MattyF
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Company’s are crying out for full time climbers there is a serious lack of them , maybe paye is the way forward.
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I drive a landy mewp and It’s the rattling back window and inability to move my right arm that can bring a beautiful forest drive to near madness! I’m still tempted to buy another swb pick up but the prices are crazy now.
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Safe bloc and double pulley rigging would be a good idea for the negative rigging. I still find conventional rigging with a pre tensioned line and a cradle barely puts any load on the tree unlike Butt or tip rigged sections. Have rigged out plenty of kretz beech in the past and never had one fail, my view is by the time you have got to the point where heavy negative rigging may be needed most of the Tree will be on the deck any way decreasing the chance of leverage failure ,just going carefully at it there should be no problems... I suppose if you can get a mewp in though it would be the safer bet .. and easier every time.
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Thought the moon had become a fire ball in the first pic! Glad they where of use to you and ended up something cool.
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I looked in to buying a non moted van the other day about 200 miles away , I could find nothing in the law that says as long as your driving the vehicle to a pre booked mot it being on the road would be illegal , there was nothing at all on distance ... apparently if you stop and buy some tabs or shopping you could be charged so the thought of driving it from bath to the north tyne for a pre booked mot seemed a bit daunting but would of been cheaper than recovery.
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How do you find the Samson rich?. I’m using non CE cougar blue with the usual wrench hitch climber combo with the hitch which is armour Pruss ,Tied long and as a loose VT as possible, armour Prussik is the only stuff to use imo as it just wont burn out and tolerates long super fast free fall descents no bother and does not bind and self tends lush. I will try and use a retrievable anchor consisting of an alpine butterfly and ring or the pinto method with a dmm tri lock biner over a base anchor where possible , don’t like the bounce or working with the potential to cut or have bits bounce of the line with the base anchor but they can be handy though if you want to set a few natural redirects to work an isolated bit of crown first from the ground or on the way up then set a tip tie I point or just can’t get a clean throw to set a retrievable anchor... having two throw bags on your line to manipulate a clean rope route is essential though.
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Fracture pruned induced bud formation from callus tissue
MattyF replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
Do you have any pics of this happening with simulated chainsaw coronet tear cuts David or does it only work with actual tears ? -
Damn them oily fingers !
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Can’t knock a transit , all I’ve used in Tree work , my 05 has clocked nearly 180k only thing it’s cost me is a solid dmf last year and some replacement pulleys and belts brakes and oil changes , it’s solid underneath ... been one of the most economic vehicles I’ve ever ran in terms of repairs and has made me money ,can’t bring myself to replace her and probably won’t until the engine goes.
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540??
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Pretty sure the 550’s will fit.
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Euro seem to be straighter than the F.C when buying timber, FC have dropped us right in as we where buying 300+tonne a year from them and they made all these promises saying they will always have timber for us to be told last month they have none and there will be none in the future either ... not a good moment , record timber price sales in keilder have happened over the last few weeks and there are big buyers seriously short , I can see it all imploding.
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Will the axle fit the stein?
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Looking at it again it has completely different axles!
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Has any one tried to see if the TCF wide wheels will fit the stein Arb trolley ?? I’ve actively looked for wide wheels that will fit and found nothing. I’ve had the Arb trolley up to it’s axles and stuck In soft ground so the wide wheels sound a great option..
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I put a large air filter and air box on a 576 with low hours .. the bottom end shat itself quite shortly afterwards.. and left me wondering if it was connected or just bad luck.
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https://www.lawson-his.co.uk/makita-p-90451-grease-gun-attachment-for-drills-and-impact-drivers I’m interested in this , any one tried it?? Will go straight on my makita impact gun.
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Balance rigged with a tag line pulled in on winch like grcs or even a truck as long as you have a good groundy on the lowering end who knows when to give Slack and not cause to much pressure on rigging point.
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If you can make a living out of small scale forestry you will find Arb work a walk in the park!
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Pretty valid in that case ! Never thought of it like that.
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I very rarely deploy the chin strap ! Maybe if I want to swing around up side down on a rec climb , or it’s so hot I’ll wear ear plugs which for both is pretty much never...I hate the things seriously they make me feel claustrophobic and restricted ! I got twatted hard a while back by a large chunk of collapsing tree whilst wearing an Arb helmet with out a chin strap, I think as pete said the helmet coming off absorbed so much of the impact as when I looked at the lump after I came to the conclusion it should of broken my neck . I’m not a HS freak either it’s just the folk visiting and inspecting our sites are.
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I climbed my last nptc refreshers SRT, except arial rescue that is ... never been asked not to climb SRT but if your gear is CE marked and the wrench is I don’t see why they would disallow it ? In my opinion it keeps you less fatigued and lessons the chance of an accident and keeps you more productive. I would definitely go on strike if I was forced to climb on a double rope again .. what a ball ache !
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I have sort of tried that tonight ,well put normal sordins in the technical holders if it does not work I will do what you said. Thing is the muffs look is identical to normal sordins and the sordins fit I just can’t work out why out of three helmets every single one has issues with the metal strips popping out.
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I think one is designed to take impacts from falling debris whilst the climbing lid is designed if you slip and swing and take an impact. I wore one for years in the woods but it appears to be something you can get pulled up on .. even wearing a climbing lid on the ground doing tree work and unfortunately the way things are going you might as well stick to the rules.
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Any recommendations?? Don’t say husky technical or pfanner ,Sick of looking at things and they fall to bits. Well vented and rain guard would be handy.
