detritus21
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Pretty much every tree climber breaks the rules. Rope access work should be undertaken with two ropes one work line and one safety line both of which should be attached to the climber and long enough to enable easy rescue. What hse also state though if risk assessment justifies that one line is safer as two would hinder then use one and a work positioning strop. This has become best practice within tree work. srt is another technique which as ddrt has safety implications. Just select anchor points accordingly and don't cut your rope. Also use work positioning lanyard.
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Use mine everyday. Give it a visual inspection every time I am about to leave the ground. I don't see the problem. It isn't a catastrophic failure where you will drop out the tree unlike when the mark 1 was repeatedly abused.
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I can ask one of my contacts if he would be interested. He is based in Wigan but know he ventures out Southport way fairly frequently
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Fire damage. Someone has had a bonfire to close to the tree and it has burnt all the bark off. That is my guess anyway.
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CODIT why are some trees better than others?
detritus21 replied to Gravityalwayswins's topic in General chat
Some trees will try to outgrow the problem such as willow and poplar rather than expend energy undertaking CODIT. Its a bit of a flawed plan but if the tree reaches a maturity where reproduction is efficient the particular tree species will survive. -
Knots - bowline with stopper knot hitches - prussic and blakes 3 knot system - blakes hitch on end of rope you will also learn 3 or 4 different aerial rescues
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Its absolutely dreadful. I had to turn away when you were cutting it down in the video. Truly sickening. In all seriousness though a good bit of advertising.
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I'd second Marco also. Having a chipper on lease hire already am getting a stump grinder on finance also. Its took less than two days to get the agreement in place.
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I have a height measuring app on my phone. Failing that I just look at what is the approx height of a man and use that as a guide. Tends to over estimate but prefer that than under estimate and drop it onto something
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With nature of equipment faults will occur just not so good when your life depends on it. Having read the report I will continue using it as is and I give it a quick visual inspection before every climb anyway. I'd be more worried if the failure was catastrophic like the first version.
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Grind them. Any "poisons" will leach away anyway. Unless you were to eat a whole load of the stuff I'm sure it wouldn't do you any good but the grindings won't really cause an issue
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For prepack try cpl they do alot of the common smokeless varieties. They also do loose
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Hourly rate for chipping other peoples mess.
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why not just get an ms170 or similar for the chipper. Other makes also exist. Having used a top handle on the floor once or twice I find rear handle saw just as easy and it meets hse requirements
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try now
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Axe tends to bounce off seasoned hornbeam.
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Good wood. Very tough to split by hand. It ain't called ironwood for nothing. Once split 6 months should be sufficient maybe up to 12 months
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You don't happen to want any this week do you? Have a job thursday in Blackburn.
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Fuel consumption is great tank lasts as long as my 200 does
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Don't do titan. They are cheap as they come out of a generic Chinese factory. My personal experience is it will rattle itself to oblivion unless the build quality has improved
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Is there a reason given. If you were to appeal I doubt it would be turned down particularly if you highlight the reasons.
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The reason people think you can't reduce them is they done do well after brutal topping. Sympathetic reductions are fine. nice work
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Hardwood. Have two chestnuts next week near aughton as well
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Might have some fresh felled syc and birch next week if any interest
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Love ours. We burn a mix of log and coal. A bucket of coal and a dozen logs keep our rads on for 12 hours. Even on coal my bills would be cheaper than having gas on 12 hours a day.
