out hangers as well as not brake out already pruned bits. Looks like a hard tree to get wrong plenty of targets to prune and drop back too.

Cheers mate , just hope that flu jab works ! already given him a cold which set things back!

Have not had it for years but reluctantly had the flu jab this year as my dads having chemo and we work together , convinced the jab gave me very mild symptoms.

That’s some quality work joe[emoji1303] I can still remember my first big reduction, usual lead climber was ill so had this huge sycamore to my self .. it was in for a day , it over ran by a day and I smashed two roof tiles over a 3 story house ,I was 18 had been climbing only a year. That was near on 25 years ago! I think I can reduce a tree better climbing than myself cutting in a mewp ,you just get to know what will stuck out and what won’t with out asking so you can keep on moving and climbing to the next area. Yeah that’s my take on dismantling it’s the same thing , I remember being in awe of seeing one of my first big dismantles , climber on 3 strand and a old troll harness , metal 020 it consisted of spiking up and cutting the side limbs off and snatching a big top on some big 3 strand polyprop natural crutch stylee with some wraps around the trunk and being in the pub for an early finish , I think that’s we all strived for was an early finish to be in the pub for 3 , didn’t have time to mince around with fancy gadgets un gear !