Dean Lofthouse

Free beer and food! Mmm. I feel a carreer change coming on.

Good idea, but I'm trying to keep the drain on the battery to a minimum, these new electric pulsers can do weeks on a single charge.

What, and waste half a days play in the canopy?

Is there two stems there Steve, hard to see from the photo but it looks like a dead stem in front. We took a big pop down last year in my wood, was the same 100ft. The pop was leaning away from the felling direction at an alraming rate, enough to start lifting the root ball out of the ground. We decided to fell it just to see if a standard hinge would hold pulling it back upright and over the other way. I anchored my landrover to a tree and put the winch about 80ft up, we positioned the landy around 40 degrees to one side of the felling direction and then put a hand winch in the same 40 degrees the othe side of the felling line. The idea was to have some control should the hinge break. If it did, it would have gone across an access road and taken out three mature oaks. The fell went like clockwork, it winched up like clockwork and taught me just what the hinge on a stringy wood like poplar can take. Good to experiment every now and again. Videoed the whole job, but on tape, if I can find out how to transfer i will post it. Hope your dismantle goes well

Looks to have had a respray at some point or other. Hopper looks familiar, is it Bandit?

Covert camera just cleared uk customs from america yesterday. Hope to be installing it this next week, expecting it monday.

Hi Xerxses, Yes you can wire the tank, all you need to do is isolate it, sit it on rubber pads, old bit of conveyer belting or whatever. Basically all you do is conect live to tank and earth to a brass or cooper rod driven into the ground. All that happens is when they touch the tank they complete the circuit. I must stress however that mains voltage should not be used, it will fry whoever touches it. Only use a fence energiser, 10,000v but low amps, amps kill not voltage. Gives you a nasty jolt though

It's not cirencester we go out on the town in, it was Cheltenham. We stayed at the Townhouse Hotel Cheltenham. If I remember 3 years ago we went out in Cirencester, bit boring and only a few pubs if I remember correct.

They need ringing and telling they are sh1t and don't have a clue, a few hundred phone calls they may get the message

When do you all camp there, the night of the 13th ? Could be a new Arbtalk members bash!!

There was talk of trying camping there that night. Is there any eats places or pubs nearby for restocking.

I book a few rooms every year for about 8 of us Huddersfieldipudlions to go down. We travel during the day of the 13th, go out in cirencester and get p1ssed, and then go to the show in the morning when we come round. You won't be able to come with us this year because I know you can't handle your beer or the loose women in the town. Last year, the place didn't know what hit it, they climbed every security camera, scaffold and tree in the town centre. Not be doing that again

MB you have so much to learn about the uk way of life. Everything comes in bags. Even dog sh1t, I find some on my land, just over a wall, on regular occasions

Too right. I would rather this though than actually catch them at it. I'm one of these that would wait a few hours before I called the cops and play with their minds. Tie em up, bag over the head and let the mind games begin. They wouldn't come near again, I could guarantee that. Problem is, it's always the innocent partys that end up in nick thru defending themselves. Look at that farmer who got time for shooting the pikie in his own house. Whether he shot him in the back running away or not, fact is, he was in the frikking house.

I bet your loving it Skyhuck :wave:

I have never used a VT but want to ry one, I have a lockjack sport which I presume is the equivelent. Is this what I need for a vt and what length. http://www.proclimber.co.uk/catalogue/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=21_23&products_id=239 I have tied one before but used prussick rope and found it too bulky with two double fishermans knots etc.

It cost me £104, you can save a bit on ebay, I think the same one there is £89 but then you've the postage on top. The only thing is you have to insulate the excavator from the floor, if it's rubber tracked theres not that problem. You could just track it onto wooden sheets or something. I tell you something though, if they touched it on the unawares they wouldn't touch it again. I was going to try putting some of those red rubbery gloves on to unlock it but I''ve had enough for one day :wave:

Went down and hooked up my device to container, making sure no vegetation was touching underneath and that there was no other leaks to earth. Connected up pulser and gingerly touch container, F@ck me it hurts. Wow, you get a right kick off it. I then had to figure out how to switch the thing on and off so I could unlock/lock the container, so I made a hole under the floor to put my hand up to switch it on and off while leaving the unit in the container. The B@stard thing gave me another belt thru my coat. I then put on leather gloves (durrh) to try and lessen the shock, jesus! It hurts just as much. I then thought, haa, leave the unit on, and just drop the earth wire thru the floor, leave the earth disconnected while I lock up then just reach underneath and connect the clip the the earth rod. I could ear the so called insulated earth clamp tracking to the vegetation, so I picked up the clamp and whamm! another p1ssing shock. My arm is now numb, but I have managed to get the container live without killing myself after getting around 15 shocks. I will have to wait till the battery runs down and try and wire a remote on off switch somewhere.

Going on a tangent here, but this tree was in a conservation area and obviously permission was sought and given to take this tree out. The reason permission was given is because of the trees very close proximity to the house, literally 2ft. One of the conditions of the permission was that the tree was to be replaced with a silver birch NO more than one metre away from this trees position. Now by my reckoning, that 1m + 2ft away from the house foundations. Do Tree officers consider the longevity of the tree or are they just thinking about tomorrow.

I think you and Skyhuck are brothers, either that or you are chairmen of league against cruel Mewps

Already figured that one out Ed

Have you not been following the thread? MACHINE WAS FAULTY :wave:

I still use root, I have a root pile in my woodland which is a cracking habitat. Wren and robin numbers have tripled since my log and root piles appeared

Makes me kind of qualified enough to debate it though doesn't it?