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  1. Rich Rule
    The Swale is a dangerous river. My dads brother drowned in there when my old fella was 7. His brother (14) jumped in to save my dad after he was caught in a flash flood. My uncle got into bother and the older brother (21) who was a very strong swimmer by all accounts. He managed to get them both out but was washed away. They found his body about a week later a few miles down stream.
  2. Rich Rule
    See you tomorrow Steve. I won't have any money on me but I am planning on winning your voucher in the raffle. 50 quid to port and rebuild the 660 - bargain
  3. Rich Rule
    Ian with a few carrot accessories you can be a Norfolk Hipster. You already have the beard, a couple of carrots and you be reet!
  4. Rich Rule
    Sorry to hear of another theft. Maybe when you get your replacements you could register them on Arbsafe? Might be good to have records of serial numbers etc. The thing with Arbsafe is that IMO it will only work if a lot of people use and register their kit on there.
  5. Rich Rule
    Who knows mate. Looks a bit too complicated to me. If you are going down the hitch route. I don't think you can beat a HC pulley, VT or friction hitch to suit, and a rope wrench connected to the same bina as the legs of the friction cord. The additional wholes on the HC then allow you to connect the chest tether or neck tether in the choice of the two holes. Edit: I have a Pinto pulley and always thought it looked sweet and compact... then as I was used to the HC, I could never get used to it mainly looking where to clip the tether.
  6. Rich Rule
    I must admit I prefer a chest harness to a neck tether. I have a neck tether I use on my micro frog system when using ascenders and an access line.
  7. Rich Rule
    I think they look great when managed and cut to cycle. I love the ones on the shores of Lac Lemman, and Annesy. In fact pretty much all over france as Mick stated. We do a lot of repollarding on 200 year old lime trees when I am over in Oslo. To look at them you wouldn't think they were that old. They are cut on a yearly basis and look great when freshly cut.
  8. Rich Rule
    Rope..? A decent length of something not too bouncy. I have various ropes. My favourite are the Cougars from Oz. No have blue and orange and both have minimum elasticity. I prefer these. I also was given a length of kernmaster. I always considered it to be very bouncy. I tried t though with a new rope runner, I never thought I would say this but the combo works great. The rope is still bouncy though.
  9. Rich Rule
    That is why some love the VT. Almost infinite options to get it how you wish. That is also the very same reason quite a few people don't like the VT.
  10. Rich Rule
    Mate, get comfortable on the HC system. Now if you want the hitch further away from you whilst on long ascents (so you can pull below the system body thrust style) use a short length of rope or a tape sling of the appropriate length. When you are at a work station re attach the hitch climber back to your bridge so the hitch is close. Personally I would get a foot ascender and just pull above the hitch and use your leg to make it easier. The foot ascender will also tend the slack. But then again I have never really considered the o rig useful. But that is just me. What ever you choose, practice and lots of it will make it easier.
  11. Rich Rule
    Yes mate it was about -3 or 4 when we started. Once you get moving the layers start to peel off and it is pretty decent working in a merino thermal and teeshirt. We put it about 3 spans of cobra so there were a few of us up there to crack out the work and get it done. Bloody freezing though when you are waiting for the cobra kit to come your way to do the stem you are on... Brrrr!
  12. Rich Rule
    Single line mate on the Bulldog bone. I do have a rope runner as well, but not climbed on it much. As the BDB is well worn in it is a dream to use.
  13. Rich Rule
    few more bracing pics.
  14. Rich Rule
    Mick, dark till about 8.15 am and then gets dark in the arvo around 4 - 4.15pm. Thanks David, there was 2 of us in the Mewp. One to operate and one to cut. There were lots of historic bracing in there to avoid as it looked just like deadwood. We managed to get the tree done with 3 setups of the Mewp. But it was a full on day due to light issues. The truck in the morning picture is a 7.5 t MAN which was about a third full and we had a few large lumps of dead we used the Avant to lift. There was also a 3.5t Crafter that had about half a load of dead logs. Rich
  15. Rich Rule
    We went to work on one of the oldest and largest Black Poplars in Oslo this week. The tree had to be heavily rj'd 10 years ago due to decline and some storm damage. We were sent there to deadwood, thin and take some weight out of the ends. Just to give some scale to the thing, I am 6 foot 4 so you can see trunk size. The central dead leader would have needed the 88 to get through it. As it was I removed the fingers from the top stem with the 441 but could have done with a 66. Left the main part of the dead central leader due to wood pecker holes. We had a 23metre meep on site provided by the Kommune. The tree had to be retained as is is in a busy park overlooked by a number of Embassy's. Trunk shot, before and after. Rich
  16. Rich Rule
    Cobra Brace and end weight rj's of a stand of mature Lime trees in a pro in Oslo. Rich
  17. Rich Rule
    Jake, Have you tried Nationwide? surprisingly enough, they hire nationwide.
  18. Rich Rule
    Nice tree chopping' mate
  19. Rich Rule
    The Rope runner work pretty well Dbrt. As does the bulldog bone.
  20. Rich Rule
    Voila! [ame] [/ame]
  21. Rich Rule
    Steve, Giorgio Fiori (Climber Georgio) did it a while back he had something on the top of his spikes instead of a HAAS type setup. I will see if I can dig out the clip.
  22. Rich Rule
    Nice work mate. You mostly doing conifers over there then Adam?
  23. Rich Rule
    The Cougars? The Cougar blue is pretty old now and looks a lot fatter than the Orange. I haven't done that much on the orange as it is 60M length so a bit overkill for most trees. It does feel great to climb on though but feels quite different to the Blue. Cougar ropes IME fluff up quite a bit when used. Where as the Orange is brand spammer and comparing them the difference looks quite a lot. The Orange being new is a lot cleaner and looks a lot thinner. But it climbs the same, just feels the same in the hand. The Blue is like wire when you have been climbing on it. The Orange feels that way to date, although as I said I need to have more time on the Orange to form a full opinion on it. I am swapping on of my 50M of tachyon for a length of Kern, so I will be trying that out this week.
  24. Rich Rule
    Tachyon is a great rope. I have 2*50m, 45m 35m and 20m lengths. Three of them are in Norway with my kit out there but I still climb occasionally on the 50m in the UK and the 20 for connies and smaller trees. The main reason I don't use the tachyon more in the UK is I have lengths of cougar blue and orange.
  25. Rich Rule
    I use them all the time. I only asked as it isn't to my knowledge, part of the teaching content or the climbing and felling tickets. Some trainers may mention it in passing. I started using it for the reasons stated in the clip. Saying that though a narrow (traditional) face cut can make the butt jump forward and clear obstacles and land flat. My choice depends on where exactly I am in the tree and the size and what saw I have at the time.

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