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Bish and Tim. An old boy in the woods told me to learn somthing new every day. That came from a bloke who left school at 15 and was never out of work.
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The best climber I saw until recently was a late starter. He used his brain not his brawn. Grey matter in your head ,matters to the grey head.
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The council had to fell lots of Oak trees round here as the insurers where going to sue the council, some that I could see from the window here where only 20 to 50 metres away.
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I was told that if you climbed trees regularly past the age of 40 you where an alcoholic or insane.
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Its paved streets and good drainage that has caused subsidence. Blame the car. Whe we had dirt roads or cobbles the rain soaked into the ground. Now the surface is sealed the trees obtain water from deeper down and this may cause the problems.
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I treat my 200 like dirt, It never gets cleaned, has epoxy resin patches in the tank, the engine is just full of baked on crud. the lanyard D ring broke last week and it dropped 20' onto the concrete path below. Its a rough dog but It bites. It owes me nothing it must be 4 years old at least , its a hybrid of 3 020 and 200T's. I thrash it. It makes me so much money I don't want to retire it, just let it die in battle. I will have to get a replacement sat on the shelf ready to go though. Maybe we could have pictures of the ugliest working 200t . Just for fun no prizes.
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The basis of the clothing is the faraday principal. The electric would rather pass through the metal in the clothing than through the person wearing it as the clothing has a lower resitance to the current than the person wearing the clothing. I would still want a big nappy under the suit though.
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what knots work best?
Log-ologist replied to Jack-Arb aka Tiago Sinclair-Julio.'s topic in Rigging and roping
Anyone else oldschool enough to use a waggon/carters hitch to tension a pull rope on a tree being felled.
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A mewp is only as good as the bits you can reach. I rarely use one because most of the tree work I do has poor access that even narrow tracks cannot reach. and before you rant , I own a truck mount platform so I know what I am on about.
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that would be why we get pi88ed as newts round ere.
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Thats no waste , my feet are enclosed in a pair of those every day. I'm glad that they work that well should the worst happen. Shame they don't keep all the wet out after a few months.
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I use saturn every time. I have had one blade break in 10 years of Entec/timberwolf ownership. That one cracked off across the corner through the screw hole. I'm not so keen on the replacement screws with hex heads they do, but originals now are made with shallow heads and the torx hole breaks out more easily.
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Sleight of hand , changed saws mid video in number 2 . well done , thanks .
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Give me Owd Roger any day I used to get it in Hereford from the cask when I was a student , though it looks like its in bottles only now. I dont think its so strong either,.
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Hey bob I was due to reduce a Liquidamber with an acute fork and that split in half during a windy night before I got to it, the half fell on the house. I could have been the filling of a roof and sweet gum sandwich.
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Elm? oh yeah we have them too, 20' high and dead.
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East Dorset will not update their list and are going over to only listing AA aproved shortly.
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For sale. I have a 12kw burner (villager type) good nick with a back boiler. Needs a bit of glass and rope round the door. Best offers over £ PM. me. I have no Chimney in this house! But lots of logs.
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Cerne I get a mailshot from these guys http://www.landbasedtraining.co.uk/ The run a lot of courses. The PTI is attended by those with several years experience in arb. though estate managers and landscape architects attend they apparently have a high failiure rate due to lack of experience in the technical aspects.
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Are you sleeping rough and pushing a shopping trolley round the streets these days?
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If that Oak was sound enough to stand up and suffer a few gales then it was sound enough to climb , gently. The problem with that sort of take down is the climber bricks it and tries to speed the job by lowering big sections causing stresses on the tree. I have yet to see or hear of a standing mature tree collapse under the weight of a climber. I know because I have taken down some really dead and manky trees, I go steady and work slow and deliberately.
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I climbed today and flexed my muscles and felt like a hero
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The Official Raffle results
Log-ologist replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Christmas Charity Raffle 2007
My prize of a carabiner arrived today , thanks to Oakdale / treesurgeoncleveland.co.uk. -
I did the Ignite wood fuel training ( lantra cert) last year. Chip is going to get bigger. The way to get dry chip is to use dried wood. There is little difference in the calorific values of soft or hardwood. Its cut, stacked, covered for a year then chipped. Arb waste is not generally suited to domestic chip boilers, too much moisture and greenery. Unless you buy a big step grate boiler which is expensive and more for semi indusrial use ( schools , hotels and factories) and the chip is used quickly before it begins to compost or ferment in the storage bunker.
