MattyF

Aye but what happens when the structural metal rots ?

Also the trees in the videos are hardly mature trees either , you can’t measure a sapling against a fully grown and mature tree the dynamics are completely different.

Have gone back and re read this.. so the sway and osculation is a good thing to dampen wind load ? Not surely the case if the Tree is defective at crucial points? This makes an interesting discussion surely !!

I don’t know if it’s a sign of the times , people lack empathy and live in a total fantasy with or with out social media to blame social media is wrong people on a whole are just those things , social media on the plus side allows you to maintain and keep learning if you want subjects you are passionate about, on the minus any one can find and befriend you, I had an ex for a good reasons From 20 years ago contact me on messenger late last Friday which is the sort of reason I didn’t use Facebook for years in the first place... woke up thinking what a horrible nightmare and then realised it had happened..

Interesting ,most reductions are carried out when the Tree has defects and faults , I have worked Trees in all weathers and have always felt when the tips are reduced the sway is lessoned... I don’t think I imagined that. That video is interesting and if this is the case I throws out my last two decades of my tree career but have always said it’s better to leave trees to do there thing any way. I have seen a Merrip beech that we reduced by 35% fail but then again if the gardener had not of removed the fungus when we specced the job it would of recommend a fell any way.

Chainsaw fight club is worth a look for viz type humour.

There’s some good memes though...

Trimming is exempt I’m sure as it’s ongoing maintenance..I’ve been told first hand by two Tree officers although that may have been please don’t waste our time with such trivial applications ! Topping isn’t though.

Any woody plant over 6” at bh was covered in a conservation area I thought , over grown hedges would be covered was my impression and have always followed that unless trimming a large hedge.

He wasn’t impressed!

Lad who freelances for us said he turned up on site last week with a 20l can of mixed fuel and noticed the guy he was working for filling up his cans with it at the end of the day ... apparently if you charge more for your own fuel as a freelancer at the end of the day it belongs to who your working for!

When ground guys tie on a block with the rigging line separate and not threaded and ready to go.

only reason it became so popular was because of the characteristics that made it a good rope got taken away when they completely changed the core to make a CE approved cougar.. I would stay clear unless you have tried it and likes.... I have not tried this but a lad who’s climbed on my non CE cougars brought some the other day and really likes it. https://www.gustharts.com/climbing-equipment-c1/climbing-ropes-c3/ropes-with-terminations-c4/teufelberger-drenaline-p1691 It felt in hand a bit like cougar... and not too thin which is good for me , can’t be doing with climbing on cheese wire ropes.

looks an interesting set up. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F253629002049 Quite a few nice ones on eBay at the minute.

Willows and poplars do it for me , although I dont mind poplars that have never been pruned as they tend to be light and are great trees to spike but once topped they give me the fear .. I’ve had whole stems of regrowth fall off with a push to reveal the most awesome cavity’s , I trust most other species , don’t mind walnut I trust it more than the above two apart from it being like Velcro so if your reducing one you have to try and launch every twig out or it hangs up. Cankered up chestnut with a big spiral of dead bark and dysfunctional Wood never gives you much confidence either. Hate spruces and pines in the height of summer when it’s too warm to wear gloves and your covered in sap wrecking your ropes and clothes too... or when they are coming on sap and they seem to weigh twice as much as normal. Monkey puzzles ... black thorn ,robinias and honey locus.. for obvious reasons. Those huge limes with every limb included that get your throw bags stuck or rip out when you put some weight on them when your set to ascend. why do we do this job again??

It can be as sharp as humanly possible if it’s not oiling it won’t do its job...if your pushing a saw that won’t cut .. well you should not be pushing a saw it should be doing the work for you ,accidents are likely to happen. Titan stuff .. even screw fix told me what did you expect it’s cheap for reason when I complained about some carpentry tools .. can you hire a decent saw From easy hire or some thing to finish the job. Failing that you have a cup of veg oil and dip the bar in it every 10 seconds !

Some folk have been , I think it’s some thing largely untouched until the zk1 came out but I had always heard about these mythical beast climbers on there Pantins and hand acenders who would leave most good climbers for dead on big London plane Tree’s . I think for myself myself I largely skipped over the Jeff Epsom’s and Tom dunlaps book touching on it as I felt a pantin on a double rope was good enough for my basic climbing needs. I think also I tried the zk1 and hated it , brought a mk2 after the raving of it on here and hated it and it sat in the bottom of the bag for a few years before I gave it a proper chance and it changed my working life! My opinion now is Kevin Bingham should get a nighthood for it!!

If your gonna be using the saw please do some internet research on what causes kick back your confusing terms here, actual kick back is a phenomenon caused when actually cutting and not starting a saw... it can be fatal so please have google on chainsaw kickback and cutting best practices... good you got the saw running [emoji1303] https://www.husqvarna.com/uk/forest/when-working/usage/work-tasks-with-risk-of-kickback/

Delete and reinstall sam , worked for me.

Link to a SRT rescue stolen from Instagram I that is pretty impressive ... , there are so many ways I think you can rescue SRT In different scenarios that would make it safer and easier... as a climbing system altogether I think it’s the future for Tree climbing, I’m working with guys who are slowly converting and like my self found it horrible at first as it’s a complete different experience but once you have got your head around the basics the fluidity starts to return with a bit of practice. Problem is you can’t practice in a work scenario so most try it and go back to what they know, personally for me loosing a bit of the fluidity until I got to grips was a very good move for saving my body and productivity in the long run , I’m getting older so have more experience but a career time of pulling your body around on a double rope does nothing but damage it from my experience.

Old git does I believe... looks a handy set up for when you can blow back chip on road side stuff as it is a hassle taking out more vehicles when the mewps limited to only doing what it does, you some times it think was it worth the hassle in bringing it out three trucks on site.

Just had to mot are mewp and it’s on a landy .. I thought the new legislation meant they all need an mot regardless and there was no loop holes ?

It’s a lot easier to navigate the unread posts as well, on the web browser it gives every reply to a thread when I just wanted to see the topics last replied to so I’m not scrolling through every reply to topics that don’t appeal to me.

Apps knacked it looks like.

Have had a lot more stihl chains snap than Husqvarna , especially when they lightened up the DL’s with the hole in the middle I believe for better oiling .... I recall snapping them weekly with one time being in a tree and reving up a 200 and the chain snapping and flinging off in to the sunset over gardens because some where in the last few chains breaking the chain catcher had been torn off!