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Rich Rule

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  1. Climbing SRT can be as simple or as complex as you make it. In 6 years I have never used a cambium saver. I like to keep it simple. I am not surprised you find it difficult faffing around like that. Plenty of options for safe and secure climbing and if you want to over complicate things there are plenty of ideas on the inter webs. KISS.
  2. Not sure mate. It was a Fassi F820. It was the same crane that Alistair Macgee has posted all over Instagram. Just without the cutting head.
  3. Crane removal of two compromised Maple trees over a listed building. Had a internal voice tell me not to tie into one of the leaning stems. I had an anchor in a more upright, funked stem. As I got 4/5th of the way through the cut it popped and started to open up. I noticed it when my feet started to move A couple of pictures of the pic and the cracked stem. Some others of the job in general. All went pretty smoothly considering the state of them and the potential for property damage.
  4. Maybe, maybe not. I find a base anchor a lot easier than isolating a limb. I usually try and pick an anchor that if it were to fail it would get caught pretty quickly on another limb/crotch. Minimising the impact. I find the ease of setting a line SRT is a major benefit, where as I find (in most cases) trying to isolate a limb a right royal PITA.
  5. Paddy, did you read the thread? The capacity in which the guy was working was Labour Only Freelance and not a Bona Fide Subcontractor. So your comments about having insurance to cover damages is pretty pointless unless Bonafide. Yes insurance for personal injury is recommended. The reason so many companies use ‘Subbies’ (your term and many others in the industry) is because they don’t know the rules. When I fact they require EL cover as technically they are employing someone for a day, week, whatever. Trust me on this, I have been there and tried to have someone claim on the pointless insurance I was carrying whilst working in the capacity described in this thread and the capacity of ‘Subbie’ (not my term) that most companies use. My insurer just said ‘not covered’, end of! Yet they sold it to me basis of me being a freelance /contract climber who didn’t do his own jobs. So for three years I paid for a useless piece of paper and lined the pockets of the shareholders of the underwriting company and the brokers who sold it.
  6. Hope he heals up. I have had two top anchors fail whilst ascending. First time I damaged my ankle but luckily I was only about 12 foot up and the anchor broke was about 60’. Second time, the top snapped out as I was ascending and I started to fall (strangely in slow motion) and then the top landed in a fork and got wedged there. I looked up, thought that looks bomber now and carried on. The guy I was working for looked white as a sheet. It is very easily done and I climb SRT 99% of the time. I now will pull a line back out if it isn’t perfect or close to sketchy. The plus side, you do get better with the throw line the more you use it and therefore should be more accurate with your throwing. I hope your friend recovers and takes some important experience from this. Climb safe everyone.
  7. Done mate. I might have to buy a teether or pacifier. Imagine the look on Haakon and Torstein's face when they opened that.
  8. Yes mate I know. Maybe it is different in the world of high end carpentry?
  9. You are just confusing the matter further. The correct terms have been described plenty of times over the years, in the thread as well. Most people use the term ‘Subby climber’ ‘Subbing to Xyz etc’. When in fact they are no where near being classed as a Bona Fide Subcontractor. The sooner people stop using the term Subby it will be a hell of a lot less confusing.
  10. Business as usual with a bit of common sense in Norway.
  11. I used to work with a fair few firemen in London. Just be careful as a few of them had to do it in the sneak as there was a clampdown and second jobs. It could have been just the LFB or even just that station and watch but there was a concern someone would get injured in the second job and not be up to standard when they are on shift at their primary job.
  12. After 18 years climbing and rigging the blocks are what I am used to. I use the rings for lightweight rigging. I had to cut the splice off my 16mm polydine after a Groundy clipped it with a saw. Luckily only about 1 metre from the splice. I am not splicing it back up again as it is used and used ropes are a bitch to do. I am more than aware that the YouTube superstars use the rings. They also use pulleys when needed. I use rings when needed. As an added point the pulleys make moveing and lifting wood with the tree a lot easier than rings. The have their place but I still prefer the ability to add a pulley midline as and when required. Each to their own, I guess. My decision is based on a great deal more than a knot in the end of my rigging line.
  13. I have one, it is pretty good. Same functions as the OG RR but the bollards are like they are already worn in making breaking the bird easier. The fact it is midline attachable is a bonus, no bits to drop.
  14. So are you in Isolation now after your return? Or is France not Red yet?
  15. Possibly, for the first time in my life, I find myself agreeing with a Loose woman! She does bring up many valid points.
  16. My mate comes back to Oslo from Spain last week. He and his whole family got a test at the airport and are clear to go about everyday business.
  17. Do the government not obtain their statistics from the death certificates? I am not sure how they would calculate them otherwise.
  18. Come on. It isn’t a hoax as some people die. The virus is definitely real. Some get it and some get it bad. The whole Hoax issue is how the media have over hyped it along with the governments of the world. It is almost as if they are using it as an opportunity to meet their agenda. Personally I believe we should just be sensible abhor the whole thing, wash your hands, good hygiene has proven to be the best defence. Not masks. Not shutting down the economy. Not locking down the country. Then again if some individuals followed some of the guideline a bit more closely, maybe, the country try wouldn’t have had to lock down. Then again I can see where the doubts originate. I wouldn’t trust a politician or the British government as far as I could shit. That’s about 3 foot odd, in old money, as I am pretty tall!
  19. Maybe so but the UK government admitted earlier in the month that a statistical anomaly meant that anyone who had tested positive and then died at a later date would still go down as COVID related. Are you suggesting that didn’t happen in the Nursing homes?
  20. I had a Forst ST8 delivered from the Uk to Norway a couple of years ago. Paid delivery and haulage and the new my address. Haulage company called me a day before to let me know delivery time and it would be on a plant trailer. I live in an area with narrow roads and I explained it to them. Ok no problem say they. Next day a Polish delivery driver calls me to say he is stuck and can’t make the bend and has had to reverse and it waiting in a main road. I go over and the chipper is the last thing on a huge curtain sided trailer for the international haulage. I asked where is the plant trailer and he said where is my forklift? I said, in my pocket where do you think...! It was supposed to be on a plant trailer. He grumbled a lot and I said I would follow him to the depot, to which he said he wanted more money as it wasn’t in the job to drive back and forth, even though he had to go back there to drop the trailer. He then asked them for a forklift to lift it out the side. I made sure he reversed up to the loading bay and push it off by hand. I wasnt gonna allow them to drop the thing. He grumbled and moaned loads. I just told him thanks for bringing it back and if he wanted more money to speak to the haulier... or do his job in the first place and unload the machine and put it on a plant trailer like I had requested and paid for, instead of being a lazy twat, cutting corners for a early finish.
  21. I use a protos occasionally and it gives me headaches, pretty much all the time. That is on the loosest setting and without the back cranked up. Vertex vent and Alveo vent fit perfectly fine. Try before you buy if possible.
  22. More the viking legacy left in the North Eastern languages after the raids. Beck - Norwegian for small stream. Barn - Norwegian for child, NE call them bairns. Dal - Norwegian for Valley. North Yorkshire Dales. Gå Hjem - Norwegian for go home. Geordies say Gan yem.
  23. Make sure the earth strap is fastened down correctly. Remove the plastic cover behind the clutch and it will be fastened I to the body to earth it. Definitely worth a check as it has happened a few times on both my saws.
  24. Beautiful clear evening last night in Oslo. I saw a few shooting stars, some weird flashes that repeated around the same area and a slow moving light. Presumably a satellite.

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