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  1. munkymadman
    my mate just bought one, he let me play with to see what i thought as i normally climb on a lj. pretty good i thought, the movement takes a little getting used to. not sure of that velcro bit, and i really thought you could do srt with it. but i tried and i was oh so wrong. like the way you can move the wood bit forward as it wears
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    i've really learnt alot on this four page thread, of table tennis banter. who's joe, and where is he otherwise i'm gonna have a guess at it
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    stuhleck is the closest about 40 mins to an hours drive. not till december though. and the trees aren't that big all the time depends who your working for and where your work is based. if your mainly in vienna, it'll be of no difference to england, except for maybe a few large poplars.
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    a good mate of mine had it done in south america(not my preferred choice of location, but cheap). he had buggered eyes(something like 5% in one of his eyes), the doctors in america wouldn't do it because it was too much of a high risk. he hasn't got 20/20 vision now, but alot better than what it was. oh he's a climber by the way. it just means you need longer off after the surgery. only certain eyes are eligible for it so check that first. i'm in the same boat, not that bad a sight but not that good either. the longer you wait the better the technology. so i'll just keep leaving deadwood in trees for a bit longer
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    thanks rick, you were good to have on board. apart from falling asleep at the bar most nights(so i was told). i hope to be as quick as you when i'm in my mid forties. take care and hopefully we'll see you again. jake
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    arboriculture is the science of trees and tree surgery would be the craft. e.g horticulture is the study of plants while gardeners are the ones who tend to plants.
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    :ohmy:the thought of what you could do with a winch a felling bar and a leg sounds more suited to one of the SAW films:stickyman:
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    he he theres gonna be fight from hama's corner tonight, i'll have to check in later. anyway hama what figures are you putting in front of us now to figure out the last part of the question
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    sorry i'm understanding your nature now took me awhile. and i've only read the end of this thread as i wasn't going to trawl through 18 pages of it. as stephen put it always leads to an interesting thread, a bit of controversy. you guys all know each other better than i do. thanks for asking the knees alot better i reckon the doctors are overreacting about this talk of surgery, i should know i'm a surgeon myself
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    you seem to post alot of angry posts arbclimber. a positive contribution is more beneficial than a negative one regardless whos right or wrong. somethings knocked the wind out of your sail.
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    :lol: look what happens when you advertise shiny thigs, how the male mind wanders
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    be nice arbclimber, he was only making a point. maybe he knew the answer and was playing dumb to get us thinking, you knew the answer and failed to enlighten us until near the end. maybe he was playing teacher. we've all learnt something and thats the point of the exercise
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    thanks for that, how obvious when you think about it just didn't take it into consideration. sorry i think i sowed the seed of derailment. trying to think of something controversial.... hmmm what about regulations when doing tall hedges. i feel alot less safe at the top of hedge you have to break every rule in the book to get around the thing. only feasible to bring a strop up with you and half the time you can't use it anyway. are hedges a seperate catergory to trees?
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    no actually it can't it doesn't come out the same way as a normal cambium saver. if theres anything going through the pulley still when trying to remove it then it can't come out of the ring the pulley is sitting in. and if the pulley was to come out the whole unit would drag the throwline around whatever it was on and turn into a right tangle. thats why they invented that retrieval unit which i don't have a clue how it works anymore
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    in my defense(for my recent blonde moments) i have always been aware of the tonnage with kN. i see 2000 and i think 2 tonne. very little equipment goes below a tonne in strength(bar the plastic crabs). very little goes above 10 tonne so i always see the first number '2' in 2000, i think two small cars, thats alot. thats how my basic brain works, association. and i'm afraid i'm guilty of not really considering the swl. even though it annoys me that my grcs thing is rated in pounds(can't calculate that, without a converter
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    i was in nepal last year and noticed that pollarding seemed to be their way of a sustainable fuel resource(in rural areas). interesting what you said about the lords owning the lumber. i'm assuming thats not the case in nepal and wondered why they didn't favour coppicing over pollarding unless pollarded growth is more vigourous than coppiced
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    same deal there haven't got the software to open it, the computer wants me to buy something. i lose interest at that point. probably a get out clause for ART if something goes wrong
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    whats ir roughly say, i can't seem to open it.
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    probably why it prevents them from falling over not much sail effect with a hat rack. how about pollarding vs reducing! very old style of tree care loads of for and againsts. the lazy mans reduction.
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    embarassing really, i never really know if i'm overloading something or not. its all too much to calculate while working. i am astounded by how strong equipment is, even the lightweight stuff. i've broken rigging points but(knock on wood) never rigging gear. i often look at some gear and think is this knackered(just because its not all shiny anymore) or has it got years left in it.
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    thats proof enough for me that 20mm is a bit excessive up the tree, unless i was lowering tractors
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    how can you say are crown reductions necessary. in alot of urban situations its a matter of reduce or remove. you can't have large trees growing into buildings, and its a shame just to cut them down. yes i've done plenty of pointless reductions. it's also best advised for failure prevention 10% reduction alongside a 15% thin.
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    took a hell of a swing on monday and let out an almighty cry the lads thought i'd broken my back(maybe i just overreacted). taking down these three willows by a river for the day. using the central tree to rig off and anchor off. one of the willows was this pole that leaned out over the river. so i climbed up it using my anchor point from the other tree. climbed two thirds up put a rigging line on. but it was really gusty and couldn't decide whether to go with the wind or the lean(went with the lean). took my side strop off in case it went across me (still undecided whether it would have been better to leave it on or not). i cut it a big gust came picked it up twisted it around snapping it's hinge then threw it across my main line and ripped me from my tree into the trunk of the main tree. impacting the side of my knee rupturing my LCL ligament. off for an mri today
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    i didn't even get a chance to take it out of its bag
  25. munkymadman
    maybe not sure. you do need a sufficient amount of weight in the wood to get a satisfactory tear. wouldn't be a very long topic though. rigging is an issue, i'm just after having a rigging accident and won't be climbing for at least 2 weeks. but whats your controversial alternative hand holding everything? thats not feasible. i think PPE issues is the best one

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