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Used to love Top Tips, never failed to make me chuckle as did those. Good effort mate!!!

Get a Jamesons 8ft pole and a BIG SHOT. Last week I was getting 60 plus feet (nearer 70ft) high anchor points from the ground (in only a few attempts). Great piece of kit and great fun to use. Ask Mr Tana Mahuta????

Cheers Ross.

You're right a great few days work. Feeling a little tender now though..........getting old and out of shape. Still back up the last one tomorrow. Thanks for the help bud!!! Speak soon

Brave fell with that amount of rot in the hinge!!!

I've got a "Roughneck". Plastic handle, copes with some real abuse and offers a degree of shock absorbtion. I think it cost about 40quid. Pretty good bit of kit really!!

Interesting, all the blurb seems to promise increased MPG.

Can't beat a wee drop of malt. My missus got me a bottle of 1956 Glen Grant for our wedding day. Smooth is not the word!!!! That's saved for special occasions my regular tipple is Dalwhinnie or quite partial to Ardbeg, any nice bit of Speyside or Highland. Easily pleased

Has anyone out there tuned their diesel by adding one of the many "superchip" tuning devices that you can buy out there? They promise between 25-30 increase in BHP and increased torque levels. Do they work, are they dangerous for the engine, increased wear etc. They cost about £350Any thoughts on them out there?

Seems like there's a few of us Jap fans out there. I'm wondering if this could be a good poll question. Jap or Landy what's best????

No Landy owners will dare pipe up cos they know I,m right..............Thats the bait cast out, now sit back and wait for a bite.lol:aetsch:

Lets hope no-one on the site knows where you live!!!!!!!!!!!!! You might be recieving a few interesting packages through your letterbox

Excellent decision! I bought mine new in March 03, faultless. Sorry Landy boys but ya cant beat Jap.

You're a brave man making that statement on this site. Braver than me!!!! Just for the record I'm in the Jap camp aswell. Owned a L200 6 years ago, one of the old ones (K plate) and it was built like a tank. They are great trucks.

I'm using XTC and either bee-line or Liros

I like it, count me in!!!

A question to all vt users,yes we all know how sexy it is and how much quicker and easier it has made our tree climbing lives but how cocky have we got or how different is our techniques so question is.how far are you free climbing stroke advancing stroke ascending to get about the tree before you pull the slack thru,i started at 1m and now can find myself maybe 2 stroke 3 not cocky just very confident

Mate you're bang on, it's so tempting to free climb a big burst of effort and then pull the slack through in one go having climbed maybe 3 or 4 metres. Too tempting!!!!

My first belly laugh of the evening. that and your Avatar pic combination is startling.

Aim to please

the first and the second shots look great, not too sure on the third

Mate you're forgetting your roots. Check these beauties out.

Any help and guidance is always much appreciated!!!

Yeh you're right the client needs to know that this type of work needs to be monitored. But then again people open to this sort of work don't mind the prospect of this monitoring I find.

nice work aye like doing this type of work it breaks the norm of the daily grind

aye thought aye would try different styles to see what style would break down the best do you do alot of this type of work?

No not a great deal I think this was my 3rd attemp ever!! I'm not too sure how exactly it should look, no-one has ever shown me. As far as it looking like a coronet, well I know it doesn't but I think that from the ground it looks pretty natural...........isn't that the idea???

Here's some I did the other day on a Scots Pine these were my second or third attempt in maybe 5 years, not too many people are willing to let this be done. I find they want their trees perfectly manicured. I did this primarily for the wildlife habitat but also not to cause a huge wound on the main stem. There was a dray and woodpecker holes on it. The rest of the limb had to be removed because it had a great deal of end weight and numerous wounds along the limb. It's in a private garden open to the public.

It was a brute of a tree, and as pointed out earlier growing old disgracfully, rips, tears, deadwood, the works a real pleasure to be up. But gotta say gave me a real workout..........I'm a little out of shape these days!!!!!

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"Is it "Pinus Radiata"?

"The deadwood can make great firewood if it has seasoned on the the Tree.Wood from old specimens burns pretty well too."

I think it is indeed a Pinus radiata

This beauty is a Monterey Pine, as you can see it's a whoppa!!! Climbed it the other day to inspect that huge bit of dead that you can see a the top. Bigger that the 044 with a 26inch (I think) bar on I wonder just how tall it would have been with the top still in. On the way up I passed two woodpecker dwellings numerous drays and a bee's nest.

The part that looks like a young vigourous tree at the bottom is actually the lowest limb which has hit the ground layered gone up hit the ground again and layered again!!

The big limb had to be removed because it had a huge (as everthing on this tree was) hazard beam along it and under it was a very rare Magnolia.

Great tree, great views, great job. The kind that makes all the kack stuff worthwhile.

I suggested fencing the bottom of the tree off to protect the roots as this is is a garden open to the public and leaving as much of the dead up there as poss.

me ten minutes after my daughter was born !!tiring:laugh:

Poor you. I bet your missus had just had a whale of a time aswell!!!!!!!!

Strawberry tree , Arbutus unedo

 

Will fit the bill.

Isn't that quite a slow growing tree???? He (the client) wants quick results!!