Rich Rule

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.

Yes Ben, no obvious targets, but we chose to rig the tree as it was pretty crispy and shattered every time a bit touched the floor. The job was in a hospital and there were a number of cars, ambulances etc in and out all day. We actually started the filming 1/3rd of the way through and I just stuck the GoPro on my monopod and jammed it in the hole on the throttle of the Avant. Hardly a lot of effort. You should make more effort to film mate.

Haha, cheers Pete. It was me on the ropes... Aaron climbing.

A bit of footage removing an Elm tree, seriously in decline from DED. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8thy4T3O8M&list=UUDxq_mj90Xl1_Jnwij0bzkA]Aaron dead Elm - YouTube[/ame]

Well it worked for me. 3 wraps and 2 braids. The top of the hitch cord goes under on the first braid and 2nd instead of the top braid going over the top for the first and second.

If it is practical skills your after, then try. The Fundamentals of General Tree Work by Gerry Beranek. or his DVD series, Working Climber. Vol 1 Vol2 and 3.

Excellent stuff. Keep at it and good luck.

Hence the reason I asked. If the original post is asking about a swivel because his line twists when climbing on a VT, then it is useless to introduce a swivel to reduce the twist. Tieing the VT slightly differently will reduce the hockling and reduce the need for a swivel. Other people don't have the problem with SJ and prussics etc... so its all good.

Where was that mate?

Not sure about the exact legislation behind Whole Tree Chippers and solo operation, but IME the guy loading is probably working solo. But then again he would probably be in a 360 or operating the chipper with a similar means of loading.

For what reason do you think you need a swivel? I tried one years ago to try and stop the twisting in my climbing line from my VT. All it did was make the twisting (hocking) 10x worse. Took it off sharpish.

Your all bloody lucky. 40 in september, 10 plate Nav, SE London, lost my no claims due to an African Pastor deciding he ruled the road and drove straight into me. \ 1300 quid. Last year with 9 years no claims it cost me 1080.

Yes you can Mark. I bought one about 6 years ago and I think I have used it about 4 times.

Great stuff David. I enjoyed that.

Cheers, The larger saw was a 441 with a 20 inch bar I think. As for the 200t?? Maybe it is a slightly different bar. Not sure. Edit: Just looked again and yes it is different. It is a lightweight one i think. Sort od like the sugihara bars with a section removed and filled with a compound material or something. They have them on chainsawbars.co.uk - Stihl Rollamatic E light 12" 3/8 lo pro .050 44 drive links

i have been thinking of getting a split board and skins for getting a bit further away. i don't think i would use them in the alps but there are plenty of opportunities when i am over in Norway.

Nice work John.

Are the resorts still open Roger or are you snow shoeing it?

Wow, a thread of many words!

Thanks.