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Finished the oak. Just gotta cut some logs tomorrow and clean up. No surprises, rigged out the remaining brush and then bombed the wood. The tree split as expected as it hit the deck.

Shamelessly, posting this after seeing a mate post it on Facebook. Pretty impressive. Timelapse of Wood Cut Millimeter by Millimeter Creates Waves that Ripple Like Water | Colossal

David, I wasn't aware of any conversations of that kind. I was just asked to remove it safely.

Pete that is exactly what I would have done if I had rigged it. I managed to free fall most all of what was cut today. Just the appropriate use of gobs to steer tip away from shrub, ornaments and fences or to land it tippage first so as not to leave craters in the deck. I will rigg off the last of it tomorrow as it is pretty close to a pergola and dovecote at the rear plus the shrubs are a lot thicker so will be easier to damage. The HO accepts that there may be a little collateral damage to vegetation as he realised he had left it a good few years late to get a tree surgeon in to look at it. When they arrived the union was opening and shutting a fair bit...

You got a chin bar mate or just random lateral hand holds?

To be honest David, the guy who I was climbing for ratcheted it up when he was called out. Today was the first suitable day to tackle it. I checked the straps as I went up and figured the same as cobra bracing ie. 2 3rds of the way from the faulty union with a 3rd above for maximum support. The top (black) strap was the one I paid the mos attention too as this was were I would have braced it if the union wasn't so bad. I think the others were there for piece of mind really although as soon as I removed some weight the straps loosened so I gave them a couple of clicks for good measure. Thanks.

Oak tree removal over the next day or so. Shame, but the tree had included bark that was opening up an split for a good 6 - 7 foot below the union. Tree was ratchet strapped up and removed weight. Had to periodically retensioned the straps as I went.

Ditto Josh. First snap looks great!

Check out the transport for London website. Fr jones is based in Sydenham, think the closet station is lower Sydenham. Type these into the to and from fields on the website and it will give you plenty of options trough the journey planner.

Sounds good to me mate. Where exactly are you from? My old man grew up around Scorton and the Cowtons and Richmond area. Spent a lot of time there when I was a kid as my Grand parents lived in Scorton. We still shoot a lot of acres over there.

Nice vid mate, will you be putting a thread up about rec climb. I just may be up north at my old mans around that time and would love to come along if thats ok? I climbed a few trees over the xmas and new year period with Kit a few years ago. Real nice site with quite a few large beech and over looking the town. It was a good day but cold and snow on the ground. I love large Beech trees.

Good going mate. I seem to remember Jungle going on about doing 150 chins a day. I have tried similar in the past for press ups and sit-ups. Might have to dust off the old chin bar from the shed and have at it! I reckon I would be pretty sore after 1 day though.

When deadwooding large Elms in Norway, during the leafy period we have to be so careful not to cut I to live wood or to damage epi growth. As this attracts the beetle.

Well I just went to Buxtons and they are insisting you buy 2 lots... I know it is for charity but I don't really need to spend 141 quid on a hitch climber setup. Why the 2 I ask?

take a picture, dig out the flowers if possible. chunk down into space you have made and then clean up and replant. failing that get the rigging kit out. tbh, I prefer rigging stems to chunking them in poker chips. I find it easier on the body and make less mess to the drive/patio/putting green etc.

I am tryin to remortgage at the moment. Dont get me started on the hassles I had 4 years ago getting in the first place! So in effect we are trying to remortgage to draw a small amount of money out of the property. Loan to equity ratio has dropped dramatically due to buying cheap and being in a boom area in South East London. All in all, the payments would reduce by 90 pound per month and they still declined it. But they are happy to keep us on the same deal and surely the same risks. Madness!!!

Dan, it is the best rope I have climbed on for a long while. Great doubled up or for SRT with a rope wrench. I love mine and fortunately it doesn't twist on me!

Spikes with every method, even in the Genie boom.

I use Yale Polydine. Great rigging line and not far off the working loads of 19mm Portland braid but without having to purchase 19mm hardware.

Some nice work there Simon.

i quite liked that mate.

Nice work Benn. Looked a bit of a ball ache tbh. Tight drop zone and good roping.

Exactly Tommy. Edbol, your advertising as an experienced freelance climber. Surely you have tackled many, many jobs like that so you should have an idea of how long it will take you. then just multiply by how much you want per hour and there is your price.

Cheers. Rob, the timber looked great, the tree was only recent dead due to the DED. The timber had some lovely colouring in there and grain. We got the tree down to the lowest limb on the LHS and then I flopped the stem as it was getting difficult to control the lump. Behind was a fence and a quite long and steep hill down to a public footpath and small beck. The timber was being stacked so we chopped it into 3 for the grab to lift and blew site down and left. No one wants the timber that size mate over here and it would have looked awesome milled as there was barely any shake. Mark it was a Hobbs Lowering device and 12mm Tuefleberger rigging line. Reg, the rigging point was pretty high but still around a leader that was 6 inches plus diameter. The front leader when knocked off was about 15 foot above the anchor point. Aaron did the climbing and I ran the ropes. So really he made the decision, maybe I would have dropped a metre of so lower into the fork at the top of the screen but he was up there and made his decisions on the rigging points. Getting back to what I said in response to Rob's comment, we only had a 12mm rigging line so it wasn't as if we had plans to rig off mahoosive pieces from that point anyway. DED Elm is pretty strong so the decision was taken. Very little to no shocking the tree as you can see from the vid. The anchor point barely moves as a lot of the pieces came down. Very valid points though Reg, thanks for the comments.

Nice hinge. Looking forward to it mate.