Mangoes

Thanks for the heads up. Cant be pointing my finger though. Ive been quite absent as well.

I would be very curious to the alternatives you would suggest.

A sh!tload is ten loads. It follows the metric system.

I thought there was a silent letter in the name but it was pronounced 'Masham'. Nice village, visited the brewery and market day there in 2004.

Is Meashem the home of Black Sheep Ale?

So you have a back plate that looks like Swiss Cheese too!

Catching up on this thread. Alot of good work here. A note of defence for Greg Good I was told that he profits $200 per GRCS (slightly lower than the $300 Frans has mentioned, but might account for the bulk sale difference) and by that token he is giving away his intellectual property. The man works to better the industry, does alot of training in rigging, and will share anything he knows about tree work. Drives a Mini not a Mercedes. For all that have some homemade devices, did you machine the holes for the baseplate screws yourselves or did you have a professional machinist do the task? For my mini GRCS I did my own and found the task very daunting. As far as value and return......meh....no sense arguing about it. Those that don't see its value, it won't fit their 'formula' for tree work, those that see a potential will try it and alter their 'formula' to make it efficient for them. Personal taste. Anecdote: pretty scetchy, but pretty amazing, watching a mentor use 2 GRCS to lift a 32" DBH Norway Spruce out of a ravine in 1 piece. The winch itself didn't have enough power, but when you put a 44:1 winch on the tail of a 5/8 line used to create a 5:1 which is subsequently on a 3/4" line used to create a 3:1 attached to the 3/4" pull line, you find yourself generating alot of force (harp not on me, I know systems were overloaded, this mentor was smart, but also like to push limits)

Hefty chunks w/that 071. I have a 081 on a 95 International, and I will pick from the tree, but the pucker factor is high. Prefer to pick up from the ground for sake of confidence.

There needs to be more women in the industry. I have had a great number of opportunities to encourage a few aspiring women Arborists (a girl doesn't have to climb to prove adept as an Arborist) in my past experience as an instructor. As an istructor at the college I had more males enter the course, physically unable to climb, than females......food for thought. True physique will be a factor, but whatever I'm not a big guy and I have to work smarter than someone like Ed might have to. Now to the comments of class and such, less sensitivity is in order. Humans classify and categorize, our judgment and scrutinizing nature. It is why we have Latin nomenclature. We classify sex, attitudes, skills, language, skin colour, country of origin, religion, sexual orientation, financial class etc etc etc. Some of it is negative, some of it is good all of it is genetic and subconscious.

Old school or new, the bigger the Mental Toolbox the more opportunity to apply a technique for greater efficiency.

Bartlett

Just occured to me......Florida?? as in Dotpalm. The right colours aren't they now?

Nope, still in the T.

19500lb GVW Steel body and still able to put 8k in the back. Truck was assembled by a local fabricator/builder. I LUST after this truck. Any guesses as to where/who it went. (think yellow) Sorry LCF (ie low cab forward)

Who?

We've got ourselves a bonafide thread dee-rale! Tree Pics, I'll post the rest of the details in another thread

All fixed up, multilift removed and forestry body installed.

You're refering to last year's fiasco?

Ulmus americana.......or it was. I was hired for my crane and offered to climb.

Elm from a couple of weeks ago. Poor bugger taken out by DED.

I was aware that commercial licensing came in lighter in the UK, but wasn't aware it was that light! :eek: Presumably if investment into all the commercial rigamerole was required, higher performance units are available as far as payload is concerned. Here it is nice, very productive and under the CVOR (commercial vehicle operators registry) radar. As well driveable with a 'G' (small cars, trucks, vans etc) license. I wish I could get your small pickups in diesel over here. It would make for a nice quoting vehicle.

Noticed that the Brits favour Timberwolf and Schliesing (sp) chippers which is different, but cultures generally are. But then I noticed in another thread some discussion with some of those manufacturers having bearingns and other wear components wear out quite quickly. And it caused me to ponder, what is the status of Bandit and Morbark over there as they both make compact chippers suitable to the uk market. As well my 65 has about 800hrs on it and I've had no issues (outside of some employees improperly seating the airfilter and causing some engine issues). I spend money on Fuel, knives, oil and grease, as well as a bit on light bulbs. Those are the only components some of which are due to routine maintenance intervals, that I've spent money on.

Food for thought, my '98 Cummins is a 3500hd with single rear wheels. With the insert dump & the origional factory bed (next time i might be rid of the factory bed) quad cab, all my rigging and climbing gear behind the seats, weighs 3600 kg. The factory says I'm good to 5200kg. I havn't weighed her with wood, but fully loaded with chips (Bandit 65 small and highly compacted chip) she weighs 4900kg. 1300kg of detritus is pretty good for not needing any extra licencing.

Most have seen my daily........but my fun ride is here too.

The pole climber broke his pelvis from that fall. We use that vid in our training courses as a point of arguement against the use of 'sharps' in a rescue scenario. There is a belay line on the victim that goes up and over one of the insulated anchor points, around the pole (over the rescuer's lanyard) and to the victim. He grabs the wrong leg of rope (lead, instead of fall) and it ends up pulling his lanyard down, blowing his spurs out and he falls. Really not a laughing matter. It is also a good arguement against speed during rescue ops. These linemen are supposed to lower the victim in 4min (could have the wrong number in mind) a poor philosophy in the rescue world.