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What does a TEUPEN LEO GT 15 OR 18 COST BRAND NEW THEN?

I am going to be there Dean!! Look forward to seeing that there mate!

Looking to purchase a used Teupen LEO GT15 or similar, where is best place to be looking and what sort of price are we talking? Any info appreciated!

I totally agree mate! Well said!

To be honest i am usually miles ahead with health and safety and i am suprised i never actually thought about this before, an elasticated chin strap is not gonna do s*&t if you take a bad fall out of an 80ft. tree, your helmet is likely to come off long b4 u hit the ground. If my boss won't buy the helmet i will protect my head myself, and purchase the new Stein helmet. I can understand that buying 8 new helmets or so at that price is a big expence, but H and S of the employees should be paramount, and AFAG guidelines are there for a reason!!

Thanks for the tips on the avatar pic fellas, i was a little low, but not quite as low as the camera angle makes it seem! I will bear all these points in mind when i next take a big top out. I got taught by some guys in the States to take the spliced end of your climbing line and tie a running bowline around the stem with a long tail on the spliced end that hangs down the stem at approx the length you wanna block it down after knocking the top out, then leave ur friction hitch attached but back it up with a figure 8 as u are only on 1 end of a doubled rope system and the friction hoitch experiences twice the load as normal. Once the top goes over you can desend on the line, kick in ur spkies, lanyard on and use the spliced hanging tail to slacken the running bowline and it falls to ur waist, just tighten it again and ur ready to roll. NO NEED TO UNTIE THE BOWLINE, BY TUGGING THE SPLICED END IT LOOSENS IT AND IT JUST SLIDES DOWN THE TRUNK TO YOU! I got told this is safe as it prevents the 'circle of death' created by a wire flip line should a large stem split and pin you. Also provides a quick way of getting down in an emergency and also makes rescue simple. Anyone use this method??

I read a thread last night which mention that using a lanyard / flip line on your side D's when taking the top out of a tree is bad practice, and that it is recommended that you choke your climbing line around the stem to protect you if the trunk splits. Can you guys give some more info on this and all throw in your opinions and techniques! Many thanks Guys!

My employer has us all climbing in a Husqvarna helmet with an elesticated chin strap, which conforms to EN 397 only. When do these new regulations come in that u mention? I have always thought that we should have some proper climbing helmets with proper chin straps that actually fasten so the helmet will stay on ur head if you take a fall in a tree. A helmet is no good whatsoever if it comes off when you hit ur head first time at 40ft. is it. By the time you hit the ground ur head is likely to have hit several other branches - Your head would be a crushed melon!! Emailed my boss last night and informed him that we need some new climbing helmets, don't think he is gonna be happy, but imo it is the best money you can spend - we all wanna go home safely after a days work!

I heard a similar story, and i have also heard tales of old growth Douglas Firs in British Columbia exceding 400ft. in years past! Who knows if there are any left? Canada is a very big place!!!

Can you describe exactly how you would do this please? I have seen guys tie a running bowline with their climbing lines to choke around the stem and then decend down only one side of the rope using a figure 8 to back-up the friction hitch as it is under twice the load as you are only on one side of the line. Is this what you meant or did u mean something different?

Almost £250 for the Primus - Holy s*&t! Its only a bit of rope and a little pulley - where do they get their prices from? My cambium saver cost £30. I have tried the older version of the ART ropeguide, i did find it a lot more difficult to hold my weight with my left hand whilst tending slack through a VT or similar, maybe i need different friction cord to fine-tune the whole set-up. Might ask Santa for a Primus next year, but got a feeling he'll tell me to keep dreamin' tho.

I went camping in Glen Affric near Inverness in Scotland last Easter and took my climbing kit with the intention of exploring the canopies of some Scots pines. I was reading a leaflet in a local pub about the wonderful native Scots pines and i turned it over and read that a valley nearby had several 200ft. Douglas Firs growing in it and they were some of the tallest trees in UK. I woke up early the next morning to track them down. I found em and there were quite a few. 30 minutes later i was at the top of one of the largest ones, wasn't a very challenging climb, but it was F*&%king high! I didn't really see the ground until about 150ft. when the trunk got a little sparse of branches. I glanced down and could hardly see the mrs on the ground beneath. Its over twice as high as i had ever climbed before. Probably only been 90ft - 100ft. a couple of times. I would love to be 200ft. up on spikes knocking it out in sections! I would love to go to Australia and New Zealand and tackle some of these big Eucalyptus some of you spoke about!!! It will happen one day, i will make sure it does! Might pop back up to Scotland this Easter and tackle that tree again, or one of its neighbours!

