Jay
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What about Gefa. more rope like than Boa and Cobra but requires tools to install but it does have cool white breaking threads. these are designd to break and fluff up if the system becomes wthing 80% of its breaking strain. so easy to see if its going to break always helpful.
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the sun is the best watch! its free, wont break easily, dont have to wear it, can see it from anywhere, and has a good light on it. What more do you want?
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Sorry to hear the bad news, saw the sign at the suffolk show on the feildens stand, couldn't beleive it. Had any luck yet finding it?
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i have a HS81R used to have the 26 inch i think it is or 24 inch but got replaced with the 30inch by insurance. preferd the smaller one much easier to use all day you can certainly tell the difference in weight. but its a brilliant machine. does anyone else find the stihl hedge cutters a pain to start. there normally ok but occasionally my plays up and takes ages to start. once had to leave a job cos of it got home and it started fine and it was 2 weeks old.
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We dont have any lasses atall let alone good looking ones. Just 6 lads on my ND. but they do have horse studies at the college, so you get a few in their tight trousers.
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we used to have a similiar Yale type. was good but it ran on batteries which ran out every week so often wasn't working and constantly used to go off and not be able to turn it off without getting the ladder out getting the siren off the wall and pulling out the batteries. not the best!
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nice but pricey you could make something much cheaper.
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2 years here but not full time been doing college in between that ND in arb. but finding it hard to get work 5 days a week being self employed. bit of a struggle when your starting.
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at college we were only shown with the tail. only sic been working have i been shown the proper way the double rope way.much easier. just it requires alot of strength.i find it much easier in trainers than boots not that i climb in trainers at work just when playing at home. just easier to grip the rope in trainers.
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yer ill be there but in my bowler hat suited and booted. stewarding there, man of authority so no chainsaws trousers for me will becoming over and saying hi though. might just happen to have my stuff in the car for a quick spiking if i can be bothered.
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yer i have done the same thing to in the back garden setting up zip lines and stuff testing it with a big rigging bag first which failed so you just think what the hell and get on only to find to go so fast you hit the floor and get dragged 20ft on your arse, but all good fun.
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dont like to ruin your fun or say im right by any means and mean no offence or anything, but most tree climbing equipment isnt designed for fall arrest its for work positioning. just the second video looks like she falls before the slack is taken out of the line. your weight increases by some rediculuss amount like 10 times ever metre you fall. which the kit isn't intended for. im no expert or anything just my opinion. looks like your having fun thought which is good. good luck with your NPTC
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I always find it easier climbing in dense trees where you cant see out that easily. then you just keep on climbing and dont know how high you are or how much further to the top. also i find it help to not keep looking up and down only makes you think more about where you are. and also if you start getting a bit scared just do a bit of pruning if its part of the job always helps me to take my mind of the climbing and just relaxes you. best quote i read on here 'concerntrate on what your doing not where your doing it'
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looks pretty smart and nothing like the others. apart from the colours. love my dragonfly but would like to give it ago just think i preffer ones with a seat. get what you mean about the twists and the bridge steve. looks like it can move up and down the red straps which move the twisted bit in the red strap which then holds it there. if that makes sense. looks good though.
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depends on the tree you have to do 'vertical trunk sections' the tree i had was co-dominant well king of so i mamaged to get the vertical sections out of that without knocking out the main stem. just has to be at least 8 inches in diameter. it was in a woodland so all tall and straight up so lots of vertical sections. not sure about the natural crotch i just used a block on a split tale with a cow hitch. yer i always call it a gob cut but the assesor called it a sink cut so i started doing it.
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passed CS40 and CS41 today. im not going to say i passed with flying colours but i got through it and have the bit of paper to prove it. I know some others on here wanted to know what you had to do so here is. CS40 I had to reduce and thin a medium size Oak all over. this was only 10 - 15%. and of coarse answer all the questions and stuff. and all was done with a handsaw. CS41 - sectional felling Lateral limbs- 1 butt rope 1 tip rope 1 balanced at least one of these has to have a pulling line. vertical sections- 1 free fall sink cut, just push it off 1 free fall step cut, just push it off 2 sink cut with a pulling line and all the other bits you have to answer and expain like setting up your fiction device, portawrap. thats all i can remeber from 3 hours ago.
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i could be completey wrong but looks like his whole waist band has slipped around so more like he is wearing it sideways. or he had the bridge fully extented. i think you can adjust them cant really remember.
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yer it would of been if it hadn't of been pollarded a few years ago. but trunk size i would have said that to.
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Heaveningham hall, through lark valley. just not looking forward to it to much there trees dont seem to be well suited if you ask me. when i did my 39 we had some fairly large Oaks to work with only thing we could take out was dead wood and the trees had been pruned before so no great anchor points. it the scheduals is says open grown medium sized trees. doesnt seem to happen. or its just me thinking a meduium tree to you lot is a large tree to me.
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spiking is definatly the biggest fear for me. i find looking up and relising how much further you have left to go is worse. just keep ploding on upwards and it makes a nice surprise when your at the top. one of my fears is of people expecting to much of me. i havent been climbing that long and hate the thought of someone taking me on and i cant do what they expect like big big trees.
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not trying for compitition but im only 18. although i dont have a chipper or a stump grinder but hire them in. so ok then you do win. hope it all goes well for you and you get the work you need. i wouldnt mind having a chipper and grinder in 3 years.
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work with my brother doing little jobs for ourselves but planning to set up a partnership in trees and landscaping, he's a landscaper not just trying to get money doing anything and everthing not saying that why people do it but thats what some think. and my dad likes to come and help well he provides the transport and trailer but reckon he'll work with us later on if it all goes well. he just likes driving tractors and moving soil though.
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the milk is ment to go in first then the tea, then top it up with sugar 3 ideally but i feel bad asking for 3 cos everyone is like WHAT thats to much sugar so i put up with 2.
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yer but he is a bit dodgy. lol
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what about if you did it with a tear away strop. but then dont think you can use then with the weight of a 066?
