Rich Rule
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One of the Silver Birches we reduced a bit of end weight, deadwooded, cut back over chimney stack and then installed a Cobra System. Beautiful tree to work on and climb.
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We use the 2t and 4t cobra system. Dependent on the size of the defective limb. We often do some end weight reductions above suspect unions before installing the cobra system.
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Yes, but we call them Silver Birches.
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Over in Norway we brace a lot of trees. There are lots of Silver Birch in and around the Oslo area. Yes we do brace a lot of Birch trees with Cobra Systems. The Birch trees in Norway tend to have a fair few unions so you can even install the collar in a Union usually at a 2/3 to a 1/3 ratio above the defect.
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The BBC pushes a tree climbing book 'news'
Rich Rule replied to Andrew McEwan's topic in General chat
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If that was my one Steve. I thanks you for not sending a 300 pound bill.
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Not necessarily. Limbs and stems tend to taper as the get higher. So if there isn't a suitable Union to install above, the system won't necessarily slip down. At some point the stem will be fatter that the collar and cuff. However, there is usually something up there and if the exact retaining branch for the collar isn't at exactly a 3rd... Would 5% either way be that drastic? Again down to installation. If that were to be the case then I would be more concerned with the collar girdling the limb/stem and as a measure should be inspected and replaced if that is the case. I have done loads to Cobra Bracing over in Norway, but only installed 1 system in the UK and that was 14 years ago. IME, most of the time when we inspect and replace it is due to a bad previous installation.
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Good work Mick... That last picture looks like an Orange Dinosaur is coming into frame to help with the logs. Edit: 2nd to last.
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Haha. I am sure if you followed your heritage back far enough there may be a bit of a link to Britain somewhere. If I were you I would contact the BBC with this evidence and express your outrage at being unable to view it. Or get a proxy service that makes it look like you are in the British Isles. It was a pretty good program. I had to stop half way through though as the sun has come out for 10 minutes, that means BbQ time in my household. I will watch the rest later.
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Fires maybe so? Different environments though, I dare say the incidence of fires damaging trees is greater in California compared the the wet West coast of Wales.
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Maybe the case regarding the Ginko. However, they do grow here but are not native. The documentary is pretty much UK based, and as the Oak is so symbolic within the British Empire through building of war machine and Naval fleets, it follows the changing of the seasons for one particular tree.
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BBC iPlayer - Oak Tree: Nature's Greatest Survivor
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A friend was chatting about this program during the weeks. It is on iplayer BBC4. Very interesting program showing the seasonal cycle of the Oak tree.
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Do you know what killed it? The timber can have a very different feel depending on the cause of death. Some trees loose there bark and are as dry and solid as a bone. Others are a complete mesh of rot and crap.
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Paul, try posting the YouTube video link without the "s" so interwar of https it will read http. The video should preview then instead of showing the hyperlink.
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Never an easy time losing an old friend. RIP
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Cougar on the bone. Not tried the Kernmaster with mine as it is pretty worn. I don't reckon it would grab.
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I have cougar blue and orange. Both great ropes and very static. I also have a length of Kernmaster. It's a it bouncy but great with the RR.
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The gap between the cab and the back of the truck has some form of protection between to protect on contact. My old truck used to contact as the back twisted as I drove. I had a 5 inch mark on easy side of the cab where the contact had basically 'wet and dried' back to bare metal. I had mine fixed and repaired under the warranty.
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Looked a lovely day for it Jesse. Perfect for SRT jobs like that.
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Well we did ask the farmer and in true farmer fashion he responded the JD was on tick over... David, it was definitely a good call. Yes the tree fell in the direction of the hedge row and onto a log pile but I think that was just a bit of luck. We were prepared to pruned up the sides of the other trees if on of the stems rolled into that. There was also included bark on the 2nd union up so we installed the pull line to pull the stems together. Who is to say where it would have gone if nature had taken its course. Even though it is on a farm, the track is well used by farm traffic, shooters, dogg walkers and horsey people. Sorry for the vertical video. [ame] [/ame]
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A couple of pics of the crack and state of the stump. Rich
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Turned up to deadwood a couple of beech trees today and noticed a vertical crack from some included bark on a mature Beech tree. Made a few call and decided to test the crack with a John Deere. The tractor won. [ame] [/ame] We then felled the remainder into the field behind with a little help from Mr J Deere. [ame] [/ame]
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Roger that. Understood.
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Can you explain further Carl? I am confused... In you e.g above, if it doesn't have a splice termination then it isn't a re splice.