The chapter 8 is a doddle mate, you sit in a classroom for a while then go out and set a few cones and signs out. Teaches you some useful stuff but most of its common sense i thought. I'd go for the chipper mate

CS45 is Arboricultural Groundworker i believe - i personally do not hold this unit, but i am under the impression that if a climber holds CS41 (dismantling) then CS45 is not required as CS41 covers all the climbing side of rigging and dismantling, as well as the groundwork. CS45 is a qualification intended to train ground workers to rig and lower pieces as the climber cuts them. So, the answer to ur question is - if you are not a climber and have no intentions of ever climbing but you want to learn and get qualified to lower sections of wood then it is ideal. If you are a climber or intend to become one, just do CS41 mate.

I'm gonna print it off and bind it and make it into a book! Impressed with that! Did the same with Trees in Towns II - awesome book - much better in print than trying 3 read on a computer screen me says

Me too, it will be nice to put faces to all these silly names on Arbtalk! hahaha Hope it doesn't piss down tomorrow! Reckon it will tho

Oh yeah, i am very familiar with London driving conditions! hahaha I lived down there for 3yrs - crazy place - sold my car after 3 weeks of moving south - couldn't cope with that traffic on a daily basis - give me a bus, a train or a tube anyday! Or an empty Yorkshire road!! :-) See ya tomorrow!

See you guys 10.45 in the morning! I'll be driving down from frozen Yorkshire nice and early!!!

I often wondered if you'd be able to argue this in the courts if you chopped a 80ft. Horse Chestnut down when u shouldn't have done, by saying "this tree produces fruits" and take some along with you to the courtroom. Does it mention the word "edible" fruits or give a specific list, or is it left to our judgement what the term "fruit-tree" actually includes and doesn't include?

Come on now, lets not get nasty! hahah I was just expressing my opinion, don't expect everyone to agree, mate! The world would be a boring place if we all agreed on everything! My degree wasn't multi-choice and neither is the MSc in Arboriculture and Urban Forestry i am currently doing!

The gold standard for Arboriculturalists is to become chartered with the Institute of Chartered Foresters, who now recognise "Chartered Arboriculturalist" as a distinct division and seperate from foresters. MICFor - Memeber of the Institute of Chartered Foresters Who is chartered btw???

and then you pay them 5 years worth of subscription fees and they change ur letters to F. Arbor A - great stuff! Where is the achievement in that mate? No Continuing Education Units like ISA. No exam. can't see the point to be honest. And i know many people who feel the same! If you are struggling to find a few letter to put after ur name then go for it, personally i'm not so i'll leave it thanks blakes 7!

Think its about £11 nowadays - but as i said - i'll throw 3 tickets in for whoever! Got em spare!

190 multi choice questions - not from the book but very similar sorts of stuff - i would defo broaden ur reading - don't just rely on the book! but make sure you know whats in the book in ur sleep. 10 plant ID's from photographs - mine were mostly American natives as i did it in USA, plus some normal stuff, piece of cake for me cos i have botanic garden background! The exam is not too bad if you do ur homework and know your stuff. RE: AA or ISA, IMO.. the AA professional membership is basically a few letters after ur name cos u have paid em a subscription! WOW, great! At least with ISA u have to have 3 years practical experience, do an exam and renew every 3 years and prove continuing education - no comparison mate!

There would be no way in the world i would own a chipper without having a tracker on it - so if the light-fingered bas£$%rds tried it, the police would be straight on em! Not sure how much it costs, but it is worth it to catch the filthy thieves in my opinion! Nothing would satisfy me more then to catch them in the act and introduce them to my 084 with the 42" bar on it. I guarantee they would not be coming back for seconds!!