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Light reduction on a beech in Godalming this week by me, marc and andy.
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Hi, look at the java category at GSI Outdoors - manufacturers of the finest camp cookware for ultralight backpacking & campfire cooking. Hope this helps.
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It can be very useful when moving from one tree to another, retrieving a monkey's fist for example.
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I replaced my original sherrill ditty bag for the small silver bull version. I tend to be quite light on my kit, the silver bull ditty still managed to come apart at the seams, very disappointing! I have since gone back to the sherrill ditty which is still going strong. The current yellow ditty bag from sherrill appears unnecessarily complicated IMHO.
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Hope this is better Marc
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£129.28 for 120foot PI with 1 splice and £154.68 for 150foot with 1 splice from Vermeer UK. About £20 p@p, although I got my rope sent free recently.
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I know its a useless picture, but it's all i've got from a recent job for Freelance. Hope to get some better ones soon. [ATTACH]26971[/ATTACH] The removal of 2 Poplars.
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Marc finishing the Pines from the previous thread.
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Sorry, if your looking for an equivalent to blue moon try yale xtc pro.
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You can get poison ivy through Vermeer UK. I just got some blue moon from Honey brothers, very good rope. If you are looking for a CE equivalent to PI, you could try yale XTC pro from drayer (at least I think it is CE approved, don,t quote me on that). It's a good rope and comparable to blue moon.
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The unimaginatively named Garden Spider.
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Great video and fantastic skills Reg. Always wanted to use two snatch blocks. Really liked the way you protected the ropes from the falling wood, very clever!
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Todays job. Reducing a large weeping lime suffering from Ustulina.
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Some recent work. The pine was a take down, a bit wobbly! We carried out crown care on the rather special Holm Oak, three limbs still have to be propped.
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Industrial rope access workers will reconnect there system while climbing, e.g. traversing eye bolts or using cowstails while redirecting. It has always puzzled me why industrial rope workers, who can work at heights far in access of anything a treeworker will ever encounter, are able to use screw gate karabiners. Does anyone have a answer?
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Two great trees I had the pleasure to work on in Germany recently. The plane was a thin and dead wood, the white poplar was a 3m to 5m reduction.
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I think it is the Montezuma Cypress at Tule in Mexico.
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I was connected to the tree by my strop, I was also roped in to the standing stem. As for another climber? there was just me.
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Cheeky!
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We were felling the tree, the 25% comment was a joke by my colleague. If we had felled it in one we would have hit some newly planted trees, big NO NO! As Marc said, the rope was there just in case. I had to get the tree down quickly because the chap with the forwarder was on his way and we all had alot to do that day.
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Where did you buy it from and how much?
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I find chains so much easier to use then slings or ropes. For example, why carry the chain and a sling out to the end of a limb when balancing when you only need the chain. They are easier to disengage on the ground. Slings are difficult to use when wet and/or old and chains are easy to adjust with an extra wrap or shortening clutches. However, if you are new to craning, I would always recommend using slings.
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One of the chaps from Treesolutions has just taken delivery of the new two ring cambium saver or multisaver from teufelberger. It looks like a tidy bit of kit and usefully requires the same size retrieval ball as a rope guide. He has replaced the adjustable section with a cocoon attached by a softline prusik loop. This is installed around the TIP with the big ring on one side and the cocoon and small ring, in that order, on the other. Nothing unusual yet I know. However, the climbing line is passed through all three points and the prusik loop adjusted so the cocoon sits snugly in the middle. This seems to drastically reduce the friction associated with a normal two ring cambium saver, infact it performs more like a rope guide but without any of the retrieval problems. Just wondering if anyone else has used a similar setup and how it performed?
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Nicely done!
