Tom D
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Nice work Reg. Have you come across this before? I priced up a crane dismantle recently, the crane company who I asked to price the job said that as tree dismantling involves a "commited lift" ie once the weight is on you can't take it off again, that they would need a 4:1 safety factor meaning I would need a 90 ton crane at £1500 a day! I could do the job with a 30 tonner probably. I'll try some other companies if I get the job.
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I know someone who is looking for a pto jobby dean, pm me a price and I'll ask him.
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A big ash we deadwooded today,
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if i were you I'd stick to the vt and put a sling between your harness and your hc for ascents, You can see it on this vid at about 3.40. We have a short 35m rope for small trees with a longer hitch cord for traditional "Prusik"climbing, although I use a hitch that can be tended one handed as if it had a pulley. I'll post some pics of it as dave will have forgotten how to tie it due to the state he was in when I showed him.
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I'm about 50 miles from Hawick on the eastern side, there are some firms in the area I beleive but it is a very sparsely populated part of the world, ie not many customers. There will be some forestry work going on out that way however. If you are wanting a better chance of regular subby work I'd move a little further north, closer to edinburgh. Even then things are a little quiet at the moment. I occasionaly use subbys but only as groundies and I dont pay them that much as there are a lot of them about at the moment. Find some reliable work before you take the leap and move up here would be my advice.
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very nice, I see you bought the spray boom off my dad which is nice.
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I have used a fixed bollard (not stein) and the grcs and the hobbs. IME The hobbs is the best if you want a reliable lowering device with lifting capability. The grcs is a bit overcomplicated and the rope doesn't seem to grip the winch drum as well as the hobbs. The hobbs is pretty bomb proof and has very predictable friction, you could give it to a groundy who has never lowered and make him look like a pro. But unless you really need that lifting capability then just get a bollard like the stein one.
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I've been working here for about 10 years, in my experience there is little demand for contract climbers, most firms seem to have full time climbers and bring in groundies when they need them. I think there is work up here but the better run firms are getting it and the less well run outfits are struggling a bit. Sounds daft but I reckon you'd get more work and make more money if you started your own business and did what ever contract work you could find on top of your own jobs. Don't get me wrong starting up right now would be very hard and you'd need to be a very good business man to make it work but trying to make a wage as just a contract climber in scotland would be virtually impossible IMO. PM Jojam, he's up north, he might have something.
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Without any further incident... although he did say he felt bad again which did make me put my foot down:biggrin:
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Skyhucks got the in laws coming round tonight. I wonder how he's coping...:lol:
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Excellent Reg, coupled up with a crane or hi-ab on your truck to lift the big lumps in once they're streetside that could be a real time and back saver.
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congratulations mate, enjoy, it they change so fast.
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Very nice, i hope you get on ok with that elm.
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Happy birthday, Thats you that is. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gPpe_eToF0]YouTube - Still Game - The Best of Winston[/ame]
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If you like that you should definately come over here for the Jim Clark rally next summer.
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Don't tell the planners Dean. If someone complains it will be better to deal with it then. Keep shtum.
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Happy birthday, you can have the beer Darren owes me at the apf:thumbup1:
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Congratulations mate,
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Not what you want probably, but.. I'll see if I could take something nearer the spec on a huge ash we'll be deadwooding soon. Long branch walks.
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I put pirelli scorpion mud's on my landrover from new. I have now done 46000miles and they are still going, If I push them to the legal limit I'll get another 5-10k out of them. I'll get some new ones for the winter however. they are ok off road and have a nice ride in road.
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I tend to use larger gobs occasionaly when i want to get back to some butresses for lateral stability. I never cut a big gob on a big tree without first checking it for soundness, otherwise you could cut through any sound wood into a big rotten hole, leaving very little hinge. Take your bean tin and draw round the base onto some paper then take a coke can and place it in the midle of your circle, draw round that and you have another inner circle. The inner circle represents hollow or rotten wood. now draw two hinges, one at 25% across and one at50%, measure the live wood at either side and you will see that the smaller gob has more live wood. over simplified but you get the idea. I treat every large tree individuallt and usually place my gob where i feel it will have most strength.
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left hand thread?
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I once spiked some crappy sitkas to crown lift them in a hurry. I would never wear spikes for pruning because I find them cumbersome and annoying when getting around the tree. It is perfectly true that a few wee spike marks are nothing when compared to the damage that the "pruning" is likely to do anyway. If you want a really controversial thread mesterh how about a discussion on the countless "reduction" pics posted on here that are little more than topping.
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I could do with a couple of brash draggers for wednesday, Please pm me if interested.
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Nice work:001_smile:
