Tom D

count me in then!

you need to move east mate, the only wet day we have had here in weeks was last saturday, appart from the odd shower we have had nowt. I have been having to water the garden.

If they did a 9" one with a conveyor I'd buy it, stick it all in the back of the truck, and store it up at the yard, once you have a couple hundred ton hire a big screen for the day and hey presto, a pile of little logs and some chip.

nice work, I'd have climbed that cedar though.

it did need a wee tickle didn't it

Sorry to be a pain, I am potentially interested, however I was wondering what the assesment criteria were? I seem to remember that the real cost which put me off in the past was the cost of actually complying rather than the cost of the assesment. I have since been doing a fair bit of LA and housing association work and so it may be that I have progressed a little since the last time I looked into it.

I'll stick with my old 385xp, I love that saw.

I don't doubt that teachers work hard, but I fail to see why I should subsidize their pensions. The public sector has been underpaying their pension plans for years, all the government is doing is asking them to pay in the propper amount. When I retire I'll get my state pension + my private pension, whatever that is. Teachers get state + private and then the taxpayer makes up any shortfall. It's not fair. Simples TD Tree & Land Services Ltd.

Towing bar on the back of the mog? it should only take you a couple of days...be a great workout with no power steering:001_tongue:

My first pair of treckers lasted 2 years, the second pair have done 20 months so far. I suspect the main reason for some people having problems is diesel spills. Diesel or petrol will rot the glue away ion no time, it soaks into the leather and eats the glue from the inside. I spliled some on one boot and within a week or so the outer rubber was separating from the leather, I glued it back and it has lasted fairly well. If youi spill fuel on your boots wash is off streight away... at £150-200 a pair they are worth a bit of care. i think another reason that some pairs fall appart is that some people walk diferently and may scuff the toes a lot which wears the front off and allows the sole to separate

A ring hitch dave:001_tt2:

U used one when I was 12, he looks younger than that tho. TD Tree & Land Services Ltd.

I reckon it needed about 4m, tbh I was up an epicormicky oak and the tail was caught up a lot of the time so I didn't get that much chance to see how much line it took, it definately self tended well the only other thingh that I have tried that tended that well was a very long vt, but that had loads of sitback. lancstree and rupe are both right, I have been using a ring like this for a while and there is little evidense of extra wear on either rope or cord. Throwline would be better, startercord was what I had to hand at the time.

After much messing around using a ring to reduce sitback... ..http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/climbers-talk/28772-ring.html I realised that the ring could be more than just an aid to the hitch.. it could be a part of the hitch. All hitches have some wraps at the top which do all the gripping its only the "finish" which distinguishes one hitch from another. I have been playing around with loads of diferent finishes over the last few years and never really found what I wanted...a self tending hitch with little or no sitback. This comes really close, I realised that with the ring mounted on the climbing line that there is no need for any finish at all. The ring is the finish. I tried this out three wraps and then both legs streight through the ring and onto the HC, it worked well but after a few minutes the ring crept up the legs towards the wraps. The closer the ring gets to the wraps the tighter tha hitch gets, pull the ring closer to the HC and it will get real loose and self tend. So.....I added a little starter cord and fixed the ring to the top hole of the HC. By adjusting the length of this cord you can change the characteristics of the hitch. The setup below selftended nicely and had about 3-4" of sitback, pretty good but I'm going to try some OP cord tomorrow and see if I can get it to self tend with even less sitback. Give it a try..

Thanks mate, here's a few more.. deadwooding oaks in Victoria park Peebles and a beech we felled today.

My dad has an oil fired rayburn up for grabs...

I would agree and choose the jensen too, however frank is right, the stress control on the tw is stupidly quick, in fact its on more than its off, and would probably be quite annoying. Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

So you reckon about a foot per year on average then? most of the big douglas firs over here are in the 150yo age bracket and have reached around the 200' mark. Do you think ours are growing faster or do you reckon they slow down a bit once past 200'? great pics BTW

A lot od agricultural contractors do it, I have seen a tractor towing a lime spreader towing a pickup on a speclift.

Not spacey or brando, but good guesses. Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

try this one, no need for the film, just the actor.

Well done mate, dr strangelove.

This ought to test you, name tha actor and the film.

I remember chatting to Paul via email a few years ago about this issue. I ended up not joinig the scheme for various issues, many of which have been mentioned in this thread. Whilst not wishing to go over old ground I congratulate the AA on this new initiative however one issue that I raised with Paul back then was the poor ranking of the aa website. I think for thai scheme to be a success it needs to raise the public awareness of the AA, given that at least 50% of my business comes fron the web the ranking of the AA site is crucial to the sucess of this scheme. Type "tree surgeon" into gogle and the AA don't even come up on the first page! Given that most searches will be "tree surgeon XXXtown" this is hopeless. If you can guarentee that any search with "tree surgeon" in the title will bring your site up, and that site has a description of why you should choose an AA approved contractor and then a list of contractors in the area, then you will have my business.